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Post by radoslav on Jan 22, 2020 14:31:53 GMT -5
Registered in 2015, cross of Lisbon lemon and Hyuganatsu. 200g, less sour than Lisbon. Ripening in November, resistant to scab and canker. Juice has a sugar content of 9.2% and an acid content of about 5.6%
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Post by Laaz on Jan 22, 2020 17:10:34 GMT -5
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Post by millet on Jan 23, 2020 16:32:55 GMT -5
Why would someone want a lemon with less acid?
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Post by david on Jan 23, 2020 17:19:15 GMT -5
Don't know the answer to that. We have a cross that is less acid in the Meyer. That should teach us that it is not always a good thing to create things that are not true to the qualities of the parent........
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Post by Laaz on Jan 23, 2020 17:50:54 GMT -5
But you have a Aussie lemonade tree... Also the Ponderosa. All crosses aren't bad.
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Post by david on Jan 23, 2020 20:34:42 GMT -5
This is true. Some crosses have allowed us to make great strides in taste, fruit quality and timing. Meyer just is not one of them 😁
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Post by millet on Jan 24, 2020 22:13:34 GMT -5
The parents of the New Zealand lemonade tree is unknown. It is thought that the parentage is a sweet lemon hybrid, The fruit has a very pleasant taste, and very few seeds, normally one or two seeds per fruit. .
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Post by Laaz on Jan 24, 2020 23:52:23 GMT -5
I tried it, didn't like it & cut the scion off & re-grafted a true lemon.
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roberto
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Best Regards from Vienna Roberto
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Post by roberto on Feb 21, 2020 10:13:40 GMT -5
In Europe Meyer Lemon and Lemonade are very sought and appreciated. Obviously a matter of taste.
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Florian
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Solothurn, Switzerland
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Post by Florian on Feb 21, 2020 13:20:24 GMT -5
In Europe Meyer Lemon and Lemonade are very sought and appreciated. Obviously a matter of taste. I have always wondered why people in the US despise the Meyer so much..
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kumin
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SE Pennsylvania, 45 miles north of Chesapeake Bay, Zone 6b
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Post by kumin on Feb 21, 2020 13:56:00 GMT -5
Fans of the Meyer Lemon in the US might be reluctant to admit to their liking of Meyer. Accepting Meyer for it's attributes, rather than for not being a true lemon may not be a popular position. It's a slight bit like comparing the flavor of various Poncirus hybrids. Anyone able to grow true Citrus cultivars likely has disdain for any degree of Poncirus off-flavor.
The fact that fruit purchased in grocery stores tastes inferior to tree ripened fruits doesn't prevent hundreds of millions of people from purchasing, eating and enjoying fruits that are picked, shipped and eaten before they're fully ripe and before they achieve optimal flavor. If people in more northerly climes can grow and eat Meyer lemon vs. not being able to grow lemons at all, it's a logical conclusion that many will opt to grow the Meyer, either for it's own qualities, or because it's the only "lemon" they are able to grow.
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Post by Sylvain on Feb 22, 2020 10:43:25 GMT -5
> In Europe Meyer Lemon and Lemonade are very sought and appreciated. Really? I never saw meyer for sale in France, nor lemonade. And people even don't know it exist!
Maybe it's differente in Swiss and Austria...
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Post by ilya11 on Feb 22, 2020 12:42:11 GMT -5
In what was formerly Soviet Union Meyer was well known and quite appreciated. It was mainly produced along the Caucasus Black Sea coast, but also under the glass in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.
Now it is mostly an import from Turkey.
I spent my early childhood between Moscow and Sukhumi (Abkhazia region) and for me it is always associated with those days, I like it, although do not consider it as a true lemon.
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Post by radoslav on Feb 22, 2020 13:25:25 GMT -5
Meyer is available on our market (from Turkey). People in Slovakia mainly use lemons to tea and to preserve some food or to stop color change or to make lemonade and they absolutely do not care, if it is Eureka, Lisbon or Meyer. They only say, if it is yellow, it is lemon, if it is green, it is limetta.
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Post by david on Feb 22, 2020 13:25:31 GMT -5
Of the real lemons I have, the Meyer cross is my least liked. As for me it comes nowhere near a real lemon in any way.....that being said i raise lots of them from cuttings because people here are familiar with the name and there seems to be a hunger for them. In the last years many variations of Lemon have appeared.....some of them are the same lemon with 4 or 5 different names, dependant upon local. In my lemons I have Eureka as my go to lemon....I think it fits all the bill of what a true lemon should be. One can only cultivate lemons and never run out of cultivars and different nuances.......much like mandrins.......
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