FINGER LIME HELP (forum)

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Hi. I have six finger lime trees - one bought from the nursery [a daleys variety] and the other 5 i grew from seed 5 years ago or so. They are beautiful

Time: 12th December 2015 2:40pm

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Peter91 says...
Do you have a free draining soil mix? The only time I had a dieback was when I messed up a mix, switched to a free draining mix again and they're sprouting new growth again already.

Free draining soil is essential, only other thing I could guess would be the acidity level.

Sorry I can't offer more insight than that.

Time: 14th December 2015 10:42pm

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Bangkok says...
Mine also has die-back but it seems to save it's energy and will grow very fast later in time.



Time: 15th December 2015 1:30pm

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vicky s says...
Hi Peter91 and Bangkok. Thank you both for your replies. I am not sure if this is where I'm supposed to respond, so hopefully you'll receive this message. I'm wondering if you think a native potting mix is free draining enough? I used a good quality mix that's sold in 25 litre bags at nurseries Etc. Also, do you know how acidic the soul should be for seed-grown finger limes? And if the trees have new growth, is it still possible or likely to be either of those problems? Many thanks again.

Time: 16th December 2015 7:12pm

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Waterfall says...
I'm not sure if this is your issue but you should know that grafted finger limes are on a standard citrus rootstock like trifoliata. So you would choose a potting mix like any other citrus tree not a native soil mix.

In my experience a straight potting mix does not drain well in containers and should be mixed with up to 50% washed river sand and or pearlite.

Time: 17th December 2015 9:38am

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Bangkok says...
I have 2 fingerlimes that i bought here on unknown rootstock, they almost don't grow and get eaten totally all the time.

The branch that i grafted onto pomelo and in full sun grows very well though but also has dieback issues.
That's no problem though because it will make new branches nonstop.

I guess pomelo is different than other citrus, i have a big bowl under the pot and regularly fill the bowl with water.
I put a wick in the bowl made of microfibre towell (just a 3 cm wide strip) which hangs in and over the bowl to drain the bowl very slowly.

Also it gets a lot of fertilizer.

I had another pomelotree in full soil which survived our big flooding, it was in 40 cm water for 2-3 weeks, same as my mangotree who survived that.

So you can't really compare my situation with yours i guess. Pomelo is different then your rootstock and so is our climate here.

The strange thing is that nothing eats my fingerlimeleaves on that pomelo in full sun. The other small tree's in more shade have bugs eating them nonstop.



Time: 17th December 2015 1:21pm

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