P:I grow various citrus trees at home: orange, lemon, kumquat, mandarin, pomegranate. Some plants were obtained by rooting fruiting shoots, others I brought from trips abroad. I have been trying for a long time to find out what soil pH individual plants require.
Various sources give contradictory information. In the summer, I brought a climbing lemon with many fruits. Even though I tried to provide it with optimal conditions, it loses leaves very much. Please help.
O:All citrus have similar requirements. ·They need a lot of sun, they cannot be kept in the kitchen, because even a low gas concentration in the air is harmful to them. counterthey must not be rotated, so that they can grow evenly, you can only use supports.
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Citrus plants like moisture, but we water them - abundantly! - only when the soil surface in the pots is slightly dry, so that some of the water flows onto the saucer. Pour out the excess water.The substrate should be permeable, with a high content of humus, neutral or slightly acidic.
A mix of leaf soil, dung, and sand (2: 2: 1) will be good. Too acidic substrate should be sprinkled with chalk (1/2 teaspoon per 1 liter of soil).The plants should be fertilized with fertilizer every week, preferably of the guano type.In winter, the plants should not be fertilized.
One of the diseases of citrus plants is chlorosis caused by cold, flooding or acidification of the soil, or vice versa - too much calcium in the substrate.It should be watered with soft water.In the event of this disease, watering should be limited and the plant should be replanted into fresh substrate.
It is good to supplement it with foliar and soil preparations containing iron. Citrus reacts violently to dryness, shedding their leaves massively.
