Growing Meyers Lemons

In the past I tried Myers all failed, I always grew them like the rest of the citrus good drainage water when the top few inches dry. Recently I read a paper that said Meyers likes even moist soil at all times. I was woundering how true this is. Been thinking on giving another try at it. Any tips or advice.

I water my Myers when I think about it when its inside. When its outside it gets watered when it rains. Myers are finicky plants. They get upset if you do everything right, they get happy when you do everything wrong. I have even had one come back from the brink of death and give me lemons. They do not like being re potted or messed with. They remind me of a cat. Just leave it to do is own thing and its happy. I have 2 that I have been growing for 4 years and the less I do the happier they are. Give it another try and don't be so kind to it this time.

Andi, Seeing that I havent had much luck in growing lemons. I decieded to try some seeds from a fresh store bought lemon. For me this is a low cost way of testing rather than spending $20.00 to $50.00 dallars for a tree that I may kill. A few of the seedlings are about 1 inch tall. If I can get them to grow after the first year Ill buy a new tree. At this time I plan to treat them differently than the rest of the citrus.

I have killed one and I am trying really hard to kill another meyer but I have another kind of varigated lemon that is doing good so I really agree that they are hard to grow the are too finicky, the rest of my cirtus are grown under the same conditions and they do good...
Bonnie

Strangely enough the one I left outside and covered all winter looks the best out of the 3 I have. I attribute this to a lack of direct light and lots of humidity, in the mini greenhouse

Meyers are often ungrafted specimens.. make sure you're water is PH balanced to 6.5 or so. Also I have found that ungrafted container citrus languish with peat based mixes as they hold to much water for the fine roots. Dont flood the container with water if it's peat based soil.

I have decided to give up on them, I have another variety of lemon that is doing great, I am tired of the issues with them.....
Bonnie

My Meyer lemon has been in the ground for 8 years and produces lots of fruit every year. I don't do anything different for it. It is next to a Page orange (or mandarin), a Bearss Lemon and lots of other stuff. Seems to lose a lot of leaves every year, but then comes back ok.

I was thrilled with the 7 lemons I had the first year and last year I about killed it by having it produce about 41 lemons. Durring the winter, it lost most of it's leaves, but is coming back and should produce a decent crop again this year. I think I may prune off any more than 20 lemons this year if it holds all the fruit that is set now. My comquat (sp?) has put on lots of new leaves and branchs, but has not bloomed yet. I beleive it does bloom late. I also inhereted a tangerine from a lady that had not been able to get it to bear any fruit and had had it 5 years. It has set about 10 fruits, will see if they mature. Probably should have help with polination, but it was a busy spring.