How to Plant & Grow Meyer Lemons in Pots!

If you’ve never had the pleasure of tasting a fresh Meyer Lemon, you are really missing out! You won’t find them in grocery stores, but who needs grocery stores when you can grow your own Meyer Lemons at home no matter how much space you have! All organic, non-GMO, all nasty commercial stuff FREE!

I’ve grown these before a long time ago, and unfortunately, I had no clue what I was doing and in the third year I killed my budding Lemon tree by over fertilizing it. So this time I’m doing it right! In this video I’ll show you how to plant your new Meyer Lemon in a pot so you can grow it in your house, on a balcony or patio, or just about anywhere! I’ll also show you what I’ve learned about the soil you need to plant it in, how to fertilize it, prune it, and even protect it from the weather!

Time-stamps and a basic explanation is below to make it even easier to reference the information later!
TIME-LINE:
00:00 – Short Introduction
00:28 – Introduction and Backstory
01:37 – Why plant citrus in a pot?
02:48 – What kind of container to citrus plants need?
03:28 – What kind of soil do I need for container grown Meyer Lemon?
03:55 – Mixing your soil for your Meyer Lemon
05:07 – Planting depth of your citrus tree
06:32 – Pre-Fertilizing and why you need to do it!
07:14 – Setting your Lemon's final location in the container and topping it off
07:42 – How and when to water your citrus
08:29 – Over wintering your Meyer Lemon inside
08:50 – Growing your Citrus Tree: When and how to Fertilize!
09:38 – Pruning your Lemon: How. When. Why?
11:23 – FUNNY! Keeping the Roosters from fighting
12:15 – Protecting your Lemon Tree from Frost and Freeze
12:47 – Summary and Thank you!

Thanks for taking the time to watch this video! If you’ve tried to grow citrus before and failed, or succeeded, tell the everyone why in the comments. I always love to hear how other people do things and it helps us all learn!

Thanks again and don't forget to get your hands dirty!

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[fngonzo]

I put one in a large Costco pot, and it gave me about 30 lemons. I added about 1/2 an inch of homemade mulch to keep the soil moist (under the hot Texas sun) and the roots from freezing. I am looking forward to more lemons this year!

[jtharp]

My myer lemon tree we bought in October 2021, I kept in pot,
I have a big lemon growing already May 4, 2022 plus about 14 lil lemons already growing here in Montgomery County, Texas .
God bless you
Mrs Josette Tharp 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Fauntazee]

Loved the 4 Important Things in Life tip💖

[dantheman]

Sand, perlite, soil conditioner or pine bark chips (optional to create acidic soil), and peat moss. Best citrus soil there is. Fertilize small amounts every month to avoid washing out a one time fert application

[deadheadelectric]

Bought our first Meyer lemon tree. Thanks for the video.

[greenthumb]

thank you! I especially liked your summary and 4 points of happiness.

[StephenMatlock]

thanks for the information! I just bought two Meyer lemon saplings - one from a mail-order house, and one from the local Home Depot. Both were the same price; the mail order one is a single stem about 18" tall with nothing but leaves, and the HD one is a much larger, more robust-looking plant that already has blooms on it. The mail-order one is probably a year old, and the HD one is at least two years old.

I repotted both of them this week (after they spent a week acclimating to my house), and I put them out when it's sunny and warm. It's still not really spring here - last night it was almost freezing, and it was 38 degrees an hour ago - so I plan to keep them in pots and bring them inside during the winter. (Zone 8a) I bought some grow lights that I'll use for when they're in the house. We keep the house around 62 at night during the winter, and in the summer we rarely get above 90 degrees.

So we'll see how they do this year!

[danacarbone]

we have 3 potted Meyer lemon tree, and we even eat the peal as it is very tasty

[JohnWilliams-iwoq]

Citrus love iron as well, we feed ours with burnt tins which we flatten and place under the mulch around the drip line and a feed of ashes from the winter heater but only one feed as citrus don't like alkalinity.
By the way, deer also like apricots and one demolished our anti bird netting and ate every piece of fruit. When he made a move on a mango tree I had been nursing for years it was time for a venison dinner!

[isabelladavis]

Have lots to plant this year grapefruit lemons limes pray that make it will use pots for a while thank you for sharing what you know with us new bees…stay blessed.

[MD-bcyl]

Thank you! I always wanted a Meyer Lemon tree, just got one. Your video provided an all around information I was looking for to help me grow it.

[myhomeandgardenchanneldwel]

It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey

[amysnipes]

I grow a lot of container citrus in Delaware. For p l.jant anting I use 2/3 potting mix and 1/3 perlite. Plants are outside in warm weather and slightly elevated, no saucer. When they are inside I use a large saucer with a round cooling rack to elevate the pot.

[dawninthemountains]

First video of yours I have watched. Thank you!

[MrsCynfuller]

I’m excited, I have my first fruit plant!!!

[slchang]

Great points and video...subed. My Myer lemon tree survived in pot during the cold snap last March with temp down to about 19F in SC, but not my budding fig trees with tip damages here and there. This was just a normal winter here so I decided to put it in ground near brick wall facing south-west. Apparently, the new normal set in when the temp got down to 10-12F last December during the powerful Polar Vortex hit here. All my Satsuma, Kumquat and Myer lemon got hit bad with all the leaves dropped and branches turning brown. I am hoping that they will come back in April from the main trunk...Heck, when life gives you lemon, just wait and hope...
About your point of pruning these citrus trees to size for maintenance, it is a great suggestion...but if you have quite a few trees, that is a lot of work...I am not talking about pruning per se, it is about trying to cover them up for protection. It was hard to do so with cold wind blowing more than 20 mph...My Satsuma tree grow to 14'x14' over the last ten years which provide me over 500 fruits a year. Hard to prune it down, well, I can do it now as most of the branches probably dead by now. If these mature citrus trees can take the cold like 10-12 F, I am not going to do anything different...If not, I will find something else more cold hardy to grow.

[russbarker]

Hi Doc. New Zealand here. I have a Satsuma tree in a 40cm diameter pot that is now about 4 years old. It has produced fruit every year so far, albeit not too many. It has been neglected and now needs to be pruned, so your video is a great help. Thank you Sir.

[MayhemMero]

I’ve never wanted to grow a lemon tree in my life till now! Great video skills my brotha and great info! I’m always learning new stuff on your videos!

[celiem]

MY FAVORITE LEMONS! GREAT VIDEO 👍 THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN.

[gogadgo]

I've got a Meyer Lemon tree growing in a crab boil pot and it has huge lemons starting to turn yellow.