My Edible Fruit Trees: Citrus Trees QLD

Australian Blood Lime (Grafted) ^10/10

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New CSIRO developed native lime cross. Here's their spiel:

'Australian Blood' (also known as 'Australian Red Centre') is a hybrid between an acid mandarin and a native finger lime. It has blood-red rind, flesh and juice.

It is a nice plant. More prolific than the ordinary finger lime. Very weeping habit. Tons of round fruit which start off like a stumpy black finger lime and fill out to a round red fruit. Taste is very good - particularly in salads or chopped into 'wheels' and put into drinks. Skin is edible and sweet! 

Fruiting Months January, February, March, August, September, October

Planted: 2011

Height 3 Feet

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 2 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Organic Link

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Blood Orange

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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

Bush lemon ^7/10

Fruiting Months September

Planted: 2002

Height 4 metres

Organic Status:Organic

citrus x paradisi \'marsh\' grapefruit (Grafted)

Height 1 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

desert lime

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I used to work somewhere where this grew wild, and I used the refreshing  fruit for cooking. The crushed leaves are gorgeous too. The other fruit that grew there I have not found for sale anywhere- currant bush Carissa ovata. It has sweet fruit like dates.

Planted: 2011

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Dwarf Lemon Eureka ^10/10

Fruiting Months September and October

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Seamungous

Dwarf Mandarin Daisy ^10/10

Height 1 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Mandarin Honey Murcott ^9/10

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Pest Control:

Ecco oil

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Mandarin Pixie ^10/10

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Winter, Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Orange - Blood ^10/10

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This citrus is coming into flower very nicely. And has survived multiple transplants and a bit of neglect.

Height 70 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: manure

Dwarf Ruby Grapefruit

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

finger lime ^10/10

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i want one of each colour growing in my mini orchard

Pollination: No

Finger Lime

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I purchased this tree[seedling] earlier in the year from a distributor in the Tweed Valley near Murwillumbah. He has quite an orchard of them and they were fruiting at the time. Apparently Finger Limes fetch a really high price.

I was quite sad recently when after an absence of 2 weeks away in September I returned to discover that the tree had died. I don't know who else believes in the resurrection,, but something inside me wouldn't let it go that easily. So after putting the pot into a bucket of water to wet its feet and cutting off the dead branches just in case it still had some life in it, I eventually put it out in the nursery[under the mango tree], and left it to its own devices. Just imagine my excitement[yelps of joy and leaping with delight] when I discovered some new leaves had appeared. Soooo... it wasn't dead after all. Maybe my faith was rewarded. Who knows, but I am so happy. The thing about it all was the main stem of the tree was always green, and it was this that gave me hope. So while there's hope there's a resurrection. 

I'll get a picture posted soon.

Planted: 2009

Height 30 Centimetres

Qty: 1

Finger lime ^3/10

Planted: 2012

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 3

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Finger Lime - d'Emerald (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Going great guns in a grow bag until we decide exactly where to pop him in the ground. Fruiting already, and we only bought it late last year. Fruit should be ready to pick around Easter I'd say - highly recommend!

Very low maintenance.

Planted: 2022

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Finger lime - Rainforest pearl (Grafted) ^8/10

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This is a very prickly tree, and was flowering when I bought it a year ago, but they all fell off, but it is flowering again now.

Fruiting Months July, August, September

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: dynamic lifter and lucerne mulch.

Pest Control:

none so far.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Finger lime - Rainforest pearl

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My plant is struggling. Semi-deciduous?

Jan-2010 it did not make it through the very dry period before recent flooding rain, despite weekly watering. My conclusion is that the soil was too well drained and maybe not sufficiently rich in organic matter. Nearby ornamental natives are thriving.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Finger Lime - Rainforest Pearl (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Healthy, slow growing but easy - very low maintenance. Watch for spikes. New growth comes in dark purple, before lightening to green.

Planted: 2022

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Finger Lime - Rainforest Pearl Dwarf (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - A dwarf grafted version of the Rainforest Pearl. Healthy, easy to grow, hasn't fruited yet - slow growing, but low maintenance. A native under-canopy fruit tree. Thorny and spindly but beautiful.

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

Finger Lime - Tom Thum (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Cute little finger lime bush, growing happily in the ground and new growth has the usual purple colouring. As with most finger limes, it appears slow growing but healthy and happy. Very low maintenance.

Planted: 2022

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Dynamic lifter

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Grapefruit

grapefruit- oroblanco (Grafted) ^8/10

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I have an oroblanco grapefruit. I don't know whether this is a true grapefruit variety or a hybrid. At the moment it's in a pot and going gang busters with loads of flowers at present.

Planted: 2008

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter

Organic Status:Organic

Comments

Where did you get this Oroblanco? Would you sell cuttings from your tree?

Gympie Lime

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Joppa orange (Grafted)

Comments: - Excellent annual harvest of juicing oranges.

Fruiting Months June, July, August, September, October

Planted: 2001

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 40 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pruned By: 15% in

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Pest Control: Organic%uFFFDWhite oil substitute.  Biggest pest is white citrus  louse which is present  on all our citrus except the citron and the  mandarin.

Joppa orange (Grafted)

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

kaffir lime ^10/10

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2 meters our little? beauty is 4 m!  8 years old and bearing lots of fruit. fruit is hardy so we wait till fall off the tree over summer,autumn,winter. We make a lemonade with lots of sugar as juice is very strong; about 1 tablespoon to each fruit. This makes a cordial which can be frozen as ice blocks for keeping and later use.  So a unique way to have lemon cordial drink all year round. Not too mention the leaves for thai cooking.

Planted: 2003

Height 5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting

Comments

oops my mistake the 2m is from the previous post :)

Kumquat

Comments: - beautiful tree that was there when we moved in, made some nice marmalade the first year but did not care for it well enough. RIP

Lemon ^5/10

Planted: 2018

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Lemon drop mangosteen (Seedling) ^5/10

Comments: - Bought as an Abiu, but fruited as a mangosteen. Pleasant taste and tart.

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2020 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: crop king 88

Pest Control: White oil spray

Lemon Grass

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exotic