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By Gee19


Blossom of lemon shrub/tree

I bought this little bush indoors when the weather turned cold. It has several clusters of blossom on it but a lot of the leaves have fallen off. I think I am doing something wrong, but not sure what.



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Pretty blossom.
Puzzling about the leaves.

10 Dec, 2008

 

That is lovely Gee. If you have brought it indoors you may need to just give it a spray over the whole plant every day as it likes humidity according to my instructions. They dont like the atmosphere dry apparantly

10 Dec, 2008

 

Milky ~
Do you think that spraying rule applies to lots of plants indoors over winter ?
I have seedlings and cuttings at end of my kitchen and I think they may get rather dry leaves.
What do you reckon, please ? Or would they go mouldy if wet? Looks like I'll kill them through kindness one way or the other. Lol.

10 Dec, 2008

 

Thanks Milky - I'll give that a go although there are not many leaves left now! Found a couple of very tiny caterpillars on it originally and thought that was the problem but the leaves continued to drop.

10 Dec, 2008

 

Would it have gone into shock from the move from outside Gee? Quite a change in temp and in humidity from outside to in. Have you checked for spider mites?

10 Dec, 2008

amy
Amy
 

Thats what I though Gilli .. the temp .I mean it,s a big change for it !

10 Dec, 2008

 

You are probably right, Gilli & Amy, the plant is in the same room at Little 'Un so its quite warm. There's no spider mite thank goodness. I will try spraying regularly and hope for the best.

10 Dec, 2008

 

TT I wouldnt think that they should go mouldy, as long as they dont get cold at night or in a draught, and they have plenty of air circulating. and......as long as you go easy on the spraying, just a little misting every few days

10 Dec, 2008

 

lovely Gee

11 Dec, 2008

 

My guess was shock from the temperature change aswell. Hope it's doing better. The blossoms smell yummy!

19 Dec, 2008



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