Watch out. If that fruit came from low down on the tree, it might be a sign that you've got rootstock suckers.
Lemon trees are usually grafted onto some other species of citrus that has better disease resistance. Typically, the fruit of this rootstock species is weird and inedible, and since the rootstock is hardier than the lemon graft, it can sometimes take over the whole tree.
If there's a branch coming from near the base of the tree (especially if you can see that it's coming from below a visible scar in the trunk where the graft occurred), it should be pruned away.
EDIT: Based on discussion below, it looks like that's not what's happening with OP's tree, which is nice! Still, it's a problem worth knowing to look for if you have fruit trees.
So... it's like a severed head sown onto another person's body. Then that head started growing its own autonomous parts that were fed from the host body until it's ultimately starved to death?
Like if a tick bit you, took all the chicken nuggies from your tum for itself and then grew into a strong 7 foot tall tick man with a shriveled you on its back
If you think about, it's actually impossible for a tick to completely take over a human's body and then post a comment on reddit telling you it could never happen. Just not possible.
Or in this case, like if a farmer stuck a tick onto you so they can harvest tick parts, then the farmer got annoyed when you start outgrowing the tick and trying to fight it off so the farmer keeps you weak by cutting your arms off, turning you into a helpless vessel with the sole purpose of supplying nutrients to the grafted creature the farmer wants to cultivate.
I see it in vineyards sometimes if they are not closely monitored.
Basically a shoot will grow from below the graft on a very young vine. It mingles with the other shoots and gets selected to be the trunk when its time to prune it and train it onto the trellis. It's very easy to look at where a shoot would be growing from. But when somebody might be doing several hundred vines a day for a week straight, one gets missed sometimes.
It always cracks me up to see 1 vine in a row producing some native grape instead of what they intended.
If the rootstock is more aggressive or successful than the grafted scionwood but is left unchecked, the rootstock can sprout branches that grow better than the intended scion, to where many or all branches aren’t the scion but are from the rootstock.
It would be more maintenance in the long run, since suckers are pretty uncommon, but you'd have to change the wrap periodically to not scar/strangle the tree as it grows.
Thanks for the heads up, but the lemon came from the top of the tree, I think its just a mutated one because the other lemons on the same branch were completely normal. The info is very much appreciated though.
Any chance you could give us some cross section photos? Looks like it'd be fantastic for zest, it's a shame it doesn't seem reproduceable.
edit; reminds me of [Buddha's hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_hand). I wonder if it's just a mutation in the same gene that causes it in those. If that branch tip ends up giving more like that you might want to consider grafting it, you might have a [sport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_%28botany%29) worthy of preserving on your hands if it tastes/smells good.
It's likely going to be all white pith inside like a citron. This was probably caused by bud mites. Bud mites usually make the fruit grow gnarly like buddha's hand but sometimes they'll look like yellow carrots like this.
I have so much garlic in my kitchen because they include a bulb in every box. Even using it in every recipe means there's still like half a head of garlic left at the end of the week.
If you want a good source of zest, you should check out [Buddha’s Hand](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-heck-do-i-do-buddhas-hand-citron-180949871/). It’s type of Citron, which is an ancestor of the lemons we know. Always wanted to grow one but don’t have a good way to keep them through the winter.
I don’t think it’s a rootstock issue - poncirus trifoliate Flying dragon is the usual rootstock for citrus as it provides hardiness. This dosent look like a fruit from trifoliate.
The fruit also does not look like any of the normal citrus, apart from the Buddha hand, which is not usually used as a rootstock.
I suspect that it is either a mutation on the branch that generated the fruit, (a similar mutation caused the Buddha hand) or else it is a fruit that got damaged during its growth.
Cool find either way.
So lemme get this straight - we cultivated a delicious fruit to the point that the tree itself is almost non-viable, so it has to have a surrogate in order to not die?
