I have a small satsuma orange and a tangerine tree both ars about 3 ft and doing poorly. Have watered and fed. Satsuma produced about 12 fruit but it has few leaves. Somebody please tell me to save these trees.

My satsumas are surviving but not growing. If your trees are 3 feet tall then they are doing better that mine! I'm all ears for advice from others.

My 4 ft Satsuma in a pot did not do as well this year as they did last when they got much more sun and regular water. But it is full of green leaves and is still hanging on to it's only 2 oranges. I did feed them twice. They should be fed between April and August only adding nitrogen if necessary. I have a shoot that might be a sucker? I can't tell? It is a nice branch from the bottom with teeny tiny leaves on it. I might trim it back since it is from the bottom though it has interesting growth.

I have a Satsuma that is supposed to be a miniature. It is now approximately 10 years old and about 7' tall and equally wide. It produced poorly last year as we had an early freeze, but it now is yielding quite a lot of fruit and is always well covered with leaves. I don't know what I have done to please it. I kept it watered for the first couple of years and feed it with barnyard manure occasionally, but it is pretty much on its own. It no longer gets water other than rain and I have never pruned or sprayed it...?

Help please. I recently purchased our home, in which I'm definitely using my green thumb but my question is am I correct to say this is an actual satsuma tree or a lemon tree? It has the thorns, along with lemon style fruit and satsuma style fruit this passed year. I am now trying to make sure that I am going to prune correctly along with understanding about rootstock trimming as well. Can someone please guide me on what I am supposed to be doing. I don't want to hurt the poor thing. Thanks in advanced Jennifer in southern Louisiana

It sounds as if your Satsuma is being taken over by its lemon rootstock. The lemon will win out sooner or later unless you prune it all out - probably repeatedly. Look at ground level to determine which trunks are the original Satsuma and which are suckering shoots coming up from the rootstock. This same thing happened to an orange tree of mine. I gave up and let it become a lemon. It was a very good lemon in this case.