Growing Lemon Trees from Seed in Oklahoma

It can't be dried.

Jay Angler wrote:Have you seen some of the techniques used in Russia to grow lemons further north. They did do a lot of work of choosing successful plants, and taking those seeds and moving further north, but they also did some interesting pruning approaches.

If you read this article: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/04/fruit-trenches-cultivating-subtropical-plants-in-freezing-temperatures.html

Scroll down and you see a tree that just a foot or two tall, with the branches splayed out to keep it low for frost protection. Putting flat rocks as mulch under it would help reflect up daytime heat in the evening.

I've got 4 baby lemons I started from seed with the intention of trying this system. I'm on Vancouver Island, BC, and there are people that grow lemons here with protection, but I'm not sure how many survived this past winter. At least if it's low to the ground, putting something over it when the weather is outside of the norms is possible.

Jay Angler wrote:. I'm on Vancouver Island, BC, and there are people that grow lemons here with protection, but I'm not sure how many survived this past winter.

I *had* a lemon, two lime trees and a kumquat. They were "protected" by old-timey x-mas lights (the kind that got hot to the touch) and wrapped in re-may landscape fabric...they all bit the dust this winter after living for 10 years here, just one (long) block upslope from the Salish Sea. I HAD been optimistic but now I think citrus should be better protected here (hoop house perhaps with small heater?) for the one-in-ten-year winter...arggh!