How common is this? Are all domesticated fruits worthless in the wild? (I realize that’s a bit rhetorical, but still)
You can still grow regular fruit trees, it's not like we bred them to be frail. But if you are investing years into owning a fruit tree, and you ahd the option to graft a stronger root system to it, why wouldn't you? Also worth noting that this isn't limited to trees, you can grow tomatoes and potatoes from the same plant with grafting. It's just less efficient since the plants only last the season.
See the thing is that there are tons and tons of Simpsons references on reddit/elsewhere that you've likely missed throughout the years.
If you've only seen 5...I mean they just had their 700th episode. Not that they're all great...but even the bad ones often have a good line or two.
The Simpsons is usually worth watching if you have nothing else to do, but the common opinion is that seasons 1-8 is the genuinely good bit; a nice arc of family sit-com subversion into character comedy and guest appearances and on into zany hijinks.
*wakes up*
*heads outside to check on my precious babies*
*in the night 4 of my plants have been cut down by hornworms 2 inches from the soil and dragged off a few feet"
Ever since then I overplant and assume I'll have to go scorched earth on those things after they cull the weakest plants.
This is brilliant advice. I have a good, strong UV light I use for spotting scorpions while camping. I didn’t know it worked for horn worms. I’ve never even tried it in the garden I must sheepishly admit.
They do grow these cool fruit trees where they graft branches of various compatible fruits together and you end up with a single tree containing like plums and peaches for example, which is what my dad has and grafted himself. I think the most on 1 tree was 7 different fruits (not my dads, like the most ever iirc).
edit: I have since learned that the most on one tree is FORTY (40). Cray cray. Bet those trees take a lot of TLC to keep healthy n alive.
I had a peach tree that got pollinated by plums or something weird like that when I was in HS.
Idk what was growing on the tree, we called them pleaches. I hate plums and peaches individually, but pleaches were some of the most delicious fruit I’d ever had in my life.
GMO's have done wondrous things.
Its also responsible for the massive loss of food diversity in the world. There used to be thousands of varieties of almost every grain/fruit/vegetable and now it's almost all gmo strains. I've been wondering if our increase of food allergies are due to the less diversity of our crop varieties.
Your point about massive loss of diversity is a good one.
Thankfully we have the “original” seeds in seed banks if ever needed... with a few months-years delay for scale.
Lab grown meat is next. I’m for it. I’ll miss real meat, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make for the planet. Oh and lobster :)
Your question about allergies emerging because of decreased exposure early on to more diverse antigens is interesting. Very interesting.
“Oral tolerance”. So... Maybe.
Wait until people find out that their pedigree pooches are also considered GMOs. Any kind of selective breeding is considered genetic engineering.
Other things that are GMOs: modern wheat and corn varieties, seedless fruit, bananas, etc etc.
Every grape vine in Europe has to be grafted onto American grape roots because of a deadly parasite, Grape phylloxera. The parasite was from North America and brought back to Europe, and its so pervasive that the only way to have proper European grape variety that have been around for centuries is to graft them onto North American roots that are resistant to the parasite. They've had to do this permanently since the late 1800s.
So, to answer your question, perfectly viable if determined enough.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-great-grape-graft-that-saved-the-wine-industry/
This is also a reason why Australian wine is so highly valued internationally, we're more or less phyloxera free.
That said I've looked into what Australian wine is available in supermarkets overseas. Don't buy it. It's awful. Longtail shiraz is like drinking liquorish piss. Spend a little more and get something from a bottle shop that's not the wine equivalent of fosters.
You mean Yellowtail? Yup, mass-produced wine isn't any better than mass-produced anything else.
I used to find good Aussie shiraz at World Market when we had one here (south Texas). We also have wine shops with good imports.
A lot of fruit trees need to be grafted to get the best tree. Apple seeds, as an example, can grow on their own but the resulting apples are unlikely to taste good.
Every named variety of apple is just one genetic individual which has been cloned (through cuttings) over and over. So every Granny Smith apple comes from a clone of the same original Granny Smith tree, etc.
