If you grow from seed from a store it's not likely to ever make a lemon if it even produces fruit. Commercial lemons are grafted to root stock and the fruits seeds will reflect the root stock not the fruit. I did the same thing 7 year ago.
@@Valentina-yo9ec The answer is yes. All Hass avocados came from one tree, and was grafted onto other avocado trees to bear the same fruit. Plants have hidden genetics too, just like animals. So your own seed could have been naturally weak/never bare fruit/bare tiny little avocados/basically could have any combination of avocado genes. The only way to 100% guarantee you get big fruit is to buy an already grafted hass(or other variety) avocado tree. Try doing multiple seeds if you try again, hopefully one will grow from there. Avocados are notorious for being difficult to grow due to needy conditions and fungus. I've had luck so far with my first and only attempt, but make no mistake. My avocado should be 3-4 feet by normal standards and it's only a foot tall. Best of luck to your avocado adventures!
Yep, same here, I'm probably going to have to stop soon, but if I can find a sweet lemon, I'll probably try to grow that. They taste kind of like lemon water and they're intended to be eating kind of like an orange.
Andrew Hunt Very true indeed. It's amazing this. I'm going to try it. I use lots of lemons in cooking. I live in the UK 🇬🇧, damp, cold climate so don't know how the plants will fare. I wonder if they need to be kept in greenhouse?
@@katzwhite5962 some lemon varieties can be okay to -5°c so it depends where you are in the UK really. If you've got a walled garden in London; probably okay outside. If you're on a windswept Yorkshire Moor, I'd have it in a pot and put outside for summer only. I'm in Wales and we just planted a lemon tree and a calamondrin orange in our polytunnel. They had them cheap at LIDL last week, like £2.50 for a 40cm tall plant.
It’s always so frustrating when UA-cam’s post the tutorial but never show the results. Thankyou for taking the time to show us how successful they were. Will definitely be watching more of your content :)
I had a tree in my garden in Arizona called a 'cocktail tree'. The tree had oranges, lemons and grapefruit all on the same tree. They take a grapefruit tree and graft on a lemon sapling and an orange sapling. The grafted on branches continue to produce their own particular fruit.
When I was in 7th grade, I really wanted to grow my own lemon tree from seed. I went on to just place a few seeds on soil like you did. It took them a few weeks and I remember I got so excited when they sprouted. I took a really good care of them for a few years. I even bought a citrus fertilizer. After 9th grade, and before I went to culinary school, I became a little depressed and I lost all of my passion for everything. The plants sadly died. Now more than a decade later I've been thinking about growing lemons again. It's one of my favorite fruits. 🍋
Quarantine has allowed me to discover that i have a green thumb. I started a whole garden full of celery, tomato green onion, peppers, LEMONS, limes, loquats, avocado, oranges, and strawberries. Im quite proud of myself lmao thanks for the lemony help!
When it comes to food, it doesn't take many plants or much space to make a significant difference in how you're eating. I'm personally trying to grow strawberries and salad greens indoors. I'm hoping to find a sweet lemon to grow indoors as well.
There things you need to know before growing a lemon tree from a seed: 1) It most likely won't be the same lemon cultivar you get the seeds from. This is due to lemons don't breed true from seeds. 2) There are gonna be 1-2 inches of thorn of the lemon tree. This is because thorns are a prevalent feature of young citrus plants. When they get older (many years), the thorns will shorten and eventually kinda disappear, but that's gonna be a long time. If you grow lemon trees from a cutting of already thornless tree, this can be prevented, this is because growing something asexually do not reset the "timer" unlike growing something from seed does. 3) The fruit you get might not be palatable or even edible. You can get fruits with very thick rind with dry flesh. How to find that out? See the next point. 4) It is gonna be 3-5 years for the tree to fruit if you grow it from seed. Thus, if the one you grew from seed is a lemon tree with terrible fruit, it's gonna take years before you find that out. 5) There is something good about growing lemon trees from seed tho: Although very unlikely, it is possible that you can get a new edible cultivar in this way. That's actually how most of our domesticated fruit trees been through. Mutation from sexual reproduction (seeds) is essential to get something very different from the parental plants. 6) Last but not least, it is a very fun thing to do, especially you had no prior experience working with seed like this. Hope you guys find this to be useful. Cheers.
I found this out about Apple seeds and why so many crap apple trees and avocado. My avocado and lemon trees from seed are my 5 year science projects. Lol
Wait it might not have edible lemons? :( I just planted a few almost a month back and its a slow progress and now i get to know i might never have lemons?
@@jackieweaver3884 well you will have lemons, but it is probably not palatable, no much juice due to too little pulp. If you want to plant a lemon tree, just get one from the nursery or air-layered cutting.
I loved this, I had to sneak this behind my parents back because they said “it’s a waste!” Two months later we have a lemon sapling XD Edit: about a year later I decided that the sapling was now ready to plant and I did, we have many areas for trees and I planted it on a very large area. Now, I have a “Starting Garden” on my windowsill with Venus flytraps, cacti, two mango seeds, forget-me-nots, daisys,and apple seeds, during quarantine I have taken a liking to it and learned a lot from this video. About genetic lottery, and the growth of saplings, I hope this video can inspire other kids to take a liking, (to literally) planting the seeds fro the future.
@@tinawindham6958 personally I had to, because the one I can get outside is mostly rocks and the potting soil I bought last time had zero drainage and just molded over time 😕
Just another fun thing, you guys can actually use the young lemon/lime leaves as herbs. Finely chop them up and then sprinkle them on top of roasted chicken (or chicken that is cooked any way you like), lemon/lime leaves add amazing flavour to your dish!
My seed grown lemon tree which I had for eleven years, never even flowered. But produced lots of beautiful foliage. I also found that the leaves, really do make a delicious ingredient to some dishes.
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the ones at the nursery are probably grafted and will bear fruit much quicker just so you know, from seed could take 5 years and you might get poor quality lemons
I bought a lemon tree from Home Depot but it came with scale that seemed to improve a bit after I wiped off the bumps with rubbing alcohol and placed it outside in the summer, but it ended up not surviving. Starting your own tree in good soil without pests might be the best way to get a lemon tree!
if it produces high quality lemons dont grow them from seeds. make a clone. all you need is to choose a branch, remove part of the bark, smear a bit of root growth hormone(optional but it helps) and attach a small bag of moist soil in the area where you cut the bark, and observe it for like 1-2 months, until it starts to grow its own roots. then carefully cut it off the tree and plant it, and you have an exact clone of your lemon tree. seeds have genetic variations, clones dont.
@@sabin97 as much as I would listen to you and do this, it was my great great grandmothers tree and cutting into it wouldn’t make my family happy. If she was still around I’m sure she would say the same thing.
I stripped the husk off of 8 seeds from one lemon and sprouted them using the paper towel method. Out of the eight that sprouted I ended up with two beautiful lemon trees. It really required a bit of effort to end up with two healthy trees. They really established themselves in the container and it will be interesting to see if they actually bear fruit. Whether they do or not they are still welcome in our house for the foliage.
I got a lemon from a 800years old tree. I though those were great genes! Three seeds out of 8 were successful, one is struggling the other two look like 20 days old but are actually 14 months. I learned that lemon threes don't like much water and like to be under sun. I will invest on iron and good fertilizer! Thanks!
If you want a tree that will have the same caracteristics of that 800 years old one, you probably want to start it from a branch, since it essentially will grow into a tree with the exact same DNA. When you start a tree from seed it will always be in some way different than the tree where they came from since their DNA will be different much like a parent and a child.
800y old seems improbable... Normal citrus lifespan about 50y, there's some around 150y, oldest US orange tree is 175y? Any documentation/link to super old citrus I'm interested.
I am 75. Years ago (approximately 40) there was a “how to” that floated around and everyone tried it! You needed the following, a saucer, cotton balls, a shot glass and the seeds of a lemon. You dip the cotton balls in water, place on a saucer, place lemon seeds on top of the cotton ball and cover with an upside down shot glass. Then take the saucer and put it on top of the refrigerator and forget it. Of course with it up there, out of sight, it is easy to forget about! Weeks later I was cleaning off the refrigerator and lo and behold there was that darn shot glass! I pull it off the top and look and there were roots growing out one side and tiny shoots of green! I planted the seeds in a small pot of soil and stuck it in the window and darned if it didn’t grow! Of course you had to keep transplanting it to larger and larger pots but yes it did grow! As someone else mentioned, it will never produce lemons you can eat and I finally lost interest when I moved into a house that did not support indoor plants and I gave it away! It was a healthy three feet tall and bushy! But that gives you yet another method to try. I guess the reason they wanted you to leave it UN disturbed was so that it maintained that moisture to promote initial growth! Have fun!
My propagation book said it takes at least 15 years to produce fruit. I had a lemon tree and waited so long. Looked it up in my book and it said you had to wait at least 15 years. My little tree died from a freeze before it could produce lemons.🙁
@@TechplantChannelI wonder if the warmth of the fridge helped? Also I wonder if the seeds were healthier back then, less genetic alterations? Anyway, I might give it a try.
Expectations before watching: Wow this guy must be really knowledgeable about plants and be really into gardening Video: “Eh so I’ll do this I guess?” I actually liked it even more because of that so no hate
lol, yeah i like to try things and see it for myself. Ive read about plants and you can always find contradicting advice from website to website so i like to just try stuff
I’m glad you’re doing so many different methods. My grandmother passed away earlier this year and our family had to sell her house. Luckily my Dad sent me down some lemons and mandarins from her trees before the new owners moved in so I’m hoping to try grow some trees from the seeds that I’ve harvested. I’m currently using the zip lock bag method with a slightly damn paper towel and stored in a warm dark area.. I’ll also borrow some of your methods and see what happens. I like the thought of using my departed grandmothers fruit for seeds rather than store brought ones because I know they’re 100% organic and came from a good source.
NOTE: The chlorosis he was seeing on the leaves could have been iron OR nitrogen deficiency, especially since there was no fertilizer added at all. Since the leaves changed and the chlorosis improved on existing leaves, that indicates it was likely nitrogen - not iron - deficient. - a greenhouse manager
Your right. It was from removing the shell. Seeds need the seed pod for nutrients. It helps give the plant energy to grow. When it has used up all the nutrients, the pod drops off. It's like little baby fish, that have a egg sac, at birth. It feeds them, until they can eat in their own. So that plant was deprived of nutrients, and the soil was not enough.
@@0omateoo26 The primary function of the seed coat (the 'peeling' that was removed) is protection. High moisture and low air flow will certainly facilitate fungal and bacterial growth, which is likely what killed those seeds, and removing the seed coat certainly made them more vulnerable to those organisms.
Hi Brigette, I have a lime tree which doesn't give limes. I greet from seed. This summer the leafs started to roll green and dry. I removed those and now the rest continues to do the same. Does it required those nutrients? Is it the heat? Also there's lots of thorns, was wondering if I should cut those branches out or leave it. Also, should I graft it with a Lemmon branch from another tree to get fruit?
I sprouted a clementine tree a couple of years ago, planted it in a friend's polytunnel which gets strong sun, then went away for a year and a half. Came back. Where's my tree? "Ahh yeah... the sheep got into the polytunnel... it's that little stick over there." This week we noticed it's starting to bud out some tiny new leaves! I'm very excited.
Yeah my cat had 4 kittens, I ended up with mom ,dad, aunt kitty and 4 sisters. One lived to be 20. She was the only one that like to be outside. Rip cat family.
I just let the seed sit on a windowsill to dry a day or two, pop them into the soil with my finger, water the soil, and a week later I see growth (an old way I learned from my Mom), it has never failed me. It works for all fruits and vegetables too.
Dude, this is one of the best produced gardening videos I've seen. I love your production values, delivery, and attitude. Great info as well. I've grown a few lemon trees from seed, but you just taught me a lot more about how to do it well and properly. Thanks so much!
I have a volunteer citrus plant on my backyard which took more than 10yrs to grow limes. It is a real survivor bcoz we never watered it or fed it. It only got water during the monsoons, and still managed to make it this far in the tropics and finally fruit :)
Thanks for the lesson. Our neighbour’s lemon tree is so healthy despite not getting any special treatment, perhaps it’s just a rather strong tree and doesn’t need a lot of human care. Anyway, we picked more than a dozen huge lemons last week (as long as the branches are over the fence, the local law says we are allowed to pick fruits from a neighbour’s tree), and after enjoying lemon meringue pies and lemon cakes and some lemon curd, it dawned on us that maybe we should try and grow our own tree from these delicious fruits so that we can have all the lemons that we could eat.
I love your videos!!!! People think I’m weird for sprouting lemons mangos and avocados but it makes me so happy. I’m glad to see a fellow plant nerd, you’re awesome and adorable!!!
I did the bag and wet paper towel method and had no problems as I did as a curiosity thing, the method I used was just kitchen paper towel tap water and put them in a cool dark cupboard left them there for 7 days then planted them in potting mix. I'm going to bonsai 1 and grow the rest as normal trees.
A few years ago I tried growing from seed. It had thorns and no one could tell me if lenon trees had thorns. So guess what I threw my 5 ft lemon tree away.. I have asked many times about the thorns and you are the 1st that has said yes they have thorns. Thank you.
Thank you so much! I only want to learn about plants with you bc my attention span is short and I’m a forgetful gardener and I want to improve, and you deliver in a practical, simple, scientific way that I enjoy a lot! Well done, sir.
Surprise, surprise, the most natural method works best! My indoor lemon tree is around 2 years old and produces beautifully dark green, thick, shiny, and healthy leaves. I feed it citrus baby bio plant food. The leaves make the entire room smell subtlety of lemon, which is a pleasant side effect I didn't know would happen.
I've grown lemons, limes and mandarins from seed and they were all easy. I've even eaten the fruit off them now. Just sprout in a pot. Pot up until a couple ft high. Plant out in spring. Start with 50 good seed and you'll be left with about 10 really nice quality plants to plant after a year or two.
I had 4 lemon trees. They developed to about 24" tall and I gave them all but one away. The one I kept, I kept pruning to get more height. I inserted the cuttings directly into dirt and within 2 months, they all took root and we outgrowing their pots. No fruit so far. The citrus food pellets is great stuff! Thanks for sharing. It would be interesting to compare notes with you on Medjool date palms.
Growing from seeds is very educational. I find rooting cuttings to be very easy. I have two lemon trees at 6 montha old, One with many flower buds on it. Honest though I propogated without a rooting hormone. Fun experiment. Grow from seed for a beautiful houseplant. I bought a tree off etsy and used it for cuttings.
Just got through eating a lemon and now I know what to do with the seeds. "Projects" of any kind that take a long time to do seem to be worth the effort no matter how they turn out in the end. They teach you things. Unfortunately most of us never think to document the experience, whether through video, pictures, or a journal of some kind. Then when we start thinking back on the journey all we have is memory to rely on. Don't we all know how that turns out. It was SO COOL to see him take us through a time journey.
2020 test: I had dry seeds from a store bought lemon that I soaked in tap water for a couple of days, fresh water each day. At planting I clipped/nipped a tiny opening of the outer shell with the side of my nail clippers. Planted in “tri” soil like the rest of my garden containers in a pot with holes in the bottom. Gave a good misting and covered with clear dome to help speed up the process. Although I started this “test” late in our short growing season and it has been a crappy growing season, both my lemon seeds have sprouted. I replaced clear dome with netting until my seedlings had two sets of true leaves as “something” (birds, squirrels) eats young seedlings. One is now 2 - 3” tall. Although I have no idea what I am doing, the test will continue as I bring them in over our long winter and hopefully continue their growth. I love testing in my vegetable garden. Covid summer gardening has been fabulous even if Mother Nature has been off. Hopeful that I can successfully do some Covid winter gardening. Stay safe everyone! 🌞🇨🇦
one thing I noticed with my lemon trees. They like being played with. They like when you play with the leaves and talk to them. I have four planted in the same pot, the two I couldnt reach (around the snake plant they are beside) to touch, didnt grow nearly as fast or full as the ones I petted daily. Plants are very intuitive, more so than people realize.
I noticed that with my hibiscus plants 😍 I feel like I was "rewarded" with more flowers after talking to them often, complimenting them, softly taking the dead leaves off... and now imagine what happens when we are careful with other humans too 🤔
When i was a kid i had no friends but my dogs, mom and a citric tree(we didnt knew if it were a lemon, orange, toronge, etc) and i talked to him. Jajajaja good times
I also touched my lemon trees every day. I told them I loved them . when I moved to Nashville someone stole my two 7 ft lemon trees. I was sick. I know they were not Happy to be taken away. They were 4 yrs old.
Finally...thank u. First video on growing a lemon tree from the seed from itself. Been looking for this. And u showing how to in different ways. Bless u.
Well done you, nice to see a young person getting involved. Don't throw away any surplus seedlings give them away and save the planet.... one tree at a time.
Tried peeled and unpeeled, and inside vs outside (zone 8a) and outside peeled is working the best so far. Seedlings are about 3 inches tall - I'm so excited! Thank you for making and sharing this informative and helpful video
I did that years ago, when I put two seeds just for fun into the pot of some other plant. And they grew, and grew, and grew... Now I have two large plants, and they started to bloom and I have lemons on them. And the best thing: They taste fantastic, not too sour, perfect to eat them in thin slices. That was really luck.
@@wmluna381 Water "schedule": When the soil felt dry and the plant was lucky enough that I was thinking about its water demand... Lightnigh/temp: In the summer outside on the balcony, in the winter in the cellar (maybe something between 5-10°C, never measured. But cellar with a bit of light works better compared to a normal room in the winter, there its too warm. There it always lost quite many leaves and it started to bloom to early so that there where no insects to pollenise them). Fertilzier: same as with watering, depends on the luck of the plant, in some years maybe once per month, in some years only once per year.
When you see thorns like that, they're "suckers". Citrus trees are notorious for having suckers grow, especially when they're young. They're essentially a nutritional sucker for seedlings and trees. If you take off that stem, the tree will grow faster and healthier.
'A nutritional sucker' aka another main stem for the plant, which will result in a bushier and more compact tree. If you're growing it as an indoor plant, it's actually better to encourage those, as it'll make the trunk thicker, and result in a wider canopy, instead of one leggy trunk with a few leaves on top.
Also Suckers also come when the plant is in stress, such as for vitamin deficiency. etc. It is nature's way of trying to save the plant, when the main plant is in stress, a sicker will appear just in case the main plant does not make it, the sucker will continue to grow. Citrus plants are heavy feeders.Its signaling to give the plant nutrients.
Thorns are present on vigorous growth low on the trunk as well as any other rapid growth. They are especially prevalent on immature, vegetative growth. As the tree matures the thorns on new growth are shorter, or absent, unless the cultivar is genetically disposed to thorniness. Suckers will eventually mature into productive branches, if their location doesn't interfere with the structural scaffolding of the tree. However, suckers growing below the graft union on a grafted tree are undesirable and need to be removed, as they will dominate and overtake the rest of the tree.
I have a tree which I grew from seed that has plenty. I thought it was because it's a lime and not a Lemmon. Big question is should I get ridd of it? I just have one and it looks like it's a male plant, no fruits or flowers. Can I try to do with the Lemmon tree a graft and see what happens?
You can make your own citrus friendly soil mix by combining 5 parts pine bark (like bark mulch or bark reptile substrate, 1 part perlite, and 1 part regular soil/coir/peat. It should be well draining (be able to dry out between waterings) as they don't like their roots to stay wet. I have a lime tree thriving in this mixture so it does work well.
Thanks!!!! sometimes i envy those channels tho because they get like 100k views each video and grow fast. Eventually i will make some like that but i do like doing more obscure and odd videos a lot more!
I started a lemon tree a couple months ago, I started with leaving the seeds in a small glass of water for a week then placed them in a pot, it’s turning out quite nicely.
Three years ago I planted a few lemon trees from seed following this video… aaaand now I have 4 little lemon trees 🍋 🎉 buut mine are (after three years) not even as big as yours after 8 month haha anyway it still worked so thanks :)
I know this comment is very long but it helps in the mistake conception So, I wanted to give my advice on your plastic bag... I have grown oranges before and now I have a tasty harvest! So what was my experience: I was lucky enough to not have any plastic bags when I decided to germinate my orange seeds so I took an opaque plastic container with a clear lid and then what I did was pretty much the same, I just took a paper towel and placed it on the base of the contanier and moisten it then I placed the seeds and covered the seeds with another paper towel and moisten it again and just placed the lid on and placed it in a cool and dry spot (with a little sunlight) and I think after a week the seeds had rooted! And well I left the seeds to grow in there for I think 2 months but definitely your seeds can take longer period of time to germinate so don't throw them away one of the seeds was so late it germinated 5 weeks later when I was about to throw it... And here are my tips to grow any Citrus fruit: 1: Peel off the outer shell to fasten the germination process. 2: Try to germinate them by the paper towel method in a plastic contanier as you know I had success with growing them like that. 3: Wait until they have a little plant peeking out of the seed or from the bottom. 4: (If the plant starts to grow from bottom) Always wait until the plant reaches the height of the seed. 5: Never, place the rooted seed without creating a hole with your finger or something in the soil because the roots might BP get damaged if you force them to push through and they are not devolped yet. That's all I'm not saying that don't try the method shown in the video but consider this method too...
Thank you! My Cousins in Arizona gave me a huge bag of about 30 lemons….The best I’ve had….So, I have a few left, back home in Ohio now….So, I’ll be planting them soon and following your advice! I’ll keep you updated and I may make a progress vid too!☺️💞
The “beg” method works for many seeds and would work well for lemon seeds. It’s helpful to get the fruit juice off and sometimes rinsing your seeds with a hydrogen peroxide/water solution could be helpful. The pealed seed in the bag should’ve worked and in most cases will. Sometimes people have bad luck tho. But I personally love the bag method for germinating any seed. Loved the vid tho.
Techplant Oh I did, I tried the bag method, and already transplanted them in soil, but it’s been more than like 2 weeks, still no sprouts showing up, gonna try the soil method today!
Also I would reccomend compost/worm compost it works well with most all plants as it contains almost all the nutrients a plant can use and its free (if you have a container, cardboard, red wiggler worms and some vegetables scraps)
Mine appeared in a pot that held a milkweed plant I bought upstairs to doctor. My first!! Thanks for your very comprehensive info, especially regarding fertilizers. Cheers!
This is a perfect video and just what I was looking for, deseeding some lemons now and planning on potting them later today so thank you for experimenting and showing us your journey with your lemon seeds!
For me the best method Ive tried is to peel the seed and just plant it, I put 4 seeds in one pot covered with a plastic bottle top to keep warm, put it by a sunny window, all germinated, this is in England by the way but one didnt make it, other three are growing nicely as I speak
I will be updating this: Day 1: Planted 8 peeled seeds in seed raising mix. I have put some glad wrap over with some air holes. I water if there is any dryness on the surface. Day 12: 2 seeds have sprouted Day 13: 3rd seed sprouted Day 14: 2 more seeds sprouted (5 of 8), the first seed seems to have sprouted 2 seedlings (I know this as I planted each seed in different trays). Day 20: at this point there are 6 sprouts, a 7th one seems to be sprouting (I saw the seed on the surface thought it was dead, pulled it, there was a root so I put it back in).
