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I also have a Meyers Lemon that moves with the seasons.   I put it 
outdoors when the oaks leaf out, and bring it indoors when the oaks 
drop their leaves, or when we start getting frosts.  It was labeled 
cold hardy to 20F, and has survived several light frosts outdoors.  
I've had it more than seven years and it hasn't grown very much.  New 
branches grow, but old ones die back.

The fruits are more sour and less sweet than the Meyers lemons I ate 
from a large tree in in SanFran area.  Nonetheless, it is delicious, 
with a flavor somewhere between tangerine and lemon.  I use it to make 
lemon pie, and to flavor lentils.  It doesn't like being moved, and 
often drops all its leaves when I move it (especially when I move it 
indoors, no doubt removing some root while potting it) but then it 
always grows new ones.  When it is happy it has a normal number of 
leaves for a tree its size (about 4' tall.)

If I wasn't clear, I put it in a pot indoors, but in the ground when it 
is outdoors.  I found it needed to be watered more often than I could 
keep up with it (and lost all its leaves) in a pot in the sun.  
Indoors, I water it once a week or a little less.  It does appreciate 
full sun, and gets the best spot in the window.  It generally flowers 
indoors (where it smells wonderful) and I pollinate it with a Q-Tip.  I 
have had lemons most years - this year I got six in the fall, usually I 
get about three in the spring.

Homegrown lemons in New England are a great conversation piece, and 
they taste terrific.

Ginda Fisher
eastern Mass., zone 6

On Dec 1, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Ruth Dykstra wrote:

> I have a Meyer Lemon tree that is around 5 years old.  It is outdoors 
> in the summer and indoors in the winter.  It is not the healthiest 
> looking tree, it has relatively few leaves for its size, but it has 
> 4-5 good -sized fruits each year.  When it blooms in the house I hand 
> pollinate with a little paint brush and then make sure I only leave 
> one fruit per branch to develop.  It smells fantastic and there's 
> nothing like giving people bread you made with homegrown lemons in 
> Northern Illinois.
>
> Ruth