Thanks Hobby! I counted and there are about 14 like that one (and many smaller ones)...I think I have enough for a pie...Yipee!!!!

congrads!! It is alway so nice to get fruits off your own tree. Just don't forget to plant the seeds. It is easy to graft scion wood from your limequat tree to a limequat seadling. No rejection and you get a mature tree very quickly.

6b Steve

Steve, that is good to know for the others...the ones from this fruit are down the disposal...oops!

Awesome Laura...wouldn't it be great if you could mail us all a slice...yum!!!

Laura when I was researching yuzus and sudachi I think a while ago I read that the Japanese will bathe with the cut fruit. The citrus oils and juices that release in the warm water are supposed to be good for you and very spa like.

We container growers get so little fruit that it is so precious I actually plan to save my juiced halves to use in a soak. Is that crazy? You could do that once you have juiced yours for your pie. Maybe that's a super weird suggestion I don't know :).

No, not at all Hobby. It's a pretty good idea actually! Mary, I was thrilled. I'm like a kid with money counting it over and over. Lol. I check and see which ones are ready. I won't harvest them till I'm ready to bake. Hobby...will you freeze the halves?

I am definitely going to start saving them in the freezer either for a bath and also to stuff a roasted chicken with, I always stuff a huge herb bundle and some type of citrus when I roast a bird. It would be even better if I used my own citrus.

I always try and use the zest for the most part as well in my recipes but but who knows once we start getting fruit like Brian we will have tons for creative uses!!! You definitely get enough Meyers, limequats and maybe key limes don't you?

I will do that. I also bake chicken like that. Funny, I was recently talking to my husband (my oldest is in 10th grade) so the prospect of one leaving the nest is getting closer...I said, "you know, one day we are going to have a lot of ....lemons". He burst out laughing! One of my daughters has already said that someday (hopefully many years from now), she wants Alexander the Great!!

I also wanted to share this recipe I tried recently. It was amazing! My husband took the second one the recipe makes to an office potluck and it was the hit of the party.

I used my first Meyer lemon EVER Plus some lime juice but the Meyer zest really took it to the next level. I used roasted leftover squash I had grown rather than the shredded raw and it was amazing, you can't detect the squash at all but it keeps the cake super moist. I also added a bit of cream cheese to the glaze.

http://heatherchristo.com/2011/08/01/lemon-summer-squash-bread/

That's awesome I love that your family is so into the citrus as well! That would be very cute to pass Alex down. My husband is fairly patient but I am sure he doesn't get it. He must be used to my kooky hobbies by now though lol;).

Oh that looks incredible! I will get squash and make it. My Meyers are almost totally yellow.

My kids like the citrus...my husband will notice them when he's battling his way through the forest with his saxophone in hand...I'm sure there will be some colorful language ;-)

Wow keep us posted on your Meyers ripening!!! I love seeing ripe container fruit. Mine didn't get truly deep orange but I got impatient lol and wanted to try it. There are still 3 more ripening I will try and hang on until orange!

Can't wait to see our stuffed rooms! I am setting mine up this weekend, the trees will go in permanently mid week. Our rooms will be truly ridiculous but so fun to see too, oh the lengths we will go...!

FYI. Mine have never turned orange. Here's a pic from a couple of years ago...very yellow.

Yes! Stuffed is right!!

Those are still deeper yellow than mine was so gorgeous!!! Good to know though. I'm excited for your new batch!

Hi Laura. I am happy for you. Do you have any other trees that will provide ripe fruit soon?

Vladimir, the Meyer lemons are almost ready...maybe 20 of them. The limequats are at various stages of growth. There is a batch of maybe 12-14 that are basically ready to go, plus tons more little ones (50+, though some will drop). My Nagami kumquats are also growing quickly. I think one tree (the big one like yours) has about 60 of them, and the other tree has a bunch of little ones and has now decided to flower again...I wonder why? I suspect the first batch of kumquats will be ready in a few months. The calamondins still have a ways to go. I have some large ones, but most are tiny. No other lemons or key limes. I am anxiously awaiting for the Santa Teresa to bloom, but nothing yet.

Oh and I forgot the ponderosa lemons - 4 of them, but God knows how long those monsters will take to ripen...

Ohhhh, nice little fruit Laura! When you get more they will make a nice limequat pie! Can't wait to see pictures..

My ponderosa has 4 nice fruitlets and is just about to bloom again with another quadruple cluster... The flowers are huge, incredible! But the tree is too small for so many potential fruit, will thin down to one fruitlet soon.

Its amazing how these little trees can handle being loaded down with so much fruit!

Yes Hobby! I hope you get at least one!!

Hobby...I thought of another use for those squeezed limes/lemons...

Yes good one! I also love making real southern sweet tea (I even import the correct tea bags from the south and we often leave it unsweetened) and citrus is a must with it. I just can't bear to waste even the rinds when we have put so much into growing them.

Also I am so blown away by the vigor of the oils in our home grown fruit as compared to the store bought citrus which must have lost most of their potency since picking.