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Harvesting the New Year's Eve Meyer lemons

whitewave

whitewave

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It is so cold in New Orleans! Hard freeze threatening tonight, so I have to harvest the entire tree. The neices and nephews are taking too long to get here, so I had to get to it. My hands are freezing through my gloves!!!

Happy New Year, everyone! I will toast you with a glass of (spiked) old fashioned lemonade later tonight...
 
Picking lemons looks like fun.
Whatcha gonna spike it with?
Rum?
 
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It is midnight (13 minutes to the New Year), so I cannot take pictures of the lemmon three infront of my current dwellingº: it certainly has more fruit then leaves, and there are so many, they do look like very yellow leaves. There must be several years worth of unpicked fruit. What do I do with them ! Must they be picked for the good of the tree ?

The tree needs to be fed for sure ...

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Pretty lemons!
 
valeria101 said:
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It is midnight (13 minutes to the New Year), so I cannot take pictures of the lemmon three infront of my current dwellingº: it certainly has more fruit then leaves, and there are so many, they do look like very yellow leaves. There must be several years worth of unpicked fruit. What do I do with them ! Must they be picked for the good of the tree ?

The tree needs to be fed for sure ...

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Every other year (or if for polar vortex) I pick the whole tree for the sake of the tree. I agree the mother needs nutrition also-- she can't be perpetually pregnant. The original tree is 20 years old. It is now a conglomeration of many trees clumped together.
 
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Got it.

This tree is a clump too ... - aparently, the result of several die-backs in hard winters, some years back.

Lemmon jelly it is !
 
whitewave said:
https://thecafesucrefarine.com/meyer-lemon-vinaigrette/
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I sure do vinaigrette all the time: this place made me into an olive oil eater - after two years or so of Granada, I know what it means to have it fresh ... (will miss this place)
The recipe is a little different, so it will get tried.

The marmelade recipe linked in the page seems to result into something very close to what I have called 'jelly' above [useful pt. on peel use ... I tend to give up on it]. I make mine somewhat differently: these half-wild lemmons do not need added pectin, and although I intend my stuff to keep (a little more boiling, jars pasteurized), it never lasts... If I clean off the tree of fruit now, I'll dare a bigger batch.

Thx ! .-)
 
Meyer Lemons. The gold standard of lemons, yum!!! You go, whitewave!!
 
Jealous! We have 3 meyer lemon trees and usually have hundreds of lemons. There was a freeze last spring and we got a single lemon this year! Thankfully the trees are still alive and look great but all the buds froze.
 
Gosh, I'm Jelly!! I love meyer lemons. Yes I'm that weirdo that will just suck on them for no reason.
 
HI:

I am also jeali! Total yum, they really do improve everything. I am making Greek food tonight and could use a few for potatoes. And for a Vesper:twirl:

cheers--Sfharon
 
ceg said:
Jealous! We have 3 meyer lemon trees and usually have hundreds of lemons. There was a freeze last spring and we got a single lemon this year! Thankfully the trees are still alive and look great but all the buds froze.
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That happened to this one a few years ago. We had two years of low/no crop. As you can see, it rebounded-- this is finally a relatively normal crop. Believe it or not, the bumper crop years put this crop to shame.

Dh had to cut down 3 trees in the middle of it last month, so maybe next year the crop will be larger.
 
Wow, I'm jealous they look amazing!!!!!
 
So cool!!! Make lemon bars!!!:lickout:
 
OMG so many lemons!

We have one tree and I love the lemons from it for the juice factor but I prefer the zest from the eureka.

Do you ever buy lemons during the off season? I am a real cheapskate when it comes to lemons. I have a Eureka and a Meyer so during fruit season I freeze the juice and the zest. Ours crops twice a year and there is usually only a period of 2-3 months where I don't have fresh lemon to use so I hit my frozen stash because the notion of actually paying for lemons offends me.

I will buy bananas for the 5yo and for banana bread but it annoys me because we grow them (we grow sugar bananas)!
 
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Off season ... I do not have one: the lemons would stay on the tree (with a few falling, but not many) all year round, unless I pick them. Cimate perk ? Odd variety ? Not sure ...
 
That is really cool!

Sorry can I hog this thread to brag about citrus?

So when I fell pregnant with the 5yo I put in a pomelo tree. It did nothing for 2 years, produced one fruit at 3 years. I used to google pomelo trees and pine at people's pomelo trees sagging with crop (lol think Pricescope jewellery but pomelos instead!)

This year at 6 years it produced approximately 15 BIG pomelos!!!!! We didn't buy a single pomelo during pomelo season and gave a bunch away because each one was the size of a rockmelon.
 
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