My Edibles: Citrus Trees NSW

Grumichama - Orange

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Small dark red, almost black colored berry with soft, juicy pulp tasting like a cherry. Flavor is quite good, fruits are usually 1/2-3/4" wide.

Description: Medium sized tree or bush to as high as 30ft, but often much lower. Can be grown as a bush.

Hardiness: Trees are subtropical or tropical and can survive to 26F. Also seems to grow fairly well in warm tropical climates.

Growing Environment: Generally a slow grower, the grumichama likes year-round water and care should be taken to avoid periods of drought. Can be grown in sun or in shade.

Propagation: By seeds, which can take up to 4 years to begin bearing.

Uses: Eaten fresh. Also used to make desserts.

Native Range: Native to coastal areas of Southern Brazil. The grumichama is cultivated in parts of South America.

Qty: 1

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Orange (Grafted) ^5/10

Height 18 Inches

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lemonade Tree ^10/10

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Absolutely magic! Beautiful juice for breakfast!

Fruiting Months July and August

Planted: 2008

Height 6 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

No probs with pests!

Lemon - Eureka (Grafted) ^7/10

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Everyone should have a lemon tree!!!

Fruiting Months June and July

Planted: 2009

Height 6 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 4 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Dwarf Orange - Hamlin

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Mandarin - Satuma Okitsu Wase

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A prolific fruiter, the picture shows the tree after we have been eating from it for the last 2-3 weeks.  Nice flavour and an easy peel fruit.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - generic seedling (Seedling) ^5/10

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Just a seedling, and will be grafting a named variety on it soon (have actually very recently grafted a small veneer of an orange tree I have onto it, will advise how it goes)

Planted: 2010

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Lemon - Meyer

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

Autumn 2012: Some EVIL monster ate ALL THE LEAVES! Fuming!! I have moved him round the back to the new hospital ward (AKA glasshouse) where I hope that he can recover!

Planted: 2011

Height 20 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Pollination: No

Lemon Verbena

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Summer 2012: grown from a cutting pinched from my sister's new plant. Has a pretty form. Seems very similar to oregano in the way it is growing at the moment.

Qty: 1

Finger Lime - Tasty Green

Comments: - I saw these on ABC's Landline series a few years ago and decided to buy one.  I moved recently to the coast and have now planted it in the ground and it seems to be very happy in its new backyard

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Lemon - Eureka

Comments: - I just love lemons. 

Mandarin - Imperial

Lemon - Verna

Orange - Pere

Planted: 2011

Dwarf Orange - Cara Cara

Dwarf Orange - Lanes Late

Planted: 2012

Dwarf Apple - Blenheim Orange

Lime - Tahitian (Grafted) ^10/10

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Has stayed manageable size in the pot. Great tasting fruit, low maintenance tree. Only pests are stink bugs which are easy to control. Pruned roots as well as branches this winter & has a flush of new growth & heaps of fruit set this spring

Fruiting Months January, February, March, April, May, October, November, December

Planted: 2004

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Fruit Harvest: 60 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Seasol, Dynamic Lifter

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

Pyrethrum or Enviro Oil for stink bugs as needed

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Comments

Hi Sean, I have a Tahitian lime as well in a pot. How do you prune the roots?

hi Chak, sorry for late reply. I just took the whole tree out of the pot & trimmed the roots with a sharp knife & as Daleys advised pruned the foliage at the same rate. Then I put new in potting mix & dynamic lifter, repotted & gave some seasol weekly til it got over the shock. Very easy & responded well. Hope this helps

Mandarin - Satsuma seedless (Grafted) ^6/10

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A Japanese seedless thin-skinned sweet variety purchased from Bonnyrigg Garden Centre. 

September 2009:  Some flowering activity recorded.  Applied sulphate of potash and watered in.  Removed all visible fruit buds to concentrate on growth and prevent branch distortion. 

October 2009:  Some growth recorded.

November 2009:  More growth recorded and tree is looking healthy.

December 2009 to March 2010:  Lots more growth and tree is sure looking healthy.

February 2012:  A very healthy tree with lots of fruit.  Looking forward to enjoying the fruits of my labour.

Planted: 2009

Height 3 Feet

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Cow manure, sulphate of potash

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

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

Comments: -

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

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

Comments

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