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["Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>]

Our Meyer lemon is in a plastic pot, 3 gal.  Really beautiful this year with 
16 lemons which all turned yellow at Thanksgiving. We used it for 
decoration.   It started a prolific bloom right about then and after 
harvesting.  Wonderfully fragrant.  That and the Texas limequat are our most 
productive citrus.  They are outside in pots (above ground) in spring and 
jammed together in an unheated sunroom in winter.  Unheated except that we 
leave a door to a heated room open at night.  Hector Black, zone 6 middle tn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] meyers lemon (was figs)


> On Dec 30, 2010, at 8:24 AM, Kieran &/or Donna wrote:
>
> > When I had some potted citrus trees I put a plastic bag over them when I 
> > brought them indoors, to hold in humidity.  I put them in a poorly heated 
> > room that had a window on the west side, but where the sun couldn't hit 
> > it. I was trying to copy the way the English kept their potted citrus 
> > trees alive back when, they kept them cool and rather poorly lit.  Meyer 
> > lemon is a lot more willing to go dormant than real lemons.  Limes are 
> > even livelier and less likely to be suppressed by cool temps than lemons 
> > are.  For Up North you might do better with the lemons and limes.  I 
> > remember Michael McConkey saying that he had some kind of dwarfing 
> > rootstock that wasn't hardy but did great in pots.  Something weird I 
> > never heard of before. Donna
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> I've actually had very good luck with the Meyers lemon.  It fruits a 
> little most years, and it makes a very attractive houseplant in the 
> winter.  It's low maintenance (it likes to dry out between watering) and 
> because it's quite cold hardy for a citrus, I don't have to bring it in 
> until the oak leaves are down, and theres's decent light on the 
> windowsill.
>
> Happy New Year to all,
> Ginda
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