I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons!
When I lived in Costa mesa some people had orange trees growing over their property lines/fences into the side walk and I have to say, I was an orange stealing whore . Never lemons tho that's just despicable.
If you put the work into growing and taking care of it and the other person(s) does not, I'd say you have a fair claim, or maybe she doesn't call it hers and only he calls it hers for the same reason
Not that it should matter much but still. Be proud of your work
They are occasionally used as rootstock on citrus trees so anything that grows below the graft will produce the rootstock fruit or if the tree died back below the graft at some point the entire tree can just be the rootstock species.
Look up the difference between broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale, kohlarabi and collards. All of em are more or less the same plant bred for different genetic characteristics. The history of how the orange was created, how a lot of citrus fruits were made by hybridization, is pretty cool. Strawberries are one such fruit too. Selective crossbreeding and horticulture is pretty neat.
The cool bit is more why they graft. If the rootstoxk is from a dwarf tree it will dwarf whats on top, if its more cold hardy it will make the top more so, but the most common reason is usually disease resistance. Unfortunately grafted trees often have a shorter lifespan due to the graft failing or getting infected with age. Peaches and plums will usually last about 15 years depending on climate
Yeah trifolate and swingle are pretty common rootstocks and both can be super thorny. They will eventually produce fruit, not good fruit.... but fruit like things.... regrafting is pretty easy luckily. Flying dragon rootstock does look really cool though
Yes you can, they are often called "fruit salad" trees. Similarly you can have pears, apples, and quince on one tree, and peaches, plums, apricots and cherries on another. As long as the grafts are the same family it generally works, there are some odd non compatability issues with certain varieties. Theres an guy who makes trees with 40 different varieties per tree. Upkeep takes some work since you have to be more careful about branch pruning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit
Be careful with them; if they are citrons (they’d taste like a sort of mellow non-bitter grapefruit), then they’ll mess with medications the same way grapefruit does.
They are one of the 4 original citrus fruit and are absolutely delicious. The flesh is quite tart but the white pith is sweet and has a texture a bit like an apple. You can cut it into long segments and eat both bits together.
Saying they're full of shit with no actual argument isn't being a contrarian ya know. Let me present the question then as someone who has had lemon trees. What is more likely? A Citron rootstock with a graft and that fruit grew below the graft, or a mutation?
So I just found out that apparently, a lemon isn't naturally occurring and is a hybrid by cross breeding a bitter orange and a citron, which means life never gave us lemons; we invented them all by ourselves!!
I’m probably not saying this correctly, but the bananas we eat all descend from the same tree, or maybe even one single banana that came out delicious lol
e: yeah I was mistaken, but it’s still interesting - all the bananas we eat today are clones of one another to preserve the taste. As in they graft the branches from one tree to the next to make sure the fruit tastes good and doesn’t mutate too much. This is true of apples too apparently.
Citrus hybrids are also a natural occurrence though, outside of specific "new" varieties crossed recently we can't really say whether the initial hybridization events millennia ago were natural or by human intention.
Citrons are their own distinct species of citrus. Lemons are actually a hybrid between a citron (citrus medica) and bitter orange (which itself is a hybrid between a Pomelo and a wild mandarin)
I still to this day (literally happened today on my way home from work) can't hear Spin Me Right Round without thinking of meat spin. That is a link I wish I left blue.
My money is on it being a grafted tree where the graft failed and the root stock took over. Citrus macrophylla is a common one that looks a lot like that.
This looks like what in french we call a "citron cedrat" (citron is lemon in french, cedrat is citron... that's funny/confusing...). They have a very thick rind, and you can make marmelade out of the rind and it's delicious (I made a few like 3 or 4 years ago and they were very good, it can be a bit bitter but if you soak the rind in cold water before it's less bitter).
“You know, I’ve been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
In June of 2025 a California Metrolink train hit a semi towing two trailers full of lemons, I imagine the people living there would have been wishing life hadn't given them lemons I quite that way...
No one’s helping you so I guess I’ll do it. It’s from a porn intro clip that went viral like fifteen years ago for being silly; a couple is in their yard expressing their pride for their lemon tree and how they sure hope no lemon-stealing whores show up to steal their lemons. Smash cut to a barely-dressed woman shoving lemons into her leotard and getting noticed by the couple, who are less than happy about their lemons being stolen. Presumably sex happens after that, but that part didn’t go viral so I can’t say for certain.
It’s not lemon party, it’s lemon stealing whore which is the intro to a porno from early 2000s where a couple are staring at a lemon tree talking about lemons and then a lemon-stealing whore comes to steal their lemons.
Google ‘lemon stealing whore’ and the intro is on YouTube and it’s fantastic
Bad news, you won't get much juice out of that. Good news is, all that white meat means you could render it down into a ton of natural fruit pectin for jam making with other, less disappointing, fruits. Insert your own "when life gives you lemons" joke here
Did the tree die back at any point? Pretty much all citrus is grafted on to root stock of a hardier citrus plant. I had a pomelo tree that got hit by frost it's second winter. The root stock was the only thing that survived. I was left with a thorny, non fruiting citrus something or other.
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u/zoobrix 1d ago
Oh so when they're messed up all the sudden it's your wife's lemon tree, I get it, when life gives you bad lemons, blame it on your wife.