With the hot weather about to hit us the good lady of the house enjoys a Vodka, Lime and Soda, therefore she has come up with the brilliant idea of planting a Lime tree. What is the best Lime tree to get that suits my area which is central Victoriaish ( Seynour area, victoria ) Hot summer days and probably 12 frosty mornings a year.

Rook

Tahitian lime Rook..
I have 2 dwarf tahitian limes going great guns. They’re not long planted though and I don’t expect fruit for another year , even though they are in bud.
Depends too on those frost temps. In my area (Werribee sw vic) frosts don’t go into minus temps. I had the first one in a clear plastic covered wire cage for it’s first winter anyway just to make sure it survived. My 2 nd lime I bought a month ago and it’s planted next to a north facing wall.
Expensive lil trees, about $49 each.

Happy Potter said:

Tahitian lime Rook..
I have 2 dwarf tahitian limes going great guns. They’re not long planted though and I don’t expect fruit for another year , even though they are in bud.
Depends too on those frost temps. In my area (Werribee sw vic) frosts don’t go into minus temps. I had the first one in a clear plastic covered wire cage for it’s first winter anyway just to make sure it survived. My 2 nd lime I bought a month ago and it’s planted next to a north facing wall.
Expensive lil trees, about $49 each.

Thanks HP, i have a $50 Bunnings Voucher to use.

I know Werribee, it’s on the road down to the Home of the mighty Cats……

Rook

did you know that the chemical structure of limes and lemons are identical? except they are mirror images of each other. One runs clockwise and the other is counter-clockwise.

We had a Tahitian and Kaffir lime planted next to each other in previous house..

Fabulous hedge trees as well as wonderful source of VLS for balmy evenings.

Our Tahitian was so abundant that we were able to juice and freeze in ice-cubes the juice. This meant we could enjoy the fruit all through winter!

Just rang our local nursery and they have Tahitian and Kaffir for $35.95 ea….sounds good to me

Rook

Rook said:

Just rang our local nursery and they have Tahitian and Kaffir for $35.95 ea….sounds good to me

Rook

Sounds very expensive to me.

want a decent sized plant for that, Bunnings had a citrus trees a few weeks back ??

The Estate said:

want a decent sized plant for that, Bunnings had a citrus trees a few weeks back ??

Thanks for that Thee, i will make a trip down to Epping on saturday

Rook

Rook said:

The Estate said:

want a decent sized plant for that, Bunnings had a citrus trees a few weeks back ??

Thanks for that Thee, i will make a trip down to Epping on saturday

Rook

might pay to ph first just in case, save your juice that way

they start producing (fruit) properly about 3rd year. as for all purchases of valued seedlings, you get what you pay for, most of the time. $35 for a tahitian lime can be a good bargain, if it’s a healthy and advanced seedling….or it can be a waste of money or considered a bad deal if you get a scrawny or perhaps even not healthy specimen.

bluegreen said:

did you know that the chemical structure of limes and lemons are identical? except they are mirror images of each other. One runs clockwise and the other is counter-clockwise.

No! I didn’t know that. Actually mine are pretty static. They just hang there…………………

bluegreen said:

did you know that the chemical structure of limes and lemons are identical? except they are mirror images of each other. One runs clockwise and the other is counter-clockwise.

No! I didn’t know that. Actually mine are pretty static. They just hang there…………………

thought i’d mention it in a citrus related thread….i just found out that my potted lemon tree, which was showing magnesium and iron deficiency, had soil that was too acid. and that’s what was causing the yellowing and drop leaf. turns out the iron chelates didn’t do much good, as i put too much sulphur in the potting mixture when preparing. so at pH5.5 it was showing these scleroses that one would normally expect to be brought on by alkaline soil. live and learn.
i do wonder sometimes about how common lime induced iron & magnesium deficiencies really are here in australia. do hear about the symptoms from people a lot….but then isn’t most of mediterranean (where citrus grows fantastically) soil on a lime rock?