This is a step by step process of how to grow lemon and orange trees from seeds you find in your fruit! I used lemons but its the same process for oranges as well! They do take a long time to grow till they start producing fruit but i find its very rewarding and fun to have, they will produce fruit at only a few feet tall. They will produce fruit around 2-5 years of growing them.
So lets get started (:
Step 1
Im using these lemons that are starting to go bad! But if you use fresh lemons you can use them to make a nice lemonade as to not waste the lemon!
Step 2
Cut the lemons up begin careful to not cut a seed in half, collect all the seeds from the lemon. Some lemons might not have any seeds or only 1-2 so i recommend using a few lemons.
Step 3
Dry off the lemon seeds you have collected as they are really slippery and make the next step very hard to do.
Step 4
Youll want to pry your nail or a small paring knife into the tip of the lemon seed to peel back the outer layer of the lemon seed. Peel all of them till they look like this:
They kind of look like corn kernals once all peeled, i found it cute.
Step 5
Put the lemon seeds into clean paper towel with some space inbetween the seeds. Once you have them on fold the paper towel over and wet the paper towel.
Step 6
Next once the paper towel is damp, you will put into a ziplock bag, zip it up and label the bag with the date, then put the ziplock bag somewhere dark and dry (i put mine in one of my drawers in my kitchen). You will leave it there for 1-2 weeks until it starts sprouting.
Step 7
Take the sprouting seeds out of the damp paper towel and prep pots with soil in them!
Step 8
Press a hole into the soil about half of finger length, then drop a seed into the hole. Cover with soil and pat down to make sure the seed is covered.
Once you have all of them covered water generously.
Put the pots under light (sun through a window or a growing light),water whenever the soil feels dry.
They should sprout out of the soil within a few weeks! Once they do spray with mist everyday and water when soil is dry.
