I just grabbed a lemon from the fridge that was bought at the grocery store. Ate it, cut out the seeds, and planted them! I'm ot sure what kind of lemon it was.

Sprouted around June 20th
Pro-Mix soil
I havent givin them any ferts/nutes yet


Some look much better than others. I will only keep the most healthy ones.

How they are looking? What should my next step should be?


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Most of what I see there is not citrus--or at least I don't know of any citrus with fuzzy leaves. The small dark green plant does look like citrus.

Most store bought lemons are Eureka or Lisbon and do grow true.

hi yes i see a few lemon seedlings there,the rest seem like egg plants,the lemons will make great pot plants,fruit in a number of years,or you can practice you grafting skills after a year or so.

Really ??? Those are definitely 100% lemons! I germinated the seeds directly from the lemon into a wet paper towel and planted them in soil as soon as they showed a little white sprout!! I guess I will just keep growing them to see what happens.

hi,the little dark green seedlings are lemons,what was used in the compost before seems the rest are something else.id still go with egg plants or some thing related to tomatos ,remenber citrus can take a long time to germinate and i only see a few lemons there how many seeds did you have,how many plants,artie.

They took about 2 weeks for the first ones to germ. about 3 weeks in i threw away a few seeds because they never sprouted. there was about 12 total. they have to be lemons. I havent had an eggplant even in my house in years haha.

I have no idea what the dark green ones are or why 2 different things popped up. Im using promix straight from the bag.

This will be my grow log! I will continue to update here all the new growth!

Yeah, I definitely agree with what everyone else has said. The couple dark green seedlings are definitely citrus, and the other lighter fuzzy seedlings definitely are not.

The fuzzy seedlings appear like Datura Stramonium seedlings aka Jimson weed, a very invasive plant in Pennsylvania. They are often grown by the Amish, have a mounded bush-like growth habit, and produce huge tubular white flowers that open at night (and smell heavenly). Their seed pods have spikes and are about 4-6 cm diameter, and the leaves, stems and seeds are, let us say, unsafe for human or animal consumption.

Does this sound like anything that grows around you? The seeds are flat. slightly meatier that tomato seeds. I pull weeds looking like those constantly. I used to grow them until I learned of their toxic nature, and stopped because I have children, animals, and my property adjoins a park.

Barbara

Barbara, they do look like Datura. I grew datura one year and it took me 2 or 3 years of constant hoeing out, to finally get rid of them. Extremely invasive. However, I also think they look like egg plant seedlings. But ??????? - Millet (918-)

Ah hah! the mystery is solved! When I planted the lemon seeds into the soil, I waited until they sprouted and assumed they were lemons. I didnt think that the pro-mix I used could have been contaminated with the Jimsom weed seeds.

So all this time I have been taking care of Jimson weed thinking they were lemons haha

Today I just got rid of all the weeds and replanted the lemon sprouts into 4 inch square containers. I have 4 lemon sprouts!

Phew! I'm Glad that is cleared up. Thanks all of you for the input and advice!!

I will keep you posted on the growth of the LEMONS!!

Update on new growth

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When should I start giving the lemons nutrients? and what nutes do you suggest?