My Edibles: Lime Trees NSW

Lime - generic seedling (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: -

Just a seedling, and will be grafting a named variety on it soon (have actually very recently grafted a small veneer of an orange tree I have onto it, will advise how it goes)

Planted: 2010

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Finger Lime - Tasty Green

Comments: - I saw these on ABC's Landline series a few years ago and decided to buy one.  I moved recently to the coast and have now planted it in the ground and it seems to be very happy in its new backyard

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Has stayed manageable size in the pot. Great tasting fruit, low maintenance tree. Only pests are stink bugs which are easy to control. Pruned roots as well as branches this winter & has a flush of new growth & heaps of fruit set this spring

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, October, November, December

Planted: 2004

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Fruit Harvest: 60 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Seasol, Dynamic Lifter

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Pyrethrum or Enviro Oil for stink bugs as needed

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Comments

Hi Sean, I have a Tahitian lime as well in a pot. How do you prune the roots?

hi Chak, sorry for late reply. I just took the whole tree out of the pot & trimmed the roots with a sharp knife & as Daleys advised pruned the foliage at the same rate. Then I put new in potting mix & dynamic lifter, repotted & gave some seasol weekly til it got over the shock. Very easy & responded well. Hope this helps

Finger Lime - Ricks Red (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - The red browed finches nest in it dense sikey foliage every year. It is the native food source of the citrus butterflies, including the Dainty Swallowtail. Small frogs like the protection of the thorns as well.  Fabulously product tree, I have been picking fruits for months and selling them at the local farmers market.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 0.6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Water Given in: Summer

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow manure, compost

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: suffers from scale

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Citrus Splitzer - lemon/lime

Comments: -

One of the grafts seems much more vigorous than the other (not sure which yet). It's also helped by the fact there are 2 grafts of one and only 1 of the other.

Spring 2011: Covered in flowers and just starting to grow teeny tiny fruit.

About a month after this  I decided to get rid of the fruit. There was just so much and I thought that it was a bad idea to leave them all. It didn't seem to like that and suddenly dropped all of its leaves. There are teeny tiny new shoots appearingon some of the branches (mostly on one graft not the other). No idea what I did wrong - I am SURE there was enough food, I am sure it wasn't too wet or too dry. I am hoping that it was a sunlight issue so I have moved into a sunnier spot.

Summer 2012: First day of the new year and I have noticed new shoots on the bare branches. I think that the weather has just started to warm up enough for it to get going again. Catch is that I think they shoots might actually be flowers not leaves. What is it thinking? All I can do is keep an eye on it and keep reminding my man to help fertilise!

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2010

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Charlie Carp, Seasol, and my partner helps out too

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: - it taste good ,looks good

Planted: 2005

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Question: got lime 2years ago ,it flowers but nolimes ,what sort fertilizer i should use and when. i live sydney nsw

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

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This tree is struggling, it keeps getting cut back hard to remove gall wasps and it has not had a chance to grow very much.  Gets scale and suffers from neglect. I will have to give it more attention if I want it to thrive, I wish I had bought a tree on trifoliata as the dwarf is too slow.

Planted: 2008

Qty: 1

Pest Control:

get spray occasionally with pest oil, I need to give this tree more attention

Comments

Lime - Tahitian ^8/10

Comments: - small fruit on at moment going away so will probs fall off

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Pest Control: pest oil for leaf miner

Finger Lime - Grafted ^6/10

Comments: -

Growing well, has just started fruiting, flowers prolifically.

Fruit is small but nice - just right to add to a bottle of beer!

Not many fruit this year - has been very wet.

Fruiting Months March and April

Planted: 2008

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 20 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2010 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - Kaffir (Grafted)

Comments: -

I have to tip prune to keep him from getting rangy and make sure that the internal part of the tree is kept open for air flow.

I thought I killed him a few years ago when I was pruning a large bottle brush above him. A big branch twisted out of my grasp and landed on him. It ripped a branch and part of his trunk half off. I put him back together and wrapped him with hemp twine. He survived and the wound healed back together. He just looks a bit like an old warrier with battle scars now.

