More Myer Melodrama

I've written many times about my quest to find that California Meyer in Hawaii.

I could never understand what all the hype was about Meyer lemons in Hawaii because they just tasted like regular lemons, but a whole lot bigger and juicier.... not sweeter.

Then we went to California and I got to taste my sister-in-law's Meyer lemons.  They were flatter, a little smaller and had a nipple at the end.  They were also so sweet that you didn't need any sweetener.

I was determined to find out the secret.  I talked to everyone I could about the Meyer lemons in Hawaii and they said their lemons were all large, juicy, but not all that sweet.

My sister-in-law sent me some seeds so I decided I would grow them.  I put them on a wet paper towel and kept them moist.  The seeds began to mold.

A very kind commenter, Grace told me about Jalna's blog, Photos By Jalna.  Jalna said seeds should be hulled and put into a plastic bag.

I removed the moldy hulls and put the insides of the seeds into a plastic bag with a wet paper towel as she instructed.

Woo hoo!   After a week and a half they began to germinate.

I was so excited!

I put the rest of seeds into an egg carton without hulling them.  It took more like three weeks, but they began to germinate also.

Now I had ten little seedlings growing.

My neighbor told me that actually she'd heard that if you plant it from a seed instead of grafting them, you could never be sure of what kind of fruit you'd be getting.

Uh oh...

Then my sister-in-law sent me an article that was printed in a California newspaper about their Meyer lemon trees.

The article advised getting as big a tree as you could from a nursery because if you planted it from a seed, it would take about TEN years to fruit.

Arrrrghhhhh......

Oh well... Maybe we should just stick to our pineapple plants.  At least they're bearing fruit.