Citrus Growers Forum

DaveF · Posted: Sat 25 Sep, 2010 3:51 pm

Last winter I had my lemon tree in a terracotta pot and sat it on a heating pad. This worked well and kept the roots nice and warm.

This spring I repotted the tree into a fabric "smartpot". I'm thinking that I probably don't want to set this on the heating pad since there will be water running around. Same thing with wrapping lights around the pot.

Should I repot it into a plastic tub for the winter just so I can apply heat?

Thanks,

Dave

Millet · Posted: Mon 27 Sep, 2010 3:05 am

Place the fabric pot inside a hard sided container and use either Christmas lights or heating pad. Is there any type of an advantage of a fabric pot anyway? - Millet (840-)

DaveF · Posted: Mon 27 Sep, 2010 1:05 pm

Millet wrote:

Is there any type of an advantage of a fabric pot anyway? - Millet (840-)

Well, allegedly they do the air pruning of roots. I had read about such pots here but couldn't find the rootmaker ones so thought I'd try these. My tree seemed to do really well with it over this summer.

Thanks,

Dave