Yes, fertilize, but start with a lighter dose.

Josh

Have you ever tasted a kaffir lime?

I ask because I hadn't, then I bought a tree. The fruit was, umm, different. I didn't know that you use the leaves, not eat the fruit haha

That being said, mine was a very prolific tree. It will just grow and grow. I never fertilized mine, and it got about 5' tall in a year, from a 2.5'-3' tree. And was a heavy bearer. I pinched all the fruit I could, but seemed like for every 1 I pulled off, 10 more grew.

I ended up replacing it with a bearss lime, and repotting my kaffir. It's bare right now, I hope it comes back. It really was a beautiful tree, just I didn't have the extra space for something I wouldn't regularly eat.

Oh, and anyone in riverside, ca is more than welcome to come get this tree free of charge :) it's already in a 15 gallon, waiting to be taken to its new home :)

Oh my I wish I was in the area to get the tree as I really really wanted a kaffir lime tree. Hope it will find a good home soon.

@farmerkevin, Are you driving to the Bay Area anytime soon? I would love to have it but not driving down to your area. Send me a PM on my page.

Being here in Hawai'i I'm lucky that even Home Depot will have a beautiful grafted Makrut Tree in stock at all times.

Just as a suggestion; if you can't find one, and can find the fruit (Thai grocery stores sometimes have them); the seeds will germinate quite readily, provided you strip off the seed coats first.

I've done this for a number of years now, the non-grafted seedlings really do quite well; the leaves aren't quite as large as the grafts and they don't fruit as quickly; but those aren't really any negatives given that one usually would only use the leaves anyway.