There’s a genuine appeal to picking your own lemon off a plant sitting right on your balcony, and the good news is that you don’t need a sprawling garden or an oversized container to actually pull it off. What trips most beginners up isn’t a lack of space at all, it’s the instinct to reach for the biggest pot available, assuming more room automatically means a healthier plant. With lemon trees, that’s actually backwards. Here’s how to grow one properly in a genuinely small pot, right from the start.