Lemons

[somo]

Anyone here producing lemons/lemon trees for sale?

Looking to plant a few trees.

Steve

[kickstart]

Ask at a local nursery, or one of those roadside places that sell fruit trees, I have brought a few in the past, not easy to grow, do not like the really hot weather, give them a bit of shade

I do not know what verity lemons are here in Thailand, but the fruit are not the nice shiny yellow ones we have, more of a lime color.

Lemons in Thai seem to be known as Manow-lemon.

[Yellowtail]

I think, but do not know, that they cross-pollinate easily and turn into limes 

[drtreelove]

Contact forum member Grafting Ken by PM. (He may not be permitted to post commercial plant sales information). 

 

Otherwise, It is possible to find grafted lemon varieties at plant markets, but look for actively fruiting plants for sale where you can identify the actual fruit you want. Lime and lemon foliage and growth habit can look similar when there is no fruit present. 

 

Kickstart is right about providing afternoon shading, but from my experience that applies mostly for newly planted and young trees. Once a root system is established, preferably in fertilie soil and with adequate deep watering and mulching of the soil surface, maturing trees can take full sun.  Allow a full foliar canopy to grow and shade the soil surface to avoid drying and cooking the all-important beneficial soil biology. I have grown lemons in full sun in Chiang Mai and India and in the Arizona desert. 

[somo]

Thanks guys. I appreciate the help.

[Yellowtail]

Can anyone recommend a good tree service and or landscaper in the Taling Chan/Pinklao area? 

 

 

[drtreelove]

On 11/27/2024 at 8:41 PM, Yellowtail said:

Can anyone recommend a good tree service and or landscaper in the Taling Chan/Pinklao area? 

 

 

What kind of work are you needing?

 

For a tree service, I don't have personal experience with anyone there in recent years, but I'm attaching an old list I have from the Thai Arboricultural Association, (TAA on Facebook). Forum member CLW had tree pruning done at his home in Bangkok by a woman-arborist owned TAA member tree service but I don't remember the name. Maybe he will see this and post the name and contact. 

 

For landscape design and installation contact Ben at Thai Garden Design. https://www.thaigardendesign.com/

 

For larger tree and landscape projects, Nong Nooch Botanical Garden in Pattaya has a services division. 

[Yellowtail]

44 minutes ago, drtreelove said:

What kind of work are you needing?

 

For a tree service, I don't have personal experience with anyone there in recent years, but I'm attaching an old list I have from the Thai Arboricultural Association, (TAA on Facebook). Forum member CLW had tree pruning done at his home in Bangkok by a woman-arborist owned TAA member tree service but I don't remember the name. Maybe he will see this and post the name and contact. 

 

For landscape design and installation contact Ben at Thai Garden Design. https://www.thaigardendesign.com/

 

For larger tree and landscape projects, Nong Nooch Botanical Garden in Pattaya has a services division. 

 

 

 

 

I have one dead tree I want removed, one mango I want moves about ten meters from the house and two other mangoes I was to have laced out. 

 

Thanks! 

 

 

[Grafting Ken]

Hi. Ok lemons!

So past 12 months we have moved into the lemons. We have collected up.

Allen Eureka

Taylor Eureka

Lambert Eureka

Yuzu

limoneira South Africa

tropical lemon

lemonade lemon

Queensland lisbon

Prior Lisbon.

We are only up to around 10 to 30 all very small trees to grow up so we can create more and at some point get them out to farmers around the country.

Now here main issue here is that a lot of the Lemons are incompatible with the rootstocks they are grafted on to.. also 99% of the eureka lemon trees I see sold here are not eureka at all so when buying the Eureka lemon it should be either on

Rough Lemon

Benton

Rangpur lime.

luckily we have a good supply of the Rangpur rootstock and also in small quantities have been able to get some Benton and rough lemon seeds.

So lemons do we have them?

yes we do plus now a very large selection of other citrus.. all 100% genuine varieties and all grafted to their own rootstocks.

Unfortunately most are still small so it’s going to take a while to get the numbers up.

But I can’t sell the trees on this forum so where to go from here I don’t know..

 

[KhunLA]

Wife's lemon trees are producing nicely, for being little trees.  Picking a couple every day now, and now normal size, or larger.  

 

 

Passion fruit and my Figs are starting to produce again 👍

 

 

Hopefully the cherry tomatoes produce more, so we can stop buying, as we go through a lot of them.

 

No luck with the red/green peppers, and damn expensive at the store, along with being crap.  Makro won't sell the loose now, and prepackaged ones are all soft already.  Can't eat 4 of them that fast, unless roasting them, and still don't want them.