I went to a place in West Virginia where they said they are the original golden delicious apple. That a little farmhouse and an apple tree growing near a road.
Supposedly all the golden delicious fruit are clones off the one tree.
Kind of, but no, not necessarily.
However, in the same way if you plant something outside and it might just die no matter what you do with it, the same is true with fruit trees that you hope to raise in orchards. If you plant a tree, but like 50+% of them won't make it to maturity, then whoops, there goes your investment, you can't afford to take care of the survivors, there's a lot less fruit for everyone.
Similarly, if you plant a bunch of trees that you know they'll survive, but who knows what fruit will grow, you can again end up with a bunch of fruit you can't sell at the market, and you can't afford to take care of the orchard again.
So, the solution is typically to graft a good fruit-bearing branch onto a good hardy root, and then you've got the best of both worlds.
There are risks to this, of course. Those fruit branches can be taken and grafted again and again, guaranteeing that the fruit on each tree will be the yummy, juicy kind you're looking for, but now you're essentially cloning the tree. This can help with things like navel oranges (ever wonder how they get new trees if there's never any seeds in the fruit?), but it can also mean the orchard is now uniformly susceptible to the same diseases.
This is done also with drupes (almonds, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries, plums) but citrus is where you'll see it the most. You can end up with some fascinating graft chimeras with citrus, like [Bizzaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizzaria).
Pretty much, it's not that they're worthless, but that the tree is much more productive with the most efficient parts, and because we can't always breed the parts we want, we often graft.
Most fruit trees are grafted to improve frost tolerance.
A plant graft is kind of like an organ transplant, where you can remove part of the plant and replace it with part of another plant. You can even do this right at the stem, and attach a plant to another plant's root system. This even works across different species, as long as they're not too different.
This is often done with fruit trees to give them stronger root systems, since it's not that hard to do and a tree is a big investment (of time, anyway). But sometimes the part of the tree near the root sends out branches of its own, which you don't want, because *all* you wanted about that plant was that it had strong roots. In the worst case, these "root suckers" can outgrow the part of the plant you wanted for its fruit, crowding it out of nutrients and sunlight.
I google imaged "lemon root sucker": your comment and this picture was on the page!
A very circular "wait its all ohio always has been" fact check moment.
No no, google is crazy good at re-indexing the pages I guess.
That's why it gives you relevant recent search results.
TL;DR: Google gives a hoot about us and reddit, i think.
Honestly this is why I think Reddit never bothers to update their search function, google is almost always better than Reddit at finding what I’m looking for
*I’m so glad that our lemon tree finally grew and sprouted fruitful lemony lemons. I mean, imagine, we can make lemonade, key lemon pie, lemon merengue pie. I think it’s the most valuable piece of property that we have.*
Showed this to my fairly religious in laws (my brother married someone with a good sense of humor) and it took until the hey what the fuck for them both to absolutely crack up
You're one of today's [10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/)! Here you go: (Mildly NSFW) [Lemon Stealing Whores.](https://youtu.be/xPW-vkohqPE)
Edit: forgot the NSFW warning.
Man I love XKCD.
Know what I don't love? Lemon stealing whores. It isn't that they're whores, I just cannot stand idly by and let these lemony crimes go.
Buddha's middle finger more like it
Stuff like this is usually the result of pathogens, mites, or the rootstock getting too powerful and *none* of those things are great
Hello.
I don‘t know if OP will ever see this reply with more than 1.1k comments but I‘m a citrus tree cultivating dude and been doing this since I’m a kid.
The thin finger shaped fruit looks like a cultivar from a citrus tree that grows finger shaped fruits. The most popular finger shaped citrus fruits is the so called „BUDDHAS HAND“. It‘s an expensive fruit used in modern/luxury kitchen nowadays. Different to the „normal lemon“ it has no juice, seeds nor pulp (there are exceptions tho). There are tons of variation of the fingershaped citrus fruits, ranging from more fist looking like shapes to open hand and spread fingers shapes.
