But.....it is also loaded with ripe lemons. I don't know if this is normal or if it has something to do with the weather. So I'm making this notation on the blog so that I can check the trees next winter to see if this is what normally happens.
The flowers are on last year's growth, that means, on the ends of the branches. The lemons are closer to the truck on the two year old growth. So fruits and flowers don't grow side by side.
By the way, most of my citrus is in semi shade areas, but these particular lemon trees are in full shade and still producing in spite of that. Perhaps not producing nearly as much as a tree getting lots of sun, but producing lemons none the less. So it's a food crop that I can use to utilizing my shade areas.
Lemons ae wonderful - yes, they bloom, set fruit, and hold fruit on the tree at variable stages of ripeness, even shedding unpicked dried up fruit if not tended. And yes, they aren't as fussy about direct sun.
ReplyDeleteTheir smooth bark allows you to shield them from ants by applying Tree Tanglefoot in a band over a snug layer of Press 'N Seal plastic, so that the ants can't bring in a "herd" of aphids that they "milk" for their excreta.
And the perfume of lemon blossoms is sublime - lean in close!
I went out and checked on the flower smell. You right! It's great!
DeleteYou get to grow lemons outdoors! How lovely. I know my potted Meyers lemon will produce flowers all year long, even with fruit already in progress (assuming it's happy, of course, which I don't think it is at present since it's currently residing on my unheated back porch.)
ReplyDeleteI used to plant orange seeds in pot when I lived back in NJ, but they never amounted to much. Now I find it amazing to be growing all my own citrus right in my own yard!
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