Winterizing Lemon Trees | At Home With P. Allen Smith

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What is the fertilizer are you using I would like to get some thank you.

Wow beautiful lemons, home grown, organically! Gorgeous! I'd love to grow my own like that. Just starting out with seed.

I'm in! I leased a home that's back neighbor has a huge lemon tree that is growing and flowing over the fence. Lucky me! All summer from the pool, I saw the fruit growing and thought they were limes! Then when they didn't fall, I realized they had to be lemons. I LOVE lemons. There were SO MANY on my side of the fence that I decided to see if they could be frozen. Yes they can be! Plus, I de-seeded each slice, half, wedge, and froze them on baking pans, then immediately placed them in Freezer bags. I had so many gallon size, filled bags that I began giving them away to my family. I can open the bag, get only what I need out to use, re-seal the bag and replace into the freezer for next time. To the lady who's tree isn't producing fruit, did you germinate the seeds? (Using a paper towel, dry off and hold the seed in a paper towel, peel off the alien pod cover starting the peel off the side of the seed, and inside is the REAL seed. (Do a lot of seeds 10+) Do NOT try to save ANY seeds that were cut by the knife. Once shelled, place the REAL seeds in between a WET, folded paper towel, place in a Ziploc bag (I used a sandwich bag for up to 30) and place in a warm, dark, place. Don't forget them! After about 7-10 days they germinate and have little green buds! Place the germinated seed in an eggshell container. HERE'S HOW: Place some dirt in half of a used eggshell until they get to the growing out of stage. If you save the original egg crate container, you can have your mini-lemon trees sitting happily upright in the perfect container. (And if you want to get fancy, decorate your egg crate to match your decor) Then transplant to a larger container by simply placing the entire plant, eggshell and all, into the the new container dirt. (Tap the bottom of the shell to break egg further at its bottom, and plant leaving the eggshell for compost too! I'm giving these trees to my kids and grandkids for Christmas this year. (5 grown, married kids and my grand kids!) Thank you God, for lemons! PS, I'm in Zone 8-B

Zone 7 is "cold" ??? LMAO Hey buddy, try living in zone 2 or 3 in the upper midwest.

The Lemon trees look good.

The music in the background is EXTREMELLY annoying

my potted citrus stay outdoors from may-october.I am on cape cod ,and in spring they go out for the season and do quite well

Hey I live in california and i have a citrus tree 3 years old in in the winter its gets 36-29f so here its good for an orange

then grow one im from indiana and i doont think i could leave my lemon trees outside but what im doing is geting the seeds from the store bought lemons from a walmart and puting them in water bottles and then a day or two later il remove them and place them in store bought dirt and well water them once a day but sometimes i dont have to but i keep them under a animal lamp (because im cheap lol) and well when i planted them i pushed them into the dirt and well i see the roots in like 2-3 weeks (:

All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. GET MAD! I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?! DEMAND TO SEE LIFE'S MANAGER! Make life RUE the day it thought it could give CAVE JOHNSON LEMONS! DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?! I'M THE MAN WHO'S GONNA BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that's gonna BURN YOUR HOUSE DOWN!

more Phosphorus and Potassium could help, just a guess

my lemon tree is like 4 times larger than this one and in a 32 gallon garbage can that has gravel underneath, but its not producing any lemons. i'm so sad. I grew it from the seed and it's been 5 or 6 years now. it just keeps getting bigger and growing green foliage. plz help

I don't have a lemon tree in the first place...

Love the video! :)

Thanks for the info, this is my first winter with my lemon tree.

Here in Northern England we have to keep the Lemon trees inside all year long.