@tui34 thank you, i’ll try that. I am just really cautios as I am far from expert an gardening! 😂😂 Your help really is appreciated. Do you know anything about Cherry trees? My husband hard pruned the mature trees in Oct 2020 and they didn’t fruit last year but, we don’t think it was a fair gauge really because of the up and down weather we experienced here? I think that he should give them another season to recover before taking them out but he thinks that he has pruned them too hard and ruined them? Xx
That's a bit in the "too hard" basket. Cherry trees and others don't necessarily fruit every year. Our olive tree didn't give a single fruit in 2020 but 2021 it was laden!! Pruning does fortify it but could be a hard pruning may warrant more force from the tree to grow branches. Someone on this forum would probably have more experience than me.
We lost our second cherry tree to some little insect that invaded it from the root upwards. Since then, have planted a mulberry tree to cover the pergola.
I have just been out for my monthly check on my cold greenhouse. Tender plants and a lime tree in there. The lime is three foot tall, (after pruning every year for the last four years) spent its first two years in the conservatory, then went outside for the summer. Unfortunately it got apple moth grubs that hatched in January. I spent two months fighting them ( at which point the poor thing had hardly any leaves) then went outside again( I thought to die) only to rally and put on new growth. It hasn't really recovered since, as unlike previous years it has had no fruit. As the greenhouse has no bubble wrap or other protection, and the temperature this winter has gone down to -2.6 in there I thought it would be dead, but no it still has leaves and flowers ( along with white geraniums and Gaziania in flower) so they are a bit hardier than stated when they get to a larger size. I hope your lemon gets through the winter ok @Nicbar
@Nicbar, that happend to one of my grapefruit tree two years ago. Year after that he grove new branches and leaves and this year I again have fruit. I think that your citruses will have fruits again, just give them time.
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Your help really is appreciated.
Do you know anything about Cherry trees? My husband hard pruned the mature trees in Oct 2020 and they didn’t fruit last year but, we don’t think it was a fair gauge really because of the up and down weather we experienced here? I think that he should give them another season to recover before taking them out but he thinks that he has pruned them too hard and ruined them? Xx
We lost our second cherry tree to some little insect that invaded it from the root upwards. Since then, have planted a mulberry tree to cover the pergola.
The lime is three foot tall, (after pruning every year for the last four years) spent its first two years in the conservatory, then went outside for the summer. Unfortunately it got apple moth grubs that hatched in January. I spent two months fighting them ( at which point the poor thing had hardly any leaves) then went outside again( I thought to die) only to rally and put on new growth. It hasn't really recovered since, as unlike previous years it has had no fruit.
As the greenhouse has no bubble wrap or other protection, and the temperature this winter has gone down to -2.6 in there I thought it would be dead, but no it still has leaves and flowers ( along with white geraniums and Gaziania in flower) so they are a bit hardier than stated when they get to a larger size.
I hope your lemon gets through the winter ok @Nicbar