{"id":8423,"date":"2024-07-19T23:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T13:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:06:48","slug":"my-lovely-lemon-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/19\/my-lovely-lemon-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"My lovely lemon tree!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last year my lemon plant gave me a single delicious lemon<\/a>, so I was super excited and tentative when it made five lemons all in one go! I wasn’t even sure that a plant in a pot could sustain so much fruit, but luckily I have both supermarket fertiliser and my special supply of pigeon-poop-water, lovingly provided by my pigeons, which I’m sure is the secret ingredient!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’ve had to fight mealybugs the whole time, I think they’ve taken hold even though I don’t see them very often – but when I do, they go squish! One of the lemons developed a defect in the super early stages of growth, so I knew to expect at least one imperfect lemon, but to be honest, it wasn’t as bad as I thought! I only picked two for now, since they can stay on the tree for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think this time they were more sour than last time? But still delicious! I love that I’ve gotten 6 lemons from my tree so far, I’m hoping this will be an annual thing, but I’m not the best with plants so we’ll see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year my lemon plant gave me a single delicious lemon, so I was super excited and tentative when it made five lemons all in one go! I wasn’t even sure that a plant in a pot could sustain so much fruit, but luckily I have both supermarket fertiliser and my special supply of pigeon-poop-water, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[689,897,907,920,1204,1311],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-home-grown-lemon","tag-i-love-lemons","tag-i-love-my-lemon-plant","tag-i-love-plants","tag-lemon","tag-meyer-lemons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8861,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raining-chaos.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}