Dawn
This was my bonsai lime plant which I decided to let grow normally. It is about 4 years old . I realized that the plant had too many fruits and it is unfair to restrict its size in a bonsai pot. This realization came to me a couple of years ago and since then I transferred it to a 12 inch pot . It hasn’t grown much in size just about 7-8 inches in height .
The plant continues to give me fruits throughout the year. It is kind of unusual, but it does. My other lime plants produce only twice a year. I have taken cuttings from this plant (when I used to trim it in bonsai style ) propagated them and gave them to my friends.
This small plant which is about 11/2 feet in height can give me 80-100 limes per year. I make pickles, juice , use it in my baking etc. This is one plant that hurts me the most but gives me the most. The thorns on this plant are so long and sharp, each time I have to weed the pot or repot the plant or even give it some organic fertilizer I get sever scratches all over my arms. I have had to use longer gloves while working with this plant.
This is one of the favorite plants in my edible garden.
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Question of
Do you like lime juice?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Are there plants in your garden you love more than others?
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You have really lucky hands to grow plants. ? I love lime juice.
Lime juice is a great addition to life! Lemon-lime combined is my all time favorite.
The fun old saying when life gives you lemons – make lemonade!
We don’t get lemons here so we make do with lime. Yeah the old saying, never too old for life.
Now that is one productive little plant! I wish I lived close to you. I would love a cutting off of it!
Oh I wish I could give a nice rooted cutting to you. I have a couple with me right now. 🙂
Cool. I noticed you said you don’t get lemons there so make do with limes. Will they not grow there? Seems like if limes grew well there, the lemons would too.
Now I must be jealous of you because my lemon plant never enlarged after more than two years! You are very lucky!
This isn’t growing in height or breath like the other normal plants do. While cutting taken from this plant has grown to a height of five feet, this bush has remained somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 feet at the most. But it is a prolific producer of fruits.
I think that’s like the situation all of my bonsai.
Hmm.. nice to hear that you are a bonsai lover. Most people think its cruelty to plants.
My trees say that it’s okay to be a bonsai as long as they are lovingly cared for.?
I really like fruits plants,i have also this plant and many fruits on it.
Wonderful to hear Hina. It is really lovely to see plants bearing loads of fruits.
I am not a huge fan of lemons or lime, but I do like key lime pie.
I love adding lime jest and lime juice for most of my curries, it provides the lovely acidity and balance the curries need.
Are you not preparing lemonade when your tree gives you lemons.
It is actually a lime bush to I make lime juice.
Lemons only thrive in the coastal area, dear Dawn … but some like them are planted in large pots and kept in the house in winter.
We have no winters to worry about Lado , so all our plants are in the ground or in containers outside all year long.
That is why such beautiful flowers that we do not know grow well
True dear Lado, we have the sun shinning on us brightly all year round. The temperatures do fall a teeny bit in winter that’s about it.
In our winter temperatures can drop to -20 degrees, dear Dawn
Looks like it is loaded for sure. I like to put lime juice in my avocado dip. Cute little tree, it looks happy now.
That is a great little tip Kim I will try adding lime juice into my avocado dip too. Yeah happy little tree.
It won’t turn brown, and adds a nice zest to it. Also if you keep an avo seed and put it in the dip until ready to serve, that will also keep it nice and green looking.
Wow that is another neat tip Kim. Never heard of that before. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Oh, I was confused – I thought we were talking about lemons. I have to read it again.
LOL sorry about that.. we don’t have lemons here , just its cousin the lime tree. 😀
I can understqand why this plant yields more. You stopped torturing it. Bonsai is nothing but torture.
It yielded almost a third of this even as a bonsai, which was why i decided to let it grow. But for those of us who have very little space, a bonsai is a God’s answer to our troubles.
May be you do it for practical reasons but for many it is art.
It is an art , a very difficult one at that. I have been trying to practice that art for 7 years now not even one tree is show worthy as yet.
I have never had lime juice so cannot say if like it or not. Since there was only yes or no I put no.
If you had lemonade it is very much like that but a little more acidic.