Description
You’ll love this variety specifically because it’s fruit is some of the most delicious��it is the variety of lemon chefs tend to prefer, because its sweeter than classic grocery store lemons, with a slight hint of tangerine. The nice, healthy roots in either of our two sizes��a 2″ and a 2 qt. pot��will be all set for a great performance in your home or on your porch. In either size, it’ll take a few seasons before it starts producing fruit, but its shiny leaves are pretty from the word go. Once the fruit gets going, it becomes incredibly prolific, and will eventually give you lemons year-round. It grows slowly, which is a good trait for growing indoors, because you’ll be able to manage it easily. Just be sure, if you’re pruning, not to prune more than a third of the tree in a single year. This citrus tree is only winter hardy in zones 9-11, so it’ll need to be indoors at least in the cold months in most climates. If you keep it indoors all through the year, you’ll have to play bumblebee and pollinate the blooms. Take a paintbrush and brush the pollen grains onto the stigma (the sticky part on the lemon bloom).
- “Each offer includes one tropical citrus plant grown in a 6 inch pot”
- “For best results
- grow in well-drained
- sandy loam soil”
- “Reaches standard mature height of 4 to 6 feet”
- “Botanical name: Citrus improved Meyer”
- “When grown indoors
- its fruit can take up to a year to ripen.”
