Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Sep 17, 2015 6:08 am Seeking assistance on whether to prune/train my new double grafted Lemon and lime tree or just let it grow? It's currently been planted in a large 1mx75cmx75cm pot using citrus potting mix with added bactivate and topped with sugar cane mulch. Watered in some molasses powerfeed and seasol. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: New Lemon Tree 2Sep 17, 2015 12:09 pm Don't know about pruning but this is my guide for looking after Lemon Trees Poem by Leunig The secret of mens health be The keeping of a lemon tree and keeping of the male rite Of tending it alone at night Some nuturing, some nourishing and yet a bit of flourishing. Unless a man remains a beast The tree and he will be deceased. The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: New Lemon Tree 4Sep 23, 2015 7:35 am LOL. I personally think a simple bushy tree is desirable. As to pruning, it's not in need of it. Let it grow a year and see where it's at. The idea around pruning lemons is that you don't take too much of its fruiting sites away. Those seem to appear in greater quantity towards the outside. Take 20% of the outside off at a time so that over the course of 5 years you've gone around the tree without taking fruiting sites away. Cut branches that are touching, the low branches close to the ground and anything with gall wasp on it. BUT... You are a way off any of that yet. Give it a year or two, keep up the mulch, do t over water it. Creator of superduperonium, expert at expert things, nobel laureate, can hold my breath for 10 minutes. Re: New Lemon Tree 7Apr 30, 2016 9:20 am Also, lemons get galls on new growth. Keep an eye out. You should chop them off before the wasps inside emerge and reinfect the tree. So, in late winter usually. Bunnings has gall wasp traps in case you miss some. Put the galls in plastic bags, tie securely and put in the rubbish not in the compost or green waste bin. Or burn them. Re: New Lemon Tree 8Apr 30, 2016 11:10 am My only tips - lemons often like a good draining soil. AND - the magical additive - all the men must stand around it and perform a ritual each night. They often love acid. One of my favourites is the dwarf meyer. Re: New Lemon Tree 9May 01, 2016 7:56 pm I don't know why you say don't over-water it Ponzu. If it is in free draining soil they love lots of fertiliser and lots of water. If it was planted in a boggy or clay soil I'd say you're right and hold back a bit but in a pot with presumably holes in the base give it a good healthy drink a couple of times a week. Stewie Hello. I just bought a few acres in Habana, Mackay, and my horses seem to love hanging around under this tree. I would like to name the paddock after this tree. Can… 0 9528 Fellow Perth dweller. Looks like pruns nigra. It's a dark leaf flowering plum. Doesn't get massive and is easily trimmed deciduous tree. Very popular in small gardens in Perth 7 2760 |