[somo]

On 12/24/2024 at 2:27 PM, Grafting Ken said:

Hi. Ok lemons!

So past 12 months we have moved into the lemons. We have collected up.

Allen Eureka

Taylor Eureka

Lambert Eureka

Yuzu

limoneira South Africa

tropical lemon

lemonade lemon

Queensland lisbon

Prior Lisbon.

We are only up to around 10 to 30 all very small trees to grow up so we can create more and at some point get them out to farmers around the country.

Now here main issue here is that a lot of the Lemons are incompatible with the rootstocks they are grafted on to.. also 99% of the eureka lemon trees I see sold here are not eureka at all so when buying the Eureka lemon it should be either on

Rough Lemon

Benton

Rangpur lime.

luckily we have a good supply of the Rangpur rootstock and also in small quantities have been able to get some Benton and rough lemon seeds.

So lemons do we have them?

yes we do plus now a very large selection of other citrus.. all 100% genuine varieties and all grafted to their own rootstocks.

Unfortunately most are still small so it’s going to take a while to get the numbers up.

But I can’t sell the trees on this forum so where to go from here I don’t know..

 

 I recently bought and planted 50 Eureka lemon trees and if all goes well have plans for another 100. As I understand it they are relatively easy to grow from cuttings rather than grafting onto root stock. It's an interesting market as they sell for many times the price of lemons. If you think you may be able to supply small trees please let me know with rough costs etc.

[somo]

Sorry, many time the price of Limes

[0ffshore360]

If looking for retail supply try the citrus section here:   https://exoticflora.in/products/thailand-mango-fruit-plants-tree?srsltid=AfmBOorOP126UyJtA1dTHeSW6FoA4rDicJG9nag_2G4MAjQDhPwV6EU4

[Grafting Ken]

On 1/11/2025 at 6:28 PM, somo said:

 I recently bought and planted 50 Eureka lemon trees and if all goes well have plans for another 100. As I understand it they are relatively easy to grow from cuttings rather than grafting onto root stock. It's an interesting market as they sell for many times the price of lemons. If you think you may be able to supply small trees please let me know with rough costs etc.

If your just growing a lemon tree in your back garden then an air layered or tree on its own roots is ok.

there isn’t an orchard in the world that grows lemons commercially on their own roots. They have very little pest or virus resilience grown like this. This will all become clear years down the line I really would not recommend farming any citrus tree if it is not on a good compatible rootstock.

another note on the Eureka is that Eureka seedlings are used in top end nurseries around the world for indexing.

this is virus testing, wils another tree used. They use the Eureka for this method because it has very limited pest , virus resistance and shows up viruses on new grafted trees quickly.. it’s definitely not to be used as a rootstock.

all this information is out there on the internet.. very easy to find. 
please I urge anyone going into farming Lemons or other kinds of citrus to do your homework first.. because planting them on their own roots will end badly and you will lose a lot of trees down the line.

[Yellowtail]

41 minutes ago, Grafting Ken said:

If your just growing a lemon tree in your back garden then an air layered or tree on its own roots is ok.

there isn’t an orchard in the world that grows lemons commercially on their own roots. They have very little pest or virus resilience grown like this. This will all become clear years down the line I really would not recommend farming any citrus tree if it is not on a good compatible rootstock.

another note on the Eureka is that Eureka seedlings are used in top end nurseries around the world for indexing.

this is virus testing, wils another tree used. They use the Eureka for this method because it has very limited pest , virus resistance and shows up viruses on new grafted trees quickly.. it’s definitely not to be used as a rootstock.

all this information is out there on the internet.. very easy to find. 
please I urge anyone going into farming Lemons or other kinds of citrus to do your homework first.. because planting them on their own roots will end badly and you will lose a lot of trees down the line.

Do you know of a hearty backyard orange tree that will grow well and produce decent fruit in Bangkok? 

[Grafting Ken]

1 hour ago, Yellowtail said:

Do you know of a hearty backyard orange tree that will grow well and produce decent fruit in Bangkok? 

Dekapon is a fantastic tree.. great fruit grows well.

[Yellowtail]

3 hours ago, Grafting Ken said:

Dekapon is a fantastic tree.. great fruit grows well.

Looks like a tangerine, are the trees easy to find? 

 

How long do they take to produce, and do you get more than once crop a year? 

 

 

[Grafting Ken]

It’s a large Satsuma type. A nice tree and nice sweet seedless fruit.

ours fruited second year.