It would work for a while!

I agree that Meyer lemons are a pain to grow. Very temperamental. How about a bay laurel? They don't mind being pot bound and it's nice to have fresh bay for cooking.

I'd consider something like pineapple guava, Acca sellowiana (formerly Feijoa). An attractive evergreen shrub, it has very appealing, fragrant spring flowers and forms a delicious, edible fruit. Extremely adaptable to container growing.

Actually, in CA Meyer lemons are sort of a dime a dozen...seems like every older landscape has one! They seem to do fine in containers.

Grow something you can't buy the fruit anywhere or at a good price.

Steve

Meyers are only a problem in pots when they have to come indoors. Outdoors 365 days a year, they should thrive. Grow a Meyer if you like them. I'd probably prefer a variegated Eureka. Meyers can bear year-round. So many other varieties though. But some bear more in a season.

@poncirusguy6b452xx I've never eaten a kumquat and I can't buy them around here. Are they tasty? Isn't Meiwa considered to have the best flavor?

It is a good pot.

Kumquats are excellent in gin and tonics. Mine isn't the tastiest variety, but it's pretty and smells nice.

What about a makrut lime? Useful, attractive, and weird!

Prickly pear?

That container is on the small side for a tree, for me. Sure, many people can grow a tree in it just fine, but I know I'd kill it quickly and if I didn't, it would blow over in the first good wind. :)

I would go with a kumquat or I think a better choice is a Calamondin (bigger fruit). I have Changshou/Fukushu kumquat growing in a 5 gallon bucket and its been in there for at least 5 years and gives fruit yearly. Too bad they are so hard to find these days. Use to be able to buy Changshou and Meiwa kumquat at the big box stores in So Cal easily. Now you're lucky if you can even find Nagami.

Also you may consider some Eugenias like E. luschnathiana and Barbados cherry (Malpighia emarginata).

get a kishu :)

I grow several different fruits/berries/grapes in containers including Avocados. That is way to small for an avocados including a Wurtz ( little cado). Blueberry would also work in that container. Kishu is a very productive tree even when its small.

And as another poster said a Bay Laurel would work I have 2 different varieties in similar sized containers that are in Root Makers Pots

I'd get a kumquat. They're fun...if you like kumquats, anyway. But a bay laurel would be nice, too.

Grow what you like to eat. I would prefer a Kishu mandarin over a Meyer, but that's me!

That container looks heavy, which is good if you have winds, but eventually if you are growing a tree, you'll have to replant it into something larger, unless you are planning to keep it pruned back regularly.

Myers are super easy to grow in southern California and do well in the ground. That pot looks a bit narrow, but a kumquat might grow there for a while. Plants roots spread out more horizontally than vertically, so a tall narrow pot is not as good as a lower wider pot of the same volume.

@poncirusguy6b452xx About how large should the 10 drainage holes be? Thanks.

I have been drilling n1/4 inch hole about 50 per square foot.

Steve

A quarter's more than sufficient! It's a great size and one you'll often find in a pot. An eighth would be OK, anything smaller may clog. I wouldn't go too much larger, but you can go to half an inch in large pots.

Most pots have four, six, eight in an 18" diameter pot, but if you want fifty per square foot, nobody's going to call you out.