Citrus trees

[Aisin]

Who knows about them? My wifes dad planted a Meyer lemon in the backyard probably 8 years ago now. Not a single fucking lemon yet. I know I am retarded when it comes to lots of things but I know this tree should have produced something by now. Is it a lost cause? I’m ready to pull this thing and replace it with something. Educate my dumbass.

 

[M92PV4U]

 

[M92PV4U]

I killl everything that I plant or water

 

[Aisin]

I killl everything that I plant or water

I tried growing a few pineapples in pots from the Dole plantation on Oahu. They were doing good until summer rolled around and nuked them. That Meyer doesn’t even bloom, never has. It doesn’t get nutrients and I rarely water it. It’s on drip irrigation. I know they need a lot more than that. I occasionally hit it with the garden hose for a minute or so to soak the ground. Either way I don’t think it’s going to fruit. I’m just going to yank the damn tree.

 

[Tooheysmax]

Yea need to have neighboring lemon trees from different batches if they are grafts from same tree it will never produce it’s like inbreeding

 

[Aisin]

Yea need to have neighboring lemon trees from different batches if they are grafts from same tree it will never produce it’s like inbreeding

Amish lemons

 

[Tooheysmax]

Amish lemons

Mozeltov.

 

[70 tp]

If it’s in Florida or near fl then it could have the greening disease. There is no hope at this point for trees with the greening. Greening is rapidly wiping out ALL the citrus in fl. Maybe post a pic of the tree?

 

[bgaidan]

I've had lemons and limes for the better part of 20 years. I'd occasionally get fruit up to the size of a golf ball before they'd fall off. Just a couple of months ago I got two lemons of my Meyer. This tree is somewhere around 10-12 years old. It would always blossom like crazy and start making little fruit, but they'd always fall off.

One think you need to do is fertilize the hell out of them. Pick up a citrus specific fertilizer or food from Amazon and follow the directions. One thing that I think helped me finally get fruit this time was I gave it a heavy dose right as the flowers were starting to turn to fruit and that supposedly helps them "set the fruit".

They're also temperamental as hell. At my old place, I'd bring them inside for the winter and they'd drop like 75% of their leaves within a few weeks. They'd start to come around by spring....and then I'd move them outside for the summer and they'd drop all their leaves again. Even in this pic, you can see that it dropped a ton of leaves off the branch with the fruit.