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What makes a lemon seed in a small pot wake up-and what will it become? Water reaches the seed, and it starts using stored food to grow. But it doesn't become a tree all at once. It starts underground, with a root. Then a shoot rises, opening leaves above the soil. In the pot, those leaves catch sunlight and help the young plant make energy to grow. As the stem thickens and branches form, your seedling can become a small tree, given time and suitable growing conditions. Much later, a mature tree may flower and grow lemons. How long that takes varies, and fruit is never guaranteed. If lemons do come, they may differ from the parent fruit, because a seed-grown tree doesn't promise the same kind. In your pot, roots come first; years later, the tree may bear lemons unlike its parent.