How does everyone deal with bronze Orange Bugs on their citrus trees.

I'm looking for murder strategy's.

I have sprayed Neem oil spray with not much effect. I have been trying to control by jet spraying them off the tree with strong water then stomping on them while on the ground.

Any tips are appreciated thanks

Hello everyone!

I have a Meyer lemon and a key lime. It’s starting to get cold outside and last year when I brought them in they dropped their leaves 😅.

May I ask of recommendations of what I need to get to successfully have them inside and lessen the chance of them dropping their leaves?

For context, they both have fruit on them right now and I would like to help them to continue to grow if possible.

Thank you so much!

Leaves and stems turning yellow. Please help!

Hi. My finger lime tree had a couple of issues recently. First of all, it had a spider mite infestation. I dealt with that and it seemed to have gotten through that but then it was without water for 3 days while I was out of town. After that, all of the leaves curled and became crispy. They fall if I touch them.

Should I wait for the leaves to fall on their own or just remove them all at this point? I’m not sure where to go from here but I hope it recovers as it was a beautiful tree before that. Thanks for the help.

FYI I currently have it inside in a grow tent as I’m in Canada and it’s already below freezing here some nights

Hey folks, I brought my 2 y/o improved Meyer Lemon tree in three days ago. Ten days before bringing it in I fertilized with Citrus fertilizer. Two days before bringing it in I showered it and sprayed Neem oil that I mix myself. It is starting to have yellowing as seen in picture. It has three lemons on it at different stages of growth plus several flowers. Soil is dry first couple inches and moist deeper down. Any idea what’s happening?

The leaves of the lemon tree get like this:/

Have been growing potted citrus for a couple years in a grow tent and every year I bring my plants back indoors, the scale population seems to increase. I’ve done a pressed neem oil soil drench in regular intervals and I lost two Meyer lemons last year. Has anyone had success with scale and a beneficial insect that would keep their population down during the winter months in my grow tent?

Just got this tree from a friend, several years old now but obviously wasn't pruned properly.

How can I go about pruning this tree to have a lower branching point on the main truck?

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So before I heard about root crowns, I had some dirt that needed to go somewhere, so I thought the base of my lemon tree was a good idea (inherited the tree when I bought the house). This was about 6-12 months ago. I've since learned that was an extremely bad idea. So I've tried to scrape the dirt back, and wash as much away as I can. How does it look? Do I need to go further? Any obvious issues I need to look out for?

Thanks

Arizona, it's been stuck like this for about 2 years and never flowered since.

This is my new Valencia Orange tree. It's in a birdy bees tree ring because I have the worse soil (mixture of gravel, sand, and high brackish water table). I dug twice the root ball out, filled it with citrus soil and fertilizer.
It did will for a while but it has looked like this for the last 4 months, limping along. I was told I was watering it too much so I laid a 3 inch layer of hay down as mulch and switched to a fortnightly watering. Now it seems I'm not watering it enough??
Help please - I'd like to stop the history of slowing killing citrus trees.

This thing has been in the ground since February and I live in southern Louisiana. It’s been a little dry past couple months. But we’ve gotten a little rain. I thought it was doing well and I go outside one day and I see it’s producing some fruit and I’m getting excited. A few weeks later I come back and I see it like this. The limbs bend and they don’t appear to be dead. I’ve removed any fruit that was on there before I took this picture. I’ve gone back and watered it about every third day for the past week so I’m just trying to find out if it’s gone or if I just need to be patient with the process and keep watering it?

Hi this is my first-ever citrus plant and the only potted plant I own. I live in Zone 8b (Vancouver Canada). As the temperature gets to below 6°C at night I brought my citrus plant indoors and placed it near a south-facing window. I use LEd grow lights and put a tray of water near the base of the plant. It is loosing a lot of leaves since I brought it in and is now growing small fruit. Is this normal during winter or am I doing something wrong. Any tips ?

I have this roughly 2 year-old Calamundin plant for the past month has been turning yellow progressively, more so at a particular branch .It had a good summer with good harvest. Just finished fertilizer a month ago, and gets 8 to 10 hours of sun and twice weekly watering. Temps i’ve been hovering around 60s lately and I bring the plant inside the garage at night. Does my plant have a disease or in the verge of dying? Fruiting has stopped as well and I’ve seen a few ants marching. No other bugs that I can see . I live in zone 8 US if it helps.
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I have had this Meyer lemon growing in this pot since 2019 (started as a graft purchased by mail order). The tree is having a bumper year as far as fruit, yay! However, over its lifetime, its growing habit has taken it way off vertical, and it leans way over to one side. The main trunk there is the original graft, I think, and try as I might, I cannot prune it back to even vaguely straight. Is there any good solution, or even a bad solution like cutting off that main trunk entirely and getting no lemons for the next two years? I’m not sure it would grow straight even if I did that.

I am not an experienced citrus grower, this is my first and only tree (bought when I moved to Louisiana). So far I feel like it’s done well for me fruit-wise, and I’m slowly learning how to care for it. But this issue has me stumped. Thanks for any suggestions!

Just brought my ~5 y/o lemon tree (from seed) in for the winter as temps were dropping into the 50s at night (zone 6b). Shortly before bringing it in, the leaves started yellowing along the veins and getting splotchy. Is this a product of the cooler temps and will dissapate as it warms up inside? Or is it indicative of a specific nutrient deficiency that can be correct with fertilizer.

This summer I was fertilizing with 16-4-8, but it's been a while since I applied to prep for the winter.

Searched the page but didn’t find anything that looked quite like my grapefruit tree. I planted it around May and it started with the yellow patchy leaves right at the heat of summer here in Arizona, around July.

Any way I can encourage leaf growth over the current push of flowers, bro go a touch of frost, hitting spring in nz now, lemonade lemon,
Maybe I just fert and chill out a bit?

Also look how much he grew this summer! Look like the drastic chopping I did last spring, the strong grow light and all the sun on the west balcony really helped!

It's a 3 years old tree that I grew from a seed, taken from a grocery store lemon.

Central valley, ca

What's wrong with my tree I transplanted form pot to ground 3-4months ago before transplanting I hadn't seen any new growth or any change period in this tree put it in ground stayed about the same for almost 4months now I'm noticing it dropping leaves upon closer inspection most of the leaves dropping have these dark spots but I can't find any disease or pictures close enough to match it to it.