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 | |  24th August 2007, 11:23 | #1 (permalink) | | Oscars Mum Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Valle de San Lorenzo Gender:  Posts: 1,538 | Information wanted about growing lemon and orange trees in Tenerife
I am wanting to grow a lemon or orange tree from a pip. Has anyone done this. They grow so easily over here and I love the smell. Are there any other things that you have tried growing from seed that are nice and easy?
I am at the minute growing my own garlic, nothing like fresh garlic and it is so easy to grow. I have just popped a garlic clove in a pot and it has only taken over a week to grow. I need to know when the best time is for it to be ready and for me to pull it out?? __________________ www.tenerifehomecare.com |  |  | | 24th August 2007, 12:39 | #2 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tenerife Gender:  Posts: 307 | Tell me more about the garlic...Please, I would love to try that. I would love to grow oranges/lemons too.  I tried to grow an avocado, but failed miserably. I am just not green fingered enough.  __________________
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Also new for 2008... diving trips and scuba courses available.....PM me for more info. | | | | | 24th August 2007, 14:03 | #3 (permalink) | | Oscars Mum Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Valle de San Lorenzo Gender: Posts: 1,538 | Quote: Originally Posted by geetimuk  Tell me more about the garlic...Please, I would love to try that. I would love to grow oranges/lemons too. I tried to grow an avocado, but failed miserably. I am just not green fingered enough. | If you just get a pot with compost or even plant it in your garden! Just use 1 clove. Only thing is, I don't know if you have to wait until it flowers before you pull them up. __________________ www.tenerifehomecare.com | | | | | 24th August 2007, 14:15 | #4 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Tenerife Gender: Posts: 307 | Hmm! That could be quite important?  Will look it up, I have some old gardening books somewhere. I never thought of growing garlic!  __________________
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Also new for 2008... diving trips and scuba courses available.....PM me for more info. | | | | | 24th August 2007, 14:15 | #5 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Costa del Silencio Gender: Posts: 299 | Quote: Originally Posted by Cathy I am wanting to grow a lemon or orange tree from a pip. Has anyone done this. They grow so easily over here and I love the smell. Are there any other things that you have tried growing from seed that are nice and easy?
I am at the minute growing my own garlic, nothing like fresh garlic and it is so easy to grow. I have just popped a garlic clove in a pot and it has only taken over a week to grow. I need to know when the best time is for it to be ready and for me to pull it out?? | If you grow orange or lemons from a pip you will have a wild varaity (with thorns and pobably not good fruit  ) . They use the wild tree (grown from a pip) as base stems and grow a tame variety on these stems . Garlic ; just let it grow till the green shoot dies then pul it out (difficult to grow nice big bulbs , but its garlic even if they are small  ) __________________
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| | | | | 24th August 2007, 14:19 | #6 (permalink) | | Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Chayofa (surprisingly) Gender: Posts: 4,295 | Quote: Originally Posted by poker If you grow orange or lemons from a pip you will have a wild varaity (with thorns and pobably not good fruit ) . | ... and citrus trees are prone to all sorts of bugs and pests __________________
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| | | | | 24th August 2007, 15:44 | #7 (permalink) | | Super Tenerifian Join Date: May 2006 Location: Phuket, Thailand. Gender: Posts: 926 | My parents had lemon and orange trees when they lived in Valle San Lorenzo. The trees were bought as small plant though. Within 2 years they had the best tasting lemons and oranges you could buy, maybe it was the dogs that helped with the flavour?? __________________
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| | | | | 24th August 2007, 16:19 | #8 (permalink) | | Newbie Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Los Realejos Gender: Posts: 4 |  Try Papaya
Don't know about growing citrus from pips, but papayas grow well. Wife planted seed 2 years ago, and we now have an 8' tree with a dozen (somewhat small so far!) papaya fruit. Mind you we don't like eating papaya, but the tree is a good talking point! Tony | | | | | 24th August 2007, 17:31 | #9 (permalink) | | Oscars Mum Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Valle de San Lorenzo Gender: Posts: 1,538 | Quote: Originally Posted by geetimuk Hmm! That could be quite important? Will look it up, I have some old gardening books somewhere. I never thought of growing garlic! | Please let me know if you find anything! Might look it up on here also! __________________ www.tenerifehomecare.com | | | | | 24th August 2007, 18:30 | #10 (permalink) | | Human Being Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Menores (near Adeje) Gender: Posts: 1,638 | I have a mandarin tree in a big pot, but the ants have established a fungus farm under the leaves, and all the proto-oranges dropped off before I noticed Planting a pip would give you a vigorous bush, but small-to-nonexistent fruit, as the wild strain is only used as rootstock for cultivars. __________________
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