@@LolaRabbit Fairly good. So out of the 10 I planted, 2 of them died, one of them was a runt, one of them seemed to have a fungus infection. But of the 6 remaining, they are growing strong with fairly sizable leaves for their age.
In my experience I’ve found that skinned seeds sprout faster but seeds with skin produce healthier trees. My trees are a few different types of citrus but they are only a few months old I hope they grow as fast as yours did.
Mine are getting 18 hours of light each day from a strong LED grow light so maybe up the amount of light yours get and they should shoot up pretty fast!
Absolutely awesome video, I always look for the videos that have updates within them to make things a lot more simpler as well as to be able to track the cycle and or the progress of the plant. I’m very grateful for the time in all the tremendous effort you put into creating this great video. Thank you so much… I thought a growing from seed a long time ago that I harvest from some lemons which I got from the market however I didn’t do a very good job and they died off. I truly hope next time I have much more success. Thanks again…
This was such a great, informative video. Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort to create this so that newbie planters such as myself can learn from your experience! Eternally grateful!! :D
Hey, I tried all 4 methods and got them all to produce seedlings and now I have, no lie, 72 seedlings. 65 lemon and 7 blood orange. How do I care and feed them now? They are all in plastic cup pots, draining into a saucer, and most are in the sun outside. Advice?
I found a good way to help with peeling the husk off the seeds is to use a pair of nail clippers and just nip off the tip of the pointed end of the seed, this will usually leave an opening where something sharp can be inserted to start peeling back the shell.
Have to say I like the bag method the most, as I can see if/when the seeds sprout, and it has worked well for me, but I will agree that planting directly in soil is probably the best for the plants. Where do you keep them, they grow much faster than mine!
*Looks at 2 year old lemon tree that's 15 CM tall*
I'm still proud of my son... My tiny... Wimpy... Weak... Malnurished... Son...
😂
Hey one of mine is still that size, its the genetics, so dont worry! keep it up!
We had an orange tree like that. It did eventually grow a bit and bear fruit.
Lol same! I'm growing five and after 2 and a half years they don't pass 20 cm. My lil ones are sloooow growers
UntrainableWizard - only us plant people can truly understand this 😂
guess im growing a lemon tree now.
Do it
If you grow from seed from a store it's not likely to ever make a lemon if it even produces fruit. Commercial lemons are grafted to root stock and the fruits seeds will reflect the root stock not the fruit. I did the same thing 7 year ago.
GlassTopRX7 would that be the same for an avocado ? Mine dead now but Atleast that will make me feel better lol
@@Valentina-yo9ec Typical I think it is but in that case it might be an avocado just not the type you purchased.
@@Valentina-yo9ec The answer is yes. All Hass avocados came from one tree, and was grafted onto other avocado trees to bear the same fruit. Plants have hidden genetics too, just like animals. So your own seed could have been naturally weak/never bare fruit/bare tiny little avocados/basically could have any combination of avocado genes. The only way to 100% guarantee you get big fruit is to buy an already grafted hass(or other variety) avocado tree.
Try doing multiple seeds if you try again, hopefully one will grow from there. Avocados are notorious for being difficult to grow due to needy conditions and fungus. I've had luck so far with my first and only attempt, but make no mistake. My avocado should be 3-4 feet by normal standards and it's only a foot tall. Best of luck to your avocado adventures!
I'm so glad and angry I've found this channel bc now nothing is stopping me from turning my room into a green house
awesome! I hope you can collect many cool plants!
Same🤣
Yep, same here, I'm probably going to have to stop soon, but if I can find a sweet lemon, I'll probably try to grow that. They taste kind of like lemon water and they're intended to be eating kind of like an orange.
@@TechplantChannel u’re speaking like its a pokemon xDD
Watch your electric bill.
It's refreshing to see that the number 1 method is the most "natural"
I have no idea why you don't have more views. This is literally the best "how-to" lemon seed to tree video on UA-cam.
Thanks! its starting to get more!
Andrew Hunt #facts
Andrew Hunt Very true indeed. It's amazing this. I'm going to try it. I use lots of lemons in cooking. I live in the UK 🇬🇧, damp, cold climate so don't know how the plants will fare. I wonder if they need to be kept in greenhouse?
@@katzwhite5962 some lemon varieties can be okay to -5°c so it depends where you are in the UK really. If you've got a walled garden in London; probably okay outside. If you're on a windswept Yorkshire Moor, I'd have it in a pot and put outside for summer only. I'm in Wales and we just planted a lemon tree and a calamondrin orange in our polytunnel. They had them cheap at LIDL last week, like £2.50 for a 40cm tall plant.
I know right
It’s always so frustrating when UA-cam’s post the tutorial but never show the results. Thankyou for taking the time to show us how successful they were. Will definitely be watching more of your content :)
Yup thats why i make these videos. I was frustrated aswell!
Mia Bellion yes!
because lemon trees take at least 3 years to produce lemons...
But what happened with the grafting?
@@TechplantChannelWhat happened to the grafted branch? Did it survive?
I had a tree in my garden in Arizona called a 'cocktail tree'. The tree had oranges, lemons and grapefruit all on the same tree. They take a grapefruit tree and graft on a lemon sapling and an orange sapling. The grafted on branches continue to produce their own particular fruit.
@Mohamed Farah you can grow a lemon or orange tree roo and graft other citrus kinds on it
Mah, so cool!
Omg that is awesome 👌
Wow, never heard of this before! I’d love to have such a tree, going to do some research, thank you! 🍋🌱🪴
Waoow that's amazing I can't believe it...
When I was in 7th grade, I really wanted to grow my own lemon tree from seed. I went on to just place a few seeds on soil like you did. It took them a few weeks and I remember I got so excited when they sprouted. I took a really good care of them for a few years. I even bought a citrus fertilizer. After 9th grade, and before I went to culinary school, I became a little depressed and I lost all of my passion for everything. The plants sadly died. Now more than a decade later I've been thinking about growing lemons again. It's one of my favorite fruits. 🍋
So glad you're starting again, stranger!
Please reignite your passion for growing lemon trees. It's positive and all good
Quarantine has allowed me to discover that i have a green thumb.
I started a whole garden full of celery, tomato green onion, peppers, LEMONS, limes, loquats, avocado, oranges, and strawberries.
Im quite proud of myself lmao thanks for the lemony help!
When it comes to food, it doesn't take many plants or much space to make a significant difference in how you're eating. I'm personally trying to grow strawberries and salad greens indoors. I'm hoping to find a sweet lemon to grow indoors as well.
I'm glad that my garden has an already grown raspberry,blueberry and strawberry tree
Wait not tree
Bush?
There like kind of like in a bush
There things you need to know before growing a lemon tree from a seed:
1) It most likely won't be the same lemon cultivar you get the seeds from. This is due to lemons don't breed true from seeds.
2) There are gonna be 1-2 inches of thorn of the lemon tree. This is because thorns are a prevalent feature of young citrus plants. When they get older (many years), the thorns will shorten and eventually kinda disappear, but that's gonna be a long time. If you grow lemon trees from a cutting of already thornless tree, this can be prevented, this is because growing something asexually do not reset the "timer" unlike growing something from seed does.
3) The fruit you get might not be palatable or even edible. You can get fruits with very thick rind with dry flesh. How to find that out? See the next point.
4) It is gonna be 3-5 years for the tree to fruit if you grow it from seed. Thus, if the one you grew from seed is a lemon tree with terrible fruit, it's gonna take years before you find that out.
