My Edibles: Lemon Trees

White Sapote - Lemon Gold (Grafted)

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Haven't actually tasted this one, but so many people on Daley's Forum seem to love them, I thought I'll give it a go!  Bought one 2 weeks ago and planted immediately, and is now producing flower buds from several sites.

Planted: 2012

Height 55 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Citrus feed

Pest Control:

Nil required yet.

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Lemonade Tree ^10/10

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Absolutely magic! Beautiful juice for breakfast!

Fruiting Months July and August

Planted: 2008

Height 6 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

No probs with pests!

Lemon - Eureka (Grafted) ^7/10

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Everyone should have a lemon tree!!!

Fruiting Months June and July

Planted: 2009

Height 6 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 4 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Lemon - Meyer (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2010

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Lemon - Eureka (Grafted)

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Everyone needs a true lemon in their garden! This little guy should be vigorous, and hopefully thorn free. I'm trying to grow it as part of a citrus hedge. It hasn't enjoyed the transplant despite the good soil.

The Eureka had to get moved in Jan 2012. It was growing faster than I ever anticipated and needed tip pruning every weekend. It has grown over 50cm in less than 6 months despite regular pruning. It has been relocated to where it can grow up taller away from the house. Its width will have to be managed as it is against a fence, but it can still spread and grow up.

May 2012 - my attempts to turn this into a hedge failed. It is growing rapidly and seems very content in its current location at the edge of the vegetable garden!

Planted: 2011

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Lemon Grass (Cutting)

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Useful in both cooking, and herbal teas (nice with a bit of ginger).  Can use all year around.

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Lawn fertilizer

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

Nil required.

Lemon Verbena

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Lemonade Tree (Grafted)

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A sweet lemon sounded delicious, and on tasting, they really are! Very refreshing.  Tough little tree - I accidently knocked half its' roots off when planting; it got a bit sick but has made a full recovery.  (It didn't even drop the 3 young fruit it was carrying at the time, and they grew beautifully.)  Having second crop maturing now, 31 good size fruit.

Height 1.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 31 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 4 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Manure and citrus feed

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

White oil used once for scale.  No fruit fly.

Lemon - Meyer

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Summer 2011: Seedling from my friend John. Thank you so much! :O) 

Autumn 2012: Some EVIL monster ate ALL THE LEAVES! Fuming!! I have moved him round the back to the new hospital ward (AKA glasshouse) where I hope that he can recover!

Planted: 2011

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Lemon Verbena

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Summer 2012: grown from a cutting pinched from my sister's new plant. Has a pretty form. Seems very similar to oregano in the way it is growing at the moment.

Qty: 1

Lemon - Eureka

Comments: - I just love lemons. 

Lemon - Verna

Dwarf Lemon - Meyer (Grafted) ^10/10

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Always doing something

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November

Planted: 2011

Height 5 Feet

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Hand Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Bat Guana

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

A few Scale bugs but nothing to alarm me just yet.  Hand picked off and have not seen again yet. 3/30/12 

Organic Status:Organic

Lemon - Eureka (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: - I like the idea of having lemons available all year round

Planted: 2010

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Advanced Lemon - Meyer (Grafted) ^10/10

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This is a semi dwarf advanced meyer lemon. So far it has been a good producer with tons of flowers. I planted it last January 2011 so this will be the first year I will harvest the fruit but so far it is full of big gree lemons starting to yellow. I will update soon.

Planted: 2011

Height 3 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 8 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Miracle Gro and sometimes 20-20-20

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Lemonade Tree

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Another great tree.  Fruits over a long period, so I always have fruits ripening at different times.  Only problem though is the later ones are a magnet for fruit flys......so I usually cover the whole tree.

Lemon - Lisbon (Grafted) ^4/10

Comments: - Annual prune.  Vigorous growth with water shoots after rain. Very thorny, few fruits. Prone to white citrus louse, leaf miner, and citrus shield bugs. Have grafted Myer lemon, Citron, Buddhas Hand Citron, Villa Franca lemon on. Does not fruit very well.

