I bought one of these back in early 2020 from a local nursery, as I'd been wanting one for ages. it was only about 40 cm tall at the time, and put it n a nice large pot with the best potting mix I could find. I did like you and didnt use a tray underneath mine, but got some little plastic feet from the garden centre to pop under the pot to raise it off the ground. mulched it with sugar cane mulch, ( my favourite) fed it with blood & bone at first, but have since started using Seasol Power feeder liquid fertiliser on it, as I do with all my other veges and fruit trees. now that its spring here in Adelaide, S.Australia where I live , its started flowering and is absolutely covered in flowers, so I'm looking forward to hopefully getting a nice little first harvest from it this summer :-) mine is the 'pink ice' variety.
@@kusskuss111 Thank you, ,its just come into its second season here now, and though its barely more than a metre tall, it has over a hundred flowers on it so it should be a really good harvest this year. 🙂
4:17 One trick I figured out with outdoor pots like this is to put a layer of shredded paper (the strips that come from an actual paper shredder work best) on top of the dirt and below the mulch. It allows water to go through when watering, but does a bang up job holding in moisture even better that just mulch
what mulch do you use? I use sugar cane mulch and find its absolutely brilliant for keeping the potting mix moist even on a really hot South Aussie summer day.
@@catey62 I've never heard of sugar cane mulch. In the states, we have different mulch depending on the area. In the south I've seen what looks like pine needle mulch whereas in the north we have pine bark, cypress, etc.
@@fitztastico Ah, Ok, I thought you lived in Australia, so that was my bad. its very easy to obtain here, as we grow sugar cane and once it is processed, the leftovers of the crushed cane are dried and packaged, then sold in garden centres and places like Bunnings ( same as your Home depot/ Lowes ) its an excellent mulch that lasts for ages and only needs topping up now and then as it breaks down.
I saw these first on self-sufficient me channel and actually tried some at a fine dining restaurant in San Diego. They are delightful! Hopefully I can find and grow it here in N. Cali zone 10a.
I love finger limes. Every now and again they are in the grocery stores (I'm in Australia) and I really want to try adding them to yogurt. I make a lot of Indian food, and i like a side dish of yogurt with chopped mint and coriander and grated cucumber. I really like adding lime zest to it, but I think some finger lime beads would be absolutely perfect. It isn't a traditional riatta, but I really love it this way.
Oohh..how do you do that? do you just squeeze them into the sparkling water and drink them like that?...sparkling mineral water is one of my favourite drinks and would love to try that.
Thanks for your informative video I'm in Masterton NZ and we get frosts for sure but l have lots citrus trees (30)growing without frost cover, they seem to have hardened up. Finally obtained 2 of the finger limes that l planted today in containers following your instructions Thanks heaps
That’s awesome. I don’t think we have near the amount of variety selection over here but apparantly they all taste similar. Though all the coloured ones look awesome! :)
Greetings from the USA and thank you for the link.. Once again I find it very informative and very helpful for my kumquat tree.. When I purchased it, I thought it was sufficient to put it in a larger pot and water it when it needed it.. (That's to tell you how much I know about citrus trees) I have been doing everything wrong, no wonder the flowers are falling before fruiting.. After watching your video, I'm surprised its still alive...🤣😂🤣
@@TheKiwiGrower Very much so...Thank you! Just came from the store. Got fresh soil and a bigger pot. That should be a good start, huh!!! However, I need to find out when it's a good time to transplant citrus in the area where I live or I might kill it all together. 😂 May I ask which part of Australia you live?
WOW! INCREDIBLE! they look like ORBEZ! sounds so delicious!!! I want to try these rare fruits but I’m not in a tropical climate! :( I am going to do everything I ever wanted when I become an adult.. no one stopping me, hehe!
I have seen ones around the same size as that bigger one he potted up at my local Bunnings in South Aus, but they were asking 160$ per plant. I got mine at at a local nursery,about 40 cm high and paid around 30$ for it.
Have just bought a champagne finger lime, still very small in a tiny pot. It has already flowered. There are new branches shooting out horizontally. Should these be trimmed at all? Also, would you transplant a small tree directly into a big pot like you used in this video?
