Why is my lemon tree losing leaves
Why Your Citrus Trees Are Losing Leaves And How To Fix It
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hey guys welcome to another episode of
plant Fanatics today we're going to be
talking about citrus trees so stay tuned
today we're in my greenhouse and I want
to talk about one of the most common
questions that I'm asked about citrus
trees and it's why are they defoliating
in the winter and that's a really good
question I actually made a video about
this in the past but uh some people are
having a hard time finding it because
it's so far back so I want to go over
this again so right here next to me is
my almost nine-year-old lemon tree that
I started from seed and you can see it's
actually doing pretty well you can see
in some of my other videos that it's
actually defoliated in the past and the
reason this one is not defoliating I've
done a lot of experimentation with this
and this one is not defoliating because
I've had it in a warmer location I've
kept the root Zone warmer than my other
trees now in contrast to that if you
follow me over here to this Mexican key
lime you can see it's almost completely
defoliated and that doesn't mean that
the tree is dying it just means that
that root system is having a little bit
more trouble with the temperature flux
situations if you let the root zone of
these trees get below 50 degrees you can
definitely expect those leaves to start
yellowing and dropping now to prove to
you guys that this tree is actually
doing really well even though it's
defoliating if you come in close you can
see all of the flower buds forming all
over this thing it is still going to
produce fruit so if your tree is
dropping its leaves it doesn't mean
you're not going to get fruit leaves
defoliating it's just meaning that the
trees under a little bit of stress which
sometimes can actually help the tree go
into Fruit so maybe if you've had a tree
that hasn't fruited in the past a little
bit of stress might actually be a good
thing for it now here are some of my
other citrus trees I haven't moved out
of the greenhouse right now because I've
been doing some work inside of the
greenhouse but you can see some of these
leaves are starting to Yellow they might
fall off like that however that is not
hurting fruit production you can see all
these fruit here this is a harvest just
from today
um down here we've got a massive lemon
still growing on this Ponderosa lemon
tree uh this kumquat tree is actually
doing pretty well this year it's got all
of these fruits still on it but my point
being just because the leaves are
starting to fall off of your lemon tree
or your orange tree it doesn't mean the
tree is in bad Health it means it's
stressed out
another example of a perfectly healthy
tree that is losing some of its leaves
if I grab that it just Falls right off
some of these leaves are ready to go
but if you come in close yet again on
this Persian lime we have got some
flower buds starting to form there we've
got some more flower buds right here and
we've still got some fruit hanging on
the tree which are almost ripe so
once again just because it's defoliating
doesn't mean the tree is unhealthy
a few other things to think about when
you're growing citrus trees in
containers is one humidity very
important try to keep a high humidity
environment another thing is to maybe
hold back on your watering in those
colder temperatures a little bit so we
don't cause root rot to the plant very
easy to do with citrus trees another
point is to have as much sunlight as
possible a southern window in your house
is perfect a greenhouse obviously is
perfect
but as much sun as possible and if you
don't have a full sun area maybe think
about getting some grow lights they make
some great LED options that are super
cheap to run and will keep your fruit
tree very happy and healthy thanks so
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