Gardening

underpants

(187,371 posts) Mon Aug 17, 2020, 02:36 PM Aug 2020

Is it too late to buy a lemon tree?

A Meyers to be specific.

I have it on my list for my wife but I just hadn’t gotten around to getting one.

Looks like the “season” is later winter - early summer. Did I wait too late?

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Is it too late to buy a lemon tree? (Original Post) underpants Aug 2020 OP

to put in the ground or in a planter? Kali Aug 2020 #1

Planter. Probably inside the house. underpants Aug 2020 #2

I'm sure they can order something for you Kali Aug 2020 #3

I accidentally found a cure for scale on citrus freepotter Aug 2020 #5

oooo! they have a key lime - get that Kali Aug 2020 #4

Kali

(55,876 posts)

1. to put in the ground or in a planter?

Reply to underpants (Original post)

Mon Aug 17, 2020, 02:52 PM

Aug 2020

potted citrus is fine to buy any time, planting in the ground is best in early spring

underpants

(187,371 posts)

2. Planter. Probably inside the house.

Reply to Kali (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 17, 2020, 03:00 PM

Aug 2020

Lots of sun from the back of the house.

We have a local place that I want to buy from. They aren’t open today and I don’t see a lemon tree on their available items list.

https://www.lavenderfieldsfarm.com/

Kali

(55,876 posts)

3. I'm sure they can order something for you

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 17, 2020, 03:09 PM

Aug 2020

citrus does pretty well inside in the winter and when it blooms inside...heaven! watch drainage, no sitting in water but water regularly. they can also get spider mites and scale bugs. insecticidal soap and physically removing scale will take care of them. tends to resolve if taken outside once weather is good.

freepotter

(391 posts)

5. I accidentally found a cure for scale on citrus

Reply to Kali (Reply #3)

Mon Aug 17, 2020, 05:25 PM

Aug 2020

I have a lime that is about 25 years old that I move into our sunroom each winter in Oklahoma. One year it had ants and scale, I had a terrible time all summer trying to keep the scale and ants at bay, so I put a Terro ant trap in the pot to at least get rid of the ants. Voila!! No ants and no scale. The next spring I put the ant traps outside with the tree, and have continued to do so every year. Scale and ants have never come back. Also works on Meyer lemons and oranges.

Kali

(55,876 posts)

4. oooo! they have a key lime - get that

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Mon Aug 17, 2020, 03:11 PM

Aug 2020

they can be hard to find, I finally got one two years ago. so fun to make a mojito with that and my homegrown mint.

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