Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos that's
the first and last time you will see the things..............once they are
picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK environment

On 30/5/08 12:06, in article , "tpow"
wrote:

Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos that's
the first and last time you will see the things..............once they are
picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK environment

We sell Meyer's lemon trees and have no complaints, other than from a fool
who allowed his to get frosted. He demanded a replacement, which he didn't
get on the grounds he'd kill that, too. He just got his money back.
Our own lives in a greenhouse that is unheated other than in the very
coldest weather and it gets a splash of water now and then. It fruits like
mad. Our own Citrus medica and Citrus medica Buddha's Hand were bought three
years ago and each has its third or fourth crop and is no more than about
4.5' high. If they're allowed to get very cold in winter, or are
over-watered, then yes, they will show signs of distress. We find that
over-watering is the most common problem with citrus and indeed, with many
other things, too.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Sacha wrote:

We sell Meyer's lemon trees and have no complaints, other than from a fool
who allowed his to get frosted. He demanded a replacement, which he didn't
get on the grounds he'd kill that, too. He just got his money back.
Our own lives in a greenhouse that is unheated other than in the very
coldest weather and it gets a splash of water now and then. It fruits like
mad. Our own Citrus medica and Citrus medica Buddha's Hand were bought three
years ago and each has its third or fourth crop and is no more than about
4.5' high. If they're allowed to get very cold in winter, or are
over-watered, then yes, they will show signs of distress. We find that
over-watering is the most common problem with citrus and indeed, with many
other things, too.


And whitefly! Couldn't get rid of the things!

On 30/5/08 14:31, in article ,
"Saxman" wrote:

Sacha wrote:

We sell Meyer's lemon trees and have no complaints, other than from a fool
who allowed his to get frosted. He demanded a replacement, which he didn't
get on the grounds he'd kill that, too. He just got his money back.
Our own lives in a greenhouse that is unheated other than in the very
coldest weather and it gets a splash of water now and then. It fruits like
mad. Our own Citrus medica and Citrus medica Buddha's Hand were bought three
years ago and each has its third or fourth crop and is no more than about
4.5' high. If they're allowed to get very cold in winter, or are
over-watered, then yes, they will show signs of distress. We find that
over-watering is the most common problem with citrus and indeed, with many
other things, too.


And whitefly! Couldn't get rid of the things!

Tsk. Biological controls. ;-) Encarsia formosa

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Sacha wrote:

On 30/5/08 14:31, in article ,
"Saxman" wrote:

Sacha wrote:

We sell Meyer's lemon trees and have no complaints, other than from a
fool
who allowed his to get frosted. He demanded a replacement, which he
didn't
get on the grounds he'd kill that, too. He just got his money back.
Our own lives in a greenhouse that is unheated other than in the very
coldest weather and it gets a splash of water now and then. It fruits
like mad. Our own Citrus medica and Citrus medica Buddha's Hand were
bought three years ago and each has its third or fourth crop and is no
more than about
4.5' high. If they're allowed to get very cold in winter, or are
over-watered, then yes, they will show signs of distress. We find that
over-watering is the most common problem with citrus and indeed, with
many other things, too.


And whitefly! Couldn't get rid of the things!

Tsk. Biological controls. ;-) Encarsia formosa


I bought a lovely Calomondin, well I say lovely it was lying on it's side
and dry as a bone in a garden centre, looking very pporly, they sold it for
next to nothing. It's grafted, of course, onto a lemon root stock. The root
stock then sent out a shoot, and I hadn't the heart to cut it out so I left
it to grow. Got 4 lemons off it year before last, after a good 2-3 years
of TLC nursing it back to health, got a couple last year, a couple more
growing this year, and I get a lovely crop of ~1lb of calomondin, at the
same time, which make excellent marmalade.

Duncan

"tpow" wrote
Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos
that's the first and last time you will see the things..............once
they are picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK
environment


Rubbish. We have two small Lemon Trees and get lots of full sized Lemons
every year such that we make Lemoncello or freeze the juice into ice cube
containers during a glut.
Similar situation with our Tahiti Lime (28 supermarket sized limes last
year). All our trees are in full bloom at this time.
What are you doing wrong?
--
Regards
Bob Hobden

"Saxman" wrote after...
Sacha wrote:

We sell Meyer's lemon trees and have no complaints, other than from a
fool
who allowed his to get frosted. He demanded a replacement, which he
didn't
get on the grounds he'd kill that, too. He just got his money back.
Our own lives in a greenhouse that is unheated other than in the very
coldest weather and it gets a splash of water now and then. It fruits
like
mad. Our own Citrus medica and Citrus medica Buddha's Hand were bought
three
years ago and each has its third or fourth crop and is no more than about
4.5' high. If they're allowed to get very cold in winter, or are
over-watered, then yes, they will show signs of distress. We find that
over-watering is the most common problem with citrus and indeed, with
many
other things, too.


