Key Lime Tree: Grow Your Own Pie
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Epic Gardening
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🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the words “key lime”? We’re guessing yummy pies jumped into your head or maybe even an alcoholic drink. If you ask us though, we only have eyes for the key lime tree. After we’re done raving about it, this tree is sure to grab your attention as well.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What is up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we are talking about |
| 0:18.7 | how to grow your own pie. I remember going to Marie Calinders, which just sounds like your aunt's name as a restaurant. |
| 0:27.0 | And we would get pie, and that was like the treat that I had growing up. |
| 0:31.0 | Marie Calinders, and one of the things that we always got was Key Lime Pie. |
| 0:35.8 | And what do you need to make a Key Lime Pie? |
| 0:38.3 | You need Key Lime. |
| 0:39.3 | And so what better way to do it than to actually grow your own key lime. |
| 0:43.2 | Key lime is interesting. |
| 0:44.7 | The classification of citrus trees has been debated for many, many years among |
| 0:50.3 | taxonomists. |
| 0:51.2 | The most popular belief is that key lime trees are a hybrid of the |
| 0:56.1 | papata and citron limes. It's native to Southeast Asia and it's believed to have |
| 1:00.9 | voyaged through the Middle East, North Africa, Spain, West Indies, and finally, its namesake, the Florida Keys. |
| 1:08.0 | Now, that doesn't really matter for growing it, but it is pretty interesting. |
| 1:12.0 | If you live in the zones 9 to 11 |
| 1:14.5 | you can grow it outdoors year round otherwise there's some things that you'll have to |
| 1:19.2 | do to consider growing it. Let's go ahead and talk about planting. You want to plant |
| 1:24.8 | ideally in late winter that gives the tree time to settle into its new home |
| 1:29.1 | before the growing season in spring. If you're planting in an indoor outdoor container then |
| 1:35.4 | you want to do that at the beginning of the warm or cold season so it doesn't have to |
| 1:38.4 | move locations while it's getting settled. So either the beginning of the warm |
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