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Thinking about growing a lemon tree
Posted on 5/13/15 at 5:30 pm
Posted on 5/13/15 at 5:30 pm
Any advice as to grow from seed vs buy plant from nursery. What is the best time to plant them?
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Posted on 5/13/15 at 5:35 pm to MrSweets
Recently bought a Meyer that I need to plant
Posted on 5/13/15 at 6:07 pm to MrSweets
You will be a few years ahead buying from a nursery. Will probably be a grafted tree.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 6:10 pm to MrSweets
We have one a pot. Makes more lemons than any reasonable family of humans can consume.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 6:43 pm to MrSweets
Go with a started one for sure. They are cheap enough, and who wants to wait several years for a lemon? Throw a couple seeds in the ground too, if that's what floats your boat.
I think the best time to plant fruit trees and citrus is late fall, early winter. That could be way off though.
I think the best time to plant fruit trees and citrus is late fall, early winter. That could be way off though.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 7:53 pm to MrSweets
If you grew from seed wouldn't you have to graft it with root stock?
Anyway, just buy a locally grown tree, and good luck, I can not seem to get one to live more than 2 years
Anyway, just buy a locally grown tree, and good luck, I can not seem to get one to live more than 2 years
Posted on 5/13/15 at 8:34 pm to Barf
Are you looking to put it in the ground?
Posted on 5/13/15 at 9:55 pm to MrSweets
Better plant two of them so they can pollinate. If not it will never bear any fruit.
Posted on 5/13/15 at 10:58 pm to Tigerpaw123
lemons do not fruit true from seed
you need a grafted tree from the nursery
they are cheap
you need a grafted tree from the nursery
they are cheap
Posted on 5/13/15 at 10:59 pm to MrSweets
get yourself a meyer lemon in a pot and replant...much sweeter than a regular lemon...
I have a meyer and it is my favorite fruit tree of all that I have ever had...it blooms constantly anytime there are leaves on the tree and will make several crops per year...
I have a meyer and it is my favorite fruit tree of all that I have ever had...it blooms constantly anytime there are leaves on the tree and will make several crops per year...
Posted on 5/14/15 at 9:31 am to MrSweets
Are you planting it for fruit or ornamental purposes? Youll have a shite ton of lemons if thats what you want, but if you gonna go citrus I'd recommend a louisiana orange or a blood orange. The fruit is very sweet. You can freeze the juice and use it year round. I have both and get about 12 gal of juice each year from them.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 9:36 am to GRIZZ
The fricking thorns on a lemon tree are as big as 2 bags of Ole Roy. fricking huge and evil.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 9:47 am to RainChance0
quote:I was wondering about this. I had two big Satsuma trees together, and one died in the winter of '13. Last year the remaining one only had a handful of fruit.
Better plant two of them so they can pollinate. If not it will never bear any fruit.
This year it's loaded though.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 10:01 am to MrSweets
Find a good healthy Meyer lemon tree from your local nursery. You can still plant - just keep it watered until established. I am a couple hours north of you and planted mine on the north side of the house in a bed next to the house. Still, I have to cover it and use lamps underneath the tarp to keep it warm when the temp dips below freezing. Even with this, the outer limb tips burn, but I prune them back in the Spring and the tree recovers. It was so cold this winter (a few nights in the mid teens) that mine appears to have used its energy to regenerate new growth rather than fruit. The thorns are pretty large and sharp as someone mentioned, but the lemons are great.
I have tried Satsumas but am just a bit too far north, and sadly, the cold got them. Nonetheless, it is rewarding to be able to at least grow a lemon.
I have tried Satsumas but am just a bit too far north, and sadly, the cold got them. Nonetheless, it is rewarding to be able to at least grow a lemon.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 10:01 am to SCwTiger
meyer lemon don't need a second one to pollenate. i have 1, the bees do all the work, then that sucker will put out more lemons then you could ever use.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 12:14 pm to Spankum
I've always heard they put out several times a year, but mine only seem to ripen in the fall/winter. Anything you do special to speed up the growth process? I have a tree full of smaller fruit now and have a few new buds. Last year I think I started picking in November and pulled the final fruit in late February.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 12:28 pm to RainChance0
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Better plant two of them so they can pollinate. If not it will never bear any fruit.
That's not true. I have one Lemon tree and it makes a helluva lot of lemons.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 2:25 pm to Teyeger
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The fricking thorns on a lemon tree are as big as 2 bags of Ole Roy. fricking huge and evil.
better have armour on if your going in that tree.
Posted on 5/14/15 at 2:45 pm to MrSweets
Anyone have luck with planting one in a pot? I had one in the ground but the freezes/snow/ive of 2013 did it in & it never recovered. I was thinking of planting one in a big pot. I've got 4 blueberry bushes in pots & they are doing well.
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