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Post by Laaz on Nov 3, 2019 8:25:17 GMT -5
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Post by david on Nov 3, 2019 8:54:05 GMT -5
Good laugh on a Sunday morning. My day is made.🤗
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marro
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Post by marro on Nov 3, 2019 11:55:18 GMT -5
Laaz, are you willing to spend that much money to kill one tree? I guess when you hate something that bad, money is no object. Laaz you are outnumbered 6 to 5.
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Post by david on Nov 3, 2019 12:29:49 GMT -5
Not quiet. I too have no respect for MLemon. Its not on my list of beloved citrus. I will take a Eureka anyday.....
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Post by Laaz on Nov 3, 2019 12:46:08 GMT -5
I already have a chipper. The Meyer did meet it's fate there.... I also use it when I trim my trees & also removed a few satsumas that were taking up valuable space...
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Post by millet on Nov 9, 2019 22:21:52 GMT -5
I was a little more kind to my Meyer Lemon tree. I dug it out and tossed my Meyer lemon onto the compost pile.
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Post by brian on Nov 9, 2019 23:47:00 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to when my other lemons become more productive and I can ditch my Meyers. I am dissapointed that Fourwinds changed the status of their St Teresa lemon from "Available in Fall" to "Out of stock". I don't think they are going to have it anytime soon and it is too late to ship trees now.
My pink eureka is the only productive true lemon I have right now. My new eureka hasn't bloomed yet. And even then I'm thinking of getting a Lisbon instead so I can graft onto flying dragon and try to keep it small.
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Post by Laaz on Nov 10, 2019 12:26:44 GMT -5
St Teresa seems to do great on swingle. Millet sent me a budstick in the spring & the bud is already 3 ft tall & growing like crazy.
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Post by bklyncitrus on Nov 11, 2019 3:41:06 GMT -5
I coincidentally trashed my last meyer lemon today, never again
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Post by Laaz on Nov 11, 2019 7:43:19 GMT -5
bklyncitrus you should be able to source some good Italian lemons where you are. When I was a kid my parents would visit friends in Brooklyn (Little Italy) and they always had container lemons trees. I was always amazed by the large fruiting trees almost every family had back then. I would assume they were brought back from Italy way back then.
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Post by marro on Nov 11, 2019 9:46:46 GMT -5
A few years ago after joining this citrus group, the craze was, “you got to grow a Meyer tree”, now a have two, started an improvement with a S/T lemon, maybe that’s not good enough. Anything better by a wide margin???
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brian
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Post by brian on Nov 11, 2019 11:27:31 GMT -5
Meyer is widely known as a popular homegrown citrus, and is included in "luxury" products and fancy restaurant dishes because of this reputation. People who know very little about citrus often have an idea that meyer lemons being special in some way.
It's not awful, it just doesn't taste as much like lemon as a grocery store lemon like eureka or lisbon. And it isn't sweet enough to eat out of hand... so what's the point?
It smells nice and is prolific, so it isn't that bad. It is sort of like Tommy Atkins mango... everybody knows it but it isn't a good representation of what is possible.
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Post by Laaz on Nov 28, 2019 9:18:46 GMT -5
The one I had would eventually turn orange & had the nastiest after taste ever... Nothing like a lemon.
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Post by david on Nov 28, 2019 9:28:34 GMT -5
It is like a third world country...easy to cultivate but never up to the standards of a first rate one. I still have one (wife likes it) but I have a good Eureka that is my lemon.
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