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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:40 -0500 Linda Sherman 
<brazoshomestead@gmail.com> wrote:
. . .
>Does anyone have experience keeping citrus trees with trifoliate  
>rootstock in a pot? 

When I moved to Massachusetts 10 years ago a friend gave me a Myers lemon 
grafted onto trifoliate rootstock in a pot.

I plant it in the ground each spring, and put it back into its pot in the 
fall and move it to my dining room.  It likes a lot of sun, so it's 
outdoors roughly when my oaks have leaves (shading the dining room window.)

Last fall it suffered both deer damage and cold injury, and since then the 
rootstoch has grown some shoots (which I've rubbed off) but that's how I 
learned the rootstock was trifoliate.

I've found it to be a relatively low maintanance plant (except for its 
annual trip) except that sometimes it suffers shock when I move it and 
loses all its leaves.  It has always come back, though.  Perhaps for this 
reason it has stayed small and very manageable.

Most years I get a couple of lemons from it.  When it is in bloom my dining 
room smells wonderful.

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Ginda

zone 6