Tropical Fruits: Meyer lemon - brown patches on leaves, 1 by mygardens

mygardens wrote:
I gently root-pruned my Meyer Lemon early last spring and it was very healthy when I brought it in this winter but it started new growth in November and had almost too many blossoms. I feed it a regular citrus fertilizer as recommended on the package, and give it an occasional side dressing of worm castings. The new growth seems to have stopped and now it is losing some leaves. The room has sun and humidity. The leaves look as shown, the left leaf is the way it starts on the plant - the right leaf is after it falls off the plant. I will remove some of the blossoms so that the leaves might get more nutrition, but can anyone tell me what is the cause of the patches? The tree is about 30 years old and about 3 feet high in the pot and has produced beautiful lemons. I watch for scale and other insects but that does not seem to be the problem.

This message was edited Feb 10, 2008 1:52 PM