Answer: To encourage new growth and to maintain the health of the young fruit that is present on your Lots of Lemons, ensure that you have applied a good q...

Answer: Dear Heike, Thank you for sending the photos of your lemon tree. It does look like collar rot. This disease is a soil-inhabiting fungus. The fi...

Answer: Hi Matthew, It is important to fertilise now if the tree is covered in flowers. Use a product such as Dynamic Lifter for fruit and citrus or Actico...

Answer: Hi Annie, Your Myer lemon would be a grated tree. The fruit from the understock would be a rough lemon and it would be very gnarled. The reason for...

Answer: Hi Mel, There is no need to paint the trunk of your lemon tree with lime. It is a european practice which seems to have been popular over the year...

Answer: Hi Fa, The lemon tree has been attacked by scale which will affect the health of the plant. These insects suck the sap from the plant and excrete a...

Answer: Hi Kirk, Sometimes it can take time for a tree to start growing again once it has been moved out of a pot. Lemon trees like to be planted in a warm...

Answer: Hi Sarah, Your lemon tree is looking a little sad, but it still looks green with some foliage, so I am sure you are not going to lose it. Lemon tre...

Answer: Hi Thi, The lemon tree looks very unwell, and may have scale insects on the leaves as well as the splitting bark caused by collar rot and root rot ...

Answer: Hi Mark, I can understand you wanting to save your lemon tree particularly as you have had it for such a long time. It could be that because we hav...

Answer: Hi Michelle, The damage could either be caused by white cockatoos or possums. Occasionally the citrus katydid which is similar to a grasshopper, ca...

Answer: Hi Raymond, Usually the variety ‘Lotsa lemons’ is a reliable variety producing as the name suggests, lots of lemons. It is still earl...

Answer: Hi Natalie, Yellowing leaves on a lemon tree could indicate a nutrient deficiency. If you have not already fertilised your tree, you might like to...

Answer: Hi Julie, Leaves yellowing could indicate a deficiency and leaves curling could indicate attack by citrus leaf miner. At this stage, your tree bein...

Answer: Hi Krystyna, What a shame the fruit on your lemon tree is not edible. All it may need is a little attention. It would be interesting to know what ...