Congratulations, Steve,. How big is that tree? What are the fruit like?

Nice tree Steve! Don't those fruits get huge?

Those are awesome Steve!! There's so many, you must be doing something right. Good job!

I have 2 Cuban Shaddocks. the one pictured above consist mainly of water sprouts that shot up 4 to 5 feet high and put on a few side branches. when the fruit started growing the limbs sagged to a spreading 6 feet diameter. The fruits will get up tp 8 inches in diameter and take 9- 12 months to mature.

My in ground Cuban has an 8 foot water sprout and others not that long It is putting on growth now like it did last fall into winter. Once the tree went in the ground it just shot up and has no flower. I will not be able to protect a tree of this size so I will either cut it back or let it grow until it is killed. I am guessing it will reach 12-14 feet before killing freezes.

My tree is in pure compost from leaves collected every fall. no perlite, no pine bark, or potting soil. When weather comes I will let the tree dry out some and it will weigh less than 60 pounds and I'll move it inside.

I feed it 24-8-16 Miracle Gro with micros and I add 28-0-4 lawn feed. I feed with every watering. Because of the tree's size I could not put it on my roof so it only gets 6-4 hours of sun with the hours approaching four as the days shorten. Inside the tree will sit under my basemet light on a bucket that I can use to draw air thout the trees roots with. I do this with all my indoor trees. This way nI can feed them as if it is summer with no risk of root rot. All my trees have alway put on at least 2/3 of their growth in the fall through winter months. I don't know why.

This is the light and wind maker that can make the tree dance on high speed.

6b Steve Cincinnati, Oh

Nice setup Steve!!

Steve, that tree is a real beauty! ! :) I like your setup!! Good job!

What Vladimir said !

I have only gotten 1 fruit off that tree and it was about a month too so and it was green. It was not as sour as a store lemon but closer to a store Meyer lemon. It had a hint of sweet but was too sour to eat out of hand.

The ceiling fan and light setup was already in place, It just happened to be the only place I could put the lemon tree for light. The tree will go under the same light this year but I will put reflector up and use 13 watt CFL's instead of 23 watt'ers

I have a 10 bulb ceiling fan/light that I had planed to put my tree in but my wife put her foot down.

Five unripe fruits disappear so I pick one at about 1/4 ripe.

About the size of an orange with the inside about 1.5 times as big as a kumquat. Very hard to peal. It was just a touch sweet and had half the sour of a Meyer lemon. It was good enough to eat out of hand. It had about 50 seeds in the center creases of the sections. This tree was not worth growing as a container tree where it gets to cold plant in ground. I will let both of my Cuban Shaddocks die this winter and that will leave me with a Meiwa, + 2 Fukushu Kumquats and 2 New Zealand lemonade trees. That is the most citrus trees I can handle and still do the trees justice.

6b Steve