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To: rightly_dividing

Lemons take forever to ripen and turn from green to yellow. Most lemons you buy are picked and shipped while still green.

I’d say just keep on watering and feeding. I keep my lemon tree kinda root bound, and trim it back periodically so that it will continue to fit in the space that I have to grow it. I was thinking that maybe it thinks it’s dying and is desperate to reproduce.

Otherwise, there is no reason for it to bloom so prolifically. LOL


40 posted on 11/01/2013 2:07:44 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: greeneyes

Your lemon is in a container? Mine is too. Actually, I have two in containers, the other had a bunch of flowers that budded into little tiny fruit, then all dropped off the plant about 5 months ago.


45 posted on 11/01/2013 2:14:26 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (Phil. 4:13)
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To: greeneyes
greeneyes :"I keep my lemon tree kinda root bound, and trim it back periodically so that it will continue to fit in the space that I have to grow it.
I was thinking that maybe it thinks it’s dying and is desperate to reproduce.
Otherwise, there is no reason for it to bloom so prolifically. LOL"

A friend of mine in Ohio has a Wysteria tree for 20 years, and it never flowered , and she couldn't figure out why it never flowered.
I told her that the plant was 'too complacent', and had no stress.
I told her to hit it with a bat, or a 2 X 4 board, about seven or eight times ; that year it flowered profusely for the first time .
Sometimes a little stress is needed to motivate plants to flower ,set fruit , and set seed to reproduce .

47 posted on 11/01/2013 2:23:46 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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