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orange meyer lemons?

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

I'm no meyer lemon expert, but I do have a few meyer lemon trees which grow only yellow lemons. I went to a whole foods and noticed a stack of meyer lemons that were all orange - as orange as an orange. They did smell like meyer lemons however so I bought one out of curiosity. It's a lemon. An orange lemon.

Are orange meyer lemons a new version of meyer lemons? Or do they get orange when left on the tree too long? I've never seen an orange lemon before.

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johnmerr

8 years ago

Depends on your climate; the color change from green to yellow to deep yellow, and sometimes all the way to light orange depends on the coolness of the night and the difference between day and night temperature. Once mature the fruit underneath is already that yellow to orange color; what the cooler climate does is degrade the chlorophyll in the skin to allow the color to show through; in the industry it is called degreening and is done with a gas or liquid form of ethylene.

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pip313
8 years ago
Orange is fully mature and ripe. Yours not turning orange is the unusual thing.
calamondindave
Original Author
8 years ago
oh..I guess I've never left them on the tree long enough.
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calamondindave
Original Author
8 years ago
Thank you for the explanation. Very interesting.
pip313
8 years ago
I assumed being in 7b he would have the cold. Probably should of asked if its an indoor plant.
Monica bf N. Carolina zone 7B
8 years ago
I'm in the process of making limoncello with those "orange" Meyer lemons from Whole Foods. Can't wait to taste it.
pip313
8 years ago
I hear it's good, but if Italian lemons are available Meyer would be better used for something else. I do hear it makes the best lemonade.
glen p
3 years ago
Could be Meyer Lemon VS Improved Meyer Lemon
Silica
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
glen, I don't think your statement has anything to do with the fruits color. The Improved Meyer lemon is a disease free Meyer lemon cultivar that was developed in the 1940s to be resistant to the fatal citrus tristeza disease. Apart from this, there is no difference between the Improved Meyer lemon variety, and the old Meyer lemon variety.
glen p
3 years ago
“The fruit is large, very smooth, and thin skinned, very juicy, only slightly sour, and is practically seedless,” Meyer wrote of the discovery.

The sunkist ones 'Meyer Lemons' I buy are seedy, up to 8 per. It doesnt seem to be the 'original' specimen
poncirusguy6b452xx
3 years ago
pip my NZL from you is 7 feet tall by 6 feet wide and 30 inches deep and in ground for 3 winters now.and produced 41 lemons and they were a light orange/yellow color
Steve

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