Hands Off My Lemon Tree !!!!
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Nyboy
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FUNNY HOW YOU CAN BECOME ATTACHED TO A TREE
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A citrus tree in NY of all things
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Jared I have 3 citrus trees Lime, Lemon and sour orange. All have to come in before, cold, they are very slow going.
buckabucka
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We have a lemon tree (not Meyer, which I would love) that we were given when DH's brother was moving. It has some kind of parasitic plant that comes up off the roots (I don't remember the name, but I think that was one of my first posts on this site!).
The plant is pot-bound, stays indoors year-round, only gets light when we open the shades (in winter we only open them when there is solar gain to be had), gets overwatered regularly, and still, it is hanging with so many lemons! It is some kind of large variety, almost grapefruit sized.
It is below zero this morning, but sunny, so the shades will be coming up. I'll see if I can get a decent photo.....
The plant is pot-bound, stays indoors year-round, only gets light when we open the shades (in winter we only open them when there is solar gain to be had), gets overwatered regularly, and still, it is hanging with so many lemons! It is some kind of large variety, almost grapefruit sized.
It is below zero this morning, but sunny, so the shades will be coming up. I'll see if I can get a decent photo.....
buckabucka
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You can see the parasitic plant (bushy growth in the pot), DH thinks it was phytophylla, or something like that, but it keeps cranking out lemons! The two small lemons are about normal grocery store size.
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wow your lemons are so heavy they are bending branches !!!!!!!
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That's a survivalist lemon if there ever was one Bucka! Such tenacity!
Larisa
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I have a lemon too, but it didn't grow the big yet. I have to delete buds. It grows in a plastic pot. I put a pot in a cache-pot . I water as you. But on a cache-pot bottom I put small stones. It helps from excess water. And so I can watch roots not to miss change.
