It’s A Baby Lemon!

Yes. I know. It isn’t yellow.

I was making homemade lemonade and was inspired by the mess and all the seeds to attempt to grow a tree. I honestly didn’t expect the seeds to sprout as much of what you buy in a store has sterile seeds unless it’s organic. I didn’t know one way or the other with what I’d bought. A little over 2 weeks later, I had a sprout. I planted 8 pots, a couple I dropped more than one seed in because it looked a little anemic. I now have 9 little sproutlings growing (2 of my pots have yet to show) and I have no clue what I’m going to do with them all as lemon trees don’t grow here. I figured I’d get lucky to get one.

Still, it is really cool. My kids, even being teenagers, got crazy excited about these. They’d come home from school and most days would make a beeline to where they were to check to see if they’d sprouted yet.

My goal is to attempt to keep at least one of them alive to live in the house. I’m not a black thumb when it comes to plants, but I tend to forget they need water. The few I do have living have been so well conditioned, they could probably now survive the worst drought in history.