Re: Re: Meyer lemon

They make good house plants, Cathy. Even are known to produce a few fruit. They can be pruned to size easily; even root pruned if necessary. Only problem I know of is that indoors they tend to be scale magnets. For some reason, they do not seem to get a lot of scale outdoors.

I grew one hydroponically for a number of years in Washington, DC. It never fruited, but it bloomed and the fragrance of the blossoms made the whole venture worth the effort.

The one I have here is about 6' to 7' tall. It's a shrub, not a tree, so it's about as big around as it is tall. It is also a thorny devil, which makes picking the fruit a cirque de sole event.


On Friday, February 20, 2004, at 06:18 PM, cathy carpenter wrote:

How big does a Meyer lemon get? Could it be a houseplant, with summers spent outside? I ask because DH just bought one in a pot at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Cathy
On Friday, February 20, 2004, at 04:12 PM, james singer wrote:
Don't know if you're familiar with the Meyer lemon, but it's a cross between a real lemon and an orange. The juice tastes like lemon [slightly sweeter, maybe], but the fruit is round and about the same size as a valencia orange. That means they probably contain three or four times as much juice as a real lemon.

Tomorrow, however, we're going to the "Garden Gala" on Pine Island. "Plants, gardening books, arts, and crafts." 

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