I grow native violets in the pot as a living mulch and as a water indicator - when the violets droop the pot needs water.

Planted: 2006

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

caterpillars & grass hoppers = pull them off by hand and lux soap spray to keep them off

scale & curly leaf = white oil

Microcitrus australasica - Finger lime ^6/10

Comments: - Aussie native, will handle some shade, useful fruit

Fruiting Months November

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: organic 5 in 1

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Advanced Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: -

Looking forward to tasting the limes
 Update: repotted it twice in a few months and then a 3rd time into the ground (poor plant) while deciding where I wanted it to live..it is fruiting currently but hoping is survives the three replants ;)

Planted: 2011

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Organic Life
Eco Oil

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question:

 Had quite a few baby limes growing then they all fell off? No idea why or how to prevent this?

Lime - Kaffir

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Growing in a pot but has struggled.  I moved it to a full winter sun position and repotted and prunned and it is taking off. Not many fruit at this stage.

Srping 2011 - lots of flowers this year and fruit is setting. The tree is loooking a bit sparse of leaves so will fertilise in Nov with Blood & Bone.

Fruiting Months March and April

Planted: 2007

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Cow, liquid, blood

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Scle is the only problem -use white oil

Organic Status:Organic

Finger Lime - Grafted ^10/10

Comments: -

Mine never seems to know what it's doing. It flowers and fruits all year round and seems to prefer a pot to the ground. The flowers are a lovely pink and white and the fruit are decorative, really obvious against the small leaves.

It is VERY spikey so don't plants it in a walk-way.

I love it. It is one of my favourites.

Make sure that you tip prune to keep him bushy and watch out for ants farming scale on him.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

Planted: 2007

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chicken poo (one small amount though!), seasol, charlie carp, worm castings (all in rotation)oh and get your man to wee on it like any other citrus they LOVE it

Pest Control:

Small spiders do seem to like living in the new growth which kills it = remove as best you can with a stick

Finger Lime - Collette

Comments: -

New

Height 0.2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Finger Lime - Ricks Red

Comments: -

New

Height 0.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - Tahitian ^10/10

Comments: -

Best fruit tree I have, quick growing, prolific producer, great tasting limes, good looking tree

Full of flowers.  Got about 120 limes last year.

Oh my god this is the best fruit tree ever.  No effort required and just continues to produce have just pulled 94 limes off that were either green or green/yellow.  Thought the yellow ones would be no good but I was wrong.  I have given about 35 away, hand juiced and frozen in ice cubes trays 35 and have just over 20 for fresh use.  This does not incvlude the 50 already picked and the 100 left on there still ripening.  Oh and it has flowered again and full of more baby fruit - May 2011.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, December

Planted: 2005

Height 210 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 80 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: banana special/seasol

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

Pest oil once a year if that for scale etc

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question:

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

Like to use limes for Asian dishes.

Fruiting Months May and June

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 Fruit Per Year

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Originally grown in pot in another garden, but suffered severely from possum attacks until use was made of electronic sound generator. Now moved to new garden and planted in ground. No possum problems so far.

Finger Lime - Tasty Green

Advanced Lime - Tahitian

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Tough, easy to grow, small tree.

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Horse manure, worm castings and dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: Spray vegetable oil to control leaf minor and aphids in autumn.

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

I have one of these grafted onto Rough lemon rootstock, in Brisbane, it grows well over 4 metres and produces upwards of 50 k of fruit

Lime - Kaffir (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - Grown in pot as only a small quantity of its leaves are need thoughout the year.

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Compost, Dynamic lifter

Pest Control: Little susceptible to scale.

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^8/10

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Lime - Kaffir

Finger Lime - Tasty Green (Grafted)

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - Tahitian

Pollination: No

Microcitrus australasica - Finger lime (Seedling) ^4/10

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

purchased whyee nursery.

i would like some fresh limes for use in cooking but it might take a while.

Height 0.7 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol, horse poo

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

the rootstock is very small, only about 3cm and than the plant is grafted on top of that. will this affect the plant?