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  • From: mIEKAL aND <QAZINGULAZA@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] meyers lemon (was figs)
  • Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 08:55:33 -0600

I keep a couple Meyer's lemons & various other citrus, figs, bananas, etc in containers. I've found that a great way to stabilize the watering in the summer is to use oversized plastic saucers beneath all of my collection. I get the plastic saucers from the local Menards & the cost does add up if you have a couple 100 plants, but easily worth the price. Bottom watering has several advantages but the main one seems to be that on really hot periods of weather it gives me a one or 2 day buffer in case I'm away & don't get to watering everything. The other feature I like is the top of the plant actually gets fairly dried out when one bottom waters & slows down the growth of the miscellaneous weeks that pop up.

~mIEKAL


GINDA wrote:

By the way, people sometimes as why I don't just leave it in the pot over the
summer, outdoors. The

answer is that I cannot water it reliably enough to keep it alive in a pot in
the sun. But it doesn't really need all that much water, so it does fine
planted in the ground. Even during droughts, I rarely water it.






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