And whitefly! Couldn't get rid of the things!

Whitefly? You growing your's inside?
We grow ours outside against a S. facing wall from March to October and have
never suffered from Whitefly. Scale Insect is always a problem though but I
blast that off with a high pressure jet of water from the sprayer going from
top to bottom checking every leaf and branch.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden

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"tpow" wrote
Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos
that's the first and last time you will see the things..............once
they are picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK
environment


Rubbish. We have two small Lemon Trees and get lots of full sized Lemons
every year such that we make Lemoncello or freeze the juice into ice cube
containers during a glut.
Similar situation with our Tahiti Lime (28 supermarket sized limes last
year). All our trees are in full bloom at this time.
What are you doing wrong?
--
Regards
Bob Hobden




**** knows..............

On 30/5/08 17:55, in article , "tpow"
wrote:


"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

"tpow" wrote
Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos
that's the first and last time you will see the things..............once
they are picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK
environment


Rubbish. We have two small Lemon Trees and get lots of full sized Lemons
every year such that we make Lemoncello or freeze the juice into ice cube
containers during a glut.
Similar situation with our Tahiti Lime (28 supermarket sized limes last
year). All our trees are in full bloom at this time.
What are you doing wrong?
--
Regards
Bob Hobden




**** knows..............


So it would seem. I think we can assume you know ---- all. I'd forgotten
it's half term and the pre-teens are loose on their parents' computers!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 30/5/08 17:55, in article ,
"tpow"
wrote:


"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
...

"tpow" wrote
Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos
that's the first and last time you will see the
things..............once
they are picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK
environment


Rubbish. We have two small Lemon Trees and get lots of full sized Lemons
every year such that we make Lemoncello or freeze the juice into ice
cube
containers during a glut.
Similar situation with our Tahiti Lime (28 supermarket sized limes last
year). All our trees are in full bloom at this time.
What are you doing wrong?
--
Regards
Bob Hobden




**** knows..............


So it would seem. I think we can assume you know ---- all. I'd forgotten
it's half term and the pre-teens are loose on their parents' computers!

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'



he started it miss with his........RUBBISH......then his big puffed out
chest WE HAVE........yes right

"tpow" wrote after
"Bob Hobden" answered
"tpow" wrote
Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos
that's the first and last time you will see the things..............once
they are picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK
environment

Rubbish. We have two small Lemon Trees and get lots of full sized Lemons
every year such that we make Lemoncello or freeze the juice into ice cube
containers during a glut.
Similar situation with our Tahiti Lime (28 supermarket sized limes last
year). All our trees are in full bloom at this time.
What are you doing wrong?

**** knows..............
Once purchased the first thing most need is to be repotted into a larger
pot, we use ericaceous compost with added bark chips to aid drainage and
without adding too much weight. Strictly speaking ericaceous compost is not
needed but all Citrus prefer an acid soil and it becomes important if you
water with hard tap water.
Anyway, the old gardeners always repotted into ericaceous compost if a
citrus tree looked sick.
Citrus are gross feeders so feed with every other watering, specialist feeds
are available, we also use a feed of Sequestered Iron early in the season to
get them going, and a handful of chicken manure pellets each too.
Never let your citrus sit in water, you will kill the roots, so avoid using
a water tray if at all possible, just let the excess water run through and
away.
Plenty of sun during the summer months, outside against a S. facing wall is
good, and somewhere very light and cool but not frosty during the winter is
all they ask.

--
Regards
Bob Hobden

Well, tell that to the one in our conservatory.

Of course, they need winter protection, and proper feeding, and do like a little summer holiday in the open, so if you don't have a greenhouse or conservatory, it is more difficult.

And of course those in garden centres with loads of fruit will often have been forced in controlled conditions, so they need a bit of time to regain strength when in the real world.

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Small Lemon trees with loads of those lovely lemons on............cos
that's
the first and last time you will see the things..............once they are
picked or dropped off they just will not grow back in the UK environment

Nonsense!

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from "Bob Hobden" contains these words:

Rubbish. We have two small Lemon Trees and get lots of full sized Lemons
every year such that we make Lemoncello or freeze the juice into ice cube
containers during a glut.
Similar situation with our Tahiti Lime (28 supermarket sized limes last
year). All our trees are in full bloom at this time.
What are you doing wrong?

Do your limes have pips? If so, the limes I grew from seed got
killed-off by frost - inside my (then) house, which sometimes had ice
forming on the inside walls...

Things are better in this house.

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Rusty
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