VILLAFRANCA LEMON – ONE OF THE BEST LEMON VARIETIES
Botanical Name: Citrus x limon cultivar “Villafranca Lemon”
Description: Fruit is remarkably like the Lisbon lemon variety. It produces large oval, elongated fruits with a prominent nipple. The rind is smooth to slightly textured and turns bright yellow when mature. The flesh is greenish-yellow, juicy, and acidity. It has very few seeds and a strong aroma.
Ripens: Produces fruit and ripens throughout the year with the main crop from April to July
Height & Spread: 5m x 4 m (approximately 16 ft x 13 ft), mainly dependent on pruning practices.
General:
- An improved Lisbon variety that consistently produces quality fruit over a
longer period than the Eureka lemon variety and with fewer seeds.
- Heavy bearer with fruit production most of the year.
- A strong vigorous grower with fewer thorns than other lemon varieties.
- Highly recommended lemon variety and easy to grow.
- Lemons can tolerate more frost than most citrus and lemon varieties,
except when young.
- Can be used as an ornamental shade tree in smaller gardens.
- Can be grown exceptionally well in containers/pots.
Care:
- Very well drained, light aerated soil is essential. Avoid clay soils.
- When planting in pots, ensure that adequate drainage is provided and use a good quality bark based potting soil with added river sand.
- Best fruit production is in full sun but tolerates semi-shade as well.
- Citrus are heavy feeders, so apply 6:1:5 or 20-20-20 fertilizer monthly, or use your choice of organic fertilizer option.
- They will also benefit from regular applications of magnesium sulphate (epsom salts) and iron chelates.
- Keep plants moist but be careful of over watering.
- Keep an eye out for aphids, scale. Mealy bugs and citris pslla (treat with any product containing imadacloprid).
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