IMPULSE BUY - HELP!!!

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

Well don't know much about Citrus but as far as I know they are frost tender so will need a frost free home in winter, should be OK outside in the summer but may not set fruit in anything less than a good summer. Seem to remember they prefer rainwater rather than tap water.

have fun with the snowdrops plant them any time it's dry enough to work outside

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

Hi

I have a sweet & sour mini orange, been in the cold greenhouse all winter with a wrap of fleece, some leaves have died , but looks ok condidering the minus 10 we had for 3 days.

I have had mine 4 years I potted on with John innes no 3 plus added more grit I add grit to every compost even when I make up my own mix, in May lives on the patio table full sun whole of the summer and regulary pinch out the growing tips to keep it bushy I have had fruit every year , the secret I have found is the feeding I use a summer Citrus food then a winter one (only September & October) with the winter food , then into the green house before the first frost and only keep it slightly wet or nearly dry.



Hope this helps

ps mine was a a impulse as well from a big danish shop plus we had them xmas with dessert I soaked them in brandy for 6 weeks.

Spruce

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

OCD Tthats what I think I have with gardening, get it home and think I can fit it ooohhh just the spot LOL

Like I said in a earlier thread I can see what going to happen with starting with day lily's, like I did with agapanthus, monarda, hosta's, tree peony's now that cost me £££ , you will have a grove soon if your anything like me.

I went to a suposed Rare plant fair I had more choice in mine LOL

I rescued a red hot pocker from mums old garden before she moved she got it in the 1960's "Springtime" I cant find one nursery that sells that any more I am building it up at the moment to split next year.

Spruce

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

I have the same problem of impulse buying... but mine is with packets of seeds. I cant help but pick up a packet if they are something Im not familiar with, or look easy to grow for my garden.

I think its a kind of illness we suffer from :WINK1:

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

I've got 11 lemon trees from seed that are doing very well. Not done anything special with them apart from feeding with a bit of home made liquid feed.

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

Sorry if this sounds like im being a lemon :WINK1: , but were they seeds out of a shop purchased lemon?

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

Some citrus can cope with temps below freezing. Eureka lemon for instance is said to cope down to -5c I have one myself along with a Navelina Orange which is also good for -5c although i have not tested this as they are moved into the greenhouse to over winter.

I also have a grapefruit which was a freebie, all the above have now survived a couple of seasons
overwintering in the greenhouse at a minimum of 3c.

I feed with baby bio citrus food mainly because a local shed was flogging it off at 25p a bottle a while back when repotting i use a general purpose compost, sharp sand and vermiculite mix in a ratio of circa 70, 10, 20 which gives good drainage. These are all patio plants circa 4ft tall.

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

Yep, all out of the same Lemon. Not holding out for any fruit, as the ones you buy from nurseries are grafted.

Might get some sort of "Crab Lemon":DOH:
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Do I ? Must have eaten too many of them then.

 

RE: IMPULSE BUY - HELP111

 

There's something very satisfying about impulse buying, especially when it's a bargain. Even better when the plant does well.

Just before Christmas I bought Jasmine Stephanense for a pound in Tesco's. A healthy looking plant but I'm holding off planting it out because of the weather.