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4 years ago

Can I develop lemons to handle northereastern kentucky winters

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  • 4 years ago

     Ponicirusguy

  • 4 years ago

    I am hoping you can.

  • 4 years ago

    Only because my sister won't let me.

  • 4 years ago

    What happens if I get  the lemon tree to produce the first year after the first of planting from seed

  • 4 years ago

    It will take 10 years for a seed grown lemon tree to flower and fruit.


  • 4 years ago

     Can sometimes  they get  producing fruit  at one year from be grown seeds

  • 4 years ago

     I need to get out of here

  • 4 years ago

    You do not have the equipment needed for accelerated growth. I do for 1 year and I get 3 years worth of growth in that 1 year. I would need to get 9 years in 3 years do get fruit in little over 3 years. You need to get out of there.

    Steve

  • 4 years ago

    My grandma  keissling   grew a citrus tree from seed in a year and it flowerd  and fruit ed in  with out acellaerated growth equipment and got small fruit because she kept it in a small  pot   it never got very big

  • 4 years ago

    There are a few citrus varieties that can but not lemons.

  • 4 years ago

    For 6b you'd have to backcross a Citremon (Meyer x poncirus or some such plant) to Poncirus and plant those seeds...


    Another way you would start off with thousands of citremon seeds, dunno where you'd get those, and do a mass planting outdoors... after winter look for very hardy survivor out of the mass casualties. Fruit would have to ripen early in your zone too, you'd be waiting many years to see what the fruit is like.


    Based on your past posts it's not very feasible if you're growing 1 seed in a pot at a time.


    Good luck 🤞

  • 4 years ago

    A forest of citrons and an incredibly large amount of good luck.

  • 4 years ago

     This is what  Victor a is saying  not that I want to grow a thousand citrimons at a time

  • 4 years ago

    So just grow a normal Lisbon lemon and bring it inside for the winter like everybody else who grows lemons in the north.

  • 4 years ago

    But I'm not everyone else I'm me  and I want some thing to take the cold out side here in northeastern kentucky

  • 4 years ago

    The closest we have in edible citrus that can grow in 6b is the Changsha orange. It ripens before first frost. Its limited to 5F at coldest.

    Steve

  • 4 years ago

     But that' s not lemons

  • 4 years ago

     Like I said that is not  lemons

  • 4 years ago

    Aspirations for the impossible. Good luck.

  • 4 years ago

     Is it lmposable  never  really been developed secsessfuly  but I will try  to do it with true lemons

  • 4 years ago

    Howard! You can learn to like oranges. How long is your growing season. That can be measured from when your catalpa trees and trees of heaven come out to when the first frost comes in fall.

  • 4 years ago

     I won't settle for oranges  for they are way too sweet for me even grapefruit is too sweet for me

  • 4 years ago

    Bergamot Sour Orange Tree These oranges should chew your lips off.

  • 4 years ago

    They  not lemons

  • 4 years ago

    My growing season is from March to October

  • 4 years ago

    U are wanting me to settle for oranges not lemons but that  not going to happen and my growing season is from March to October

  • 4 years ago

     Ponicirusguy6b452xxx

     My growing season is from March to  October  and me settling for oranges not going to happen with  me for they are not true lemons and some lemons are too sweet for me like meyer lemons  Wich ruins  lemonade for me

  • 4 years ago

    Even some limes are too sweet for me




    Howard

  • 4 years ago

    I'm sorry Martin. I trialed two different Ichang papeda plants in zone 8, the Pacific Northwest, they seemed to be surviving but this winter they were killed down to almost the base. The Sudachi did survive, but it was bent down and insulated under the weight of the snow. It did keep some of its leaves but looks scruffy and not the best.

  • 4 years ago

    I thought you said before I chang plants would handle my climate apparently you were wrong but right now I'm not growing any thing but I will be again growing lemons in kentucky near frankfort kentucky  same planting zone

  • 4 years ago

    Ponicrusguy6b452xx

    Bergamot sour orange trees are not lemons and  won't settle for less not even  meyer lemons but true lemons is only what I will settle for

  • 4 years ago
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    What is wrong with buying lemons at the store and growing something that grow in your area.

  • 4 years ago

    See  I want to grow  lemons and keep my trees outside for the winter

     Becau they will do better outside