Scripto, you cannot take out untreated and un-inspected citrus products from the state of Florida across state lines. This is VERY ILLEGAL. Please do not do this. Florida is battling a very serious citrus disease - Huonglongbing (Citrus Greening) which is fatal to citrus and has no cure as of yet. You could be inadvertently spreading the disease.

Patty S.

Hoosier is right. I bought three different citrus trees over the internet and have had one of them for amost three years. All are blooming and fruiting. They do not like potting soil and zip lock bags. When you get home, order one over the net. The cuttings will probably not take anyway.

I will definitely take that advice. I had no clue that it was not not permitted. Any recommendations on an online source for these?

Any advise on how to root citrus trees from clippings in future, when local obviously?

This post was edited by scripto on Mon, Jul 8, 13 at 17:31

I bought my new Meyer lemon from meyerlemon.com. I purchased a two to three year old. It is now outside and starting to bloom.

I purchased my Key Lime tree (topiary) from a company that re-directed the sale through Amazon.com. The tree is stunning, again two to three years old. All of my citrus lives out of doors during the summer and does not go back in the house until the temps. really drop. These are not inexpensive trees, but I've been enjoying my Meyer lemons (I have two meyers one is five years old) for over a year now and once you have a Meyer, its pretty hard to have a regular super sour supermarket lemon!

Oops left out, click on Citrus forum. They will answer all of your questions, they did mine.

Site shows Under Construction?

The citrus forum is up and fine.

I was referring to meyerlemon.com.

google it, it might have changed

Lemons are among the easiest citrus to grow from cuttings. Although Meyer lemon is not 100% lemon, it too should be fairly easy from cuttings provided you start out with healthy hydrated cuttings (yours look dehydrated).

Make sure to remove all but last two or three leaves to slow down dessication of the cutting. You could even cut the remaining leaves in half to reduce transpiration.

Use about 6" cuttings and apply rooting hormone. Best time to start cuttings is early summer.

Insert cuttings into about 3" of perlite/potting soil mixture in a large clear plastic storage container. Keep the environment very humid and warm. I place my box under the edge of a large shrub where it gets just a bit of sun. Temp inside box should not exceed much over 95 degrees.

Or, just buy an Improved Meyer Lemon mail order! A lot less work!