Orange Tree (forum)

Laura starts with ...
My mother has an orange tree that started off as a seedling and has grown to a tree. She wonders why she doesn't get fruit. She said the tree has leaves but never bears fruit. Any ideas what the problem may be??

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Laura

Time: 14th April 2008 9:46am

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Anonymous says...
Thats easy, if its not grafted you will
never get fruit or will get horrible fruit or very little fruit after a lot of years.

Get the STIHL out.

Time: 14th April 2008 10:14am

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Correy says...
Yeah. Unless it is your passion to create the very best tasting orange. You really do need to stay away from growing citrus by seed. The money you spend on fertilizer and maintenance by the time you do get fruit is going to be higher then the cost of buying a good quality grafted citrus fruit tree from a nursery.

For example if it does fruit it is very unlikely that it will taste like the orange that your mother ate.

Here is some more reading:

Can Cross Pollination Effect the flavour of citrus?

Time: 14th April 2008 10:35am

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Anonymous says...
Im sorry I don't know gardening lingo.. What does grafted mean??

Time: 15th April 2008 9:47pm

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Correy says...
Simply put a grafted plant is one where you cut a branch off one tree and then attach (graft) it to another plant already growing.

Here is a great video on the creation of a grafted mango tree

My opinion is unless you are trying to grow a fruit tree where it is not meant to be eg. A mango tree in a cold climate. Then always pay the extra money for a grafted fruit tree (usually twice the price).

The best reasons are you get your fruit quicker (Therefore the extra money you paid is then recovered) and the fruit is going to the same as the tree it came from. There are many more reason like with mulberry trees by getting a grafted mulberry tree you have one that has a really good and vigorous root system etc etc.

It is common for people to give up growing fruit trees because they grew seedling fruit trees instead of grafted fruit trees and we certainly don't want this happening as it is one of the best hobbies you can have :)
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Time: 15th April 2008 10:12pm

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