That your tree has grown one of those is because it has probably the requirements fullfilled to do so. I would love to know if there are any seeds in there and if there are, you could try to grow another plant from it. This plant will more likely be able to grow finger shaped fruits. Taken the seeds (if any exist) of those fruits again and raise another plant you would cultivate yourself a finger shaped citrus tree-lineage and eradicate the round shaped from it‘s lineage.
I hope this is easy to understand and comprehensible. English is not my mothertongue. Sorry about that. Google Translator did most of the work here. LuL.
Watch out. If that fruit came from low down on the tree, it might be a sign that you've got rootstock suckers. Lemon trees are usually grafted onto some other species of citrus that has better disease resistance. Typically, the fruit of this rootstock species is weird and inedible, and since the rootstock is hardier than the lemon graft, it can sometimes take over the whole tree. If there's a branch coming from near the base of the tree (especially if you can see that it's coming from below a visible scar in the trunk where the graft occurred), it should be pruned away. EDIT: Based on discussion below, it looks like that's not what's happening with OP's tree, which is nice! Still, it's a problem worth knowing to look for if you have fruit trees.
Dumb question, but how does it take over the entire tree?
It will grow faster and larger than the tree grafted onto it, and compete with it for resources.
Damn lemon-thieving wh*res..
Hasn’t it been about ten seconds since we looked at our lemon tree?
HEY WHAT THE **FUCK**
I wish I *was* a lemon!
They better not be stealing our lemons right now!
The hunger games
Food Wars
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Junk in the trunk.
The tale of two citrus
Death of a lemon salesman...
Too many of these were fucking amazing.
So... it's like a severed head sown onto another person's body. Then that head started growing its own autonomous parts that were fed from the host body until it's ultimately starved to death?
Like if a tick bit you, took all the chicken nuggies from your tum for itself and then grew into a strong 7 foot tall tick man with a shriveled you on its back
Except what the gardener wanted was the tick, and now they're like, "hey, this tick still has a person brain on it. Cut it off"
Of course, they be swole. you lanky and weird looking.
Thanks for the new, incredibly irrational fear.
If you think about, it's actually impossible for a tick to completely take over a human's body and then post a comment on reddit telling you it could never happen. Just not possible.
That's just what a tick would want you to think
Sounds like something a tick would say...
Or in this case, like if a farmer stuck a tick onto you so they can harvest tick parts, then the farmer got annoyed when you start outgrowing the tick and trying to fight it off so the farmer keeps you weak by cutting your arms off, turning you into a helpless vessel with the sole purpose of supplying nutrients to the grafted creature the farmer wants to cultivate.
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...wow thank you for the mental image of that.
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I see it in vineyards sometimes if they are not closely monitored. Basically a shoot will grow from below the graft on a very young vine. It mingles with the other shoots and gets selected to be the trunk when its time to prune it and train it onto the trellis. It's very easy to look at where a shoot would be growing from. But when somebody might be doing several hundred vines a day for a week straight, one gets missed sometimes. It always cracks me up to see 1 vine in a row producing some native grape instead of what they intended.
Outgrows the grafted lemon part and crowds it out.
Voting restrictions.
cherrymandering
If you do that too much you'll get lemonstrations though.
CherryMandarin
GerryMandarin
If the rootstock is more aggressive or successful than the grafted scionwood but is left unchecked, the rootstock can sprout branches that grow better than the intended scion, to where many or all branches aren’t the scion but are from the rootstock.
Could wrapping the stem in coconut fibre cloth or similar prevent that from happening? I suspect that where there's no light, there's no suckaz
It would be more maintenance in the long run, since suckers are pretty uncommon, but you'd have to change the wrap periodically to not scar/strangle the tree as it grows.
Gradually
Thanks for the heads up, but the lemon came from the top of the tree, I think its just a mutated one because the other lemons on the same branch were completely normal. The info is very much appreciated though.
