A few of my citrus starting to bloom....

14 years ago

Just want to share a few pics of a few of my flowering citrus...

Here is my varaigeted calamondin..

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Flowers...

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Fruits

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Photos last year taken june 09..

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ajaysr5
Original Author
14 years ago
Here is my honey mandarine..
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Flower and lots of it..
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Last year photos with 4 fruit on it..My kids like this one and should be a good harvest this year.
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Andrew Scott
14 years ago
Hello Ajay,
Your fruit trees always look so perfect to me. Your honey mandarin is beautifull. I wish I hade the advantage of being able to plant right in to the ground!
Andrew
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Thanks, Mike. I hope I'm posting this right. I have no idea if he might be a cutting. I dug around a little at the base and I don't see an obvious graft, but just because I don't recognize it doesn't mean it didn't happen! I've been top dressing every so often with composted manure and plain old compost and a little worm casting tea a couple of times. He dropped his leaves once about a year ago because he was too wet, and that was when I repotted him in the citrus mix. He came back fast after that. In the summer (we're zone 5) he sits on a SW corner of the patio that is sunny all day. I acclimate him to that location, of course. In the winter, he has a west facing window right next to him and a south facing window a few feet away. I haven't been giving him extra light, but maybe I should. I have a container fig that will join him inside this year, so it's probably time to think about more light. Our indoor temps are right around 68, but he's in a window, so probably cooler.
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Background: I bought a very small Valencia Orange from Stark Brothers two years ago (along with an order of fruit trees). First year was strickly indoors, not the greatest growth. This last summer I moved it outside. I purchased a lemon and a lime from Home Depot during a trip to CA (they had Four Winds tags on them) and brought them back to Utah. Care: They seemed to be doing okay, and I fertilized all with a citrus fertilizer when I got home in August. I moved the orange to a larger pot at about this time, using a pot I had similar in size to the ones from HD/Four Winds, but the orange isn't nearly as large, but lots more leaves. When I moved them into a sheltered area (no direct sun) to prepare them for winter, the lemon lost all of its leaves - may have also been a lack of watering issue as well. At any rate, I moved them to the garage next to a north-facing window and the lemon produced all new leaves. A few weeks later, the lemon and orange produced quite a few blossoms. Of course, the blossoms quickly dropped, but the orange has continued to blossom with one or two here and there after I moved it near a second floor south facing window. Analysis: I thought the blossoms came because of the changes in settings (cool/cold to warm) as if it was going into spring? At any rate, it was my first use of a citrus fertilizer and the first time that the orange had blossomed in the two years I've had it.
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kumquat1
14 years ago
I don't believe I have been taking proper care of my citrus trees, just letting them grow and left to their own devices. However, after doing a lot of reading on this forum, I have started fertilizing and watering with rainwater if there has been no rain for a week. The cold weather in Florida has caused all the citrus to bud out beautifully. I have a satsuma that is 6' tall and 5' wide that has plenty of root and lots of leaves, and is 5 yrs in the ground with never a bloom. It has lots of buds on it now and has enough leaves, roots and branches to make some fruit. We are so excited!
yaslan
14 years ago
I love all the flower clusters on your citrus tree. I like Andrew wished we could grow citrus in the ground. But fortunately enough we can grow them in containers and get them to set fruit.

Enjoy your bountiful harvest!

Bo
mango_kush
14 years ago
BEAUTIFUL calamondin. i have a Bonsai calamondin, but now i want a variegated to pot next to my varigated eureka
ajaysr5
Original Author
14 years ago
thanks guys,Hopefully will get a good harvest this year.
cebury
14 years ago
Very nice growth over a 10 month period -- you're definitely taking great care of it in that container. Should be a perfect mini Xmas tree shape in time for the holidays :-)
tsmith2579
14 years ago
I moved my potted Key lime, calamondin and Ponderosa lemon outside of the greenhouse early this week. The calamondin 7 ft X 5 ft) was covered with fruit and is in full bloom. The lower half of the Key lime (7 ft X 4 ft) is covered in blooms and has one good sized lime on it. The Ponderosa lemon (7 ft X 4 ft) is also covered with blooms and hat pin head sized fruit. The greenhouse smelled like heaven. The greenhouse doors had been open for 3 weeks and the bees have done their jobs. I'm looking forward to a bountiful harvest of lemons and limes around Thanksgiving.

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