{"id":5587,"date":"2016-08-05T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/?p=5587"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:04:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:04:40","slug":"growing-lemon-tree-seeds-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2016\/08\/growing-lemon-tree-seeds-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Growing a Lemon Tree from Seeds, an Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two years ago, I began an experiment to grow lemon trees from seeds. These seeds were simply seeds picked out of store-bought lemons. One tree survived – and flourished. Let’s take a look at two years of progress on my lemon tree grown from a seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2014 – they’ve sprouted!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lemon trees…September 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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July 2015…about double in size from the previous year.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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July 2016. It’s huge! More than double in size. Only one survived.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Growing a Lemon Tree from Seeds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I inherited my curious mind from my dad. He loved to experiment with plants. My dad always had one or two unusual botany experiments going on. He would grow ferns from spores, or grow an avocado from the pit just to see what would happen. Growing a lemon tree from seeds would be something right up his alley!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you may remember, in 2014, I first wrote about growing a lemon tree from seeds<\/a>. I’m not sure why I decided it would be fun to experiment, but experiment I did. I planted several seeds from a plain old store-bought lemon from Wal-Mart. Two plants grew, but then one died. The remaining plant is healthy, strong and vigorous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what I learned about growing a lemon tree from seeds in Virginia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n