DWARF LIME - TAHITIAN

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^8/10

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I purchased a full size Tahitain before realising there were dwarf varieties available. I wanted to plant them in pots so I purchased this one. This tree is now in 50L plastic pot and doing well, not as good as the ones in the ground but is growing strong.

So far, the tree has not given me any fruit. Just strong leaves and branch growth. It is a relativly small tree so it won't be a while before I see some fruit. I think the strong wind we experienced last year destroyed all the flowers on the tree and stripe some of the leaves off the branch. This year's winter has been great, no strong wind and a couple of warm days.

Update (after winter): Lots of flower buds and new leaves. I gave the plants some more sheep manure and citrus fertilise with a good watering of iron Chelate. I also put some rusting nails into the soil to give the plants a constant but slow supply of irons for green leaves.

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: manure and citrus fertiliswer

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control: I had to spray pestoil because my plants were attacked by leaf miners! I tried to kill as many by hand as possible but it's hard when I have so many citrus plants to look after.

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^7/10

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September 2014: Planted in July as a replacement to the one the dog got to! Strong looking plant. Single stem, trying to promote a multi-stem plant. Fresh soil and well composted with plenty of mulch. 

November 2014: Have successfully turned this single stem into a multi-stem plant.  It has branching growth from the side and the top has split into three.  This has been growing incredibly well this season.

February 2015: This plant continues to flower regularly and grow well.  Planted this about the same time as my neighbours planted their Tahitian but they have been allowing 3 fruit to grow on theirs.  Mine is now more than two times bigger than when planted but theirs remains the same size.  Proves the theory about removing flowers and fruit!!

Have been experimenting with different fertilisers (both organic and otherwise).  Have found that Searles Fruit & Citrus Food works quite well as a base, with Yates Citrus Liquid plant food.  Quite hesitent to purchase liquid fertilser at the start but very happy with the result.  Have been some pest issues but the impact has been quite minor and simple to manage.

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Seaweed, compost and blood and bone

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^10/10

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Produced many more fruit than I expected, very delicious fruit for drinks, cooking and just eating!

Fruiting Months February, March, April

Planted: 2008

Height 150 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 12 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic Lifter

When I Fertilise: Spring

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

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Good size, don't need too many limes.

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: manure and dynamic lifter for fruit

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Leaves looked eaten and I was told to sprinkle tomato dust.  Worked well.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question:

How long before a dwarf fruits?

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

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Growing strongly from the time it was planted. Should see first fruit next season.

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^6/10

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Puts out a ton od flower buds every few months, I then thin fruitlets, but the insane 2013 winds have taken them all each time. Very pretty tree with lovely arching branches. My favourite citrus for cooking with, hopefully I can harvest the next lot.

Planted: 2012

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 3 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Summer

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Seasol, Nutrog Pellets, Manure and Lucerne mulch

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Eco Oil seasonally

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

contact spray when gall beetles are about to emerge

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^10/10

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Always blooming

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

Planted: 2011

Height 3 Feet

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

A few Scale bugs but nothing to alarm me just yet.  Hand picked off and have not seen again yet. 3/30/12 

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^6/10

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Also another citrus which gives me grief with the shrivelling up of leaves and diseases.  Had a few fruit this year, very nice limes.

Fruiting Months March, April, May

Planted: 1997

Height 80 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1.5 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 20% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter for citrus trees

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

white oil

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question:

? about pruning, when and how much.

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

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Growing well in garden behind 1 meter retaining wall, still light on fruiting

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Citrus

When I Fertilise: Yearly, Winter, Spring

Comments

Waiting to shape back yard then planting in the citrus section

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: - The tree for many years has ants and lots of tiny black spots with lots of flowers but nil fruit.my neighbour sprayed his tree and my grandma asked him also to sprayed my Tahitian lime.the tree then had fruits. It turn out he only sprayed with very diluted detergent. Regular watering show more fruit set than irregular watering.

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

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We use limes a lot in cooking as well as drinks and cocktails.

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Question:

When do you prune fruit trees?

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Cutting) ^7/10

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Fruits very well. Good quality fruit.

Fruiting Months November and December

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^8/10

Comments: - looking healthy. growing well. not much fruit yet but only in it's 3rd year

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol as needed

Pest Control: nil required

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^5/10

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Planted November 2015. So too young to make any review as yet. 

