Lemon planting

grown by doitninetimes in Nomadic Container Garden · Austin, TX

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No harvest months for this crop at this latitude yet.

Planted

about 13 years ago 2013-09-13

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

1 bare root plant

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bare root plant

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in Austin, TX New

Daily high and low

Too cold for lemon so farFrom Sep 13 to Jul 19, 161 of 310 days had a high inside the best range of 15–28°C. The low reached the killing temperature of -2°C on 14 days. The highs were below the best range on 50 days and above the best range on 99 days. The weather was too cold on 141 days (lows below 12°C).

2 °C frost lineDies at -2 °CGrows at 12–36°Grows best 15–28°

Daily rainfall

Nobody has marked this planting as finished, and it is long past when it should have finished, so the weather shown ends on July 19, 2014, when it was expected to finish.

Rain: 908 mm
Hottest day: 35.7°C
Coldest night: -4.8°C
Soil temperature: 18.9°C
Days in its best range: 161 of 310
Days: 310

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

Gift from my father. Meyer lemon. Lovely. Made a few flowers when I received it Spring 2013, set one or two proto-lemons, but none that lasted.

Photos

No photos yet.

Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

2013-09-13 Day 0

Planted

Frost

Experimental · new and might be flaky

Frost may have reached this lemon planting

40 nights while frost was possible were at or below 2 °C. The coldest was -4.8 °C.

This lemon planting against the frost season

Frost danger

5 Dec – 24 Feb

5 Dec →

This planting

Finished 19 Jul

Planted 164 days before the usual last frost

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Usual frost danger
Possible: as early or late as it has come
Planting, finished

Coldest night

-4.8 °C

6.8 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line

Frost danger it grew through

125 days

from planting to the latest it has come, 17 Mar

Usual last frost

24 Feb

planted 164 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)