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Our Lime Tree Fertilizer is a liquid plant food made specifically for lime tree varieties, in the garden or in containers. It provides balanced nutrition to support fruit development, healthy foliage, and steady growth.
Supports deep green leaves, fragrant blooms, and more limes.
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Plant appearance can also be affected by light, watering, roots, temperature, and other growing conditions, so feeding is one part of overall plant care.
Feeds foliage for deeper color and a brighter, more lively look.
Encourages fresh leaf and stem growth for a fuller, thriving plant.
Supports healthy, resilient roots that absorb nutrients more effectively.
Watering can
2 Tbs (30 mL) per gallon of water
Spring & summer: every 1–2 weeks · Fall & winter: every 2–4 weeks
Hose end sprayer
Set dial to 1 oz (30 mL) setting
Spring & summer: every 1–2 weeks
Leaf misting (optional)
1 tsp per quart (32 oz) of water
Every 1–2 weeks
Eight or more hours of direct sun. Indoors, use the sunniest south facing window you have, and a summer spent outside helps your tree build up energy.
Water deeply once the top two inches of soil are dry, then let the pot drain. Citrus dislikes both drought and wet feet, and fruit drop follows either one.
Fast draining, slightly acidic soil at pH 6.0 to 7.0. In pots use a citrus or cactus mix and keep the graft union well above the soil line.
Limes are the most cold sensitive citrus. Keep them above 50F where you can, and bring pots indoors before night temperatures reach the middle 30s F.
Feed Lime Tree Fertilizer with your watering every two to four weeks from early spring through summer, then cut back through fall and winter as growth slows.
Prune lightly after harvest to open the center and take out dead or crossing wood. Rub off any shoots that appear below the graft union as soon as you see them.
Lime Tree Fertilizer is built for a heavy-feeding citrus tree, so it’s meant for steady feeding rather than a few large applications a year. Mix 2 tablespoons per gallon of water and feed every 1–2 weeks in spring and summer while your tree is flushing new growth and carrying fruit, then every 2–4 weeks in fall and winter. Adding it to your regular watering keeps nutrition consistent, which is what a lime tree responds to best.
If the cause is a nutrient shortage, yes. Yellowing between the veins is the classic sign of a citrus tree short on iron, magnesium and zinc, and Lime Tree Fertilizer carries all three alongside its 3.6-3-5.1 NPK. Leaves that have already yellowed won’t fully green up again, but new growth should come in dark and even within a few weeks of regular feeding. If watering is erratic or the roots are sitting wet, correct that too, since stressed roots take up nutrients poorly.
Some fruit drop after bloom is normal; your tree sheds what it can’t carry. Heavier drop or poor set usually traces to inconsistent watering, temperature swings, or a nutrient shortfall. Lime Tree Fertilizer supports the tree’s side of this with potassium at 5.1%, the nutrient that drives fruit size and quality, and calcium at 2.1%, which firms fruit and strengthens new growth. Pair steady feeding with even watering; potted limes especially need consistent moisture to hold their fruit.
Yes, at the same 2 tablespoons per gallon. Container limes benefit most, since potting mix runs out of nutrients faster than garden soil and these are often the hungriest trees. Use the watering-can rate for pots and the 1-ounce setting on a hose-end sprayer for in-ground trees. Indoor limes brought inside for winter can stay on the lighter cool-season schedule of every 2–4 weeks until growth picks up again in spring.
New growth typically comes in greener within the first few weeks of regular feeding, because all of the nitrogen in Lime Tree Fertilizer is nitrate nitrogen, which roots absorb directly. Yellowing from an iron, magnesium or zinc shortfall corrects on the new leaves rather than the old ones. Fruit improvements follow your tree's own cycle: a consistently fed lime sets and sizes fruit better over the course of the season as the potassium and calcium go to work.
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