'The Lemon with small leaves' ... A unique variety from the Oscar Tintori nursery - Spring update

[@VirginiaFruitGrower]

Beautiful lemon 🍋

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks G ... I'm really looking forward to it ripening so I can compare the fruit with my Eureka and Meyer Lemon.

[@PeterEntwistle]

It's looking really good considering it's been outside all winter! The leaves remind me of a clementine in shape and size, but the new growth has that red flush that lemons typically have. The flowers also have a typical purple hue to them like my Eureka lemon has. It will be interesting to see how the lemon compares once it's ready to be eaten 👍

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks, Peter. I'm very happy with it's recovery since last year it had to deal with being transported to a new climate and getting bare-rooted. The new growth and proliferation of tiny flower buds is most encouraging. I'm over the moon to have this plant as I have become very fond of home-grown Lemons. Yes, it'll be interesting to compare with my Eureka.

[@lyonheart84]

Lovely looking plant Dom, I've never heard of that variety although to be honest the leaves don't look smaller than any of my other lemons 😁. Sometimes i guess smaller leaves mean slower water loss

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks, Brett. I love this plant. The leaves are not tiny but definetly smaller than my Eureka. When it bushes out a bit I'll do a leaf size comparison video. One thing I didn't successfully manage to show in this video is the amount of tiny flowerbuds. Later in the season when they get larger or open I'll do another video to document it.

[@garycard1456]

Nice-looking lemon variety. It is just as well that you barerooted and changed to a more friable substrate. The heavy clay soil they typically come it is hardly suitable for pot growin in our cooler and wetter climate. I hardly see leaf drop (a 'shock' response) when I bareroot. The key is to bareroot very carefully by submersing the rootball in a pail of water and gently coaxing the soil off the root ball using the fingertips.

[@MoebiusUK]

Thanks, Gary. Lemons, i'm finding are one of the easier types of citrus to grow and get good fruit. The leaf drop may have been a combination of the bare-rooting and sudden change in climate. I literally picked the plants up from a greenhouse in Italy and brought them back in a car to the UK. I wasn't particularly careful doing the bare-rooting as I had many plants to do. I soaked them, then sprayed with the hosepipe. That said, it never lost all its leaves and is rapidly making a comeback. They just need some sunshine now.

[@garycard1456]

@@MoebiusUK Now that the sun is getting stronger, we need to be mindful of sunscorch for those plants that have not been acclimatised to full sun conditions outdoors. I've just purchased a 40% UV-blocking shadecloth.

[@garycard1456]

@@MoebiusUK I do find that many lemon varieties are quite vigorous in their growth habit

[@MoebiusUK]

@@garycard1456 Lucily most of my plants have been outside all winter as I needed to make space for my 100+ Miracle Berry plants and around 80 Loquat seedlings which are growing indoors. ... I could have easily kept the Loquats outside but found they were getting savaged by slugs ... then attacked by whitefly. I'm really becoming a fan of Lemon plants because I've had success with getting fruit. I also love the smell of the zest and the taste of the juice when combined with Orange juice ... I think on my next trip to Europe I will try and find another variety.

[@garycard1456]

@@MoebiusUK Lucky that you have a rather mild local climate. In my area, when there's frost, the frosts can be sharp. Temperatures on clear nights in my area fall several degrees below what is officially forecast for my nearest town. By the way: how many weeks until miracle fruit seeds germinate? I've sown mine, but no sign of germination yet. It's been about two weeks. While my hybrid jaboticaba seeds have already germinated and have little shoots poking out of the substrate.

[@yuriiua5508]

👍🌳🍋

[@MoebiusUK]

Дякую тобі. Я люблю вирощувати лимони. 🍋🍋🍋