How Do You Start And Grow An Ornamental Indoor Citrus Tree?
With its shiny green foliage, and the potential for fragrant blossoms and colorful fruit, members of the citrus family make for splendid indoor plants. When purchased at a nursery, they do tend to be expensive, and depending on where you live, they may not even be available. But do you realize how easily citrus can be started from seed? And it’s so much more satisfying to say “I grew that!”, or to even have a dozen beautiful citrus plants to give as presents to your friends. Read the rest of this article and you’ll see how easy it is to start and grow your own ornamental citrus trees indoors. Before you start, a few things to know – fresh seeds from citrus fruits will sprout very easily, sometimes you’ll find sprouted seeds in the fruit you are eating! So, it’s not hard to do. But nowadays, a lot of grocery store citrus will be seedless. Ask the produce manager; he’ll know which has seeds. When growing a citrus tree from seed, you can not be sure that it will be “true” to the fruit fro