{"id":1371,"date":"2016-07-01T12:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2016-07-01T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:07:52","slug":"orange-and-lemon-tree-care-during-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/orange-and-lemon-tree-care-during-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange And Lemon Tree Care During The Winter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/lemon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/wp-content\/lemon-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3701\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Orange and lemon trees during the winter,yes they do need to be moved inside to a position were they get as much natural light as possible i.e window sill but be careful they do not get chilled at night or are in a draft.<br \/>\nNormal house lighting does not have the whole spectrum of light needed to keep the plants healthy,to do this you would need to have sodium bulbs which are a stronger type of light normally used for growing crops indoors.<br \/>\nThe normal effect of these lower light levels in the winter on oranges and lemon plants is a loss of leaves especially the older leaves,but when this happens the plants tend to recover in the spring as the light levels increase.<br \/>\nAlso over the winter keep an eye out for red spider mite which is a very small spider it will show itself as a yellowing of the leaves.The spider is so small it&#8217;s hard to see but in the early stages can be treated organically with a soft soap spray. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange and lemon trees during the winter,yes they do need to be moved inside to a position were they get as much natural light as possible i.e window sill but be careful they do&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}