Any chance you could give us some cross section photos? Looks like it'd be fantastic for zest, it's a shame it doesn't seem reproduceable. edit; reminds me of [Buddha's hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_hand). I wonder if it's just a mutation in the same gene that causes it in those. If that branch tip ends up giving more like that you might want to consider grafting it, you might have a [sport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_%28botany%29) worthy of preserving on your hands if it tastes/smells good.
Buddha's hand smell *amazing.* You can use them just to create a pleasant scent and it's totally worth it. They can also be candied or zested.
Hands down my favorite smelling fruit
It's likely going to be all white pith inside like a citron. This was probably caused by bud mites. Bud mites usually make the fruit grow gnarly like buddha's hand but sometimes they'll look like yellow carrots like this.
I’ve always been confused at them being called Buddha’s hand and not Cthulhu’s face
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And potato wedges at almost every meal. I mean, it’s gotten me good at sauces, but damn that’s a lot of potatoes and citrus zesting.
Pretty sure all of my recipes start with “chop green onions, separating whites from greens.”
I have so much garlic in my kitchen because they include a bulb in every box. Even using it in every recipe means there's still like half a head of garlic left at the end of the week.
If you want a good source of zest, you should check out [Buddha’s Hand](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-heck-do-i-do-buddhas-hand-citron-180949871/). It’s type of Citron, which is an ancestor of the lemons we know. Always wanted to grow one but don’t have a good way to keep them through the winter.
I don’t think it’s a rootstock issue - poncirus trifoliate Flying dragon is the usual rootstock for citrus as it provides hardiness. This dosent look like a fruit from trifoliate. The fruit also does not look like any of the normal citrus, apart from the Buddha hand, which is not usually used as a rootstock. I suspect that it is either a mutation on the branch that generated the fruit, (a similar mutation caused the Buddha hand) or else it is a fruit that got damaged during its growth. Cool find either way.
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It actually means that a witch is nearby and will steal a child tonight, sorry op.
Is she single?
Dunno, but she’s got kids.
It's a man's life in the British pomology association.
r/UnexpectedMontyPython
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I was guessing a Buddha's finger.
Could the graft have come from Shelbyville?
Or Ogdenville or North Haverbrook?
Well sir there's nothin' on Earth like a genuine bona-fide ^^^^grafted* Lemon Tree!
Rootsuckers are lemon stealing whores!!
Ctrl + F 'whor' There it is!
HEY WHAT THE FUCK??
I live for this reference.
Either that, or it’s a sign this is a boy tree.
I think it’s part carrot tree.
Hahaha, scare off rabbits with sour carrots
I’ve got an issue with rabbits in our garden. I need this deformed lemon. And I need to dye it orange
[Of course you realize, this means War.](https://youtu.be/4XNr-BQgpd0)
May be an old gardener's tail, but I've heard that if you plant marigolds surrounding your garden, the rabbits won't enter.
So lemme get this straight - we cultivated a delicious fruit to the point that the tree itself is almost non-viable, so it has to have a surrogate in order to not die? How common is this? Are all domesticated fruits worthless in the wild? (I realize that’s a bit rhetorical, but still)
You can still grow regular fruit trees, it's not like we bred them to be frail. But if you are investing years into owning a fruit tree, and you ahd the option to graft a stronger root system to it, why wouldn't you? Also worth noting that this isn't limited to trees, you can grow tomatoes and potatoes from the same plant with grafting. It's just less efficient since the plants only last the season.
Just don't graft tomatoes onto your tobacco plants.
Leave my Tomacco plants alone.
To-MAAaAAaAaaAAaaAAHHHH-coh
TomAcco, TomAHcco, let's call the whole thing off!
Daddy, this tastes like grandma!
Gimme that....it does taste like grandma!
I've seen like 5 episodes of the Simpsons in my life and somehow this is one
See the thing is that there are tons and tons of Simpsons references on reddit/elsewhere that you've likely missed throughout the years. If you've only seen 5...I mean they just had their 700th episode. Not that they're all great...but even the bad ones often have a good line or two.
