{"id":18925,"date":"2022-08-27T20:30:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=18925"},"modified":"2022-08-27T20:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T01:30:28","slug":"meyer-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=18925","title":{"rendered":"Meyer Lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My little Meyer Lemon tree (aka Oscar!) made a lemon. It&#8217;s a cute little thing. I put the plant outside earlier this summer and it was doing very well, but the fruit wasn&#8217;t yellowing. Last week the plant got dry and the fruit started yellowing, but also seemed to be shriveling and drying. I watered it really well and today noticed that it looked better and yellow. I squeezed it gently to see if it felt softish or dry, and it came off in my hand! Eve and I were pretty surprised and happy. :) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"18901\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?attachment_id=18901\" class=\"wp-image-18901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451770477261270500598737564-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"18899\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?attachment_id=18899\" class=\"wp-image-18899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/wp-16616451763984362596564157297780-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t big enough to do much with, but I squeezed it, sampled it, and put it on fresh avocado. Yum! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oscar has more buds and one other tiny, green lemon currently growing. As summer comes to an end I&#8217;ll bring it back inside for the winter. Hopefully it survives another transition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My little Meyer Lemon tree (aka Oscar!) made a lemon. It&#8217;s a cute little thing. I put the plant outside earlier this summer and it was doing very well, but the fruit wasn&#8217;t yellowing. Last week the plant got dry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/?p=18925\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-18925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18926,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18925\/revisions\/18926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familyblog.datdec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}