My Edibles: Citrus Trees NSW

Citrus Splitzer - lemon/lime

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One of the grafts seems much more vigorous than the other (not sure which yet). It's also helped by the fact there are 2 grafts of one and only 1 of the other.

Spring 2011: Covered in flowers and just starting to grow teeny tiny fruit.

About a month after this  I decided to get rid of the fruit. There was just so much and I thought that it was a bad idea to leave them all. It didn't seem to like that and suddenly dropped all of its leaves. There are teeny tiny new shoots appearingon some of the branches (mostly on one graft not the other). No idea what I did wrong - I am SURE there was enough food, I am sure it wasn't too wet or too dry. I am hoping that it was a sunlight issue so I have moved into a sunnier spot.

Summer 2012: First day of the new year and I have noticed new shoots on the bare branches. I think that the weather has just started to warm up enough for it to get going again. Catch is that I think they shoots might actually be flowers not leaves. What is it thinking? All I can do is keep an eye on it and keep reminding my man to help fertilise!

Fruiting Months September and October

Planted: 2010

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Charlie Carp, Seasol, and my partner helps out too

Dwarf Lemon - Meyer (Grafted) ^8/10

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Growing well

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

Comments: - it taste good ,looks good

Planted: 2005

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Question: got lime 2years ago ,it flowers but nolimes ,what sort fertilizer i should use and when. i live sydney nsw

Finger Lime - Ricks Red (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - The red browed finches nest in it dense sikey foliage every year. It is the native food source of the citrus butterflies, including the Dainty Swallowtail. Small frogs like the protection of the thorns as well.  Fabulously product tree, I have been picking fruits for months and selling them at the local farmers market.

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, December

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

First Fruited: 0.6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Water Given in: Summer

Fertiliser or Organics Used: cow manure, compost

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Pest Control: suffers from scale

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Grafted)

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This tree is struggling, it keeps getting cut back hard to remove gall wasps and it has not had a chance to grow very much.  Gets scale and suffers from neglect. I will have to give it more attention if I want it to thrive, I wish I had bought a tree on trifoliata as the dwarf is too slow.

Planted: 2008

Qty: 1

Pest Control:

get spray occasionally with pest oil, I need to give this tree more attention

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Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted)

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Growing beautifully, I have my first crop of kumquats this year and I can't wait for the sensational sweet and lively sour little fruits - yummy.  A gorgeous tree which is highly ornamental - the main problem I have is that it looks so beautiful in fruit I am reluctant to strip the tree of its bright orange fruit.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Orange - Navelina (Grafted)

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A lovely dense compact tree, I grow it in a row with dwarf citrus.  Beautiful scented flowers int he spring followed by high quality fruit.  Easy to peal, large juicy oranges.

Planted: 2003

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

I have problems with Californian red scale on this tree, it was saved from a cheap reject bin during the drought.   I spray with eco oil and I have cut it back hard to produce a flush of vigorous new growth. 

Mandarin - Emperor (Grafted)

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Lime - Tahitian ^8/10

Comments: - small fruit on at moment going away so will probs fall off

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Pest Control: pest oil for leaf miner

Lemon Grass (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: - Great in stirfrys

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 8

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Pest Control: None

Organic Status:Organic

Backhousia citriodora - Lemon scented myrtle (Seedling) ^9/10

Comments: - Scented leaves makes the best tea

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 50% in Summer

Pest Control: none

Organic Status:Organic

Finger Lime - Grafted ^6/10

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Growing well, has just started fruiting, flowers prolifically.

Fruit is small but nice - just right to add to a bottle of beer!

Not many fruit this year - has been very wet.

Fruiting Months March and April

Planted: 2008

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 20 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2010 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Orange - Valencia (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Tough, easy to grow, small tree.

Fruiting Months April and May

Planted: 2008

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Compost, Dynamic Lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Orange - Washington Navel (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Tough, easy to grow trees

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Horse manure, worm castings and dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: Vegetable oil in autumn for leaf miner, scale and aphids

Organic Status:Organic

Mandarin - Ellandale (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Tough, easy to grow tree.  Very ornamental when its orange fruits dangle form its limbs.

Fruiting Months May

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Hosre manure, worm castings and dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: Vegetable oil in autumn for leaf miner, scale and aphids

Mandarin - Emperor (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Tough, ornamental, easy to grow tree.  First fruits forming 2010

Planted: 2007

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Hosre manure, worm castings and dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Organic Status:Organic

Grapefruit - Marshs Seedless (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Tough, easy to grow tree.  Very attractive when its big yellow fruits dangle from its limbs.

Fruiting Months May

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 1 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Hosre manure, worm castings and dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control: Vegetable oil in autumn for leaf miner, scale and aphids

Organic Status:Organic

Orange - Arnold Blood (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: - putting on a flush of new growth

Planted: 2011

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pruned By: 10% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Winter, Spring

Pest Control: pest oil

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Lemon Verbena ^8/10

Comments: - makes good tea

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Winter, Spring

Lemon - Eureka

Thyme - orange

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Autumn 2011: still has small leaves like normal thyme but completely different shape. Much lower growing. Had a beautiful orange and thyme fragrance (as the name suggests). It's not big enough to harvest yet but I am keen to cook with it. Smells beautiful.

Because my normal thyme doesn't like competition from other ground covers I have put this one in the pot with the ice cream bean where it will act as living mulch.

Planted: 2011

Height 10 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Lemon - Meyer

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Summer 2011: Seedling from my friend John. Thank you so much! :O) 

Planted: 2011

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Lime - Kaffir (Grafted)

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I have to tip prune to keep him from getting rangy and make sure that the internal part of the tree is kept open for air flow.

I thought I killed him a few years ago when I was pruning a large bottle brush above him. A big branch twisted out of my grasp and landed on him. It ripped a branch and part of his trunk half off. I put him back together and wrapped him with hemp twine. He survived and the wound healed back together. He just looks a bit like an old warrier with battle scars now.

I grow native violets in the pot as a living mulch and as a water indicator - when the violets droop the pot needs water.

Planted: 2006

Height 1.5 metres

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

caterpillars & grass hoppers = pull them off by hand and lux soap spray to keep them off

scale & curly leaf = white oil

Backhousia citriodora - Lemon scented myrtle

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Winter 2011: lots of lovely new growth. I think that it might be a combination of having settled into her new pot and loving all of the rain we're having.

Summer 2011: I have flower buds! So exciting!

Planted: 2010

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Dwarf Mandarin

Lemon - Meyer

dwarf imperal mandarine (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Small tree sweet fruit

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Lime Verbena ^10/10

Comments: - Great for tea - just add boiling water!  Good with rosemary and lemon balm.  Very easy to grow.

Planted: 2009

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Orange - Arnold Blood ^8/10

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Healthy but lost small fruits.  Maybe next year.

10 Dec 2011 Fruiting again; fingers crossed

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mandarin - Freemont ^8/10

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Not sure about this variety as it is all I can get late in the season...

10/12/11 In fruit at last; hope they mature

Planted: 2010

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination