6 Year Old Seed Grown Lemon Tree | Seed Grown Citrus Tree | Growing Lemons In Containers

Hey guys! In this video Chad gives the long awaited 6 year seed grown lemon tree update. If you enjoy the video remember to leave a like and subscribe for more plant and gardening videos!!

Transcript:
Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Plant Fanatic. My name is Chad. today. I want to talk to you guys about my seed grown lemon tree back when I made my first video. it was four years old now at six years old. A lot of you guys have been an update video so lets go ahead and do that. I got it right here for you. A little pruning. There is a six years old right there. the star of the show. okay i'm just kidding guys. This is actually a new seedling that I started just a few months ago im going to graft onto this and make some really pretty citrus trees. But let me take you right over here to the real tree. Nobody get mad alright. Let me just kind of walked back into my little citrus corner here if I can get back here. Alright, so here it is. This big tall beauty right here. This is my six year old lemon tree that I started from seed. I did like the paper paper towel method, waited for it to get a little root and then I just put in some planting pots and six years later. This is what you get so I really hope you guys aren't quitting on your citrus trees growing from a seed and then growing them for a season then throwing them out. You can have a really pretty tree. It still has not put off any fruit. Its been six years now but what can i say i'm a patient guy grafted or anything those sometimes i will take other varieties of citrus when i get cuttings from people and i'll kind of bud grafted on here so i can keep it alive until i have A seedling I can graft but as you can see it's. You can tell a little bit. Holders may be a little bit taller. It was way taller than an ass and I pruned it back. I like to keep it about the same size so obviously its not gonna be too much different but I really enjoy having it. I don't need to do too much with a kind of shoved into a corner. As you can see, this is kind of a little citrus the corner. i'll just put all my spot in the citrus trees. I live in zone seven PF a little too cold to keep them out side, but I just shove them in the garage in the winter and they're fine. They don't need light or anything. They have a little bit of a hard time. Some of the lead will come off when I bring it outside. It takes off again and we're good to go. so don't let being in a northern planting zone keep you from doing this. Get some citrus trees and a a A. Keep them in pots. Keep them in the garage, keep them inside in a sunny window, bringing back out in the spring and you're good to go. But highly recommend holding on to your citrus trees is just so cool to be able to say that even sticking with something for so long and you might get a hard time from some plant people saying that kind of stupid. You don't even know if the fruit is gonna be the same and the fact of the matter is guys i don't care, i'm doing it for fun. i love doing it. I love having the patience because at the end of the day when you guys are going something like this and have patience, you can say I grew this from seed and it finally fruiting for me and it took a lot of patients and that's one of the Biggest things to take away from gardening guys is just to learn. patience, not everything has to be given to you right now. Its easy to go get a grafted tree from somewhere but you never gonna really find people that have seed grown citrus trees, especially in the northern planting zone. so I highly recommend you guys do this and proved some people wrong. Show how patient you are and have fun doing it. Thanks for watching the video guys.

[jokerable]

I got a long way to go, just did the paper towel method with orange seeds about 2 weeks ago and now I just put them on a small pot, I have 2 baby trees. Like you said is about enjoying and feeling proud to say "I grew it from a seed".

[김현태-fi]

Amazing tree! I have a 7-year-old lemon from seed and it's not producing fruit yet just like yours. It's good to see someone have the same idea of keeping a lemon tree with patience. Good luck to both of us!

[Free_Falastin]

Finally another gardener with beautiful seed-grown fruit trees. Well done. The trunk size is impressive. I'm curious to see how bad they look at the end of the winter. I'd say this time of year (mid-March) is a perfect time for an update :)

[sleepyheads]

I have a few two year old lemon plants from seed. And this year I planted kafffir lime seed and one grew! I live in NYC so it takes a lot of patience and work to maintain them !

[kryptonitekittee]

I agree! Not stupid at all. The process of successfully growing a plant/tree from seed is where all the satisfaction and fun is. Good job!

