My Edibles: Orange Trees QLD

Orange - Valencia (Grafted) ^7/10

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Grumichama - Orange (Seedling)

Comments: -

Thought of growing orange variety to compliment the black - hope the taste is the same.

Planted: 2012

Growing: In a Pot

Pollination: No

Orange - Joppa (Grafted)

Comments: -

Supposed to develop into a small, attractive tree.  Bought this variety as tolerates wind. (Planted on exposed side of steep hill - growing beautifully). The fruit are tasty and juicy, a little seedy - fruit tastes like the drink "Tang"!  Does need watering if it hasn't rained for a few weeks (generally winter).

Planted: 2011

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Manure and citrus feed

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

Have used white oil spray once for scale.

Orange - Lanes Late (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

I wanted to extend my orange season and I already had a Washington naval, which produced exceptional tasting and good sized fruit so I decided to give Lane's late a go and I wasn't disappointed.

The tree grew slow at the start but it has found its feet now and is doing well.

The fruit does mature slightly later than my other oranges, so it has helped to extend my orange season. Tastes great and juices well. Fruit set isn't prolific (unlike my Valencia) but I'm sure it will improve as the tree matures.

The tree itself is quite upright in growth and is just awesome in my backyard collection.

I live in a fruit fly prone area but the citrus are usually left alone and if stung the larva never develop - it also helps that the fruit ripening is through winter and the fruit fly numbers are lower.

I would definately recommend the Lane's late naval orange for the backyard.

Fruiting Months February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September

Planted: 2007

Height 3.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 30 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pruned By: 10% in After Fruiting

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chicken and quail manure, some citrus commercial mix, some trace elements

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

This tree is largly pest free. Gets the occasional leaf miner, caterpilla, or aphid but nothing serious. If I ever do need to spray, I use a little white oil and sometimes pyrethrum but that's very rare.

Organic Status:Organic

orange joppa ^6/10

Comments: -

Its only 1 metre high 3/2/2012 but it has 10 oranges on .

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Water Given in: Spring

Orange - Valencia

Dwarf Orange - Navelina (Grafted)

Comments: -

Had my one and only fruit off this about a month ago.  It's only been in for about a year, so I took 99% of the flowers off.....just wanted 1 for a taste.  Very nice orange, but probably not as "orangy" as I would have liked.  Hopefully will get better with age.

Planted: 2008

Height 0.75 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: comfrey mulch, dynamic lifter,seaweed fert.

Pest Control:

Cterpillars which I usually pull off and squash.  If there is only one, I usually leave it if it's not doing too much harm as I love butterflies.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Grumichama - Orange

Orange - Valencia (Grafted)

Comments: -

Also a joppa (two years old) and a Washington navel (new in 2011). Only a few fruit on the older ones so far.

Planted: 2008

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost and chook manure, kelp and fish emulsion

When I Fertilise: Winter

orange berry

Comments: -

Growing strongly, nice glossy shrub. Fruit quite nice, but mostly seeds. Was moved to a less crowded spot after being shaded by native raspberries, but it didn't like the sun, so moved back now.

Planted: 2009

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Blood Orange

Comments: -

Update 09-Dec-2011: Most of the tiny fruits have been nibbled by some insects. New pic attached.

Got a couple of fruits last season. The fruits were already forming when we got this from a nursery. But those fruits didnt have the blood red colour in the flesh that i was expecting. It was moderately sweet.

Its flowering again and i hope to get some blood oranges this time.

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Orange - Washington Navel (Seedling)

Comments: - Planted in a duo with a lemonade tree. Still a baby so no fruit yet!

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Dwarf Orange - Washington Navel

Dwarf Orange - Valencia Seedless

Orange - Arnold Blood

Grumichama - Orange ^6/10

Comments: -

I could only get one orange grumichama and had to have it to compare to the black ones i already have!

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Orange - Arnold Blood ^6/10

Comments: -

This tree looks healthy but very little growth

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Orange Berry ^4/10

Comments: -

The idea of sweet honey like fruit sounded great. I have had berries now and have to say they tasted a bit unpleasant and like medicine :) Could be just me though. No sure if I will keep these because there is very little fruit to seed ratio.

Height 40 Centimetres

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Orange - Washington Navel ^6/10

Comments: -

Very little growth but some new shoots now in spring

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Orange - Navelate (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2011

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Chicken poop and compost

Organic Status:Organic

Orange - Lanes Late

Planted: 2004

Height 1.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse/ dynamic /chems :(/mulch

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

Pest Control:

leaf miner spray/ white oil

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question:

wont grow or fruit tried lots of metods :(

Tamarillo - Orange (Cutting) ^8/10

Comments: -

Very easy to look after, although they love a good drink in hot weather and dislike being in a windy position, and they also like a bit of shade in the hot afternoon.

Cuttings are so easy to take, and the resulting tree ends up very productive.....within a year.  I I have found if I take the fruit off when it's just ripening, it dosen't seem to get stung by fruit fly.

I live in a sub tropical area, and am only able to grow the orange variety, but in winter the fruits do go a lot redder.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: horse manure, mushroom compost, bllod and bone and sugarcane mulch.

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

The only thing that seems to affect the tree is aphids....but have also had 2 lovely trees about 2 metres tall, fall over......due to termites in the roots.

I  have found they are very short lived trees, and always have a couple of 

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Orange - Valencia Seedless

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Orange - Washington Navel

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Orange - Washington Navel (Grafted) ^7/10

Comments: -

scent of blossom, dwarf version

Planted: 2006

Height 0.5 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

white oil for scale

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Question:

blossom but dont stay on tree

Orange - Washington Navel (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

you can never have too many oranges

Fruiting Months December

Planted: 2004

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Question:

The fruit is a bit hard???

orange Blood (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

I really enjoy the taste and colour of blood orages, the red looks great in salads and they are very juicy. I am not sure what type of blood orange this is or even if there is more than one tpye! It came from the Jimboomba markets.

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chook mulch and complete fetiliser

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

pest free

Dwarf Orange - Navelina ^9/10

Comments: -

every backyard needs at least one orange tree-, they are beautiful and hardy

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mulch and complete fetiliser once so far

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

It has a beautiful large caterpiller living on it, doing some damage but too pretty to squash, it is in a cacoon now, I may regret not squishing it in the future...

Organic Status:Organic

Question:

this is a navelina on swingle rootstock so does that make it a dwarf? How big will it grow?

Tamarillo - Orange (Seedling) ^7/10

Planted: 2010

Height 50 Centimetres

Growing: In the Ground

Navel Orange ^10/10

Comments: -

The tree was here when we bought the house. Has fantastic fruit some of them the size of a newborn baby's head - no joke. Fruits on and off most of the year. The chooks live under it so is fertilized all the time. We have to watch it carefully when heavily laden if it is too windy.

Planted: 1999

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pruned By: 10% in

Pollination: No

Pest Control:

None