The Meyers lemon fruit didn last long after I picked them. Whats up with that?
Usually you would pick Meyers lemons when their background color turns from dark to light green, but you should be able to keep it on the tree for quite a long time, maybe a month or so, after the color changes. The other thing you need to do when you pick lemons is to not remove the entire woody stem from the fruit. The fruit is attached to the branch by a woody stem. If you remove that stem from the fruit, you will leave a hole in the skin that will allow rotting organisms to enter. This can reduce the keeping quality of the fruit dramatically. Cut the stem from the fruit, leaving a short piece of wood remaining. This will give the fruit some extra insurance and keep longer. The other possibility was that it got hit by some freezing temperatures. Q: How do I promote the pretty seed plumes and greener leaf-blades on the Regal Mist grass? The older brown grass shoots are mixed in with the newer shoots and leaves. It would be near impossible to pick each one out. What do I do to make th