5) There is something good about growing lemon trees from seed tho: Although very unlikely, it is possible that you can get a new edible cultivar in this way. That's actually how most of our domesticated fruit trees been through. Mutation from sexual reproduction (seeds) is essential to get something very different from the parental plants.
6) Last but not least, it is a very fun thing to do, especially you had no prior experience working with seed like this.
Hope you guys find this to be useful. Cheers.
heck yeah! thanks for sharing!
I found this out about Apple seeds and why so many crap apple trees and avocado. My avocado and lemon trees from seed are my 5 year science projects. Lol
Wait it might not have edible lemons? :( I just planted a few almost a month back and its a slow progress and now i get to know i might never have lemons?
@@jackieweaver3884 well you will have lemons, but it is probably not palatable, no much juice due to too little pulp. If you want to plant a lemon tree, just get one from the nursery or air-layered cutting.
@@mathlife2287 ohhh okay thanks
I loved this, I had to sneak this behind my parents back because they said “it’s a waste!”
Two months later we have a lemon sapling XD
Edit: about a year later I decided that the sapling was now ready to plant and I did, we have many areas for trees and I planted it on a very large area. Now, I have a “Starting Garden” on my windowsill with Venus flytraps, cacti, two mango seeds, forget-me-nots, daisys,and apple seeds, during quarantine I have taken a liking to it and learned a lot from this video. About genetic lottery, and the growth of saplings, I hope this video can inspire other kids to take a liking, (to literally) planting the seeds fro the future.
NICE! good luck and raise them well!
Same except i just am not telling my mum that I’m growing a lemon tree in the middle of winter
Isn't it more of a waste to not do it 😂
Wow, why would growing food be a waste?
Your parents suck.
Can we appreciate that this man took like a year of his time to provide us this collected information? Thanks man, great video!
“It disappeared. I think I accidentally threw it away” lmfaooo
lol
😂😂😂
HAHAHAHA
I did everything like u did but it just kept growing and growing with thorns but no lemon 🍋 let me know y
@@Kosova99 Might take some years.
I tried this out not expecting anything 2 months later 6 out of 6 are growing
awesome
BOSS
Das' some good shit.
Someone tor one of mine out of the pot
How are they doing now?
**sighs** **gets dressed to go buy lemons and soil**
lmaoo
U have 2 buy soil?
@@tinawindham6958 personally I had to, because the one I can get outside is mostly rocks and the potting soil I bought last time had zero drainage and just molded over time 😕
Yea, you can have a 5 ft lemon tree in three years!! They are gorgiouse
The *sighs* got me 😂😂😂
Just another fun thing, you guys can actually use the young lemon/lime leaves as herbs. Finely chop them up and then sprinkle them on top of roasted chicken (or chicken that is cooked any way you like), lemon/lime leaves add amazing flavour to your dish!
That's a great idea!
My seed grown lemon tree which I had for eleven years, never even flowered. But produced lots of beautiful foliage. I also found that the leaves, really do make a delicious ingredient to some dishes.
Bunch of herbivores
Love how he says bag “beg”
sorry its a wisconsin thing
@@TechplantChannel Northern Irish thing too
@@TechplantChannel you mean wiscahnnnnsin?
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@@TechplantChannel don’t be sorry it’s so sexc
it’s nice you show progress over a longer period of time, unlike most. great video!
Thanks for watching!
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Was thinking about buying a lemon tree at a nursery but this just gave me the inspiration to grow one, thanks.
the ones at the nursery are probably grafted and will bear fruit much quicker just so you know, from seed could take 5 years and you might get poor quality lemons
I bought a lemon tree from Home Depot but it came with scale that seemed to improve a bit after I wiped off the bumps with rubbing alcohol and placed it outside in the summer, but it ended up not surviving. Starting your own tree in good soil without pests might be the best way to get a lemon tree!
Did you plant some? How are they doing?
All the ones I find at nurseries have the golfball size fruit. I want *real* lemons so I am watching these videos.
I started unpeeled seeds in soil about three years ago and one of the trees is now nine feet tall. I am very pleased on how it has grown.
After all those years do you have edible lemons now?
9ft!!!
Did you use pots or planted it outside if you plant it in a pot how many gallons does your pot have
-sorry for bad English
Me who has a 100 year old lemon tree in backyard that still produces: now this looks like a job for me.
amazing!
hhahaa lol same here, got a 70 year old healthy tree but im bored so thought why not grow another one
if it produces high quality lemons dont grow them from seeds.
make a clone.
all you need is to choose a branch, remove part of the bark, smear a bit of root growth hormone(optional but it helps) and attach a small bag of moist soil in the area where you cut the bark, and observe it for like 1-2 months, until it starts to grow its own roots. then carefully cut it off the tree and plant it, and you have an exact clone of your lemon tree.
seeds have genetic variations, clones dont.
@@sabin97 as much as I would listen to you and do this, it was my great great grandmothers tree and cutting into it wouldn’t make my family happy. If she was still around I’m sure she would say the same thing.
@@ashminty9295
you never prune that tree? never cut any excess branches?
I stripped the husk off of 8 seeds from one lemon and sprouted them using the paper towel method. Out of the eight that sprouted I ended up with two beautiful lemon trees. It really required a bit of effort to end up with two healthy trees. They really established themselves in the container and it will be interesting to see if they actually bear fruit. Whether they do or not they are still welcome in our house for the foliage.
amazing! Thanks for sharing I hope they bear fruit for you one day!
Do they smell good in the house?
@@ladymarie77 they dont really smell like anything unless you break a leaf
Update please OP
I live in Southern California. I just put the seeds in dirt and they all came up. Just transplanted them today. Excited!
''kinda reminds me how I grew up'' made my day 10x better
lol
I got a lemon from a 800years old tree. I though those were great genes! Three seeds out of 8 were successful, one is struggling the other two look like 20 days old but are actually 14 months. I learned that lemon threes don't like much water and like to be under sun. I will invest on iron and good fertilizer! Thanks!
Thanks for sharing!
If you want a tree that will have the same caracteristics of that 800 years old one, you probably want to start it from a branch, since it essentially will grow into a tree with the exact same DNA. When you start a tree from seed it will always be in some way different than the tree where they came from since their DNA will be different much like a parent and a child.
ohhh, glad to find this input. less water, already in full sun for my sprout of a month +. thank you
800y old seems improbable... Normal citrus lifespan about 50y, there's some around 150y, oldest US orange tree is 175y? Any documentation/link to super old citrus I'm interested.
@@sufii1374 thank you. I had not thought about that. However now is too late. I am far away from that tree now. I'm left with two now and struggling.
I am 75. Years ago (approximately 40) there was a “how to” that floated around and everyone tried it! You needed the following, a saucer, cotton balls, a shot glass and the seeds of a lemon. You dip the cotton balls in water, place on a saucer, place lemon seeds on top of the cotton ball and cover with an upside down shot glass. Then take the saucer and put it on top of the refrigerator and forget it.
Of course with it up there, out of sight, it is easy to forget about! Weeks later I was cleaning off the refrigerator and lo and behold there was that darn shot glass! I pull it off the top and look and there were roots growing out one side and tiny shoots of green! I planted the seeds in a small pot of soil and stuck it in the window and darned if it didn’t grow! Of course you had to keep transplanting it to larger and larger pots but yes it did grow! As someone else mentioned, it will never produce lemons you can eat and I finally lost interest when I moved into a house that did not support indoor plants and I gave it away! It was a healthy three feet tall and bushy!
But that gives you yet another method to try. I guess the reason they wanted you to leave it UN disturbed was so that it maintained that moisture to promote initial growth! Have fun!
Thanks for sharing, ill have to try it!
interestinggg!!
My propagation book said it takes at least 15 years to produce fruit. I had a lemon tree and waited so long. Looked it up in my book and it said you had to wait at least 15 years. My little tree died from a freeze before it could produce lemons.🙁
How come it wouldn't produce edible fruit?
