Project: espalier lemon from seed

[Ivannn]

Hi guys, I haven't been writing on the forum for a long time, but still active citruswise

4 years ago I lost a lemont tree and I decided to plant a seed to grow a new one. This new guy has been very vigorous since the beginning and it was growing very tall, so I decided to try to spread its branches growing it on an espalier that I constructed for this purpose.

The first image was taken last year, when I had just set up the espalier, the second image was taken this month.







The tree is growing nicely, I think I will add onother level to the espalier.
It is still very thorny but some branches are showing a decreasing thorniness giving me hope that I will be able to see some flowers next spring.

Ciao!

[pagnr]

That is very impressive.

[Ivannn]

Update: at the end of summer 2022 I had to add another level to the espalier because the tree had almost reached the roof 




And just a few days ago I found out that this guy decided to make his daddy a proud daddy! 

[Ivannn]

For the followers of the node count theory, the first bud appeared at node in the range 100th - 110th.

EDIT: New bud around node 90

[Ivannn]

Climate is not helping here in Italy, it's been a very bad month of May and some areas in the region where I live had heavy damages and floods.
Nonetheless, buds on my lemon are growing and more are developing in lower parts of the tree.

[Ivannn]

The warm temperature of the last days accelerated the development of the buds and the first flower opened.
Now let's see if one of those flowers will make it to a lemon