lemon and palm tree

Hello everyone
I had a lovely lemonade from a lemon we bought from Asda which came from Spain, I decided to put it in a pot to grow it, but because we are in England i suppose it is silly to do this?
Also my husband had some palm trees seeds he wanted me to grow..!! not sure how well that will do in this weather
if the lemon tree grows can i cut the branches so that it doesnt grow too big and still produce lemons?

M

 

It's rather doubtful if you'll every get lemons from a tree grown outside or if one would survive winter. We've several citrus grown from seed, but they live in pots and are taken indoors in winter. They do flower but have have never produced fruit. They make nice bonsai specimens if you train them, but are ornamental rather than fruit producing.
We've a couple of mandarins and satsumas that do produce mini-fruit but they live under cover in pots. Our son has a Kaffir lime that is blossoming for the first time this year, but again it is pot grown and under cover.

 

I've grown some baby palms (they're about 3 months old now) from stones from dates bought in Tesco.

Simply clean the flesh from the stones and put in some slightly damp vermiculite in a sealed container and keep somewhere warm like the top of a boiler. Check daily for a root beginning to emerge and then pot up with the stone just below the surface. Let them almost dry out between waterings and after about 6 weeks you should start to see the first leaf shoot emerging.

When they grow these won't be winter hardy palms but it's a bit of fun and it will be easy enough to keep them frost free whilst still small.

Sorry can't help much with the lemon tree, I suspect it would be a good few years before they reached fruit bearing size from seed though and then they may have to be kept in a warm greenhouse????

 

does monty live in england? as i watch him last week trim roots bak on his lemon tree which was outside so i thought you could grow them in the uk ?? i was thinking of getting/growing one but only because id seen that episode,i have a green house but i wouldnt want one in there full time x

 

Yes, as far as am aware he lives in the UK, he'll probably take the lemon trees in for the winter, they wouldn't survive outside. Worth a try to grow, if you can bring it in.

 

My sister (Kedi-Gato from this forum) lives in North Germany and Florida. She has a very large Meyer lemon tree in Germany which produces volumes of fruit. It is in a Wintergarten (conservatory) in the winter and outside in the summer.

I would advise if you would like to grow such exotic plants that you actually buy them as a plant rather than plant them as a pip or seed ... unless you have many years on yours hands because it will take years and years ...

I am not trying to be negative but I live in a country where fruit (especially citrus) is abundant but it has taken us years to get limes from a tree bought as a tree, nothing from a Meyer lemon tree except for the first year (which cost a fortune) and nothing from a ruby grapefruit tree ... perhaps I need to go on a horticultural course ...

As far as palms go, they cost €5 for a meter tall one .... I don't know how long it takes for one from seed to get to that size.

Pete can answer all of these questions because I know he has been there and done that ....

 

nice one ladies..there is hope :D i think il buy one like victoria suggests pixie x if not to save time on it fruiting if i get that far that is just where to buy from il have to search any suggestions very very welcome xx