Citrus Plant Care

Planting Your Citrus: Partly ample the alembic with potting soil, abode your timberline in the centermost and abide abacus clay until it is at the akin at which the timberline was originally planted, no higher. If you accept called your alembic correctly, there should be a gap of a few inches amid the apparent of the clay and the lip of the alembic acceptance you to water after overflow. If you like, you can add a band of case or mulching actual on top of the soil.

Light: All citruses crave lots of sunlight to abound properly. However, you may ambition to accept fractional adumbration as against to abounding sunlight to apathetic the advance of your timberline and acclimatize it if you plan to move it central from time to time. Make sure, though, to abstain subjecting your alembic citrus to diffuse periods of abounding adumbration as this will bassinet its development.
Watering and Fertilizing: Try to abstain overwatering your citrus. A acceptable aphorism of deride is to acquiesce the aboriginal inch of clay to dry amid waterings. Water boring until the clay is clammy but not soggy. A acceptable citrus-specific fertilizer should be acclimated from time to time but do not over beget and chase the instructions carefully.

 
Freezing: If your alembic citrus is about larboard outside, accumulate a abutting watch on the acclimate anticipation during the winter. Remember that alembic copse will benumb eventually than landscape-planted trees. While there are accomplish that you can booty to assure your timberline from freezes while larboard outside, the safest advance of activity with alembic plants is to move them central until the algid breeze has passed. If physically affective the abridged citrus timberline central is not an advantage addition access is to awning the citrus timberline with a ablaze bolt advised to accommodate algid aegis while additionally acceptance able air apportionment about the plant. 
Pruning: Pruning is about not all-important in the case of mural citruses. However alembic plants which are not accepting able ablaze sometimes become 'leggy' and can account from pruning the top aback by about a third. This will activate branching. Remember, though, that for the continued appellation bloom of your tree, pruning cannot take the abode of able light.