[wandervargas]

Probably next year it will flower that lemon tree loves you! Keep it alive

[kaylenefortune]

I started my seed grown lemon tree about 2 months ago. I love the fact that you still have your tree 6 years later regardless if it has beard fruit. Dedication and patients is what matters.

[johnorsomeone]

Great update! I’m looking forward to more and I’m 100% with you on the benefits and fun of growing from seed. It’s just rewarding. I’m not trying to switch careers to become a professional lemon farmer and I don’t care how many lemons I get or what their quality is. That’s a big source of confusion for a lot of fellow growers so.. I get you there.

[wordsbymaribeja]

I love your message in this video and your trees are so beautiful, I have about a dozen lemon seedlings and I was thinking about giving up on them because people keep saying that they are unlikely to grow lemons but you reassured me that I shouldn't because as small as they are now, the leaves are so pretty and they'll in the very least make beautiful house plants. Thank you.

[mattgibson]

Great to see an update on the tree. I enjoyed your video and now it looks like I have a dozen or so young citrus trees and more in the works. Peeling the seed coat really makes a huge difference in germination rate! I'm in zone 5B-6A so these will always be house plants that get to vacation out doors for the summer. As for the rewarding aspects of keeping trees you started from seed, I have an orchard of apple and crab apple started ten and fifteen years ago. Which should set fruit in the next few years. It is indeed very rewarding to watch a tree develope from seed.

[Ben-fcwg]

Wow this thing is amazing!! My grandma and I are growing lemon trees, they are both a couple months old and hopefully one day they will be this big.

[vineet]

I did air layering of my swet citrus its started giving fruits in 1 year

[diavalus]

Great video, much much better than all the other ones where is only about how to germinate and nothing else more!

[angellee]

I’m on year five with mine. I’m in zone 6. I do the same thing and put mine in the garage for the winter. They look great this year. Just topped them off with a new pot and cow 💩. I hope you get fruits soon.

Someone told me that if I “whoop it” the stress will force it to fruit like they do with okra. I’m too scared to do that to my babies. But I did hear that it actually works as long as the weather and soil health is good. I have some 3 year olds…I might try it on those when they are five just to see.

[esthert]

If anything you can make good tea with the leaves. Good for you

[brianbordenkircher]

I’ve started several lemon seeds. One is 3 years old now

[gypsysoultoo]

I have planted seeds from lemon, grapefruit and orange. They are all between 4-5 years old and I keep them at about 6 feet in hight. I don't care if they will bear fruit or not. They are so easy to grow and I think they are just beautiful evergreen trees.

[noname-style]

Congrats brother! Really happy to see this update. Love your tree and it's been really inspirational to me when i saw your 4 yrs old video last April of 20'. I live in a condo in Canada and grew 15 seeds in 12 pots, 8 months ago, they are all growing crazy!  5 tree are growing vigorously like your one, some are losing the leaves in the winter now (humidity dropped from 55% to 28% (will they grow back? Only new leaves are growing at the top. Will the bottom end stay naked? I did mess up the watering a few times, left them dry a bit too much, but they are still growing on the top. Any suggestions?). Other than that i have 1 really bug one (3ft high) and 3 beautiful ones growing crazy. Btw they are all growing under a big square growing light and in the summer i move them to the windows for 6 hrs then back (facing North West - so I get only 3 hrs of direct sunlight for 4 months... . (Lots of work). I also use this pellets citrus fertiliser from jobbs and seawater mixture. All of them have bark now.
Thank you and looking for more videos.

[isabellajones]

I have 4 Meyer lemon seedlings I started seed 10 months ago, have nursed and cared for - and 3 are 2 ins and one is 4 ins. !! I do have problems living at 8, 400ft as the nights are chilly, but I bring them indoors. Any ideas??? - This is my first attempt at growing lemon seedlings.

[scootermom]

Hi! I live in an area where citrus trees normally don't grow either. I was wondering if you ended up getting fruit last summer.