@@TechplantChannelI wonder if the warmth of the fridge helped? Also I wonder if the seeds were healthier back then, less genetic alterations? Anyway, I might give it a try.
Expectations before watching: Wow this guy must be really knowledgeable about plants and be really into gardening
Video: “Eh so I’ll do this I guess?”
I actually liked it even more because of that so no hate
lol, yeah i like to try things and see it for myself. Ive read about plants and you can always find contradicting advice from website to website so i like to just try stuff
I’m glad you’re doing so many different methods. My grandmother passed away earlier this year and our family had to sell her house. Luckily my Dad sent me down some lemons and mandarins from her trees before the new owners moved in so I’m hoping to try grow some trees from the seeds that I’ve harvested.
I’m currently using the zip lock bag method with a slightly damn paper towel and stored in a warm dark area.. I’ll also borrow some of your methods and see what happens.
I like the thought of using my departed grandmothers fruit for seeds rather than store brought ones because I know they’re 100% organic and came from a good source.
NOTE: The chlorosis he was seeing on the leaves could have been iron OR nitrogen deficiency, especially since there was no fertilizer added at all. Since the leaves changed and the chlorosis improved on existing leaves, that indicates it was likely nitrogen - not iron - deficient.
- a greenhouse manager
Thanks
Your right. It was from removing the shell. Seeds need the seed pod for nutrients. It helps give the plant energy to grow. When it has used up all the nutrients, the pod drops off. It's like little baby fish, that have a egg sac, at birth. It feeds them, until they can eat in their own. So that plant was deprived of nutrients, and the soil was not enough.
Is it possible that peeled seeds he put in plastic bag didn't germinate because he put too much water, or they don't have any air?
@@0omateoo26 The primary function of the seed coat (the 'peeling' that was removed) is protection. High moisture and low air flow will certainly facilitate fungal and bacterial growth, which is likely what killed those seeds, and removing the seed coat certainly made them more vulnerable to those organisms.
Hi Brigette, I have a lime tree which doesn't give limes. I greet from seed. This summer the leafs started to roll green and dry. I removed those and now the rest continues to do the same. Does it required those nutrients? Is it the heat? Also there's lots of thorns, was wondering if I should cut those branches out or leave it. Also, should I graft it with a Lemmon branch from another tree to get fruit?
I sprouted a clementine tree a couple of years ago, planted it in a friend's polytunnel which gets strong sun, then went away for a year and a half. Came back. Where's my tree? "Ahh yeah... the sheep got into the polytunnel... it's that little stick over there."
This week we noticed it's starting to bud out some tiny new leaves! I'm very excited.
lol NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I have some clementines coming up right now!!
Well I wasn't planning on growing a lemon tree but now I feel like I gotta try. Thanks for doing all the dirty work for us
You can do it!
Same, I get so happy when the stalks get more tree like. Great video. I’m going to try
Good luck!
You just say "then you can get rid of them", but I can't just "get rid" of my babies
same i kept em all lol
LOL! I know EXACTLY how you feel!
ikr? you rase little children and then they expect you to just trash them? HOW?
Same. because the plants are alive after all. ^-^
Yeah my cat had 4 kittens, I ended up with mom ,dad, aunt kitty and 4 sisters. One lived to be 20. She was the only one that like to be outside. Rip cat family.
I just let the seed sit on a windowsill to dry a day or two, pop them into the soil with my finger, water the soil, and a week later I see growth (an old way I learned from my Mom), it has never failed me. It works for all fruits and vegetables too.
Nice tips ill have to try it
Exactly. There’s no need whatsoever for this paper towel, bag method.
I did the same, but it's been two weeks or so and nothing has grown. 😞
Dude, this is one of the best produced gardening videos I've seen. I love your production values, delivery, and attitude. Great info as well. I've grown a few lemon trees from seed, but you just taught me a lot more about how to do it well and properly. Thanks so much!
How often do you water
God bless you brother! A simple way is a progressive way. Your narrative is brilliant, and comforting. Thank you and God bless America!!!
I have a volunteer citrus plant on my backyard which took more than 10yrs to grow limes. It is a real survivor bcoz we never watered it or fed it. It only got water during the monsoons, and still managed to make it this far in the tropics and finally fruit :)
amazing!
Thanks for the lesson. Our neighbour’s lemon tree is so healthy despite not getting any special treatment, perhaps it’s just a rather strong tree and doesn’t need a lot of human care. Anyway, we picked more than a dozen huge lemons last week (as long as the branches are over the fence, the local law says we are allowed to pick fruits from a neighbour’s tree), and after enjoying lemon meringue pies and lemon cakes and some lemon curd, it dawned on us that maybe we should try and grow our own tree from these delicious fruits so that we can have all the lemons that we could eat.
I love your videos!!!! People think I’m weird for sprouting lemons mangos and avocados but it makes me so happy. I’m glad to see a fellow plant nerd, you’re awesome and adorable!!!
Thanks! I think its a ton of fun watching these things grow too!
I did the bag and wet paper towel method and had no problems as I did as a curiosity thing, the method I used was just kitchen paper towel tap water and put them in a cool dark cupboard left them there for 7 days then planted them in potting mix. I'm going to bonsai 1 and grow the rest as normal trees.
Nice, I added too much water to mine!
A few years ago I tried growing from seed. It had thorns and no one could tell me if lenon trees had thorns. So guess what I threw my 5 ft lemon tree away..
I have asked many times about the thorns and you are the 1st that has said yes they have thorns. Thank you.
from the info i can gather, lemon trees that have not hit maturity have throns!
Gail Me Bruh why'd you throw it away
Thank you so much! I only want to learn about plants with you bc my attention span is short and I’m a forgetful gardener and I want to improve, and you deliver in a practical, simple, scientific way that I enjoy a lot! Well done, sir.
Thank you!
Surprise, surprise, the most natural method works best! My indoor lemon tree is around 2 years old and produces beautifully dark green, thick, shiny, and healthy leaves. I feed it citrus baby bio plant food. The leaves make the entire room smell subtlety of lemon, which is a pleasant side effect I didn't know would happen.
I've grown lemons, limes and mandarins from seed and they were all easy. I've even eaten the fruit off them now. Just sprout in a pot. Pot up until a couple ft high. Plant out in spring. Start with 50 good seed and you'll be left with about 10 really nice quality plants to plant after a year or two.
I had 4 lemon trees. They developed to about 24" tall and I gave them all but one away. The one I kept, I kept pruning to get more height. I inserted the cuttings directly into dirt and within 2 months, they all took root and we outgrowing their pots. No fruit so far. The citrus food pellets is great stuff! Thanks for sharing. It would be interesting to compare notes with you on Medjool date palms.
never grown a medool palm! Nice job with your lemon trees!
Growing from seeds is very educational.
I find rooting cuttings to be very easy.
I have two lemon trees at 6 montha old,
One with many flower buds on it.
Honest though I propogated without a rooting hormone.
Fun experiment.
Grow from seed for a beautiful houseplant.
I bought a tree off etsy and used it for cuttings.
Thanks for sharing, i love the idea of buying a mature tree and propagating cuttings!
Just got through eating a lemon and now I know what to do with the seeds. "Projects" of any kind that take a long time to do seem to be worth the effort no matter how they turn out in the end. They teach you things. Unfortunately most of us never think to document the experience, whether through video, pictures, or a journal of some kind. Then when we start thinking back on the journey all we have is memory to rely on. Don't we all know how that turns out. It was SO COOL to see him take us through a time journey.
2020 test:
I had dry seeds from a store bought lemon that I soaked in tap water for a couple of days, fresh water each day. At planting I clipped/nipped a tiny opening of the outer shell with the side of my nail clippers. Planted in “tri” soil like the rest of my garden containers in a pot with holes in the bottom. Gave a good misting and covered with clear dome to help speed up the process.
