Well, she got moved inside today to overwinter in our basement. It stays about 70 degrees down there with 50% relative humidity. This is the first year I’ve used this setup (clothes rack and Vipar XS 1500 Pro). I’m curious to see what will happen to all this immature fruit in the coming months.

They are looking happy and lush, my big meter and my Kishu are full of fruits 🥺💕🍊🍋✨😌 the limes are indoors with a grow light in a south facing window and my lemons are in my warmer bedroom under multiple strong leds cheers yalls!

Temperature this weekend is a low of 38. Then it will go back to lows in 40s for two days and jump up to lows in the low 50s for awhile after that Do i need to bring my dwarf meyer lemon tree inside for this upcoming evening or its fine at that temp for 1-2 days?

Young lemon tree has about a half-dozen black ant-like bugs crawling on the stems and leaves. They might just be ants but neem oil doesn't appear to deter them. Are they harmful to the tree? Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Hello all,

My Key lime has been growing well, and even has started pushing out its very first branches, but I've noticed within the last few days that all of its new leaves are developing these black spots. A few of the older ones have brown spots, but I'm not sure if they're related. Is this a fungal infection? Insects? Something I should worry about?

So I'm in zone 8b/9a and this plant was propped on trifolata rootstock in early 2024. Treated with neonic 2/25. It suffered a fire ant scale farming issue this last summer but has been successfully abated. It was looking a little rough a couple of months ago when actively infested. I treated it with spinosad and insecticidal soap. Since then I've been feeding it microlife acidifier, liquid seaweed, and bio matrix every other week or so. It's looking worse and worse. Help! First pic is the lime, second is other citrus, third isal a friend I found in the bottom of the lime pot.

She lives on a south facing stairway ledge in the winter. Anyone have any special tips for an indoor tree?

Hi, I have a lime and lemon tree in containers and it's going to get down to the 40s°F at night this weekend. I've never grown citrus trees before and was wondering if it was time to bring them into the house. I'm in zone 8B in Central Texas.

Edited for a wording mistake.

Hello all,

My key lime and one of my lemons have begun pushing out their first branches! And the other lemon has exploded in growth and has a number of thorns.

A few quick concerns, though. A couple.of the leaves on my Key lime have developed a few black specks, which I believe are a minor fungal infection. They aren't sooty mold as they don't wipe off. I did give it some ferti-lome as suggested in a previous post, and its iron defficiency seems to be getting better and the leaves are getting their color back. Some of its bark has turned silvery with a greenish hue, though, which I believe could either be sunburn or just lignification.

The lemons' leaves have a number of white specks on them, and each has a small black patch on their stem. Other than that, though, again, they seem mostly happy.

I'm about to transition them indoors for the winter, and have moved them from the south side of my house to the east side and now to the north side on my porch, and in the next few days I'll start bringing them in at night and setting them back out in the day, and eventually I'll put them in the large south facing window I have until I can replace my growlight. Is that a good method for transitioning them without any leaf drop, or should I touch up on my method?

Note: Yes I do have them in yoplait containers. I made sure to fill them with more holes than were probably necessary.

Picture 1: The family

Picture 2: Black patch of the thorny lemon

Pictures 3-6: Specks and spots on Key lime leaf

Pictures 7-11: Specks, spots, and patches on lemons

Picture 12: Bark and budding branch on Key lime

Hello all,

Forgot to include this in a previous post. My key lime has been developing bark just fine, but a region of its stem has darkened, almost like it's damp. The spot isn't squishy at all (still quite firm), and there's no noticeable odor, so I pray it isn't rot. It's also just started putting out its first three branches, so it seems to be happy.

Hi everyone! Total citrus/plant noob here hoping for some advice. I’ve read through a few recent posts from people dealing with similar issues / just general "getting going" advice and watched numerous videos on YouTube, but figured I’d share exactly what I’m seeing and get a fresh perspective before I start changing anything else.

I’m in the Boston, MA area and have a roughly 3–4 ft Meyer lemon tree indoors in my apartment. It’s next to a south-facing window with good natural light, although we’re obviously heading into fall/winter in New England and daylight is dropping. I’m planning to get a grow light soon to supplement the window light through the winter.

Quick timeline:

• Mid-September: Ordered the tree from Trees.com. It arrived boxed in a small nursery pot. Leaves were mostly green, but there was already some pale/mottled coloring.
• Sept. 26: Repotted into a larger 12–14” container using Miracle-Gro Cactus (I also have a bag of unopened Palm & Citrus Potting Mix). Kept the original root ball intact and added fresh mix underneath and around it. Pot has one drainage hole and a saucer.
• Watering: Watered thoroughly after repotting, then didn’t water again until Oct. 11 because the soil stayed moist for a surprisingly long time. Both times water drained through the bottom. I’ve been checking a few inches down rather than watering on a schedule.
• Since repotting: Lower leaves have progressively turned yellow, and it seems like the yellowing is slowly moving upward. Some leaves have a mottled green/yellow appearance. The upper part of the tree is still greener. The original root ball also seems to dry somewhat faster than the surrounding new soil. It was also moving slightly within the new mix, so I recently added/firmed some soil around the sides to stabilize it.

I haven’t added any fertilizer because the new Miracle-Gro mix already contains fertilizer.

