Lemon problem - Page 1
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author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2025, 12:10:36 pm
content: The year was two thousand and twenty four...December. Bought four lemons. Made lemon tea. Planted the lemon seeds. No idea why. Waited for them to sprout. The internet said five days. They didn't sprout. Meanwhile made more tea. Added more seeds. Same pot. Ten days, still nothing. Ran out of lemons.Two weeks later, still nothing and forgot about them.Then two days ago, sudden lemon sprouts invasion.The seeds were planted in batches along ten days or so.Probably twenty more seeds will sprout in the next days!Lemon trees can't grow outdoors here. Now what?!Can I has EE project with lemon idea?

author: tom66
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timestamp: January 10, 2025, 12:13:23 pm
content: In my limited botanical experience in the UK growing stuff in our garden, the plant may grow but the temperature will be too low to make good fruit. So maybe in a greenhouse you will get lemons, but in Romanian winter, you will get small wrinkled yellow seed-things. Although apparently they grow in southern Italy so maybe it will be OK with smaller fruit?

author: AVGresponding
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timestamp: January 10, 2025, 12:13:28 pm
content: It's a "Grow your own battery" project...

author: themadhippy
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timestamp: January 10, 2025, 12:49:53 pm
content: Ya should have quit you a long time ago,Ooh-whoa, yeah, yeah, long time ago.

author: Kleinstein
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2025, 01:18:59 pm
content: The lemons can't tolerate really low temperatures. So they need a warm place in the winter, inside. The summer would be OK outdoors.I have a small lemon "tree" (usually < 1 m) in a pot, that lives outside in the summer half and inside in the cold. Even in the not so sunny norhern Germany the few fruits are still useful. Not much juice, but very flavorable peel.How much and which grade fruits the plants would yield depends on the variety. Not Lemons are the same and the seads may be diffent from the mother plant. So there can be a surprize in plants from seeds.

author: Haenk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2025, 01:46:41 pm
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on January 10, 2025, 12:10:36 pmHow about a lemon juice battery? Worked for me like 40 years agoOr this:

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2025, 05:00:31 pm
content: Gold answers.Burst into laughter repeatedly, thank you all.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2025, 07:44:52 pm
content: Consider making them into bonsai. Of course, they'll have to live indoors, which is against the grain for bonsai. But you'll be able to grow some miniature citrus trees, which could be pretty damn kewl.

author: BILLPOD
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2025, 08:22:41 pm
content: Peter, Paul and Mary sang about your seedlings:https://youtu.be/MLhYghzNfII

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2025, 01:22:52 pm
content: Lemon trees can take many years, even decades to produce fruit from seeds. Trees may be fruitless or not true to type if raised from seed so you can't even guarantee at the end it's not been a complete waste of time.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2025, 01:39:41 pm
content: Quote from: Shock on January 13, 2025, 01:22:52 pmI think lemon trees don't self seed, so you need at least 2 which flower at a similar time to get any fruit.

author: krish2487
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timestamp: January 13, 2025, 01:56:15 pm
content: When life gives you lemons...something something....

author: tszaboo
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timestamp: January 13, 2025, 02:11:33 pm
content: My mother grew a lemon tree in the same climate. It's in a (large) flower pot. It spends the winter indoors.I'm not kidding the lemons it grows are gigantic, 1KG heavy. The tree is only like 1.5m tall.

author: coppice
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2025, 02:14:10 pm
content: Quote from: krish2487 on January 13, 2025, 01:56:15 pmThere's no such thing as a free lemon.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2025, 02:34:38 pm
content: When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!~ Cave Johnson, Portal 2.

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2025, 02:43:13 pm
content: Maybe eat the sprouts? Have you seen the price of sprouts in the organic produce section? I used to shove radish sprouts in my sandwiches for a bit of a zesty crunch, but now it's like a luxury item.

author: Kleinstein
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2025, 02:51:57 pm
content: Quote from: coppice on January 13, 2025, 01:39:41 pmAt least some lemon trees get fruits even if there is no 2nd tree around. One may not get any seeds inside the fruits however, but who needs these.

author: pardo-bsso
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timestamp: January 13, 2025, 04:36:52 pm
content: Congratulations!I had something similar happen to me with avocados after a couple of months .

author: themadhippy
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timestamp: January 13, 2025, 05:50:59 pm
content: Quotebuy gin

author: schmitt trigger
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timestamp: January 13, 2025, 07:38:34 pm
content: Are we talking about the green or yellow-green citrus?In Mexico we call the green ones limón and the yellow one lima. In the US they call it backwards.Anyway, I had a tree of the green one. It took four years to give a few fruits. But by the summer of the sixth year, it was producing ten to fifteen limones per day.Definitely it doesn’t like cold weather. We had an unusual cold winter where the temperature dropped to minus four or five Celsius for two or three days, and the tree died.A bonus with these trees is that their branches are full of heavy thorns, and thus small birds like hummingbirds would nest there, feeling protected from predators.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 13, 2025, 07:58:12 pm
content: Quote from: Shock on January 13, 2025, 01:22:52 pmGrowing a tree--any tree, regardless of whether it bears fruit or not--is never a complete waste of time. After all, you now have ... a tree. Possibly a flowering one. (Citrus blossoms aresofragrant.)

author: Shock
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2025, 02:15:16 am
content: Both avocados and mangos are not true to type either and will not produce the same variety fruit from seed. They are mostly produced by hybrids so you will need to buy or take a cutting from that variety if you want a more predictable outcome.As Analog Kid mentioned, you can grow trees for flowers and random fruit for animals/insects. You want space for this though and consider where they are planted. Avoid near the driveway as leaves and rotting fruit can be unpleasant.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 14, 2025, 04:21:07 am
content: Orangewood sticks were once the go to thing for prodding around in circuitry. Partly because orange wood is hard and strong and nonconductive, but probably mostly because many, many orchards in Southern California (once an electronics hotbed) were being razed and someone came up with a clever idea for how to put the wood to use.So you are just a few decades away from having your own source of one of the tools in your toolbox.