Although I started this “test” late in our short growing season and it has been a crappy growing season, both my lemon seeds have sprouted. I replaced clear dome with netting until my seedlings had two sets of true leaves as “something” (birds, squirrels) eats young seedlings. One is now 2 - 3” tall. Although I have no idea what I am doing, the test will continue as I bring them in over our long winter and hopefully continue their growth.
I love testing in my vegetable garden. Covid summer gardening has been fabulous even if Mother Nature has been off. Hopeful that I can successfully do some Covid winter gardening. Stay safe everyone! 🌞🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing, very interesting! Stay safe aswell!
one thing I noticed with my lemon trees. They like being played with. They like when you play with the leaves and talk to them. I have four planted in the same pot, the two I couldnt reach (around the snake plant they are beside) to touch, didnt grow nearly as fast or full as the ones I petted daily. Plants are very intuitive, more so than people realize.
Love that!
That's so cute!
I noticed that with my hibiscus plants 😍 I feel like I was "rewarded" with more flowers after talking to them often, complimenting them, softly taking the dead leaves off... and now imagine what happens when we are careful with other humans too 🤔
When i was a kid i had no friends but my dogs, mom and a citric tree(we didnt knew if it were a lemon, orange, toronge, etc) and i talked to him. Jajajaja good times
I also touched my lemon trees every day. I told them I loved them . when I moved to Nashville someone stole my two 7 ft lemon trees. I was sick. I know they were not Happy to be taken away. They were 4 yrs old.
Nobody, literally no one in the world
Tech plant: ‘baeg’
lol
Lmao thanks that was very funny
Straight up stopped the video to look for this comment at 15 seconds lol
Listen.
That's how people pronounce it in some parts of the country. That's how I do; I think it's a Seattle area accent.
Gģ
Finally...thank u. First video on growing a lemon tree from the seed from itself. Been looking for this. And u showing how to in different ways. Bless u.
Well done you, nice to see a young person getting involved. Don't throw away any surplus seedlings give them away and save the planet.... one tree at a time.
Good thinking and thanks for the kind words!
Tried peeled and unpeeled, and inside vs outside (zone 8a) and outside peeled is working the best so far. Seedlings are about 3 inches tall - I'm so excited! Thank you for making and sharing this informative and helpful video
This is helpful! I’m in 8a or 8b I can’t remember 😂
Wow. You crammed 8months --> 8min informative video, impressive!! Thank you for showing us various tried methods🍃🌱🍋
Appreciate you Techplant✨💫🦋
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm actually starting my own lemon tree! Ty for all this knowledge!!! My seed just started budding??!! 😭🤩 Im such a proud plant mama!!!!!
Good luck
@@TechplantChannel thank you!!!
"When life gives you lemon,you plant them." Cool!
Thanks
Solid video! With a lot of time and effort behind it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment I really appreciate it!
I did that years ago, when I put two seeds just for fun into the pot of some other plant. And they grew, and grew, and grew... Now I have two large plants, and they started to bloom and I have lemons on them. And the best thing: They taste fantastic, not too sour, perfect to eat them in thin slices. That was really luck.
How do you take care of them? Water schedule, fertilizer, lighting, temp?
@@wmluna381 Water "schedule": When the soil felt dry and the plant was lucky enough that I was thinking about its water demand...
Lightnigh/temp: In the summer outside on the balcony, in the winter in the cellar (maybe something between 5-10°C, never measured. But cellar with a bit of light works better compared to a normal room in the winter, there its too warm. There it always lost quite many leaves and it started to bloom to early so that there where no insects to pollenise them).
Fertilzier: same as with watering, depends on the luck of the plant, in some years maybe once per month, in some years only once per year.
This is quite genuinely one of the most insightful videos I've watched on YT! Thanks
When you see thorns like that, they're "suckers". Citrus trees are notorious for having suckers grow, especially when they're young. They're essentially a nutritional sucker for seedlings and trees. If you take off that stem, the tree will grow faster and healthier.
Interesting, thank you!
'A nutritional sucker' aka another main stem for the plant, which will result in a bushier and more compact tree. If you're growing it as an indoor plant, it's actually better to encourage those, as it'll make the trunk thicker, and result in a wider canopy, instead of one leggy trunk with a few leaves on top.
Also Suckers also come when the plant is in stress, such as for vitamin deficiency. etc. It is nature's way of trying to save the plant, when the main plant is in stress, a sicker will appear just in case the main plant does not make it, the sucker will continue to grow. Citrus plants are heavy feeders.Its signaling to give the plant nutrients.
Thorns are present on vigorous growth low on the trunk as well as any other rapid growth. They are especially prevalent on immature, vegetative growth. As the tree matures the thorns on new growth are shorter, or absent, unless the cultivar is genetically disposed to thorniness. Suckers will eventually mature into productive branches, if their location doesn't interfere with the structural scaffolding of the tree. However, suckers growing below the graft union on a grafted tree are undesirable and need to be removed, as they will dominate and overtake the rest of the tree.
I have a tree which I grew from seed that has plenty. I thought it was because it's a lime and not a Lemmon. Big question is should I get ridd of it? I just have one and it looks like it's a male plant, no fruits or flowers. Can I try to do with the Lemmon tree a graft and see what happens?
I did the bag method and it was perfect (with patience).
yeah i added too much water i think.
Love the way he says “bag” ☺️☺️
Definitely going to try this! Thanks
It only works if you say beag
@@TechplantChannel ohh ok now I get it lmao
You guys should do this, I did this and it’s been a whole year and my seedlings have grown 🥲🩷 and I love it. Y’all need to go and plant some seeds
You can make your own citrus friendly soil mix by combining 5 parts pine bark (like bark mulch or bark reptile substrate, 1 part perlite, and 1 part regular soil/coir/peat. It should be well draining (be able to dry out between waterings) as they don't like their roots to stay wet. I have a lime tree thriving in this mixture so it does work well.
you always come through with the quality content. i'm so tired of plant hauls and collection videos and watering tips amongst youtube plant channels
Thanks!!!! sometimes i envy those channels tho because they get like 100k views each video and grow fast. Eventually i will make some like that but i do like doing more obscure and odd videos a lot more!
These are the videos that are actually worth posting! Keep making high quality content because it's actually impactful & appreciated! 💯
Legends say, that he is still replying to the comments. Lets see...
dang right i am
@@TechplantChannel top class👏🏼
Pog
Thank you for being so thorough and all the extra information you provide. Much appreciated.
Thanks for watching
I started a lemon tree a couple months ago, I started with leaving the seeds in a small glass of water for a week then placed them in a pot, it’s turning out quite nicely.
Progress report?
@@kayla-rae4770 she’s almost 3ft tall and getting really wide, she’s still growing healthy.
@@kitsunevixen4334 glad to hear🤗
She 74cm tall and 65cm wide so less then 3ft
Can you do this inside the house during winter?
I just got lemons and I’m on a gardening kick. I’m trying this. Updates will be given if reminded!
Awesome, good luck!
Update pls
@@user-gz5xf7us2r I grew deformed lemons :) and I like it
Thanks for letting me know AestheticLemonLady 😊
@@excusemeum....8053 how are your lemons doing now? Im really curious
Three years ago I planted a few lemon trees from seed following this video… aaaand now I have 4 little lemon trees 🍋 🎉
buut mine are (after three years) not even as big as yours after 8 month haha anyway it still worked so thanks :)
I know this comment is very long but it helps in the mistake conception
So, I wanted to give my advice on your plastic bag...
I have grown oranges before and now I have a tasty harvest!
