Roy Yamashiroya’s Salt Lake home features dozens of bonsai, including fruiting plants such as tangerine, Meyer lemon, calamansi, lime and starfruit trees. He uses aluminum wire to shape the plants.
Lemon Tree: I did the humidifier and more lighting and it popped out new leaves in February (yay!) with a bunch of buds, but it now feels like it stalled. I found spider mites on the tree, so I have been trying to wipe down the effected leaves and stems with a wet paper towel as often as I can.
I bought a meyer lemon and a lime tree. I removed the tabs and now can't remember which is the lemon or lime. How can I tell which is which? I have included a picture of one of the trees. Which tree is this?
How can you tell if you have a lemon or a lime tree? #305357
Yellowing of lemon tree leaves can be a sign of various issues, including chlorosis (see the leaf in image 20230608). That leaf shows all the typical symptoms of chlorosis: yellow background and green leaf veins.
My (indoor) Meyer lemon tree has been rapidly dropping leaves. At first I thought it was because I was overwatering it (the leaves would pale and shri...
Since you mention specifically that the leaves are dropping off of both the Meyer Lemon and the Key Lime trees, I will address that issue primarily: First of all, it is easy to overwater Meyer lemons: Overwatering saturates the tree and the soil around it causing nutrient deficiencies and diseases. The main sign of overwatering is yellowing and leaves falling off the tree. Overwatering the ...