Posted by keith kent on August 5, 2010, 5:32 pm
Are acid loving plant feeds designed for use in tap water ?.
I have a lemon tree & calamondin bush which i struggle to get a nice green
color they go a patchy green /light yellow and i feed often ,i used a citrus
winter feed & now a summer feed in rain water .
If you have a Lemon tree and can keep them with lovely green leaves ,then
can you tell me what feed you use & what water .
Many Thanks Keith
Posted by Martin Brown on August 6, 2010, 3:29 am
On 05/08/2010 22:32, keith kent wrote:
> Are acid loving plant feeds designed for use in tap water ?.
> I have a lemon tree & calamondin bush which i struggle to get a nice
> green color they go a patchy green /light yellow and i feed often ,i
> used a citrus winter feed & now a summer feed in rain water .
> If you have a Lemon tree and can keep them with lovely green leaves
> ,then can you tell me what feed you use & what water .
> Many Thanks Keith
You may be feeding too often then. Patches of yellow indicate the plant
is struggling to find enough iron or magnesium for chlorophyll.
I feed mine from time to time and always water with rainwater. I use
whichever of orchid feed or citrus I have going at the time and never
bother swapping between winter vs summer citrus feeds. They tend to look
at their most ropey in early spring but rapidly grow new leaves and
flowers as the day lengthen.
It is a bad idea to use tapwater on any lime hating plant (although I
do sometimes for my blueberries when I run out of rainwater).
Regards,
Martin Brown
Posted by Nick Maclaren on August 6, 2010, 4:07 am
>On 05/08/2010 22:32, keith kent wrote:
>> Are acid loving plant feeds designed for use in tap water ?.
>> I have a lemon tree & calamondin bush which i struggle to get a nice
>> green color they go a patchy green /light yellow and i feed often ,i
>> used a citrus winter feed & now a summer feed in rain water .
>> If you have a Lemon tree and can keep them with lovely green leaves
>> ,then can you tell me what feed you use & what water .
>You may be feeding too often then. Patches of yellow indicate the plant
>is struggling to find enough iron or magnesium for chlorophyll.
Or overwatering. Citrus do not like that.
>It is a bad idea to use tapwater on any lime hating plant (although I
>do sometimes for my blueberries when I run out of rainwater).
Most citrus aren't really lime-haters, but don't like alkaline soil.
I water mine with tapwater a lot of the time with no trouble, and
most people classify this water as hard. I don't, having lived in
South Wiltshire, but Cambridge water is definitely not soft.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
Posted by <vicky on August 6, 2010, 6:07 am
> I water mine with tapwater a lot of the time with no trouble, and
> most people classify this water as hard. I don't, having lived in
> South Wiltshire, but Cambridge water is definitely not soft.
Reminds me, completely off topic, of when I used to live in Cambridge (when
I was in last year of junior school) - I hated the tap water, couldn't drink
it at all, and it's probably where I learnt to dehydrate myself terribly
during the day! I remember the lunchtime tables with jugs of really nasty
tasting, slightly warm tap water, and nothing else. :-(
However, in the girls toilets was a water fountain and the water tasted
/totally/ different. Someone tried explaining to me that it was because
that water was pumped up straight from the chalk bedrock (chalkrock? :-) but
I have no idea how feasible this might or might not be. It struck me as
unlikely, but it was /really/ different tasting!
Posted by Bob Hobden on August 6, 2010, 6:21 am
"Nick Maclaren" wrote
> Martin Brown wrote:
keith kent wrote:
>>> Are acid loving plant feeds designed for use in tap water ?.
>>> I have a lemon tree & calamondin bush which i struggle to get a nice
>>> green color they go a patchy green /light yellow and i feed often ,i
>>> used a citrus winter feed & now a summer feed in rain water .
>>> If you have a Lemon tree and can keep them with lovely green leaves
>>> ,then can you tell me what feed you use & what water .
>>
>>You may be feeding too often then. Patches of yellow indicate the plant
>>is struggling to find enough iron or magnesium for chlorophyll.
> Or overwatering. Citrus do not like that.
>>It is a bad idea to use tapwater on any lime hating plant (although I
>>do sometimes for my blueberries when I run out of rainwater).
> Most citrus aren't really lime-haters, but don't like alkaline soil.
> I water mine with tapwater a lot of the time with no trouble, and
> most people classify this water as hard. I don't, having lived in
> South Wiltshire, but Cambridge water is definitely not soft.
I water ours with hard tap water most of the time, can't save enough
rainwater for my orchids, but as I use an ericaceous compost for our Citrus
the two seem to counteract each other.
I also use a good dose of sequestered iron on the plants just after they
come out after their winters incarceration, and seaweed extract too for
those trace elements.
--
Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK
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> I have a lemon tree & calamondin bush which i struggle to get a nice
> green color they go a patchy green /light yellow and i feed often ,i
> used a citrus winter feed & now a summer feed in rain water .
> If you have a Lemon tree and can keep them with lovely green leaves
> ,then can you tell me what feed you use & what water .
> Many Thanks Keith