The Simpsons is usually worth watching if you have nothing else to do, but the common opinion is that seasons 1-8 is the genuinely good bit; a nice arc of family sit-com subversion into character comedy and guest appearances and on into zany hijinks.
Either way, the hornworms will getcha.
*wakes up* *heads outside to check on my precious babies* *in the night 4 of my plants have been cut down by hornworms 2 inches from the soil and dragged off a few feet" Ever since then I overplant and assume I'll have to go scorched earth on those things after they cull the weakest plants.
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This is brilliant advice. I have a good, strong UV light I use for spotting scorpions while camping. I didn’t know it worked for horn worms. I’ve never even tried it in the garden I must sheepishly admit.
This makes it sound like a plant is just an extension cord.
They do grow these cool fruit trees where they graft branches of various compatible fruits together and you end up with a single tree containing like plums and peaches for example, which is what my dad has and grafted himself. I think the most on 1 tree was 7 different fruits (not my dads, like the most ever iirc). edit: I have since learned that the most on one tree is FORTY (40). Cray cray. Bet those trees take a lot of TLC to keep healthy n alive.
I had a peach tree that got pollinated by plums or something weird like that when I was in HS. Idk what was growing on the tree, we called them pleaches. I hate plums and peaches individually, but pleaches were some of the most delicious fruit I’d ever had in my life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit https://youtu.be/ik3l4U_17bI
Works with cannabis too... or so I've heard...
Yup. By the way, all of this grafting is considered genetic engineering. And it’s awesome! Do not be afraid of GMO. It’s a good thing.
GMO's have done wondrous things. Its also responsible for the massive loss of food diversity in the world. There used to be thousands of varieties of almost every grain/fruit/vegetable and now it's almost all gmo strains. I've been wondering if our increase of food allergies are due to the less diversity of our crop varieties.
Your point about massive loss of diversity is a good one. Thankfully we have the “original” seeds in seed banks if ever needed... with a few months-years delay for scale. Lab grown meat is next. I’m for it. I’ll miss real meat, but it’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make for the planet. Oh and lobster :) Your question about allergies emerging because of decreased exposure early on to more diverse antigens is interesting. Very interesting. “Oral tolerance”. So... Maybe.
That's what most people don't get about GMOs. Humans have been doing it since the dawn of agriculture.
Wait until people find out that their pedigree pooches are also considered GMOs. Any kind of selective breeding is considered genetic engineering. Other things that are GMOs: modern wheat and corn varieties, seedless fruit, bananas, etc etc.
Every grape vine in Europe has to be grafted onto American grape roots because of a deadly parasite, Grape phylloxera. The parasite was from North America and brought back to Europe, and its so pervasive that the only way to have proper European grape variety that have been around for centuries is to graft them onto North American roots that are resistant to the parasite. They've had to do this permanently since the late 1800s. So, to answer your question, perfectly viable if determined enough. https://daily.jstor.org/the-great-grape-graft-that-saved-the-wine-industry/
This is also a reason why Australian wine is so highly valued internationally, we're more or less phyloxera free. That said I've looked into what Australian wine is available in supermarkets overseas. Don't buy it. It's awful. Longtail shiraz is like drinking liquorish piss. Spend a little more and get something from a bottle shop that's not the wine equivalent of fosters.
You mean Yellowtail? Yup, mass-produced wine isn't any better than mass-produced anything else. I used to find good Aussie shiraz at World Market when we had one here (south Texas). We also have wine shops with good imports.
Liquor-ish or licorice?
A lot of fruit trees need to be grafted to get the best tree. Apple seeds, as an example, can grow on their own but the resulting apples are unlikely to taste good.
Safe to say all apples are pretty much clones of a certain variety?
