Due to a mixture of forgetfulness, trying out a new strategy and pure bone idleness, the 48 hour warm water soak to start off an avocado stone lasted a bit longer. I took Charlie and Ronnie out of the water today and suspended them with hair pins over the tops of jam jars full of water. Charlie has taken over Keith's old jam jar, and Ronnie is over a new little jam jar. There's no change in either Mick or Keith. I know plants take a long time to grow, but oh this is infuriating.
The clementine is growing... well, the leaves are probably a bit bigger but that's about all. Which is about all that can be said for the lemon babies as well.
I "pruned" my goji berry plants this morning. Goji berries didn't seem to be around when Keith Mossman was writing his book, so I have no advice on how to care for them. I am just muddling along.
Showing posts with label lemon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lemon. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Sunday, 27 January 2013
The lemons are out of the bag
My four lemon seedlings are still growing, but they were starting to push against the crinkled edges of their freezer bag greenhouse; in fact I think one of them lost a leaf this way. So yesterday I decided to take them out of the greenhouse, and to put them into seperate pots.
Well, here's three of them straight after. The other one flopped right over onto its side and laid on the compost - I thought it was a gonner. And then one of the others did the same thing. Those two have been sat on top of the radiator for a day now, and I'm pleased to say they've bucked up their ideas.
No one's looking sad like this now.
Little Clementine is still fine. Keith and Mick haven't done anything of late....
Little Clementine is still fine. Keith and Mick haven't done anything of late....
Thursday, 3 January 2013
New Year, New Shoots
After the Christmas festivities and so on, I took a look in my plastic bag greenhouses - things are starting to happen! So far it appears that the lemons are more successful than the piplets (clementines). I have four lemon shoots - one from each lemon pip seemingly, so I'm still not sure about Keith's comment that you can get several plants from one pip.... in the meantime on the piplet/clementine front there is only one shoot so far.
On non-pip growing news, my lemon tree has had a proper wobbly over Christmas. It has one leaf left. I suspect its days are numbered now. Sadly.
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Nothing much to report
Not a lot has been happening. The lemon and clementine pips have done nothing. Keith is growing a root and it has almost emerged from the stone. Mick hasn't really cracked up anymore since the last photo I took. He seems to be a late developer.
Sunday, 18 November 2012
Little Lemons
This morning I have planted four lemon pips in a pot, pretty much the same as the clementines yesterday. I was using a lemon and some limes yesterday evening. Really disappointed that there wasn't a pip to be found in the two limes!
I do have a history with lemons, it's work in progress. Maybe four or five years ago, I planted lemon pips and got about five to germinate. I had the plants for about two years before one after another, they all died (in retrospect, I think it was due to overwatering). Since then, I bought a lemon tree - not a well established, fruiting tree of incredible cost, but a young tree for about 10 pounds, which I've had two or three years now. It is still alive, but whereas it might have been about my height by now, it doesn't even reach my knees. From experience and also from a little reading, I've found out that lemons are not the easiest trees to keep alive. In some ways they seem to be determined to throw themselves out of the proverbial window. They are evergreens, but they will drop leaves if displeased. They don't always seem to be keen on regrowing leaves to replace the dropped leaves, and I've had some branches, where all the leaves dropped off, then go brown. Leaves will be dropped when the tree is in a huff - it's had too much water; it's had too little water; it's too hot; the air is to dry; it's too cold; a frost got on it's leaves; too much food; too little food; you let a catepillar wander on my leaves and nibble... It really feels like a battle of wills between me and my lemon tree. As winter approaches, it lives in the kitchen - there were two leaves on the floor this morning so I guess I'm in the bad books again....
I do have a history with lemons, it's work in progress. Maybe four or five years ago, I planted lemon pips and got about five to germinate. I had the plants for about two years before one after another, they all died (in retrospect, I think it was due to overwatering). Since then, I bought a lemon tree - not a well established, fruiting tree of incredible cost, but a young tree for about 10 pounds, which I've had two or three years now. It is still alive, but whereas it might have been about my height by now, it doesn't even reach my knees. From experience and also from a little reading, I've found out that lemons are not the easiest trees to keep alive. In some ways they seem to be determined to throw themselves out of the proverbial window. They are evergreens, but they will drop leaves if displeased. They don't always seem to be keen on regrowing leaves to replace the dropped leaves, and I've had some branches, where all the leaves dropped off, then go brown. Leaves will be dropped when the tree is in a huff - it's had too much water; it's had too little water; it's too hot; the air is to dry; it's too cold; a frost got on it's leaves; too much food; too little food; you let a catepillar wander on my leaves and nibble... It really feels like a battle of wills between me and my lemon tree. As winter approaches, it lives in the kitchen - there were two leaves on the floor this morning so I guess I'm in the bad books again....
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