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I've grown a few lemon plants from pips. They never produce any fruit.
Even after many years. The ones that we see for sale that are already
in fruit are grafted. All you will get from pips is a plant about
three foot high with quite nice shiny leaves.

You need to wait twenty or thirty years for one to fruit if it's grown
from a pip.

Perhaps I'll have a need for more than one lemon per year when I'm in my
forties or fifties & the lemon tree starts fruiting.

I said: "You need to wait twenty or thirty years for one to fruit" - not
- "You need to wait twenty or thirty years for one fruit"

While we're at it... I planted a couple of Pink Lady apple seeds at
the same
time as the lemon seeds - how many years/decades until they start fruiting?

The chances that you will get anything like Pink Lady aspples on it are
very remote. Most apples (excepting new varieties) are grafted onto a
rootstock from fruiting wood.

The 'from fruiting wood' bit is important, as when a tree begins to
flower, the buds on that branch (usually the whole tree, but not
necessarily) will go on to bear fruit even if they are grafted on to
very young unripe stock - which is what i shall be doing to my
three-year-old lemon.

When the ordered tree arrives, I shall have two fruiting lemons from
which to take grafts/buds.

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Rusty
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
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