This tree amazes me. At the beginning of the summer it lost most of it's leaves to leaf borers. It budded out and set fruit but only had a few leaves so I wrote off the idea of many lemons. Slowly over the months, it added leaves and the fruit hung on. Now it looks like this and they are the best Meyer lemons we have had.
The Meyer lemon came over from China and is thought to be a cross between a lemon and a mandarin orange. It is thin skinned and is a bit sweeter than other lemons. It doesn't ship well due to the thin skin so they are hard to get. These will stay ripe on the tree until next April or so.
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