Four-seasons lemon trees are magnificent citrus plants that are called so because during spring, summer, winter and fall, they bear both fruits and flowers.
Four-seasons lemon facts
Name – Citrus limon
Family – Rutaceae (Rue family)
Type – tree
Height – 10 to 16 feet (3 to 5 meters)
Exposure – full sun
Soil – well-drained
Foliage – evergreen
Flowering – January to December
Planting, caring and pruning them are steps that help enhance fruit-bearing and avoid diseases.
Pruning isn’t really needed but if you don’t prune your lemon tree, it will quickly grow very large.
Cut each new shoot back to more or less half its length, taking great care to cut just above a leaf.
Remove dead wood regularly and clear the inside branches to let light penetrate to the center.
In pots, water as soon as the soil is dry, without flooding the pots.
Avoid all heat sources such as nearby radiators, because this could dry your tree out.
If your tree is growing outside in the ground, water only in case of prolonged dry spells or heat waves.
Even if the four-seasons lemon tree is one of the hardiest citrus trees, it still is rather difficult to grow directly in the ground where winters are cold.
You must winterize them with horticultural fleece as soon as temperatures drop below freezing.
Regularly give them citrus-specific organic fertilizers to give them the best chances of developing well.
Try to add the fertilizer on the three turning points in the plant’s seasonal cycle
Growing them in pots is most adapted, because that makes it possible to bring the lemon trees to a spot where it doesn’t freeze in the winter.
Lemon trees aren’t indoor plants, and can’t bear staying in a heated environment all year round. They need relatively lower temperatures from October to May.
European brown rot – lemons rot while still on the tree.
Scale insects – whitish masses colonize leaves.
Aphids – leaves curl up and fall off.
Pick the lemons as soon as they easily break off from their branch.