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 20% in After Fruiting

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Organic oil, will use lime for louse next year.

Organic Status:Organic

Citrus Splitzer - lemon/lime

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One of the grafts seems much more vigorous than the other (not sure which yet). It's also helped by the fact there are 2 grafts of one and only 1 of the other.

Spring 2011: Covered in flowers and just starting to grow teeny tiny fruit.

About a month after this  I decided to get rid of the fruit. There was just so much and I thought that it was a bad idea to leave them all. It didn't seem to like that and suddenly dropped all of its leaves. There are teeny tiny new shoots appearingon some of the branches (mostly on one graft not the other). No idea what I did wrong - I am SURE there was enough food, I am sure it wasn't too wet or too dry. I am hoping that it was a sunlight issue so I have moved into a sunnier spot.

Summer 2012: First day of the new year and I have noticed new shoots on the bare branches. I think that the weather has just started to warm up enough for it to get going again. Catch is that I think they shoots might actually be flowers not leaves. What is it thinking? All I can do is keep an eye on it and keep reminding my man to help fertilise!

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2010

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Charlie Carp, Seasol, and my partner helps out too

Dwarf Lemon - Meyer (Grafted) ^8/10

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Growing well

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Dwarf Lemonade (Grafted)

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Planted May 2011 as part of a citrus hedge along the fence line.

I didn't follow the instructions and cut the top 3rd off the plant when planting. Seems to have resulted in the plant dropping must of its leaves. It has since sprung back with regular watering and feeding.

Picture taken Feb 3rd 2012. Lemonade is the plant on the far left.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Backhousia citriodora - Lemon scented myrtle ^10/10

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I have used the leaves to make lemonade ice blocks for the kids . Infuse some in boiling water and then discrd the leaves then freeze it .

Planted: 2003

Height 6 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Lemon Aspen

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It seems impossible to overwater this tree, it was next to a paddle pool and had water emptied on it frequently last summer. It always looks glossy and healthy. Leaves smell lovely.

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

White Sapote - Lemon Gold

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Fell over in heavy rain and wind and had to be staked up. Splayed growth habit. Had flowers and small fruit in first year, but fell off.

Planted: 2010

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 8 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

lemongrass ^10/10

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The lemongrass is West Indian variety. Used for mulch. Also a cardamom plant, native ginger and ginger plants. They all like a lot of water.

Planted: 2008

Height 2.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

None

Comments

Wow they do flower and they do look a mess from here...I have five small clumps and I guess i am going to expect them to become like that haha...do you prune them or cut the long leaves back?

Lemon - Lisbon ^10/10

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Very healthy, bushy tree, flowers and fruits continuously. It has really nice flavoured, large lemons

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, December

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost and chook manure, kelp and fish emulsion

When I Fertilise: Winter

Lemon Grass (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - Great in stirfrys

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 8

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Pest Control: None

Organic Status:Organic

Backhousia citriodora - Lemon scented myrtle (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: - Scented leaves makes the best tea

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 50% in Summer

Pest Control: none

Organic Status:Organic

Lemon Verbena ^8/10

Comments: - makes good tea

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Winter, Spring

Lemon - Eureka

Lemonade Tree

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Planted in a raised bed and pruned to a standard shape the tree seems to be coping with WA soils and summers. It is flowering like crazy and I am pinching the flowers off because it is very young - but clearly very keen to grow and fruit. The leaves are going yellow - so I have tried epsom salts to provide extra magnesium. I've also added some trace elements (including iron). It is healthy but it just doesn't seem happy or as bushy as the orange tree. Additional water is helping.

I re-dug the plant, replaced the local soil and replanted to provide better nutrition. This has helped, but the tree almost looks as if it is being attached by something as som tips are dying and leaves appear to be trying to grow back ... but no inspection has revealed any pest. It has only grown 50cm since planting.

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

none

Organic Status:Partially Organic