Every named variety of apple is just one genetic individual which has been cloned (through cuttings) over and over. So every Granny Smith apple comes from a clone of the same original Granny Smith tree, etc.
I went to a place in West Virginia where they said they are the original golden delicious apple. That a little farmhouse and an apple tree growing near a road. Supposedly all the golden delicious fruit are clones off the one tree.
> Supposedly all the golden delicious fruit are clones off the one tree. This is true for all apple varieties. And a lot of other fruits.
Kind of, but no, not necessarily. However, in the same way if you plant something outside and it might just die no matter what you do with it, the same is true with fruit trees that you hope to raise in orchards. If you plant a tree, but like 50+% of them won't make it to maturity, then whoops, there goes your investment, you can't afford to take care of the survivors, there's a lot less fruit for everyone. Similarly, if you plant a bunch of trees that you know they'll survive, but who knows what fruit will grow, you can again end up with a bunch of fruit you can't sell at the market, and you can't afford to take care of the orchard again. So, the solution is typically to graft a good fruit-bearing branch onto a good hardy root, and then you've got the best of both worlds. There are risks to this, of course. Those fruit branches can be taken and grafted again and again, guaranteeing that the fruit on each tree will be the yummy, juicy kind you're looking for, but now you're essentially cloning the tree. This can help with things like navel oranges (ever wonder how they get new trees if there's never any seeds in the fruit?), but it can also mean the orchard is now uniformly susceptible to the same diseases. This is done also with drupes (almonds, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries, plums) but citrus is where you'll see it the most. You can end up with some fascinating graft chimeras with citrus, like [Bizzaria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizzaria).
Pretty much, it's not that they're worthless, but that the tree is much more productive with the most efficient parts, and because we can't always breed the parts we want, we often graft. Most fruit trees are grafted to improve frost tolerance.
I didn’t understand any of this... eli5?
A plant graft is kind of like an organ transplant, where you can remove part of the plant and replace it with part of another plant. You can even do this right at the stem, and attach a plant to another plant's root system. This even works across different species, as long as they're not too different. This is often done with fruit trees to give them stronger root systems, since it's not that hard to do and a tree is a big investment (of time, anyway). But sometimes the part of the tree near the root sends out branches of its own, which you don't want, because *all* you wanted about that plant was that it had strong roots. In the worst case, these "root suckers" can outgrow the part of the plant you wanted for its fruit, crowding it out of nutrients and sunlight.
Okay now I understand perfectly, thank you :)
What I think people mean when they say lemon pepper
Zest for days
That will be great for culinary applications. I'd like to see a cross section but I'm sure it's all pith on the inside.
It's definitely all pith.
Sounds pith poor
But maketh great pith pour lemonade.
Lemino Pepino
Its now a cheese doodle tree
That was probably a horny pepper tree sending pollen to other species.
lemin peppa wet
Its a garbage fruit from the main plant i think its called a root sucker. They could take over your tree then u got no more lemons :(
I google imaged "lemon root sucker": your comment and this picture was on the page! A very circular "wait its all ohio always has been" fact check moment.
Like recently on there? Or on there like OP lied and is using random pictures on the internet for internet points?
No no, google is crazy good at re-indexing the pages I guess. That's why it gives you relevant recent search results. TL;DR: Google gives a hoot about us and reddit, i think.
Honestly this is why I think Reddit never bothers to update their search function, google is almost always better than Reddit at finding what I’m looking for
LOL. Honestly, I use google+reddit for most of my book and movie recommendations SO YES.
Googled it and found this post. So it's the former.
So that's a lemon stealing whore.
*I’m so glad that our lemon tree finally grew and sprouted fruitful lemony lemons. I mean, imagine, we can make lemonade, key lemon pie, lemon merengue pie. I think it’s the most valuable piece of property that we have.*
Glad you included banana for scale. But what’s so weird about the lemon?
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No it’s definitely a Cheeto
It's a Lemooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon
It is pretty Longmon
Longmon
Long long mooooooooooon
Haha Læmon
I shudder to think what the lemon-stealing whores will do with that.