So what was my experience:
I was lucky enough to not have any plastic bags when I decided to germinate my orange seeds so I took an opaque plastic container with a clear lid and then what I did was pretty much the same, I just took a paper towel and placed it on the base of the contanier and moisten it then I placed the seeds and covered the seeds with another paper towel and moisten it again and just placed the lid on and placed it in a cool and dry spot (with a little sunlight) and I think after a week the seeds had rooted! And well I left the seeds to grow in there for I think 2 months but definitely your seeds can take longer period of time to germinate so don't throw them away one of the seeds was so late it germinated 5 weeks later when I was about to throw it...
And here are my tips to grow any Citrus fruit:
1: Peel off the outer shell to fasten the germination process.
2: Try to germinate them by the paper towel method in a plastic contanier as you know I had success with growing them like that.
3: Wait until they have a little plant peeking out of the seed or from the bottom.
4: (If the plant starts to grow from bottom) Always wait until the plant reaches the height of the seed.
5: Never, place the rooted seed without creating a hole with your finger or something in the soil because the roots might BP get damaged if you force them to push through and they are not devolped yet.
That's all I'm not saying that don't try the method shown in the video but consider this method too...
you planted them from seed and they did bear fruit? that gives me hope 🙂
Get yourself a man like how he talks about his lemon trees
lol
um, cull the ones he doesn't want?
lol.
I planted a lime tree 4 years ago and it’s already producing limes good think I planted it 😁
awesome!
how? mine is more than 5 years, yet bears nothing
@@瑒珩玹 it’s because I grafted it if you grew it from seed it won’t produce as fast
Wow. Thanks for trying all four ways and letting us know!!!
Thank you! My Cousins in Arizona gave me a huge bag of about 30 lemons….The best I’ve had….So, I have a few left, back home in Ohio now….So, I’ll be planting them soon and following your advice! I’ll keep you updated and I may make a progress vid too!☺️💞
nice, good luck!!!
@@TechplantChannel, thank you!💞
update?
The “beg” method works for many seeds and would work well for lemon seeds. It’s helpful to get the fruit juice off and sometimes rinsing your seeds with a hydrogen peroxide/water solution could be helpful. The pealed seed in the bag should’ve worked and in most cases will. Sometimes people have bad luck tho. But I personally love the bag method for germinating any seed. Loved the vid tho.
the seeds cant be left waterlogged in bags. From time to time it's good to let the fresh air in as well.
Yeah I think mine were just far too wet
Yooooo 😂😂😂 I was looking for this comment
I legit was about to try this with lemon, so you just saved me 8 months of waiting 😂 thanks!
Plant them anyways its a very nice ornamental plant!!!! and in 3-5 years you might get some sort of citrus fruit!
Techplant Oh I did, I tried the bag method, and already transplanted them in soil, but it’s been more than like 2 weeks, still no sprouts showing up, gonna try the soil method today!
Thank you so much, I will do this with my middle-grade students this fall!
Awesome! I'm sure they will love it!
How do you spell "baeg"???
Such a cute quirk
lol its a wisconsin thing
@@TechplantChannel like melk and pellow? My step brother spoke that way but were canadian haha
@@meganhoward8820 It seems to be that general geographic area. Cool!
@@meganhoward8820 Wisconsin, Canada... same thing. XD
Also I would reccomend compost/worm compost it works well with most all plants as it contains almost all the nutrients a plant can use and its free (if you have a container, cardboard, red wiggler worms and some vegetables scraps)
*runs to kitchen and cuts up her lemons to start growing a tree* Thank you for such a detailed video. Great work!
You are so welcome! Good luck I hope they grow big and fast!!!
That is so cute! Me too!!
@@TechplantChannel it can have fruit?
Any luck growing the lemon tree
Mine appeared in a pot that held a milkweed plant I bought upstairs to doctor. My first!! Thanks for your very comprehensive info, especially regarding fertilizers. Cheers!
Awesome, good luck with yours!
This is a perfect video and just what I was looking for, deseeding some lemons now and planning on potting them later today so thank you for experimenting and showing us your journey with your lemon seeds!
Good luck to you!
For me the best method Ive tried is to peel the seed and just plant it, I put 4 seeds in one pot covered with a plastic bottle top to keep warm, put it by a sunny window, all germinated, this is in England by the way but one didnt make it, other three are growing nicely as I speak
Thanks for sharing!
I will be updating this:
Day 1: Planted 8 peeled seeds in seed raising mix. I have put some glad wrap over with some air holes. I water if there is any dryness on the surface.
Day 12: 2 seeds have sprouted
Day 13: 3rd seed sprouted
Day 14: 2 more seeds sprouted (5 of 8), the first seed seems to have sprouted 2 seedlings (I know this as I planted each seed in different trays).
Day 20: at this point there are 6 sprouts, a 7th one seems to be sprouting (I saw the seed on the surface thought it was dead, pulled it, there was a root so I put it back in).
How is your seedlings now?
@@LolaRabbit Fairly good. So out of the 10 I planted, 2 of them died, one of them was a runt, one of them seemed to have a fungus infection.
But of the 6 remaining, they are growing strong with fairly sizable leaves for their age.
@@BiscuitZombies update?
Thanks for this video I have it a try and I planted with skin on seeds and it’s growing so well after 5 weeks
In my experience I’ve found that skinned seeds sprout faster but seeds with skin produce healthier trees. My trees are a few different types of citrus but they are only a few months old I hope they grow as fast as yours did.
interesting i think i would agree, give em lots of light and they will grow quick!
"beeeeeg and soil" xD
midwestern folk for life
🤣🤣
Ceo of ina beg nd soyil
@@TechplantChannel I love it!!
I knew someone was gonna do it lol
Great video!!! You’re content is always A+ 😃I started lemon tree from a lemon a few months ago and yours are so much bigger!!
Mine are getting 18 hours of light each day from a strong LED grow light so maybe up the amount of light yours get and they should shoot up pretty fast!
I agree with the other comments, super cool video, and the best one I have come across. Thanks so much for your patience and videos :)
Absolutely awesome video, I always look for the videos that have updates within them to make things a lot more simpler as well as to be able to track the cycle and or the progress of the plant. I’m very grateful for the time in all the tremendous effort you put into creating this great video. Thank you so much… I thought a growing from seed a long time ago that I harvest from some lemons which I got from the market however I didn’t do a very good job and they died off. I truly hope next time I have much more success. Thanks again…
This was such a great, informative video. Thank you so much for putting in the time and effort to create this so that newbie planters such as myself can learn from your experience! Eternally grateful!! :D
Glad you enjoyed it! Good luck on your plant adventure!
Hey, I tried all 4 methods and got them all to produce seedlings and now I have, no lie, 72 seedlings. 65 lemon and 7 blood orange. How do I care and feed them now? They are all in plastic cup pots, draining into a saucer, and most are in the sun outside. Advice?
fertilizer! they are all hungry! I would look up a soil mix online. NICE WORK
I found a good way to help with peeling the husk off the seeds is to use a pair of nail clippers and just nip off the tip of the pointed end of the seed, this will usually leave an opening where something sharp can be inserted to start peeling back the shell.
quarantine with my seeds
lol
@Fabiola Puente Pérez Omg same
Yes
@@dreamymel me too lmao so many different seeds growing in my room rn
Awesome video! Thanks for showing the entire process and follow ups too! Very very helpful
Thanks for watching
Have to say I like the bag method the most, as I can see if/when the seeds sprout, and it has worked well for me, but I will agree that planting directly in soil is probably the best for the plants. Where do you keep them, they grow much faster than mine!
Superb video and I've learned lots from it.
Many thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching!
Post an update! What’s your light schedule on these? Show us how to top them! Love your vids
working on the update now! 15 hours a day from a grow light
well this video just popped at my recommendations, but since i have lemons and soil at home...i guess i'll just have a lemon tree too, why not?
heck yeah, have fun! if some die no worries!