12/28/2009

Hi Everyone...

Here's my Meyer Lemon in fruit..

Cheers..Joe

12/28/2009


Hi....

Here's the same Meyer Lemon in flower.

Cheers...Joe...

Your tree looks better than many trees I see in nurseries in California.

12/30/2009


Dylan..

I bought my Meyer Lemon at a nursery
here. I have noticed that if the house is too hot
from heat ( its' winter here, high 32 , low 18 ) it
will drop leaves, at the same time they don't like
drafts....

Cheers....Joe..

The leaves may fall when it's too hot inside might fall also because their isn't enough humidity in the room during the winter.

Your tree looks very healthy too

Concerning the second picture titled "Here's the same Meyer Lemon in flower." Ninety-five to ninety-six percent of the flowers shown in the second picture, will fail to produce fruit, and drop from the tree; or will set small fruitlets that will also be eventually discarded. In the end, the tree will retain only 1 to 3 percent of all the fruit that could possible be produced from all the blooms. Here is what I do with Meyer Lemon trees.

Note: this procedure pertains to my containerized Meyer Lemons only. ------------ Each fruit that a citrus tree produces, and retains until maturity, (Meyer Lemons included), draws all of its nutrition (energy) from the five closest leaves on the stem. Normally a Meyer Lemon blooms in clusters, with one of the blooms in the cluster becoming the biggest and dominant bloom. I select the dominant bloom, and pinch off all the remaining smaller blooms in that cluster of flowers. I do this to each flower cluster for each five leaf area of the tree. Therefore, each fruit becomes larger, juicier, and more fruit are retained by the tree. This is because each fruit is receiving energy from its own five leaves, and is therefore not competing as much with other fruit on the tree. This still does not protect every fruit remaining on the tree, but it works very well in obtaining high quality fruit, and many more of them. This also gives a much more balanced , and more of them, especially on smaller container trees. - Millet (1,113-)

Interesting! I'll have to try this technique next spring. Thanks.

Cheers, Barrie.

Meyer lemons are very productive. I have one planted in the ground and often get over 800 large fruit each year! Now a lot of fruit is produced inside the tree canopy and very difficult to harvest. Years ago I grew a meyer lemon in a pot and only grew to 3 feet tall and 3 feet wide and produced about 75 lemons with over 30 cups of juice. I never tried but it may be possible to grow meyer lemons in half barrel containers or larger and get 150 to 250 fruit each year or 100 cups of meyer lemon juice.


Just 200 fruit can supply all the juice I need for a year so I give away most of the fruit or it rots on the ground.