Anyone else love lime water? Really wish I could grow limes outdoors here in Kansas. I’m the type of person who could care less about the tequila but would drink margaritas all day for the lime flavor. Lime water is among my favorite drinks.
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I drink Orange water myself. I like any citrus watered down though.
I probalby drink 2 quarts a day.
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I currently have about 30 lbs of unripe limes on my Bearss Lime tree.
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I drink lemon water. I never thought about buying a lime.
Dax
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A guy I know in Wisconsin that grows this tree, and it’s making for an excellent container tree. It has produced fruit for 5 years now. He has a nice sun room to bring it into each winter. Not 30 pounds, but enough to make growing it worthwhile.
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I bought some Sugarbell oranges in Florida, they were so good, I’m going to grow a tree from the seeds. Sometimes with citrus they come true to seed. Honeybell oranges were almost as sweet, bigger, and easier to peel. But I don’t see an orange tree with such big fruit doing well in containers. Sugarbell is a very small orange to begin with.
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Limes are for salsa… I love grapefruit juice.
Drew
I use to grow citrus from trees about 10 years ago. The problem i had is they would get huge and they had very sharp spikes on them. I ended up chopping all of them. If anything use the seedling as rootstock and get some wood to graft onto it. I think seedling citrus need so many nodes to fruit…it can take a while.
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Clark! I love limes tooI Even more than my Meyer Lemons! My ‘Key’ Lime tree produces sixty to seventy small limes a year which are enough for two key lime pies and one large pitcher of Margueritas! Not bad. So worth it. If I didn’t make the pies you could drink margaritas for two weeks straight! LOL!!!
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Limes are for gin and tonic
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MrsG,
Great looking key lime tree! I might need to start growing a lime indoors.
Yes I don’t expect much, I heard many have had no fruit as all. I actually have a tree now, i was going to scrape it, it as from a mediocre orange at best, just wanted to see if it would grow.
As far as water, I was thinking of growing real cranberries for the juice. They grow well here too.
Yup. Grapefruit juice diluted just clears the thirst. 2 qts does me good.
Actually have Meyer lemon, Persian lime, Washington orange and Owari Satsuma sitting inside now. Thinking of grafting all onto a C. bitter lemon this spring for gifts.
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@mrsg47 I’m guessing that is your meyers lemon tree in the pic, not a key lime (if it is a key lime, them mine is producing very tiny fruit)
No that is my Key Lime and the fruit are small. This picture might give you a better indication of scale.
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I can already feel the headache.
I wish i could drink more, but my body, nor my children allow it.
I do miss being drunk. 
its just the rest of it i don’t/
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The trouble is, the uses I like for limes are all suited for hot weather, yet the fruit I get comes in winter. Someone should fix that.
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Yes, an interesting lime, I often thought of growing. Kumquats are another that would make a good container culture plant.
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I like lime water, too. Limes are easy to grow in containers. I live in the KC area. I have a grow room with a 1000W HID lamp and grow several tropical fruits. They move outside when it stays above 50 at night. As long as you water it and give it citrus fertilizer it will produce. The more sour the fruit the easier it is to grow in northern climates 
And if you want fruit in summer let your plant get a little dry in March or April. When you water it it will flower.
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Limes and lemons are great in food too. Fish, grains, beans, any kind of casserole.
I grow the trifoliate orange outside here and I like it the same way. I use the rind in my sauerkraut.
John S
PDX OR
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John,
My trifoliate oranges didn’t look to good last year. What’s your secret to growing them?