hey party peoples first post

well let me put it right out here I’ve been looking to buy a lemon tree for a while now but after taking a look about your forums I’ve been obliterated by the different terms and types of lemons

So let me put it simply

To the best of your knowledge what’s the best type of lemon to grow in doors in the UK which will produce fruit?


I have a large window which has a lot of sun to it throughout the day to place it on after clearing it of books

I just have no idea what type grows best in the UK and in doors

a little help would go down great

cheers guys

the GiT

Improved Meyers for edible fruit? I think if you are going to be leaving it inside, with TLC you could probably grow just about anything, but I am still a rookie myself.

it was more about the size of some of them could grow to i dont know alot about lemon trees to be truely honesy with you

but i work for a delivery company and we get them through there and they smell devine

whats the difference between a improved mayer and a normal one? :S

this is what im thinking about buying

http://cliftonsnursery.net/Potted-Meyer-Lemon-Tree-Two-Gallon/M/B000L6AKFI.htm

it says abouy 15 inchs tall is that large enough to be producing fruit or am i likely to want to get a little larger one

as thats the other reason why i would love a lemon twee

GiT

> whats the difference between a improved mayer and a normal one?
It is exactly the same but freed from virus. On the market, you will only find "improved". I hope so.

You can't order citrus trees from a USA nursery to UK. The nursery almost certainly won't send them, and if they are labelled as citrus the UK customs won't allow entry.
However, it's not that difficult to find Meyers Lemon in UK, often imported from Italy.

Hi fellow english person!

Grow any of them indoors. Most of the ones you buy are rooted cuttings or grafts, so they don't need to be six foot high to fruit. I have all types of lemons that do ok indoors. I have a calamondin orange that is about 25cm high and produces lots of fruit!

As a tip, don't waste money and times on your first tree looking online. Go to wilkinsons, b+q, homebase, supermarkets and other hardware type places with garden centres - they usually do really affordable lemons, limes and calamondins.

woops just brought one of these in my haste to get my lemon tree ive been really looking forward to it for some reason :S

http://4presents.co.uk/GiftOptions.aspx?gif=107&sit=17

i didnt even think about going to b n q or home base places like that

meh might have a look for a calamondins as they seem pretty wikid aswell

well i now have my tree for a while now and i feel it hates me it refuses point blank to grow me a lemon over the size of a small coin just re potted the little blighter to see if it makes anydifference with him having more space to root / grow

Patience. Patience patience patience.

It is normal for citrus this size to grow dozens of little fruits, then drop them off and only keep a couple while it adapts to its environment. And even after. Tell us a bit about the light exposure, humidity, soil, feeding regime, watering regime etc.

well it used to live on the window sil but since repotting it has now moved outside onto the pation in a slightly bigger pot the one it came in it was already over grown for the pot

now its summer it has ogne outside into the great british sun

watering well its new so i have been watering it alot humdity well i live in southampton

sice repotting tho i have not seen a single lemon not even flowers that could turn into them

the soil seems alot less free flowing and more dirt like this time round even tho it is citrus soil brought from haskins

I buy citrus soil, and add my own draining components, like perlite, to the mix to make it better. Don't water it a lot. It will like to dry out somewhat between watering. Being constantly damp or wet is a sure way to kill it in your current potting mix.

It will not fruit and flower all year round at all times. It has moved home, been repotted into a less than ideal mix, moved again to outdoors and is staying rather damp. I would recommend putting it into a free draining mix, and set up a fertilizer regime.

Citrus do not grow above the soil line all the time. They grow roots for a while, then that stops and the leaves/flowers grow, then that stops and the roots start again, always in cycles like that.So though it may not be doing anything on the surface, the roots might be growing. Just be patient with it. Letting it dry out somewhat between waterings may trigger it to bloom

You said it was overgrown in the previous pot. Did you check the roots?
If they were circling you had to wash them, straiten all the roots and cut everyone that is misdirecting. Otherwise it takes a long long time for the roots to colonize the new medium. During that time it cannot grow because they still use the small volume of the previous pot.

the roots from the previous pot it was basicly all roots no soil it was in a id say mayb 5 inch pot and it was ALL roots, i did not wash away any old soil or cut any roots that where there, i only had it about 3 months before re potting i think the roots may have already been balled before i did

when re potting i did try to free some of the roots

which soil would you recomend buying for uk use ? its coming up to winter also so it will be coming inside to the coservatory again soonish

Go to any garden centre and buy citrus compost. If you can't find that, buy a general compost, and add at least 50% inorganic matter - bark, perlite, anything lol