Fantastic! My Meyer is just now beginning to open its blooms.

Josh

I am totally jealous!!! We are quite a bit north of you (Napa Valley) and ours has enough fruit almost ripe enough for a huge pitcher of lemonade, but no new growth... hoping to see a burst of energy now that the days are warming up here. I can hardly wait for the new blooms to start. The fragrance perfumes the entire patio and living room! I'm totally stealing your fertilizer regimen! ;)

Cathy, I'm up above Sacramento in the foothills, and my Meyer is blooming like crazy. I think your fruit is ripe by now, maybe even a little beyond ripe if the rind is becoming golden orange. If you harvest that fruit, and apply fertilizer, I bet you'll see new growth erupt within two weeks.

Josh

Thanks Josh. Not close to orange. I just picked 2 but the others still have some green on them. I did get the citrus fertilizer a few weeks ago but hadn't applied it yet. Doing that today. Hoping to see the results you predicted! Thanks!

Growing citrus in CA is new for us. We are recent transplants from Massachusetts where we successfully winter-over a Meyer lemon and a honey fig. We still own the house... we aren't missing the snow we are but really miss our garden! In addition to a full half acre of garden, we have an extensive container garden there that is a fabulous kitchen garden, ;)

Until we sell that home we are living in a lovely apt. with a patio, recreating our kitchen garden here. How early do you plant basil where you are?