I have LIMES!!!!

I-SIG
I-SIG Posts: 2,238
edited April 2010 in The Clubhouse
A quick count this evening seems to show I could have nearly 30 limes from my lime tree! :Danim_bannana.gif

Does anyone have any tips to help make them sweet and juicy?

Thanks,
Wes
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2010
    tequila shots at your house i guess ;)
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  • starkiller
    starkiller Posts: 2,723
    edited April 2010
    Send me a few and I will conduct some tests and get back to ya :D
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited April 2010
    Limes are tasty beasts.
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  • TouchOfEvil
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    edited April 2010
    danger boy wrote: »
    tequila shots at your house i guess ;)

    i like the way you think.;)
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  • Polk addict
    Polk addict Posts: 558
    edited April 2010
    I would eat them raw...
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited April 2010
    I don't normally look for sweetness in a lime. :p Good watering should make them juicy, though.
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  • TNRabbit
    TNRabbit Posts: 2,168
    edited April 2010
    When I saw the title of this thread, I thought you were telling us you had Lymes Disease & spelled it wrong~
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  • virtualdean
    virtualdean Posts: 286
    edited April 2010
    I-SIG wrote: »
    A quick count this evening seems to show I could have nearly 30 limes from my lime tree! :Danim_bannana.gif

    Does anyone have any tips to help make them sweet and juicy?

    Thanks,
    Wes

    Limes love sunshine...the more the better.
    I have a couple of golden mandorin, (a hybrid) and 3 Philippine calamandins at my house in California..
    They make the best juice... Good luck to you I know the thrill of having producing citrus..
    The more sunshine the better for sweetness and having chosen a good parent tree...
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited April 2010
    I-SIG wrote: »
    Does anyone have any tips to help make them sweet and juicy?

    Grow oranges instead? ;)
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited April 2010
    I think fruit can be sweet when they are fresh. :)

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,728
    edited April 2010
    when life gives you limes, make margaritas
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  • I-SIG
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    edited April 2010
    virtualdean wrote: »
    Limes love sunshine...the more the better.
    I have a couple of golden mandorin, (a hybrid) and 3 Philippine calamandins at my house in California..
    They make the best juice... Good luck to you I know the thrill of having producing citrus..
    The more sunshine the better for sweetness and having chosen a good parent tree...

    Thanks, Dean. What about watering? Another guy told me to water them really heavily every 2 weeks rather then a light watering every other day or so.

    Wes
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited April 2010
    I have a key lime tree I grew from seed...how the hell did you get it to make limes? Everything I've read saysy citrus will take up to 10 years to produce fruit when grown from seed. Maybe I'll just have to buy a grafted one and move to southern cali :(
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  • lightman1
    lightman1 Posts: 10,788
    edited April 2010
    I'll bring the Coronas......
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  • concealer404
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    edited April 2010
    Make mojitos.
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  • drselect
    drselect Posts: 664
    edited April 2010
    Gin, tonic and lime oh my:D
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,807
    edited April 2010
    I-SIG wrote: »
    Does anyone have any tips to help make them sweet and juicy?

    Thanks,
    Wes

    Key lime pie.

    Granted they aren't Key limes most likely but you can honestly use any limes. It's just going to taste slightly different. Different as in sweeter. It'll be greener in color too instead of the brackish yellow of the Key lime. Key limes are limes but they are more yellowish in color and more tart than typical limes which are the green buggers you see jammed in Corona bottles. I think they are a Persian lime or some derivative thereof.

    A friend of my parents lives in Texas. He has key lime trees and Pecan trees in his backyard. He sends boxes of Key limes and Pecans at various points in the year. They make the best pies since they are picked, boxes and shipped in the same day. They show up being just over a day off the tree. They smell awesome! He sent my mom a recipe for Key lime pie and told us what the difference was between limes.
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  • szhleppy
    szhleppy Posts: 320
    edited April 2010
    Nice Wes! I don't have any growing tips, just drinking tips....

