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Shop bought lemon pips

Claire.BeeClaire.Bee Posts: 57
in Fruit & veg
Hi, managed to grow a couple of little lemon trees from shop bought lemons but have now been told there is a very low chance I will get lemons from shop bought grocery lemons. Is this true? Is it worth carrying on with them and hoping for the best?

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  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    Seems you've slipped down the list, Claire, but I believe commercial growers of many fruit and veg species use special seed or grafted varieties that produce lovely produce, but are sterile in the reproduction department One of our scientists may be able to enlarge on it.
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    The lemon pips I grew when the children were small produced lovely trees which had the most lethal spines on the branches. We didn't keep them long enough to find out if they could produce fruit......the plants were getting too big to keep indoors.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    If you buy a lemon tree it will probably be grafted onto a rootstock, and I think commercial trees are grafted too. Apparently it gets them to the fruiting stage sooner. How long it would take for a tree to reach fruiting size on its own roots, I have no idea. And there'll be some genetic variability too, so the fruit might not be exactly the same (that might not bother you).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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