HI! I live in Florida and have planted several kinds of orange trees and lemon trees in my yard, the trees are only 3 years old. I have one tangerine tree that is very droopy, it is loaded with fruit that are not continueing to rippen. I throught it need water so I gave it water, today I dug up the soil to check it and it is still really wet. the trre alrogot got pushed over by the winds of the recent storm and we had to stake it back up. help
Is the soil damp, or wet? It might be you are watering too much. Perhaps it would benefit from being left to dry out a little - can you post a pic? If it gets any more stressed, removing fruit might be an option, to help it focus on strength rather than fruit, but thats only an opinion, don't go cutting fruit off without doing some research lol
Thank you for your reply. here are the pic. of the tree. As you can see in the back ground the other trees are doing great. One other thing I might mention is the when we put the trees in the ground the ground was like a brick. The ground that I dug up around it was ok, it was wet but not hard. mary
Ive never grown citrus in the ground only in pots, but the soil looks very wet for citrus, Being in the UK we dont have many citrus desieses that are a problem, over there there are many, so its worth checking for a desiese , being in a fruit growing type area i would think there may be someone who can test the soil for nutrients and the leaves for any viruses etc, its probabaly the best way to rule a desiese out. Myself, if its wet and not drying out,looking like that, i would presume the ground was too wet and dig it up and put it in a dry area and see what happened , or stick it in a pot (only as im used to growing them in pots!)
