Any tips for buying citrus plants?

 
I want to buy Lemon and Lime trees but the cheapest I can find them for
is £30 - anyone know anywhere cheaper?


Thanks!

Jin




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Jin

 
Try Lidl
They had some a week or so ago

 

"Jin"  wrote


I want to buy Lemon and Lime trees but the cheapest I can find them for
is £30 - anyone know anywhere cheaper?

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£30. is cheap for a Citrus tree. Doubt you will find a Tahiti Lime for under
that, well not one worth buying.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 

I know you want a quick result, but if you're young and into "slow", then I
can recommend growing from seed.  I have a lovely mandarin lemon tree grown
from a seed found in my gin & lime drink in Costa Rica in 1994.  It flowers,
and I have had a few small fruits showing up, although I don't treat it
nicely enough that the fruits stay on.  I also have some elderly trees grown
from grapefruit and orange seeds when I lived in a crappy bedsit in Kilburn
in 1973.  They never flower but, hey, they're like family, I can't just get
rid of them.

Following my recent holiday in Vietnam, I now have some kumquat seeds from
near Ho Chi Minh's tomb, and the little house he lived in nearby.  They've
just sprouted and are coming up and I have high hopes for them.  Viet
kumquats are not like the ones we think of, they're completely circular.  I
am looking forward to Uncle Ho's kumquats, except I'll probably be dead by
the time they produce :-)

Good luck with your search.

someone