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Lemonade facts
Lifespan
Crop cycle
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For lemonade, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 12°C and a shortest growing cycle of 210 days at its best temperature, about 1995 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your lemonade will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Growing lemonade
- Dig compost into the planting hole 1 week before planting out
- Water deeply at planting out every week
- Mulch around the tree 2 weeks after planting out
- Feed with citrus fertiliser 8 weeks after planting out every month
- Pick ripe lemons at first harvest every 2 weeks
- Prune lightly after harvest 8 weeks after first harvest
How members grow lemonade
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Who's planted lemonade
- shiny Front lawn pots and potato bags 🍅🍅🥔🥔🥔 · Wellington, NZ
Lemonade harvests
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 210 to 365 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Citrus limon (L.) Burm. f.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Sapindales Rutaceae |
|---|---|
| Killing temperature | growth: -2 °C, rest: -6 °C |
| Life form | tree |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, light |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
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