These lemons were all yellow on the tree, then some started turning back to green.
Never seen this before. Any idea why this would happen ?
Here is something else also interesting.
Last year this lemon tree was all white with flowers. I was readying myself for between 500 and 1000 lemons
Then a few days later the tree was empty. Every single bud was gone, and I can only think that birds must have eaten them.
The weird part was that the tree then started making new buds, but only a few at a time. then when the fruit starts, the tree would make a few new buds. This went on all through winter. Yesterday I noticed there is another huge amount of buds forming, and still some marble and golf ball size lemons here and there.
I have no real experience with citrus (gets too cold here) so dont put much stock in this line of query, but make sure its not citrus greening disease. I don’t know if that can cause already colored fruit to turn back to green, but it can cause green bitter fruit and out off season flowering (as well as common flower buds dropping).
Hoping this isn’t serious though and just a quirk of your tree.
The lemons are fine, we use them.
If the buds were dropped, the ground would be littered, did not find any on the ground.
Yes, they could have been picked earlier.
my owari does that. throws out small clusters of flowers all summer into fall. right now i have walnut sized fruitlets all the way down to new flowers. its nice because i get a long harvest window all winter. maybe it does this because its in a pot?
Regreening is pretty common with citrus in warm climates, the fruit re-synthesises chlorophyll when temperatures are high after it’s already ripened. Doesn’t affect flavour or anything, just looks odd. Definitely not greening disease which causes much more obvious symptoms across the whole tree.
We have Speckled Mousebirds and Dark-capped Bulbul amongst a few other birds that eat fruit. At one time there was quite a few of the Speckled Mousebirds, and I saw one off late in the Lukwat tree with who I share the fruit. The mousebird eat the fruit long before it even starts to ripen, and only the seed sits on the twig. If there is no food for the birds, they may well eat food out of desperation they normally would avoid.
