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Is a New Zealand lemonade tree worth getting?

10 years ago

The fruit has been described on the Internet as tasting like lemonade. Does it taste good? Is it worthwhile getting? Will it do well in a container grown in the north (zone 6a)?

Comments (19)

  • 10 years ago

    Vladimir Ilive in zone 6 so i hope it grows well here.

  • 10 years ago

    Steve, does it taste any good?

  • 10 years ago

    I have not gotten any fruit yet. My thoughts are I can't buy them in any store so I might as well grow them. I can buy any orange grapefruit, lemon or lime so why grow them. I am also growing Meiwa kumquats because they taste good and can't be bought.

  • 10 years ago

    I desperately want one of these. I called Four winds about a week ago and they said they did not know when they'd have more. Vladimir, we will have to wait....

  • 10 years ago
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    Wonder when Four Winds willrenew their stock , they barely have anything available and no 3yr plants at all . Mar - May I expected them to be busy with their retail nurseries but its June and still no inventory online

  • 10 years ago
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    I'm starting to think they don't graft their own trees.

    copy paste of email reply from them about Valentine pomelo

    We are hoping to get more in September but aren't quite sure. Yes, we will only carry them in 1 year.

  • 10 years ago

    Yeah, I wonder Pip. The girl I spoke to had no idea when they'd have some...total 180 from the knowledgeable lady I spoke to at Harris recently. Too bad they don't carry it.

  • 10 years ago

    Water is so expensive there that they can only afford to get trees from a mass grafter and grow them agresively for a half year to be sold as 1 year olds.

  • 10 years ago

    But California is quarantined, the supplier doesn't exactly have cheaper water.

  • 10 years ago

    Pip Did the twigs get there yet. My tracking number states it is still in Cincinnati doe to arrive last Wednesday. Could you post the last 2 numbers of your street address as well as your zip so I can see if I had the wright address.

  • 10 years ago

    I'm pretty sure they graft their own trees, but I think they don't do it year round. They grow on a yearly crop schedule so if they're out this year you will probably have to wait until next year.

    They grow the grafts inside in a greenhouse and then transfer them outside to screened-in shade houses. I believe they have at least 3 growing grounds far away from each other. And they're developing another larger, state-of-the-art facility in a very sparsely populated part of the state, mostly in response to HLB. They take that threat very seriously.

    Unfortunately for mail order customers, they supply most of the state's retail stores and that's the bigger part of their business and so probably takes precedence.

  • 10 years ago

    59 48084 but my mail is forwarded from the last address and it's the same apartment complex so the mail lady brings it to the new one if it not forwarded for some reason.


    it did not come, I'm sure it got lost in the mail. Unfortunately

  • 10 years ago

    I take it your move put you in a fine apartment with a full bank of south facing windows.

  • 10 years ago
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    Only reason I moved. Same complex just south facing with a patio. Same price but smaller. Worth it though.

  • 10 years ago

    Did you say (Same complex just south facing with a patio) YEAAAAAA!!!

  • 6 years ago

    Generation growers has it.

  • 6 years ago

    I have harvested 41 NZL and they were very good

  • 6 years ago

    Flowering and setting fruit. At least 20 so far.

    In ground for 3 years. C35 rootstock.


    New Zealand lemonade on Seville sour orange.


    I guess so. I have 3 of them now.

    Steve