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Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 9:37 am Post subject: My Lime Tree.....IT LIVES!!!

Since the Big Freeze, I've resisted removing the 2 foot or so stump that was all that was left of my lime tree. It had sentimental value, as I started it from a seed when you could first bring back limes from Mexico. This was one of our many class field trips down the while I was at CCSU.

The Wife-Unit says to me this morning, "I think you have lime tree shoots coming up"!!!! Sure enough, about a dozen or so shoots from the roots have returned. That made my day. Very Happy

LoneOak · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:46 am Post subject:

Just let us know when the margaritas will be ready!!
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deputydawg · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:43 pm Post subject:

Thats great news but I wonder if it will come back producing fruit? I know VERY little about citrus trees but they really interest me.

I've got 7 different citrus planted in large whiskey barrel containers. I was able to get them on my covered patio and walled a section in with moving blankets. Had a space heater running and thermometer. It never got below freezing and I still lost my Myers lemon and one tangerine tree. I say lost but the top died and bottom below the graft came back. Everything I read said they wouldn't produce fruit anymore so I just replaced them.

I'm definately rooting for you and your lime tree! That is some awesome history with it!

Totally unrelated but my daughter bought me a dwarf fig tree for Father's day this year. I just noticed this morning it has half a dozen figs growing on it. Made my day!

ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:59 pm Post subject:

I don't want to be the bearer of bad news but everything I've read says those coming up from the roots like that, if they do produce fruit they will be ugly and not very tasty. But you will have a tree. The article said that most citrus trees are actually two trees in one. They have been grafted. Anything up above the original graft could produce good fruit. Anything below that point usually does not

texancare · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 2:18 pm Post subject:

He started from a seed, so it was not a grafted plant. Wink

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Rxfire · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 2:40 pm Post subject:

Yes, true. That old tale about bad fruit is about grafted trees, not those grown from seed. The roostock is used as it might be pest resistant (nemaguard rootstock on peaches) or because it is better adapted to certain soil conditions, like Loving rootstock for peaches and plums in clay loam (nemaguard likes sand), or Pyrus betulaefolia for Asian pears on calcareous soil.

But Mexican limes should be good. I have a "thornless Mexican lime that revived after the freeze, not sure if it was grafted or not, but the plant looks exactly like the old one, so we are optimistic.
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ziacatcher · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 2:41 pm Post subject:

I overlooked that part about from seed. Sorry about that

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:00 pm Post subject:

Not grafted one bit. It froze to the ground 2 times when I was in Baton Rouge, then the freeze / Ice Storm of 2011 took it out again. Always, from seeds on the ground it recovered, so this one is the great-great-granddaughter of my original tree. I'm just happy it came back.

[And my Myer's Lemons from CA survived in the garage, and that's my Coasties 'free lemons on the side of the road' back in X-Mas 2019!!!]

Cool

Rxfire · Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2021 5:49 pm Post subject:

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bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2021 6:51 am Post subject:

Apparently not too many people make it over to kayak fishing reports.
http://www.corpusfishing.com/messageboard/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=39968

But the mangroves are sprouting green shoots everywhere.

We also found snook in force at Little Cut.