This video discusses 3 BIG mistakes gardeners make growing citrus trees. Citrus tree care is different than most fruit trees, and citrus must be treated differently, or you’ll have citrus tree problems resulting in unhealthy trees and poor fruiting. These citrus tree tips will fix these common mistakes!
Click here for a complete guide on fertilizing citrus trees in containers: https://youtu.be/uhZ6gslBoVw
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Common Mistakes Growing Citrus Trees
0:26 Mistake #1: Fertilizing Citrus Incorrectly
3:44 Mistake #2: Pruning Citrus Incorrectly
6:05 When To Prune Citrus Trees
7:46 Mistake #3: Thinning Fruit Properly
11:05 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Common Mistakes Growing Citrus Trees
0:26 Mistake #1: Fertilizing Citrus Incorrectly
3:44 Mistake #2: Pruning Citrus Incorrectly
6:05 When To Prune Citrus Trees
7:46 Mistake #3: Thinning Fruit Properly
11:05 Adventures With Dale
Sadly my Key Limes tree. The Leaves are falling off inside. KY weather.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for this wonderful information! I need to fertilize my tree! 😊👍
Consider an earth battery and wallipini for citrus, coffee, and cocao.
I have learned so much since I found your channel. My biggest mistake was not fertilizing enough and, after following your advice, I got full-size fruit on my kaffir lime for the first time since I bought it 7 years ago! Even my new Meyer lemon that I started from a cutting last winter is fruiting.
My Meyer lemon tree is loaded with blossoms and I’m starting to see fruit. But I think there is just too much! This is the first time I’ve gotten any blossoms/fruit. It’s in a container and I’m in zone 8a coastal Carolina. The constant wind has caused some of the fruit to fall off. My instinct is to cut off some of the tiny fruit but I hesitated every day I’m out there looking at it 😂
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Thanks for reminding me to fertilized my trees❣ 🙂
I agree with you about fertilizing and some thinning of the fruits when tree is young. As for prunning, I do not prune much other than dead/crossed branches. There are some videos about citrus tree prunning…and that is very little prunning is needed and do not expose the trunks/branches to sun for fear of getting them sun burnt…Well, I do not know if that is true, but I am not prunning much and my Sutsuma tree bears over 400 fruits two years in a row for the matured tree. The tree flowers a lot, but it tends to drop the young fruits a lot as well, so I let nature does the prunning for me.
My goodness, I was just wondering why my citrus is not looking good. I stopped fertilizing once I brought it indoors for the winter. This video came at the right time.
Oh thank you!!! I have much dead limbs now! I will trim and feed ASAP!
I think this is the overall best gardening channel on YouTube. Your knowledge on such a wide variety of topics and plants is pretty much unmatched on here. There are those of us who specialized in tomatoes, giant pumpkins (sorry you have heard this from me about 10 times before), peppers, etc, but you know more about a wide variety of plants and pushing zones than all of us. And thanks for correcting a lot of garden myths as well.
Is it okay to use the 10-10-10 water soluble fertilizer and the slow release fertilizer at the same time? Thank you for all the wonderful tips. You are an awesome gardener. I have saved this video. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Are you using those rain barrels for your citrus trees?
Sorry but your first advise is fundamentally wrong – fertilizing after midsummer = asking for freeze damage during the winter. Using compost is rather pointless.
Thanks!
What about new peach trees?
I’m dealing with leaf miners right now on my citrus. I’m going to spray more pyrethrin tomorrow. Hopefully I can get on top of it. I did not know to give them fertilizer year around. Thanks for the information on that. What about deciduous fruit trees. What is the fertilizing schedule for them? Thank you!
Your videos just keep getting better. Thank you!
no mulch against stem of citrus….if it gets wet and stays wet for a while, you get collar rot and say bye bye to citrus tree.
I wish I could grow a citrus tree but my zone would cripple any poor soul I'd try, would have to do it indoors which just isn't an option 😂
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I am only doing one thing wrong, the fertilizing. After almost three years my six citrus trees have not grown any or produced any fruit. No need to prune or thin anything. Why yes, I did buy a bag of citrus fertilizer and I plan to use it, now that the hurricanes are over here in Florida.