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Grow Juicy Lemon Trees at Home: Skip Nursery Costs with This Simple Monsoon Trick!
- •Learn to grow a lemon tree at home without expensive nursery saplings, yielding fruit in 1-2 years.
- •Horticulture experts recommend air layering or cutting methods during monsoon for free sapling creation.
- •For air layering, remove a circular bark strip from a healthy branch, cover with wet cocopeat, and wrap tightly.
- •Roots appear in 25-30 days; cut the branch and plant it for a new tree that bears fruit quickly.
- •Alternatively, cut a 6-8 inch branch, apply aloe vera gel as rooting hormone, and plant in sand-soil mix for new shoots in 20-25 days.
Key Questions Answered
You can grow a new lemon tree for free during the monsoon using air layering or branch cutting methods. Air layering involves peeling a one-inch strip of bark from a healthy pencil-thick branch, wrapping it in wet cocopeat or clay with a plastic bag, and cutting it once roots form in 25 to 30 days.
Unlike growing from seeds, which can take four to five years to yield fruit, a lemon tree grown through air layering or cutting starts producing juicy lemons in just one to two years.
Cut a 6 to 8-inch diagonal branch from a mature tree, remove the lower leaves, apply aloe vera gel as a natural rooting hormone, and bury it 2 to 3 inches deep in a sand and soil mix. Keep the pot in the shade with moist soil, and new shoots will appear in 20 to 25 days.
