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thats amazing... thanks.

One more question... Do lemon trees need polinated to fruit? (like apple trees do)

The flowers are self-pollinating, and the seeds germinate readily provided you plant them as soon as you take them out of the lemon, and before they can dry out. give them a 2 - 4 inch terracotta pot or similar, with good soil, loamier than the supermarket potting mixtures - add a good quantity of good garden soil to the mix. mulch with peatmoss or leaf-mold. keep evenly moist while germinating, but never over-water. they can enjoy somewhat droughty conditions better than sogginess. the only pests might be leaf-scale, and they're best wiped over with a sponge or paint brush dipped in soapy water, which will kill them.

they make good bonsai specimens if kept in tiny containers - they seem willing to please. otherwise, pot them on each year into something bigger, and they'll adapt themselves to the size of the container.
another thing - for a few years there, i got fascinated with them, and planted about half a dozen each year, but i selected only four outstanding ones to plant outside. so you might be wise to plant three or four seeds in each pot and when they're all up, thin to the best one (if you're careful you can transplant them at this early stage - they can't take it so easily when they mature. if you plant five or six pots they'll be variable and one or two will be outstanding among them all, and you can choose the best. if you then can't bear to throw the others away, that's just the spell they cast over people who love them!!!

and not every citrus tree needs to be knocked around before it will grow! just the occasional one, for some reason.
wyverne

Sky wrote:

ina wrote:

Thomzo wrote: I wouldn't bother with planting pips. Not only will it take forever for them to get large enough to fruit, but you'll quite probably find that they are then sterile and won't fruit anyway.

Yeah - but it's good fun watching them grow. And although mine never had a flower, it looked highly attractive; I used to plant dark blue lobelia around the base in summer, and with the dark green glossy leaves it was stunning!

Would be great for shrubs and hedging wouldn't it too, think I'm going to buy a few lemons and plant the seeds now!

I think that you might find you suffer with frost where you are, we are down at sea level so that is not a problem. But if you wrap it in bubble wrap over winter, they should survive.
Epsom salts is the thing to give them.