Here’s a real taste treat: Squeeze six oranges to get a good-size glass of fresh-squozen orange juice, and squeeze in one-quarter to one-half of a standard lemon. Total rocket fuel! Also good for getting the rust off your chrome. Any more lemon than that, and the juice of the poor lemon is impossible to drink.
But a glass of fresh-squozen Meyer lemons straight would probably make very nice and not overly-sweet lemonade.
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Man, this is making want to make a trip to Ojai. Pixie mandarins ( also called Pixie tangerines) are absolutely delish. Sadly, they have a very short growing season. Hopefully, the fires didn’t too much damage to the groves.
Most Meyer lemon trees, including the one in my backyard, tend to be relatively short. Standard trees are 6-10 ft tall and dwarfs are 5-7 ft tall. If your neighbor’s tree is above roof level it might be a different variety of citrus.
When it is fruiting is it completely loaded? Our little tree that is 6-7 ft tall and just as wide produces 500-600 lemons a couple of times per year.
I’m not sure just how “loaded” is “completely loaded”. Just about this time of year, the tree does have a whole lot of ripe lemons on it. Many of them grow in clusters. Another neighbor propped up some of the limbs with 2x4s to keep them from collapsing.
Unfortunately, it’s nearly impossible to collect most of them. Even if one has a step-ladder, still, reaching most of the lemons requires one to reach through the branches to get to them. With the kind of thorns on this tree (see pic in Post #26 above), that is treacherous. Unless you have shoulder-length leather gloves, it’s impossible to get them without getting yourself sliced and diced.
I collected about 2 dozen that were within easy reach, and I’ve been eating a few each day.
Personally I think they make a better lemonade, but I’ve certainly met folks like yourself who didn’t care for them - not sour enough. But I like my sour mild.
I had one at my old place in CA for about 12 years and it was a prodigious producer of fruit. We always had a ton, but did have a pretty constant battle with scale insects on it. While it was pretty thorny, the biggest threat was that it had one limb at a forehead level that was too important structurally to trim. It had a sharp knobby elbow extending right midway across the side yard cement walkway. We called it “the skull splitter” and it took a steady toll on the hurrying unwary 
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I’ll give that a try.
I envision myself doing that too. (Making lemonade.) It wouldn’t truly be “lemonade” though (no added sugar or any other ingredients). Just fresh-squozen straight lemon juice. I expect it will be very good.
ETA: I linked an article several posts above listing 100 things to do with Meyer lemons. Making lemonade was high on that list.
Number 90 on the list was: Put one, studded with cloves, into your lingerie drawer. Has anybody tried that yet? (See Post #10 above.)
Perhaps a ‘lemonade’ lemon?
Meyers lemons are great for marmalade. The rinds have a deeper flavor than those of regular Eureka lemons. Here’s a good recipe:
I’ll give a ‘maybe’ on that. Your cite says they grow to the size of shrubs, while the tree here is a full size tree. To be sure, the same was said of Meyer lemons earlier in this thread.
Your cite also suggests that this lemonade be made with added sugar. While I haven’t tried squeezing these yet, I’ve been eating them straight and I think the fresh-squozen juice would be good just as-is without added sugar.
The picture also shows them being a little bit rough skinned looking, while the ones here are smooth.
Do you have a ‘lemonade lemon’ tree (or bush)? What do the leaves look like? See Posts 6 and 7 above for discussion of the leaves.
The skins of these lemons are very thin. I think they would be very easy to peel. I haven’t tried eating them that way yet. (I cut them into quarters and eat them that way.) I don’t know yet if the sections come apart very easily like tangerines or some oranges.
Okay, I just tried that. Yes, it peels easily. Yes, the sections come apart fairly easily. But no, it doesn’t taste as good that way. Eaten this way, one quickly gets all the juice (good) then one ends up chewing on the pulp which, I found, is rather bitter (not sour). This doesn’t happen so much when eaten the way I described earlier (cutting the whole lemon into quarters and eating the quarters out of the skins).
Many years ago I lived in a house with an ancient old lemon tree that was full sized. And the lemons were incredibly sweet and PROLIFIC. I would pick a bag (perhaps 30 or 40 lemons) every day and take them to my workplace for sharing with my co-workers. Every. Day. The bloody tree never stopped producing lemons.
Now, I don’t know for sure whether it was a Lemonade Lemon or not (it was probably at least 40 years old at that point) but the leaves were certainly the same as the ones pictured in post 7.
Or maybe it was just a beneficial mutation from some old rootstock. Whatever, my co-workers were very grateful for the lemons.
How did you get that many lemons without reaching through all the thorns? Are you sure it was the tree, and not yourself, that was bloody?
Did the leaves specifically have petioles as shown and described in Posts 6 and 7? If so, then it was not a Meyer lemon. Could it have been a Yuzu?
Whatever it is I think you need to start making limoncello.
Came back t say this very thing.
In Melbourne, there’s a native wasp which has discovered [digenous 
] Lemon Trees, and had a bit of a population explosion. Meyer lemon trees are still putting out lemons, but in smaller quantities as the trees die back.
Plus Meyer lemon trees seem to be more common for home gardening from what I can tell, at least here in Texas. It’s pretty hard to find a regular Eureka lemon tree, but Meyers are fairly easy for whatever reason.
And FWIW, the thinking is that Meyer lemons are a hybrid between citrons (one of the ur-citrus varieties) and some sort of pomelo/mandarin hybrid (i.e. some sort of orange, although apparently not one they can identify).