    Tequila, Agave Nectar (found some @ Bevmo), 2 fresh limes juiced, and a little beer in the pitcher....tried this little margarita variation a couple weekends ago with positive results....
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  • I-SIG
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    edited April 2010
    Airplay355 wrote: »
    I have a key lime tree I grew from seed...how the hell did you get it to make limes? Everything I've read saysy citrus will take up to 10 years to produce fruit when grown from seed. Maybe I'll just have to buy a grafted one and move to southern cali :(

    I don't know what I did (or didn't) do. I got a single solitary piece of fruit last year and I guess all the winter rain we got this year really helped. The tree was already there when I bought the house, so I have no idea how old it is. I also pulled up a **** agave that was next to the tree so it would have a little less competition.

    I'm gonna get some citrus food/fertilizer this weekend to give it a boost.

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  • I-SIG
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    edited April 2010
    szhleppy wrote: »
    Nice Wes! I don't have any growing tips, just drinking tips....

    Tequila, Agave Nectar (found some @ Bevmo), 2 fresh limes juiced, and a little beer in the pitcher....tried this little margarita variation a couple weekends ago with positive results....

    Nice to hear from you, Courtney! That sounds like a tasty variation!

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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited April 2010
    danger boy wrote: »
    tequila shots at your house i guess ;)


    I'll bring some tequila!
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited April 2010
    They're limes bud, they aren't supposed to be sweet. ;)

    Now on the other hand, I have the sweetest damned lemmons in Arizona. :p
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited April 2010
    Rivrrat wrote: »
    They're limes bud, they aren't supposed to be sweet. ;)

    Now on the other hand, I have the sweetest damned lemmons in Arizona. :p

    Relatively speaking, of course!!!

    Maybe we can trade a few if I have as good a crop as I expect! :p

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  • superjunior
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    edited April 2010
    lightman1 wrote: »
    I'll bring the Coronas......

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  • virtualdean
    virtualdean Posts: 286
    edited April 2010
    I-SIG wrote: »
    Thanks, Dean. What about watering? Another guy told me to water them really heavily every 2 weeks rather then a light watering every other day or so.

    Wes

    I bought these when they were 2/3 years old from Four Seasons. Online.
    They started producing the next year. I bought from them a hydrometer that I just poked into the ground next to them. They get watered when they are dry.
    So a good soaking every two weeks sounds right. Unless you live in El Paso, you might want to do it more often.
    I especially like the calamondins, (calamansi) they produce year round.:)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,381
    edited April 2010
    Airplay355 wrote: »
    I have a key lime tree I grew from seed...how the hell did you get it to make limes? Everything I've read saysy citrus will take up to 10 years to produce fruit when grown from seed. Maybe I'll just have to buy a grafted one and move to southern cali :(

    I have grown citrus from seeds (lime,lemon & orange) and all have produced fruit within 2yrs. I would not say it was very edible but it was fruit. If i would of let them grow longer and not gotten tired of hauling them in and out of the house in the fall & summer the fruit would of been much bigger and tastier.
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited April 2010
    My tree is maybe a 2.5ft by 2.5ft bush right now. Leaves playing card sized but no flowers or fruit. Plenty of thorns though lol. I'd love to have some limes start growing!
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  • Rivrrat
    Rivrrat Posts: 2,101
    edited April 2010
    I-SIG wrote: »
    Relatively speaking, of course!!!

    Maybe we can trade a few if I have as good a crop as I expect! :p

    Wes

    Assuming I get any, I'm up for a fruit swap. That means we both have to remember this next winter. :D

    We cut the tree down once, and it grew back. :eek:
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  • headrott
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    edited April 2010
    concealer404 wrote: »
    Make mojitos.

    Mojitos rule!

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  • headrott
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    edited April 2010
    I-SIG wrote: »
    A quick count this evening seems to show I could have nearly 30 limes from my lime tree! :Danim_bannana.gif

    Does anyone have any tips to help make them sweet and juicy?

    Thanks,
    Wes

    It would help if you know your soil pH. Lime trees like acidic soil and preferably below 7.0. What type of soil do you have? Is it, more clay, peat, sand, silt or loamy? To lower your pH you need to add sulfur. To raise it (which is probably not necessary) you would add lime (that's calcium carbonate, not actual limes......;):D)

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