Curly leaves on our Lemon Tree

Today Patrick the engineer set Rhyannon and I a task which he called "The 1 Hour Research Project". My project was to find out why the lemon tree has curly leaves and has not grown very much since we planted it.

When i looked at the lemon tree (ours is in a pot) i saw that some of its branches had no leaves, one branch was dead, some new leaves were growing but all the other leaves were curly. I looked up "curly leaves on my lemon tree" and found out lots of information about what it could be. Mostly i learned that different types of mite and fungus cause leaves to be curly but our tree did not have any of the other signs for the mites or the fungus that i read about.

The things i read that seemed the most like our tree were called: Defoliation (that is when the leaves fall off), Magnesium Deficiency (This make the leaves have yelloy tips and is why they fall off) and Stunted (not growing).

To fix these things we have to repot our lemon tree into a bigger pot with good drainage and make sure it is not root-bound (that is when the roots have no more room to grow because they are all twisted around). We have to cut the flowers off so the tree can put more energy into growing bigger. And we have to mix epsom salt with water and feed it to our lemon tree and this will give it the Magnesium that is needs.