Thought I remembered the face, watched your watermelon video lol. These are such nice fruit, in Melbourne, they grow well and seem to tolerate the occasional below 0 we can get. We are about to do a 4 in 1 planting. So 4 finger limes of different colours, red, pink, yellow, green. Into the one hole (about 1 foot apart from each other).
@@TheKiwiGrower At some point, I really need to do a video on the food forest I am growing. We are lucky, but also we don't have many native fruits etc that we can grow well, so it's a mixed bag. I wonder how hard it would be to import the colours into NZ
Yea I’m not too sure but NZ quite strict so if you could I’m sure someone would have. I’d love to check out your food forest if you end up making a video! Sounds cool :)
I bought a second one after my first one died. The second one is flourishing outdoors for the summer here in Canada. I am quite worried about how it will do indoors during the winter! Any tips about brining the plant indoors for several months?
I have grafted red finger lime in bitter orange rootstock 3 years ago. Although it has grown rapidly it has not yet blossomed. Mother plant produces fruit every year. Could it be that the rootstock does not allow finger lime to bloom? Thanks!
I live in a dry, hot climate.(9A) Sacramento, CA, USA. I planted an Australian lime 2 years ago and both years it has flowered and gotten a few limes which only grow to about 3 mm in length and then not progressed. Am i on the right track? or can you recommend a way to get those few limes to actually GROW. Thank you!
My young finger lime tree has been putting out some aggressive fast growing branches that have larger leaves than the rest of the tree. They aren’t root stock, but I’m wondering if they should be trimmed or left alone. Any tips?
I have one of these in a pot. It flowers heavily but it never sets fruit. I don't give it anywhere near that much fertilizer though. Maybe that's my problem.
all the native plants are bloody expensive in australia, especially the finger lime. most of them are also rarely available in regular garden stores / nurseries. premium potting mix = same as cheap potting mix + a tiny bit of fertilizer and a sprinkling of perlite. honestly, it's root rot mix in long run. alternatively it dries out so bad that it wont wet an extensive rootball, but the top 5cm of potting mix looks saturated. use pumice and/or sharp sand, lots of it, and only a small fraction dead organic matter. dont blame the watering, that's what the nurseries do, as they sell you more plants and more of that deadly premium potting mix.
Great video mate. Just stumbled upon your channel via the yt algorythm and I really want to try growing some finger limes but I cannot find any seeds or anything to buy where I live. Any chance i could buy a couple seeds of of you or something?
Hey mate, thanks heaps. My tree's aren't fruiting yet as the one shown in the video is a friends tree, so I don't have any seeds sorry. The do take a long time to fruit from seed though, so best to try and find a grafted tree if you can, but yeah even here they can be pretty hard to get. Hope you can find one though, they're pretty cool
I got mine from garden centres but they're in short supply now. Put your name down for one at a few garden centres, that way they can call you as soon as they get one in and put it aside
Yea I could look at trying that out sometime :). It’s crazy what people pay on TM considering they go for regular citrus prices at garden centres. Though I guess are fairly hard to come by
They sell for 25 dollars in nerserys next year in may their will be heaps its because of coronavirus that they are price high everyone is into gardening right now.
I got mine from garden centres though they usually sell out quickly. I found mine around May, so you would be best to put your name down for one at a garden centre and they can let you know when they have them again. Otherwise, you might be able to find someone selling on trade me or through a Facebook page like rare fruit growers Nz or a page called finger limes. I bought my large tree for $30, but I’ve seen them selling for insane prices on trade me, so be aware of that :)
This was so awesome, thank you! I really want to try to grow this, a dwarf finger lime fruit, from seed, then graph it next to my american persimmon bonsai. Is there any way you or someone could send me a few seeds? It would mean so much. Just think about it and get back to me please! Thanks!
@@TheKiwiGrower truth is my property is too small for more than a few trees. I have a lemon and cumquat that I wish to start splice on. I would also like to find fruiting vines to grow up my avocado trees
Do you live in NZ? I got mine back in May so probably none in garden centres at this time of year as they get snapped up fast. You can put your name down for one at a garden centre and they’ll let you know when they have more in but might not be until next year
Nice. Hopefully you can find one. You can try online like trade me too but some have been going for very high prices. Keep an eye out but you might be best waiting until stocks are out again at garden centres :)
