Happily received my well packaged Persian Lime plant a week ago. Repotted since. Plant has sturdy upright stems and verdant leaves. Looking forward to its continued growth.
I bought this tree a year and a half ago, and when it arrived it was only about 8-9 inches tall but beautifully colored. It is already about 5 feet tall and filled out gorgeous! No fruit yet but we look forward to it.
My Persian lime, which is about a foot high, fruited this year. I have about 15 1" fruits; But mine all turned orange, and the flesh is pinkish-orange.
The skin peels off cleanly, and the sections separate with no white netting (unlike a Mandarin). But the taste is distinctly different--a cross between a lime and an orange. It is still tart, but you can actually eat the sections if you like tart. It excels in a gin & tonic.
I bought this from Logee's over 20 years ago and still enjoy large annual harvests of the best limes! One January a few years ago my
lime tree produced over three dozen limes; so much so that I made lime marmalade and froze a pint of left-over juice besides. One
word of advice, this tree will quickly top three feet in height if not pruned faithfully. I struggle to keep mine at just under four feet high
and wide. My lime spends summers here in Ohio on a south-facing porch and winters by a low south-facing window. With the price
of citrus it really pays to keep at least one culinary citrus tree if you have the room and lighting. When it is time to repot your tree,
make sure to prune any roots that are starting to circle the root ball. Expect to get limes twice the size of the store bought ones!