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  • From: "Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] meyers lemon (was figs)
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:40:06 -0600

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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