This fruit is easy to grow as a potted plant, blooms and fruits every year, and can also be enjoyed as a bonsai

Introduction

Green potted plants are essential decorative items for home life. Keeping some flowers and plants at home has many benefits: it beautifies the room and pleases the mood. "Flower Sound Potted Plant Diary · Issue 1298" introduces you to a fruit that can be grown in pots.

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Growing flowers in pots on the balcony, such as fruit, lets you enjoy the foliage and harvest the fruit to eat. Looking at this picture, you have probably already recognized it: this is a lemon tree. Among woody fruit trees, the lemon is considered very easy to grow, requiring no professional planting skills, and even beginners can grow it well.

Potted Lemon

The lemon tree is a small tree of the genus Citrus in the family Rutaceae, cultivated all over the world, with many varieties. The most common varieties on the market today are the Xiangshui lemon and the Eureka lemon. Their fruit is rich in vitamins, juicy with crisp flesh, and has a strong fragrant aroma. It is widely used and deeply loved.

Eureka Lemon

Eureka lemon fruit is mostly oval to obovate, juicy with crisp flesh; the tree vigor is medium and it is easy to care for. The Xiangshui lemon has a slender fruit shape, large and seedless, with a sweet and refreshing peel flavor and no bitterness at all, so it can be sliced directly and steeped in water. It is named for its rich, fragrant juice, and it blooms and fruits continuously through all four seasons, with an almost year-round harvest. For growing lemons in pots, choosing these two varieties is enough.

Xiangshui Lemon

The lemon tree has strong adaptability and is widely cultivated in southern China, while in the north it is mostly grown indoors in pots. It is very easy to cultivate and has low growing difficulty. Because potted soil has limited nutrients, fertilizer is needed to ensure continuous fruiting. Remember these points: nitrogen fertilizer promotes growth, phosphorus fertilizer promotes flowering and fruiting, and compound fertilizer provides balanced nutrition. Do not apply fertilizer at too high a concentration; it is best to dilute it with water and apply it together.

Blooms and fruits every year

For a lemon tree to bloom and fruit, it also needs sufficient light hours and must not be placed fully indoors. It is self-pollinating, so a single tree can bear fruit. With proper care and sufficient light, it grows vigorously, and it can also be pruned into a bonsai tree shape. Placed at home, it is both ornamental and bears fruit every year. Grown by yourself, it tastes better than what you buy outside, and it is well worth having.