dwarf fruit trees

[jace22101]

is there anyone here that has any dwarf fruit trees indoors if so what kind and how are they i been thinkin about one the citrus ones

[Rita]

Mar 14, 2010 10:26:12 GMT -6 jace22101 said:

is there anyone here that has any dwarf fruit trees indoors if so what kind and how are they i been thinkin about one the citrus ones

I have been growing a lime indoors for about 3 years now it does well as long as you put it out in the summer ... My lemon JUST died but I am going to get another one

[Shelly]

Can do well if they have the right conditions. My lime tree grew sloooow when put inside from lack of humidity and direct light. The freshest and greatest tasting limes I ever had in a Corona though

[Rita]

I got one lemon off mine it was SOOOO good ... had to drink tequila shots with it

[BestoFour]

I've been looking everyone around here to buy one but haven't had any luck and online shipping is as much as the tree.

[spuds]

Ive got mine(citrus) indoors facing south.I may just leave em indoors this year,already have some babies growing,another just flowered.Thats WAAAAY early for us.Maybe the less temp fluctuating is helping?I have lemon,lime,tangerine and orange,never got an edible fruit yet,after several years.They either dont ripen in time or drop off.

Maybe this year?

[spuds]

I think we paid about 40 dollars per tree,one was cheap as it had a growth problem,but bloomed out later as a nicely balanced tree.

Went to a nursery down by San Diego to get em.

[spuds]

Here they are,overwintering in Barn.I may leave them indoors until weather really warms up,got best amt of fruits,earliest ever in this mostly south window

[spuds]

Mrs got the citrus outdoors.These have to be over 5 years old now,amazing for us living in snow country.Have a couple tangerines and lemons on them.

[coppice]

True temperate trees, Oh like crab apple or some of the prunus family are really out door trees. Meaning most of them live outdoors all four seasons. They may make short visits indoors. The other 51 weeks of a year they live outside.

Some mediterainian trees, olive, bay, tarragon, thyme HAVE to be over wintered in a heated space. With some TLC they'll live from October to May here in OH with supplimental light. But, but they have to go out doors in May.

No tree lives year round indoors, for long.

Big box stores sell fig family trees by the thousand as bonsai in some cases with "indoor" directions. seeing as they've been selling them for more than a decade. You can balance the total number that have lived for the past ten years indoors on the top of your head.

My end of this argument is, the right place for a tree is always out doors when they can tolerate it.

[coppice]

One possible fix for the desire to keep a tree indoors is to grow more than one, OK several, and cycle them through the house.

In some middle class japanese houses you'll find a little altar-shrine that has a tree on it. They cycle trees in-house to do that.

Trees that have to over winter indoors will do better with an intentionally built lighted space or bench built near a window. trust me kids they all go out doors late in spring.

Even Zeko Nakamura's bazzilion tiny trees went under cover only in the cold months. He used to keep 700-2000 mame (more than one fits in your hand) trees at a time.

[spuds]

Dwarf Citrus Update....

They are indoors in an unheated space with south east poor exposure and danged if they all have fruits but the tangerine,got pinkie to first knuckle size limes,......lemon and orange babies,amazing!!!!!

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[coppice]

And as long as they don't freeze up tight the'll do fine with a dance indoors in october, and a waltze outdoors after frosts end.

Restaraunt supply houses sell caster rigs for barrels that are adaptable to eight or more hand pots.

[msbsgblue]

My boss at the music store I worked at yrs. ago had a lemon tree about 7 foot tall. The lemons were almost as large as oranges. There would be so many on it they would have to prop the branches up with 2 X 4's.