That was a Lisbon seedling. It is now about a year & a half old & over 8 ft high. I planted it in the ground on the side of the house we'll see how it survives this winter with no protection...

BTW I trimmed all the lower branches off up to 2 ft. My son stuck one of the cutting in the plant bed & it also rooted & is now flushing out... I'm outta room for this stuff...

Well, now I am getting some answers about the Meyer. I have tried to bud them to: Trifoliate, Duncan (seedling) Grapefruit, Seville Orange, Flying Dragon and a rooted cutting from an ancient orange seedling growing on an old "cracker hometead" in St. Johns Co. FL (outside of St. Augustine).

Those buds that did "take" soon died. From what I just read, it would have to have been CTV. They started dying from tips down. I have had the same bad luck with the Limequat and Minneola too.

What understock would be used on the "New Meyer" in N. Florida?

As far as rooting the Meyer, I just pick a good limb with no thorns and stick it in a pot in the shade.

Questions or Comments ?

Are meyer lemon self pollenating?

What is the difference between the Myers and New Myers lemon
and is there any way to distinguish between the two?

Years ago my parents bought a semi-dwarf form Meyer Lemon
that came about from a rooted cutting. We had the Lemon for
about 8 years planted in the ground in San Pedro and when we
moved to the San Joaquin Valley in 1965, we dug up the tree,
transported it to here and planted it in a Western exposure planter
up near the back of the house. I've had some seedlings come
from this tree in which I felt they were real close to being true.
The seedlings when they first germinate and for the first few years
do not look like the parent plant but they will in time look very
much like the parent plant. I have a seedling plant now that is only
3' tall in 7 years of growth and has been producing Lemons since
it was 3 years old. A seedling Lemon from this old tree that I gave
to a Veterinarian friend of ours in 1990 was also producing Lemons
at a very young age, despite only being over 1 1/2 feet tall at the time
we gave him the tree.

Last year we bought a dwarf Improved Meyer Lemon for the misses
that came from a mass merchandizer retail outlet which was a Four
Winds tree. We are seeing characteristics in the leaves and the size
and shape of the fruit that at least to us gives us the impression
that although clearly related to the old Meyer Lemon there are some
physical appearing differences in these trees. Time will tell us if what
we are seeing is truer or not later as we are comparing an old growth
in ground tree with a much younger container plant. If someone were
to ask us are the two trees the same Lemon? Our answer at this point
is no.

As a side note: One of us here at Snickles was taught that Tristeza
originally came from the rootstocks. It was not so much that a Meyer
Lemon could not come into California, it was more so what rootstocks
was the tree grafted or budded onto and where, which state did those
plants come from. One of us believes there have been some old growth
trees, even in Exeter, that in the last 3 to 4 years were found to have
Tristeza in them. Either they died or were taken out of the ground and
disposed of as soon as it appeared there were signs of the disease, after
a number of years of relative inactivity or better put infrequency of us
seeing symptoms of this disease here in the San Joaquin Valley.

Snickles