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title: "Help! My Mexican (key) lime tree dropped about 70% of its leaves. I…"
description: "Help! My Mexican (key) lime tree dropped about 70% of its leaves. I transported it indoors about a month ago (I am in the DC area) and it actually flowered…"
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# Help! My Mexican (key) lime tree dropped about 70% of its leaves. I…

_Publié par Maria le 2024-12-11_

Help! My Mexican (key) lime tree dropped about 70% of its leaves. I transported it indoors about a month ago (I am in the DC area) and it actually flowered last week and now suddenly looks sad. I gave it a big watering just today. Planta tells me that once a month watering is enough but other sources say every week. It is in a well draining plastic pot in front of a southeast facing window. Any advice?

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## 5 commentaires

### Ezzeldin Yaqoub a commenté le 2024-12-11

It winter or fall. Because this plant is deciduous and that could just be it

### Aisha a commenté le 2024-12-11

I’m thinking Ezzeldin ^ is onto something.  
It probably needs a season of dormancy before it leafs out again.

### Tyler a commenté le 2024-12-12

Welcome to the citrus club! Key Lime is not deciduous and is the most temperamental of all the citrus. This is a common problem for those of us who aren’t fortunate enough to live in zone 9 or higher. Every fall we bring them inside and they throw a fit and drop tons of leaves! The solution is more light. Mine have done this every October for as long as I’ve had them. As soon as a grow light gets on them, the leaf drop stops within a week. A half dose of osmocote wouldn’t hurt too. It looks like it needs some nitrogen and iron. That’s another thing, they’re big consumers of on iron and nitrogen.

#### Maria ha respondido el 2024-12-12

Thank you!! I’m getting the osmocote and the grow light will be here around Christmas. Almost all the leaves are gone 😅 so I suppose I’ll just have to be patient and keep it in its sunny spot with TLC. As long as this doesn’t mean it’s totally dead I can keep up the hope it’ll come back!

### Tyler a commenté le 2024-12-16

If it’s is getting some light by the door, it shouldn’t die. On the bright side, this is a good time for mild pruning to get the shape you want. And within a week of the osmocote going in, you’ll seed flower buds.  
They truly are one of the most temperamental plants there is. From forums I’ve found that they are such efficient trees that they essentially self prune to correspond with the amount of light they’re getting.

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