Once your other trees start producing you won't miss the space your sweet lime takes. anyway you can squeeze a key lime to add some tart and add sugar to add sweetness.

Thanks Steve, LOL! It's a sad commentary on the Palestine Sweet Lime if one has to add key lime juice and sugar to it to enjoy its juice! Interestingly, the sweet lime has a bitter undertone since it doesn't have the tartness. I guess it's residue from the pith.

John How do you make real lemon/lime aide. Some juce and a lot of water. If you use the juice from your sweet limes your drink will be a lot more nutritious and won't have the chlorine/fluorine that tap water has. You cant go wrong.

6b Steve

I have that juicer and it works great. I don't have an idea for the limes as I've never had one. I hope you fine a use for them!

Steve, you are right, if the sweet lime doesn't give the lemonade an off flavor, it would give you a vitamin boost using the juice in lemonade. Looks like I'll have plenty of fruit to give that a try.

I haven't used that juicer so thanks for the recommendation. This is my favorite juicer...several pulp settings, good power, forward and reverse and a spin cycle to help get all the juice...about $30 and I have given mine a real workout.

Seems a shame to lose such a nice mature citrus, but on the other hand, it's a waste if you don't enjoy or can't use the fruit at all. If I had your space, and lived in your climate, I'd sure see what citrus varieties are best adapted to my area, and then grow a nice selection that I truly enjoy and which come into maturation at different times of the year, so that I can enjoy citrus nearly year-round. Life is too short to grow a tasteless variety.

Since I enjoy the challenge of grafting, I would be tempted to graft multiple varieties onto one tree. But it looks like you have adequate room for a lot of separate trees.

I used to have a Palestine Sweet Lime. I agree with John the variety has no taste. There are so many outstanding varieties to grow in its place, why spend your time with a variety that is tasteless.

Thanks for everyone's comments. I think I will play around with Steve's recommendation to try using the juice as a replacement for water in lemonade. I like that idea for increasing the nutrition but I think I could do the same with a new Satsuma planted in the same place. There is just nothing like fresh juiced Satsuma oranges! I think I'll also play around with chip budding. I do hate to take out a good size citrus after investing the time to get it here but it will probably get taken out and replaced, or I'll have one less tree to trim around. Johnmerr, can you recommend a good brand axe if I decide to prop one up out there? :>)

John can you share palestine sweet limes cuttings if you have.Thanks

If you are interested to sell your sweet lime harvest , contact me. They are not tart, generally are mildly sweet, aromatic and taste delicious to many, are considered delicacy and hard to find and buy.

Because you have a poor taste for good fruit , does not mean sweet limes are no good, they worth much more than regular lime.

I agree that the flavor is indeed insipid. I suppose that I, too, "have a poor taste for good fruit", according to HU.

I ultimately decided to remove the tree. I'm focusing time and fertilizer on other fruit I enjoy. I hated to take it out but it just wasn't "my" citrus.

Ya know, now that I think about it, that blood orange tree just to the right of the lime started blooming the very year the lime went to the burn pile! :>P