My Edible Fruit Trees: Dwarf Lime Trees QLD

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Going great, has lowanna strawberries growing around the base with some french marigolds and a french lavender as well. Doesn't seem to mind, in fact they may be acting like mulch perhaps.

Al lthe fruit dropped this time, but that's to be expected with a brand new young lime tree. It was also suffering black aphids for a day or two before I noticed, but some white oil sorted them out very swiftly and then ladybirds came and helped as well.

Very healthy, happy young tree.

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Finger Lime - Rainforest Pearl Dwarf (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - A dwarf grafted version of the Rainforest Pearl. Healthy, easy to grow, hasn't fruited yet - slow growing, but low maintenance. A native under-canopy fruit tree. Thorny and spindly but beautiful.

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: -

Plant arrived in Feb 2020 in great condition with soil still damp. Will plant this into a pot after 1-2 weeks outside and provide updates.

May 2020 - Has had one flush of growth since potting - new growth was damaged by citrus leafminer. 

Spring 2020 - Flowered set one fruit (which dropped).

September 2021 - Now in 25L pot. Flush of new growth & flowers now (will knock these off), however has been slow growing - likely due to allowing to fruit last year and growing in a pot. Survived 2x Toowoomba winters with no damage (under shade cloth so frost couldn't settle).

Planted: 2020

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

Planted: 2017

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^5/10

Comments: -

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)

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

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 (Grafted) ^6/10

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: potash, worm wee, seasol

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: -

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

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Pollination: No

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

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 ^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 (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

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: -

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

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian

Planted: 2009

Height 1.8 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^7/10

Fruiting Months September

Planted: 2009

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

white oil

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian ^8/10

Comments: -

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

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^9/10

Fruiting Months November

Height 2 metres

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

confidor on new growth; vaseline around trunk;

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Lime - Mexican or Key Lime

Comments: -

This Mexican Lime tree was always struggling and it didn't survive the drought. I wonder if it wasn't warm enough in winter here even though I planted it next to a stone wall to try and give it more warmth.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Comments

Where can we get Key Limes from?

I got the Mexican Lime from Turner's Nursery at Rochedale 2-3 years ago. They're hard to find - I'd been keeping my eye out for one for several years.

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

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.