Citronella advice please??

Ok so i think this is in the right place

Above is my what i think is still quite young citronella tree/plant, if ive spelt it right.
I got it from lidl about 3 months ago for a pound. It was in an aweful state but after much care little attention and a very lemony scented bathroom it seems to be springing into life. Does it look ok, should there be anything i should be doing to further care for it/help it grow more.
Any advice would be appreciated

 

And i know its not in the centre of the pot but who like being conventional like that anyway :P

 

Hi James , curiosity can you do a picture of the leaves? to be honest it dasn`t look like a citronella at all.

 

Haha wouldnt surprise me it was from lidl lol, i took some lower leaves off it and scrunched the a while back when i first got the plant, they were very sick looking, and hands stank of lemons lol.
It also has these spikes on it which i didnt realise until the other day when one of em got me!!

What could it be if not citronella??

 

Maybe a limonella??

 

It`s a lemon ....even the spine and if you bite one of the leaves will actually taste like lemon washing up .
Citronella it`s actually an herbs .

in latin lemon is called citrus , so citron , citronella and so on.

 

it`s actually can be , the color of the leaves are the same , not a pure lemon plant but a cross .

 

Oh ok, had a quick google pics search on limonella. Some very similar looking ones on there.
Any growing advice??

 

citrus are actually hardy then they look , I keep mine in the unheated greenhouse and they are fine , survived minus 4 with no damage , in case you repot , make a good mix easy drainage compost , sand a grit has I leave them dry in winter .
but in case you want to grow them indoor , treat them as a normal plant , carefull not to overwater or disturb the roots they really don`t like it .
perhaps you can make a nice bonsai out of it .
treat them more like a cactus , let it get dry before watering again.

 

Awesome thankyou, sounds pretty much like the chilli plants lol. From what i remember its not meant to get bigger than 2 or 3ft tall

 

bit hard , has the roots are getting stressed in small space and don`t like to be disturbed .
ps started my chilli bonsai as well , thyme and rosemary , few more years and I`ll show you the pictures

 

I managed to get some the other day of the ones im cropping down into bonchis

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