Lemon Tree

Sometime ago, I wrote about my sad lemon tree that had blossoms and no leaves.  Well now it has one green stem with 2 leaves and a small lemon, yes a lemon!

If you remember this is the tree that I consulted a citrus grower, looked on the IPM web site, and contacted Lance Walhem, who wrote a book on citrus, and they were stumped as to what was going on with it and so they could not give me any information on what I could do.

So I decided to let it be and only water it, when I watered my other citrus.  I did not even give it any fertilizer as I was sure it would not survive, and it is still a very sad looking tree.  I am not sure it is going to survive, but maybe the tree has made the decision to try and survive.

I will be surprised if the lemon it has stays and continues to grow to maturity, but for now it has a lemon.

The lemon on the sad tree. (photo by Betty Victor)

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