I've never given mine Epsom salts so let me know how it works out. As for fruit I go on size and feel, they dont get as big as lemons, and should just give when squeezed gently. This photo gives you an idea, coin for size reference. The nearest one is nearly ready. You can see the leaf the coin is on is yellow, it is starting to get a little low temperature outside for it and I will have to bring it in soon, plus it is an old leaf and as it is an evergreen this is how it sheds leaves too.
Yes, those are flowers. I believe grafted Tahitian limes will flower from the 2nd year or so but won't normally set fruit until they are about 4 or 5 years old. That's probably a good thing as the fruit would be too heavy for the branches on a young tree.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Lots of flowers there. Dont worry if most of them drop off without setting fruit, it is a young plant yet. Some will stay but probably only one or two per limb that is normal . Even if you see fruitlets appearing on all the flowers it will still drop some of them until there are just one or two, as @BobTheGardener said the fruit are heavy and the plant won't let itself get damaged. It looks healthy to me so you must be doing the right things.🙂 Just make sure any fruit gets a good amount of sunlight, even on a windowsill it will get enough, just watch for the cold seeping through the glass as it gets colder at night.
The Epsom Salts worked wonders with the leaves. They went a lovely dark green and particularly leathery.
Sadly, I feel like my lime tree hasn't survived the winter! All of the leaves fell off (don't know why) and I cannot seem to bring it back to life :-( Hopefully you've had more luck with yours.
It wasn't a good winter for mine either @Ash1123192374 . It got an invasion of apple moth caterpillars in January, which took two months to clear ( all by hand) At which time the damaged leaves fell off, and they killed the new growth and flowers. So it's taken another month for it to recover, but it has new leaves and flowers again so it looks good for fruit in a few months.
Yours might have gotten cold and lost leaves over winter. Give it at least another month of summer feeding before deciding it is gone.😁
Yes summer now. It is a bit cold to be outside now even in the sun. The only way to check if it is still viable is to gently scratch the bark and hopefully you will see green showing life.
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As for fruit I go on size and feel, they dont get as big as lemons, and should just give when squeezed gently. This photo gives you an idea, coin for size reference. The nearest one is nearly ready.
You can see the leaf the coin is on is yellow, it is starting to get a little low temperature outside for it and I will have to bring it in soon, plus it is an old leaf and as it is an evergreen this is how it sheds leaves too.
I will keep you updated and thank you for the information with yours - I'm fairly new to this as I'm sure you can tell.
Sadly, I feel like my lime tree hasn't survived the winter! All of the leaves fell off (don't know why) and I cannot seem to bring it back to life :-( Hopefully you've had more luck with yours.
Yours might have gotten cold and lost leaves over winter. Give it at least another month of summer feeding before deciding it is gone.😁
I have been giving it the winter feed. Shall I revert back to summer feed?