It's currently in full sun. I water almost daily depending on weather. I planted in a 75 litre planter bag with a BIG bottom layer of course grade pine bark then kind of equal amounts of good quality potty mix, coir peat, perlite and a shovel of organic pellets mixed through. A really good layer of small pine bark on top.

Planted: 2015

Height 60 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: organic pellets or citrus slow relaease

Pest Control: none as yet

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: - I am growing this Lime as an Espalier and it is coming on well.

Fruiting Months April and May

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Amgrow Organic Fruit Fertilizer and Composted Manure

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Only use sprays when I have to and I use Fruit Fly Lures, and plant Moroccan Mint at the bottom of this Citrus

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^8/10

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I recieved my Tahitian Lime and my Lots-of-Lemons as Christmas gifts in 2014. And wow, these things have been put through the ringer.

Any pest capable of getting something from a citrus, has attacked my babies. ARGH!

This was repotted into a large 70 L tub, with Osmocote citrus soil, cheapy bunnings compost, coir soaked in seasol and mollasses, chook manure, dynamic lifter pellets, and some lime. I think I threw in some blood and bone as well. Plant did well in the mix, and bushed out quickly, and set dozens of flowers in the first month.

Which the possums quickly ate. I mean it. Any time I get flowers, they eat the lot. Any that last long enough to turn into itty bitty fruit either get eaten, or knocked off in the possum's haste to eat all the flowers. I have tried covering with netting and weighting it down with bricks, and they shove the bricks away, and climb under!! So far, in two years, I have not had a single fruit. They also eat all the Lemonade flowers, as well as capsicum flowers, and all my strawberries. Dagnabbit.

Since then, I have had citrus miner, citrus gall wasp, giant brown caterpillars, citrus swallowtail butterfly catterpillars, fruit fly, aphids, you name it, they love it. The poor thing has hung on, and I am about to give it a bit of a hair cut, and move it to a better spot, since it is far enough around the back yard that it gets little attention. I think a season of being centre placed for me to baby it will do it good.

I remove most bugs by hand, so this one has never had sprays. I fertilise every other month with dynamic lifter pellets under the sugar cane mulch, and a good dose of seasol when I remember. It also seems to do well with some of the 'black marvel' rose fertiliser every once in a while. I plan to underplant with a few different herbs before spring to try and keep the bug population down, so we shall see how that goes. And yellow sticky cards, to trap any returning gall wasps I have missed!

I am attempting chicken wire cages to deter possums. Here's hoping for fruit Summer 2016!!!

Fruiting Months January, February, March, September, October, November, December

Planted: 2014

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 1 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^8/10

Comments: - I love limes and their versitility, I'm looking forward to having fruit grow!

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Question: Recently purchased this as a mature potted plant, I'm not sure exactly how old it is and would appreciate any tips or tricks to growing and producing the best fruit.

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

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Lots of limes

Fruiting Months January, February, March, November, December

Planted: 2010

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 6 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 50% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control:

Vacuum off the stink bugs when they come out.

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Who doesn't like citrus? Trying to grow a variety of different citrus on my block for some Winter fruit.  Was in blossom upon receipt from Daleys but pruned all off to allow for stronger root and branch growth.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Chicken manure, compost, worm castings, mulched with lucerne and pea straw

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - This is the Sublime patio Lime. Looks beautiful! have not had any fruit as of yet, over half the leaves dropped off over winter as it gets cold here even with sheltering the plant. But in spring it put on so much new growth it's lusher than ever.

Water Given in: Spring

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

Comments: - Growing slwoly but will fruit when it is big enough as I have another Tahitian lime on normal rootstock in a different place

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: NOt required

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^6/10

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Happily growing in a big pot

Planted: 2008

Height 0.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^8/10

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great little dwarf lime. second year now and has fruit growing (gave one lime first year).

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

hand pick grasshoppers, dust for beetle larvae.

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

Comments: - I love the flavour of fresh limes, and have had this tree ina  pot for obut 5 years now.   It only has two main branches, and occasionally get some sort of problem, so is not that healthy.  I get a few lime soff it every year.  I have tried unsuccesfully to graft another branch onto it to fill it out, and get more fruit. 

Fruiting Months January, February, December

Planted: 2009

Height 3 Feet

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: complete citrus organic

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: soapy water when needed

Organic Status:Organic

Question: I moved this tree out into an areaq where it gets more sun and now it is covered iwth blossom and tiny fruit . yeah! 

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

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Planted Autumn 2009