Would love any thoughts on what I’m seeing. Does this look like normal shipping/repotting stress, a watering/root issue, nutrient deficiency, not enough light, or something else? And given that the original root ball seems to dry faster than the surrounding mix, should I focus more of the watering around that original root zone while it establishes?

Trying not to overreact and make things worse, so any advice from people who actually know citrus would be appreciated!

Is this a natural occurrence and I should just mark these as random abnormalities or is there some way to guard against losing a few of my crop every growth cycle?

I’m in southern Louisiana, the ground under my lawn is pretty solid clay so when I planted these trees I dug about a 4x4x4 ft hole to plant them, I used a mixture of native soil, perlite, compost and citrus garden soil, also slightly raised so I don’t think the roots are water logged. Any ideas why my leaves are yellowing and also any ideas what kind of pest is making these irregular looking bites on the edges of the leaves?

My wife got me this Meyer lemon tree from four winds growers, it’s in an east facing window right now, in 6a in Northwest PA. I bought wrong pot for it, it’s way too big (I think?) but I have new smaller one on the way. It’s still in the 12” sleeve it came in, I just threw it in the big pot propped up for now til new smaller pot comes in because the sleeve doesn’t stand on its own.

I don’t have any west or south facing windows to put it in. Can I supplement its light requirements with this grow light? Or do I need something that lasts longer or is more powerful

I'm getting ready to bring my dwarf meyer lemon tree in within a few weeks and will have it in an east facing window. I wanted to get a grow light for it as well. The tree is just under a year old so kinda small still. I saw the below light on amazon. Would this work? I don't have much room but I think I can make this base work.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GR8385Z2?ref=emc_p_m_5_i_atc

Hello! We potted a Meyer lemon in the Spring of 2025, and heading into our 2nd winter I have two questions:

We live in Zone 8a (central NC). Last winter I brought the tree in before first frost but put it back out on particularly warm weeks. We finished the winter with a handful of leaves hanging on, but it also flowered in mid March, but dropped the flowers when it had to come back indoors. It flowered again this summer in August, and now we have tiny little fruits coming up late. SO:

1. Should I just keep it indoors all winter, let ALL the leaves drop, and set it back out early spring? Is it OK for it to lose all its leaves, and bringing it out early for a premature flower caused us to get a late flower this year?
2. And unrelated, when I just moved it for this pic, it had sent a root out through the drain hole in the pot 2-3 feet down the hill. Should I repot it in the spring (or trim?) or is this size still acceptable for it?

Thank you!

Meyers go year round here in SF, is spring still the best time? Our seasons aren't standard and although we're a 10b, late spring/early summer is generally cool (~60). There's always a bloom or fruit on the tree so no dormancy to take advantage of, first year it's in ground although it's a 5yo tree. Supposed to get a ton of rain from El Nino this year.

I live in Boston, and I am trying my first potted citrus with this lovely lemon tree, which I acquired in June. It arrived with one little lemon already on it, which I left alone, and generally the tree did fine over the summer on my east-facing porch.

I moved it indoors a little early because I was going out of town for a month, and also wasn’t here to monitor its transition into being next to a SW-facing window with a grow light to supplement (and lots of other plants at the base for humidity). To my surprise, I returned home to find zero leaf drop but tons of baby lemons, and some more flowers. It’s October! I assume this is not likely to be desirable for the tree’s winter. Should I remove all the new lemons? Some of them? There are about ten of the little guys who are smaller than my pinky nail. The first lemon from June is now practically lemon-sized though so that’s exciting!

Also welcome input on my winter plan for the tree. I moved in farther from the window just for these photos. The grow light is set to 8 hours, starting around mid afternoon. My apartment stays warmer through winter than I would prefer due to a tropical husband.

I posted this unit on Reddit a few years back when it was still a sapling. I did not figure in my original design this would grow with such vigour and take up so much space.

(Just as added info the pot has no bottom and is dropped into a square cut through the concrete apron so the roots can reach moist soil beneath. And very moist it is, which is partially why I planted it there; to draw moisture from the immediate area. Judging by its growth and the quantity of crop it produces that part of the plan has worked because it never gets watered.)

So I am caught in several minds here. If I top the highest growth will it spread out a bit more? Not ideal because it is in a bit of a thoroughfare and those thorns hurt as you brush past it.

My other option is to transplant it. Will that risk the tree? It won't be easy but I reckon I can extract it with the root system pretty much intact.

Sorry for the length of the post, but as s thanks Ive included a pic of a near new grapefruit given the same treatment and another lemon I grew from seed.

PS. Live on the east coast of South Africa in a sunny, humid climate. Oh, and moist too.

Found this what seems to be sweet orange tree in Davis CA. The fruit is consistently around the size of an egg with the fruits near the top being slightly larger. The fruit’s size is consistent across the tree even on the front part that gets the full California sun.

The tree also appears to be entirely thornless and growing from its own roots. It has a very complex and delicious flavor too! Some floral notes, a sour zing, and a flavor reminiscent of Valencias.

Could it just be a weird Valencia? Do they have fruit this late into October along with very young ripening green ones? The fruits have a fair amount of seeds as well. But the small size is what throws me off since no other citrus in the area seem to struggle producing sizeable fruit. Will citrus produce small fruits if it’s too dry?

Either way I plan to propagate it. It’s close to the best orange I’ve ever had.