Potted Lemon Trees Yellow/Orange Leaves.

[Guzmanjl]

Hello All,

I have an issue with my lemon trees and I am concern. I have done what I was recommend for the lemon tree soils and the leaves are still turning yellow and orange.

I have 4 lemon trees that I grew out from the seeds. I have had them for about 3 years now maybe a bit more and they have not grown much ;(.

I decided to re-pot them a few months ago to bigger pots in hopes that they would shot up and start growing. When I re-potted, the leaf of one of them started to turn yellow/orange. I can see signs on one of the other trees leaves turning yellow as well.

I thought that it was maybe because I had them inside the house with a light over them, luckily started to get warmer around her about a month ago so I took them out hoping that would help with the yellow leaves. But no luck.

I water them about 1 a week, some times 1 every two weeks since that is what I was recommended to do.

For the soil, I mixed in about 50% to 60% sand and the rest potting soil to have good drainage. I am not sure if the sand I used is too fine......?

I have not put fertilizer on them since I am afraid to kill them been the condition they are in at the moment, but maybe they need a nutrient...??

I forgot to take pictures this morning before leaving to work but as soon as I get home I will take some pictures of the soil mixture, sand I use, and trees themselves.

I do see some other post on here that might help me a bit already but I wanted to show my trees to see if my issue is something else.

Any help and advised is greatly appreciate.

Thank you.

 

[Guzmanjl]

Here are some pictures of my lemon trees, you can see that the leaves are pretty bad, more so on one of the trees.

Also, my tallest tree is only a foot or so and they are already 3 or so years old. How bad am I messing this up?

 

[Guzmanjl]

I forgot to mention the sand. Has you can see on some of the pictures I have a pretty well drained pot on all trees. Like state on my original post, I used a mix of about 50% to 60% sand and the rest potting soil.

 

[roadrunner]

I don't normally respond to issues concerning potted plants because I don't do container gardening. However, I do have a couple lemon trees and I know they are heavy feeders, so I wonder what's the point of using any sand, especially as much as 50%(+), which provides nothing -- I don't believe drainage is enough of a reason to add sand to a container. BUT THEN AGAIN...I don't do container gardening, so I'm not sure...

I also don't think regular potting soil is good enough for these heavy feeders, but I emphasize that I don't do container gardening and I don't buy soil, so in that respect I can't offer any recommendations. However, for my lemon trees, they get tons of composted soil for all their nutritional needs.


Maybe this will help.... http://www.gotogardenista.com/best-fertilizer-for-lemon-trees/

 

[Guzmanjl]

I don't normally respond to issues concerning potted plants because I don't do container gardening. However, I do have a couple lemon trees and I know they are heavy feeders, so I wonder what's the point of using any sand, especially as much as 50%(+), which provides nothing -- I don't believe drainage is enough of a reason to add sand to a container. BUT THEN AGAIN...I don't do container gardening, so I'm not sure...

I also don't think regular potting soil is good enough for these heavy feeders, but I emphasize that I don't do container gardening and I don't buy soil, so in that respect I can't offer any recommendations. However, for my lemon trees, they get tons of composted soil for all their nutritional needs.


Maybe this will help.... http://www.gotogardenista.com/best-fertilizer-for-lemon-trees/

Thank you for the response. I have them in pots so that I can bring them in during Winter. I read the link you sent me and will be switching out their soil. I also bought some citrus plant food and chelated iron and added the recommended porting to each tree. The plant food is 8-3-9. Based on what I have read and the what you mention I think they aren't getting enough nutrients.