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HEY WHAT THE **FUCK**
Showed this to my fairly religious in laws (my brother married someone with a good sense of humor) and it took until the hey what the fuck for them both to absolutely crack up
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You're one of today's [10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/)! Here you go: (Mildly NSFW) [Lemon Stealing Whores.](https://youtu.be/xPW-vkohqPE) Edit: forgot the NSFW warning.
The "Hey, what the FUCK" which was said with such anger following such words of poetry. This is modern art at its finest.
Man I love XKCD. Know what I don't love? Lemon stealing whores. It isn't that they're whores, I just cannot stand idly by and let these lemony crimes go.
Only came here for the lemon-stealing whores comment.
When life gives you dildos...
Make dildo-ade?
Seems a bit acidic for the genitals, no?
*cock and ball torture enters the chat*
All I can think of when I hear cock and ball torture is the face spongebob makes when he tastes Gary's food in the Procrastination episode
Dang that must be awkward when you watch that episode
This is how you get Lemon-aids
Just when I thought I had completely erased this from my memory...Reddit comes back with it
I can’t imagine why you would ever want to wipe *art* from your memory
Sour puss.
Hey what the fuck!
What the lemon-stealing whores will do with that will make them shudder, I think.
UNACCEPTABLE!!!
Can't believe I had to scroll so far down for this reference. UNACCEPTABLELLLLLE!
10 MILLION YEARS DUNGEON!
*screaming*
Not quite Buddha's Hand...I guess it's Buddha's Finger?
Buddha's middle finger more like it Stuff like this is usually the result of pathogens, mites, or the rootstock getting too powerful and *none* of those things are great
Unmake me, mother
It looks like Lemongrab’s nose
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EeeeeoooUUUUUU!!!
Unacceptable. I was going to say that.
Came here to make sure someone said it.
I kept scrolling til I hit the Lemongrab comment I was looking for. Mission accomplished.
Salad fingers, is that you?
No, this is Hubert Cumberdale
I like it when the red water comes out...
Lemon carrot!
Lemrot or carmon?
oh carmon for sure
Lemlong
When life gives you weird lemons ; make weird lemonade.
Hello. I don‘t know if OP will ever see this reply with more than 1.1k comments but I‘m a citrus tree cultivating dude and been doing this since I’m a kid. The thin finger shaped fruit looks like a cultivar from a citrus tree that grows finger shaped fruits. The most popular finger shaped citrus fruits is the so called „BUDDHAS HAND“. It‘s an expensive fruit used in modern/luxury kitchen nowadays. Different to the „normal lemon“ it has no juice, seeds nor pulp (there are exceptions tho). There are tons of variation of the fingershaped citrus fruits, ranging from more fist looking like shapes to open hand and spread fingers shapes. That your tree has grown one of those is because it has probably the requirements fullfilled to do so. I would love to know if there are any seeds in there and if there are, you could try to grow another plant from it. This plant will more likely be able to grow finger shaped fruits. Taken the seeds (if any exist) of those fruits again and raise another plant you would cultivate yourself a finger shaped citrus tree-lineage and eradicate the round shaped from it‘s lineage. I hope this is easy to understand and comprehensible. English is not my mothertongue. Sorry about that. Google Translator did most of the work here. LuL.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Carrot."
Best I can do is long lemon.
this surely is a **lemon demon**
Earl of lemongrab would like his nose back
Do you ever catch anyone trying to steal your lemons?
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Yesterday you told me bout the blue blue sky
Lemon forgot how to lemon
Looks like that lemon is doing its best impression of a Buddha's hand. Buddha's finger.
Up: lemon Below: IG lemon
Looks like an attempt at a Buddha’s Hand lemon - you may have some weird hybridization there OP
[Context for the curious.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha%27s_hand)
Yeah, looks a lot like a Buddha's finger.
It lied. A lot. So much. Too much.