Hello folks,

I recently ordered a new pink lemonade citrus tree from Wayside Gardens. I received it last late March. I am trying to grow it but I have some serious problem with my dwarf citrus tree. Bottom leaves started to fell down without turing yellow, etc. I believe that it was possible due to lack of water for a while. I watered it once each more than a week. When soil became very dry, I water it.

Today I read instructions and it said that I have to water it each few days to keep moisture without drying during spring and summer. During fall and winter, I treat it like a cactus by let soil dry first then water it.

Is that right? Does anyone have any experience with pink lemonade citrus tree (vargartied foilage)?

Thanks!
Tim

Hi Tim. Try posting some photos so we can get an idea of what is wrong. Citrus should only be watered when the top 2-3 inches is dry summer or winter. Variegated foliage has nothing to do with you watering habbits.

Hello folks,

I figured how to post my images into that forum by using ImageShack web site. Here are my photos about sick pink lemonade citrus tree with losing some leaves.



Thanks!
Tim

It looked like you water it too late to the point of no return.
You have to water it before it gets to that point.
The soil becomes too dry for the roots to supply water to the plant.
But wait.
As long as the limbs are green there is hope. You may lose all the leaves but if you give it some TLC it's going to sprout again new buds. But the existing leaves are what I meant it is too late to save.

Hello folks,

Not good news! I noticed that all limbs started to turn into brown. It looks like that my pink lemon tree is dying.

Oh, I exmained its rootball and noticed that it is not enough big and a bit loose.

Thanks for your replies, etc. I think that I have to buy new one.

Thanks.
Tim

Hiyas Sword 7. For $30 for a 1-gallon plant, id try one of the other suppliers, search in the forum below for mail-order. Youll get a bigger plant for the same $.

I had a Pummelo newly planted in CHC, on the stone patio, and it got crispy-fried. Took it in, ran the humidifier on it for a few days, kept it out of mid-day sun. it lost almost all leaves, and 1/4 branches rotted, but now its half-full of leaves again, and theyre still coming in.

Fear not, but you might want to try another citrus again anyways!

Good Luck!

Last yr i had a lisbon Lemon with the same problem i thought it was dead ..
So i put the old plant in to the wheel barrol went to work forgot it for 3 days Rain hit about 1/2 inch in barrol the plant came back to life .. lost the meyers though but just in case you might try to give the rootsa little water threw the bottom witch is Not recommended for a healthy plant..
since i was given 2-10 yr old plants with soaked roots also believed to be dead and dried them out in burrlap sacks with pummis and very little dirt and NOT in direct sunlight camera battery dead i was gonna post pics.. they too are comming back .. My biologist friend here in town hates the way i try things .. because they are Not what is reccomended .. but i thought shoot if there dead and this will do no harm then try it If not dead or badly damaged i will beg from this site for help the Lisbon was also a mistake healing so it must of had some wick to her.. Tammy

[quote=\"garnetmoth\"]Hiyas Sword 7. For $30 for a 1-gallon plant, id try one of the other suppliers, search in the forum below for mail-order. Youll get a bigger plant for the same $.

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Fear not, but you might want to try another citrus again anyways!

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Thanks for replies. My pink lemon tree went dead because all limbs now are completely brown. I ordered new one from ebay site and got big 3-feet tall pink lemon citrus tree. I planted it into my pot but it looks like too big for that pot. When I watered it, it went dry so quickly (next day) and re-watered it. Now I got new 16-inch pot and will repot my pink lemon tree into that to keep moist longer.

Thanks!
Tim

Sword7,
The exact same thing happen to my mothers Pink Lemon plant only she planted it in a HUGE pot with nothing but mulch for the soil.The mulch takes so long to hydrate that the plant dried out. EVERY leaf was dried. The stems were still green and it still had a root ball of approx 2 inches(the rest just fell off due to the drynes). What I did was unpotted the poor thing and cut it way way back. Each limb now is no more than 6 inches. I placed the little plant in little pot filled with coarse sand, I had previously dipped the roots in a rooting hormone and watered well. I placed the whole thing in a zipploc bag and am treating it as a new cutting. ALL the lims are green and starting to swell. It appears that I will have some leaves soon. I now have custody of her lemon plant since I rescued it from the trash where she had thrown it.
Andi