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gregn
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Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
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| Posted: Sun 17 Apr, 2011 8:17 pm |
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Meyer lemons are by far my best performers hand down. I live way outside any citrus growing area. 2 years ago it set out a 3 foot (1 meter) shoot at or near ground level - my fist thought is that this was a growth flush from the rootstock - I hope this tree, now 7 feet tall, is a rooted cutting which I now believe it is, and will produce fruit on this branch. It is sending out bloom buds now so it shouldn't be long to figure this out.
Cheers, Greg
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Gregn, citrus enthusiast. North Vancouver Canada. USDA zone 8. I grow In-ground citrus, Palms and bananas. Also have container citrus |
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Darkman
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Joined: 20 Jul 2010
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Wed 20 Apr, 2011 5:58 am |
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I have my two Meyers planted near the front of my garden/grove. Maybe a grandchild will have a lemonade stand there!
Right now they are a little puny looking and have lost a good bit of leaves. This seems to be normal for theses as I have read a lot of post involving leaf drop on Meyer Lemons. I won't panic unless I don't see any new growth soon.
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TRI
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Joined: 13 Jan 2010
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Location: Homestead, FL Zone 10
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| Posted: Wed 20 Apr, 2011 1:59 pm |
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I have a potted meyer lemon that lost most of its leaves but it is just starting a growth flush. |
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Sat 21 May, 2011 9:28 pm |
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Well it took a long time and I was really starting to worry BUT after dropping almost all the leaves it had I now seee green healthy leaves popping out. I'll continue to watch them to make sure they stay green.
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frank_zone5.5
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Joined: 23 Sep 2006
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Location: 50 miles west of Boston
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| Posted: Tue 31 May, 2011 5:46 pm |
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Ones I grow in pots that are in the house do horrible.
I have three outside that I cover and they do well. They are flushing out fully ahead of my other cold hardy trees. It was a nice surprise to pick (find ) orange fruit on the tree in Febuary..............
I get some die off every year, but it grows back quickly. However I get more fruit from a thomasville citraquat
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Tue 07 Jun, 2011 1:46 am |
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My two Meyers have completely greened up and are looking good all without any intervention on my part. I will be applying fertilizer this weekend and hopefully this new flush will start to stretch out.
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frank_zone5.5
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Location: 50 miles west of Boston
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| Posted: Tue 07 Jun, 2011 8:09 am |
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mine are flushed out also, even have 2 flowers |
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pertman
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Joined: 20 Dec 2010
Posts: 51
Location: Desert Oasis Ranch, Tucson, Arizona
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| Posted: Thu 09 Jun, 2011 8:44 pm |
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And, here is the unknown citrus right next to it. This poor little tree was in such bad shape, the previous owners offered to cut it down. ... I'll be trimming the dead wood shortly, now that I've figured out what survived and what is truly dead. I figured it was a lemon or a lime due to the thorns. Now that it has some fruit on it, I'm wondering if it might be a lime - maybe a Key lime - since the fruit is so round and really hard. Thought it was another Meyer, but the fruit is too small and round. It, too is grafted, and you can see the healed ground squirrel damage to the graft. I scratched the skin of one of the fruits gently, and to me it smells a little more "limey" than my Eureka and my Meyer. If anyone wants to venture a guess, that would be great: .... |
Here's a guess -- how about a sweet Palestine Lime. See http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/palestine.html.
Regards from over the mountains to the East...
Peter
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Mon 20 Jun, 2011 9:45 pm |
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No blooms yet but they continue to look very green and healthy.
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