Lemon flowers

[SineadT]

Hi all. I’m new to this so apologies if I’ve missed a thread with similar questions. I bought 2 small lemon trees in Lidl about 2 months ago. I pitted into bigger pots and have kept in my conservatory as the weather has been up and down. Now I’ve spotted some flowers I think but some seem very near the base of the plant. So I’m wondering if there’s anything I should be doing to encourage the little flowers to turn into yummy lemons thank you all in advance !

[burnie]

I think the plants are a bit too small to fruit yet, some might advise removing them so the plant puts all of it's energy into new growth, I think I might be tempted to leave them and see what happens. Have a read of this https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-y...n/fruit/citrus

[SineadT]

I reckoned so too ... I will keep an eye and see how things progress - Thanks for the link - I’ll get reading :-D

[ameno]

The plants I saw in Lidl a few months ago where that size and each had 2-4 small lemons on, and they seemed perfectly healthy, so it would probably be okay to leave just a few fruit on. Judging by the size of the fruit I saw on those plants (they were about hen's egg size), either it's a naturally small-fruited variety or else a small plant will only produce small fruit.

You might actually be better off putting it outside for the summer, though. Although they like heat, they don't need it excessively warm, and what they really do need is as much light as possible, which they might not be getting in your conservatory (you'd be surprised how much like the glass and the plastic roof cut out).

[Plot70]

Modern glass cuts out a lot of light that is good for plants. Always outside in the summer with daily water in full sun.
We might have found out what root-stock those Lidl ones are grafted onto.
I have what I believe is a pink grapefruit from the seed of shop bought fruit as small as that that has produced a single flower.
If a shoot comes up from below the graft the leaves will most likely look different.
Perhaps I should have put my thread in here.
https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...flowering-size

[ameno]

Modern glass cuts out a lot of light that is good for plants. Always outside in the summer with daily water in full sun.
We might have found out what root-stock those Lidl ones are grafted onto.
I have what I believe is a pink grapefruit from the seed of shop bought fruit as small as that that has produced a single flower.
If a shoot comes up from below the graft the leaves will most likely look different.
Perhaps I should have put my thread in here.
https://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gr...flowering-size

It's a nice thought, but dwarf citrus are usually grafted onto trifoliate orange, or some hybrid of trifoliate orange, like citrange. Seville orange is sometimes used, too; my satsuma is on Seville orange.

[Plot70]

Perhaps mine is some kind of hybrid of a commercial variety with another close by.
I will just have to wait for fruit and see what it looks like.
That is the fun of growing plants from random seeds.

[ameno]

Citrus fruit do cross very easily, indeed most of the citrus fruit we eat are various crosses between just three wild species, so if there were any other types of citrus going nearby at the time then there's a good chance they did cross.