Awesome pictures!! Great details, mind if I ask what type of camera that is?

Thanks for those beautiful pics, your Meyer lemon sure looks happy!! I am battling leaf miner here in Florida. They are all over my neighborhood so I can never really get rid of them. Just treat them, *sigh*.

Beautiful!

Those pictures are FAN-TAS-TIC!! I wish you luck with your Meyer. My Meyer has 6 lemons a bit larger than golf balls. I can't wait for them to get ripe! My seedless lime looks great but has no flowers and no limes.

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Dancinglemons, just to let you know, I think if my memory serves, it took appx. 6-7 months from the time they were golf size to ready to pick stage? It was worth the wait though, they were excellent. Right now I am not letting it fruit, since I am battling leaftminer. I had to treat it with a systemic to rid of it. Now the leaves are healthy again, I will wait a year and let it fruit. This was taken before the leafminer disaster. Enjoy yours...

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lookin' good! The fruit that starts on my little tree in the early summer is usually ready to pick by Christmas or Easter. Let me tell you, there is nothing like making a glass of lemonade, in the middle of winter, from a fruit you watched grow and just picked off the tree!

Thanks everyone. I really can't wait to use the lemons.

pugluvr1 - It is a 3.0 megapixel Digital Fuji S5000 i've had since about 2002. I just broke 10,000 pics with the camera and I've been really happy with it.. The colors are always exact. If you want to know anything else let me know. Is that a lemongrass in ur pic?

Thanks for the camera info, Mastro. It sure takes nice pictures!!

I have no idea what that plant is, it was here when we bought our house 2 years ago. But here is a pic of the blooms, maybe you recognize it? The flowers are white with lavender.

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Those flowers look like some sort of Iris, or a relative of Iris.

As for leaf miners, I have a problem also, but I just ignore them. Others have said they just cause an appearance problem, but do not really hurt the tree. I usually have a good early growth flush, but the leaf miners show up with the second growth flush. I sure don't want to take off all of the fruits on my trees for a cosmetic problem.

Tolumnia, Thanks for the ID on my other plant...Like I said the plants were here when we bought the house, and I had no idea what it was.

Since my lemon tree is very small, I am only growing it more of a tropical plant anyways. I actually have three neighbors that give me all the lemon I can consume all year. I freeze the rest so I can have it any time I need it. So for me, getting my small plant to look healthy is my top priority. It looked so bad 90-95% of the leaves were infected that is why I treated it with Bayer. When I decide that I need the fruits, then I will wait one full year after application and just let the leafminers do their thing. I love the blooms so I let it bloom and remove the fruits when they set.

Thanks again

look up these names
Dietes iridioides
Common Names: African iris, fortnight lily, morea iris