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Lemon

Shadowchilli

Shadowchilli

I have recently obtained some lemon seeds and was told to grow them.
I have never tried to grow any type of citrus from seed and have no idea what i am doing...

Any help would be great,
Cheers,
Shadow.
 
since you already have the seeds no need to let them dry, just put them in soil, water and walk away, returning only when the soil needs to be moistened.

here's a pic of my apple and orange trees. apple on the left, orange on the right. i have feed them with seaweed tea and they are 1 year old. the orange is a little yellow as they sit outside under my tomato plants, i am in a zone 3a, not really meant for oranges at all and last night was 7C.(i should really bring the orange in at night)

good growing.

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Citrus grown from seed takes 5 years to produce fruit and thats if your lucky. some people graft new seedlings onto older trees, I have seen oranges and limes on the same tree before and heard of 3 different fruits on the same tree. I buried oranges at my last house, there where 4 new trees growing when we moved I shoulda dug em up and brought em with us but we where right in the middle of a canker scare here.

GL =)
 
Burning Colon said:
since you already have the seeds no need to let them dry, just put them in soil, water and walk away, returning only when the soil needs to be moistened.

here's a pic of my apple and orange trees.
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Apple from seed? Looking for your own special cultivar? Apples are heterozygotes - DNA can change wildly in its seeds.
 
yeah, use fresh seeds. last year we had some honey mandarins that i loooved and dried and bagged a few hundred seeds. havent got a single one to germinate. ive read its because i dried them.

best of luck
 
Apple from seed? Looking for your own special cultivar? Apples are heterozygotes - DNA can change wildly in its seeds
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i have kids and i was showing them how to plant seeds, 3 apples sprouted but 2 have since died by hail damage. i don't even remember what variety they were.

but my ultimate goal was to do as prehensile mentions and that was to grow the apple large enough to then graft some branches onto already established crab apple trees. crab apple is plentiful here. the problem is i spend virtually zero time on the trees as you can tell by the small containers i have left them in.

i have zero expectation for the orange tree and am aware that virtually all production trees come from grafts. i wonder if the same holds true for lemon trees?

i do have some cherry seeds in my beer fridge that i plan on planting in jan.
 
lemon seeds doesn't store well. you should plant them as soon as you clean the seed. never let it go dry for very long. same goes with other tropical fruit seed , i guess.
 
Thanks for all the info guys :)
I have popped a few into some jiffys to try and get them going, will keep you all updated on progress
 
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