Myer lemon flowering after I brought it indoors (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world to c/houseplants@mander.xyz

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My potted myer lemon tree started flowering a few weeks after I brought it indoors for the winter. Is it OK to let it flower? Should I try pollinating the flowers to get more lemons?

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[-] DonielDoom@lemmy.poundncashdown.com 10 points 1 year ago

There's a chance that you tricked it into thinking it's spring, for lack of better terms.

It's something I recently learned about in reference to Jade plants that come inside for winter. If you allow them to get a certain small bit of cold before pulling inside, the temperature shifts will force blooms to occur.

I don't know much more about it, and I'm sure I'm botching the proper concepts here, but it sounds like what you're experiencing.

I have a couple larger jade (crassula ovata) plants that live outside in the summer and inside in the winter. This year they both started flowering right as I brought them inside. When I read a bit more about it, it seems like a normal technique/trick that folks use to push out flowers.

I've never seen them flower before now! Not sure what else may have the same tendencies.

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've never seen a jade plant flower either! So cool! I'll have to do a search so I can see what they look like.

Tricking the tree makes sense. I didn't bring it in until the temp was about to dip below freezing, so it makes sense that it thinks it got through winter (albeit an extremely short one).

[-] DonielDoom@lemmy.poundncashdown.com 5 points 11 months ago

Here's a shameless pic of mine!

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Beautiful! We have one but it's not mature enough yet.

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