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    This year I want to try growing citrus trees from seed collected by buying the fruit in Tesco/Sainsbury I plan to grow limes what's the best way to go about this after collecting the seeds

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    In the past I've grown lemon plants from seed. All I did was plant them in pots of compost and kept them warm and they grew. Never got to tree size though!
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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    • #3
      Best way, stick them in fridge overnight, then craack the outer shell, then place in wet paper towel in a plastic bag at 25 to 30C and leave till theey start to germinate, then plant in very free draining compost, they will grow fine, but only use tiny pots, like 2 inch and go up a bit at a time like to a 3 inch then a 4 inch etc

      But....

      Limes....mostly dont have seeds and when they do are different from the parent tree
      Lemons do and grow true to type mostly
      a lot of citrus are true to type but a lot are different, lemons mostly the same as parent tree

      you need to not prune the if you want fruit, they keep a leaf node count and hve to get a certain number before they flower....about 5 to 10 years, cut the and it delays it...you can cut once they flower, but a 14 foot tree is not easy to keep warm in the winter as will not live outdoors
      Last edited by starloc; 03-02-2016, 04:37 PM.
      Living off grid and growing my own food in Bulgaria.....

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      • #4
        They tend to be fairly easy to grow but fruiting is a different matter, can take several years, 20+ is not unusual.

        Lemons and grapefruit are easy, company I was at years ago had grapefruit in their entrance that someone had grown from seed. It got big, they left and it was decided to keep it. So it was moved to the waiting area. I grew a lemon to about 4-5ft then managed to kill it.

        Not sure about limes, they are generally seedless these days. They are also a bit different in that they really grow in warm humid areas. Will grow here but any fruit will start green and "ripen" to yellow (for some reason). The lime (fruit) tends to be smaller but has an intense aroma and flavour.

        Orange, mandarins etc are also easy to get going but again they really need more warmth then is normal in the UK, not as much as limes.
        Last edited by Kirk; 03-02-2016, 05:07 PM.

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        • #5
          I grew a citron from seed just over two years ago. It is now about a foot high and is outside in a flower pot that has drip irrigation. Snow last year didn't affect it and even low temperatures didn't bother it. I don't expect to get any fruit on it for some years yet.

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          • #6
            I have never seen a seed in a lime!

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