How Wierd Can Lemons Get?

Mar 22, 2019

How Wierd Can Lemons Get?

Mar 22, 2019

In a recent post about lemon shape being affected by high temperatures 

https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=29443

a grower sent an image of what I thought was  a blurred view of something that was circled.  I responded saying that I couldn't make it out, and a better image should be sent.

lemon chile picture distraction

The grower resent the image, but this time it was about the long yellow thing in the background that was being asked about.  The tree is planted next to a chile pepper plant and the question was whether the shape was affected by the chile proximity.

lemon chile picture

The grower had never seen anything like it before and I haven't either.  But rack it up to the high temperature wave during flowering and the rapid fruit growth period and hormones gone amuck.  if temperature extremes become more common, unusual fruit shapes will likely become more common.