Myer Lemon Tree

[Cool Carrot]

Silly question I know.
How do you go about taking cuttings from the Myer lemon Tree??

Regards
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[Cool Carrot]

[PurpleHeather]

 You take newly shooting branches and stick them into compost.

[jennym]

Don't grow tender plants here, but did do a little work regarding citrus fruit some time ago.
The Meyer lemon is usually grown on a dwarfing rootstock, so if you did manage to get cuttings to take, the resulting tree may not be the same vigour or general appearance as the one that the cuttings are taken from.
Never having taken cuttings of this myself, as a guess would say that you probably would take 6" lengths of straight fresh shoots that have plenty of nodes along them, trim the cutting just below a node right at the bottom, possibly do some with a heel of slightly older wood, and also try scraping a line of the bark for about an inch at the bottom.
Take lots of cuttings, try several methods. Bury them with 3/4 of the cutting in a very gritty compost, at least 1/3 of grit by volume. Water, and wait. maybe try some with bottom heat, some without. Try putting some, pot and all into plastic bag to provide humidity. Best of luck!

[Kea]

Meyer lemon is much hardier than other lemons and i discovered recently not a true lemon but a hybrid. Where i come from in New Zealand which has a climate similar to here it is grown outside successfully, i had some in my garden fruiting. I wasn't aware that it only grew on a rootstock though.

[David R]

wiki'ed meyer lemen and it seems it is quite hardy and might be possible to grow outside in the country - now that would be something!