My Edible Fruit Trees: Citrus Trees VIC

Apple - Blenheim Orange (Grafted)

Comments: - Heritage apple grafted on MM102 rootstock.

Planted: 2010

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: Opalescent

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Compost and worm juice. blood and bone mixed with gypsum.

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None to date. It's tiny.

Organic Status:Organic

Apple - Blenheim Orange (Grafted)

Apple - Coxs Orange Pippen (Grafted)

Planted: 2018

Apple - Cox\'s Orange Pippin (Grafted)

Apple - Orange Pippin

blood orange ^10/10

Comments: -

Very handsome tree producing a  good crop every second year. fruits have sweet and sour taste and good flavor. Epsom salt and lime are given once a year. Rely on rain water to survive.

Fruiting Months January, February, March

Planted: 2004

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

None

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Apple - Kidd\'s Orange Red (Grafted)

Comments: -

attempting espalier. M9 rootstock.

Planted: 2013

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Kaffir Lime (Grafted) ^5/10

Height 2 Feet

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Dwarf Lemon - Eureka (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2021

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf Lime - Kaffir

Comments: -

Love cooking with lime leaves.  Nice and small.

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: manure, dynamic lifter for fruit

Pest Control:

Add tomato dust for eaten leaves.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Dwarf Mandarin - Imperial

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Dwarf Mandarin - Imperial (Grafted)

Comments: -

Planted May 2011 as part of a citrus hedge along the fence line.

Picture taken 3rd Feb 2012. Imperial is plant second from the left.

Planted: 2011

Growing: In the Ground

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Meyer Lemon

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Scale: Spray with white oil.

dwarf orange

finger lime

Planted: 2010

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Finger Lime

Finger Lime - Red Champagne

Comments: - I love finger limes hoping for fruit soon.

Planted: 2016

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Grafted lemon and lime

Grafted orange and mandarin

Grapefruit (Grafted)

Comments: -

Ruby Ray variety with pink flesh, suited to coolish climates.

Like most citrus trees, it suffers in the cold and wind in Victoria, but comes good again in the heat of summer and with the aid of fertilisers and tonics.

Seasol and Powerfeed in Spring through to Autumn are important to build up the cell walls so it can better cope with the cold.  A dose of Citrus food pellets in February and August, as well as some chelated iron and Epsom Salts (Magnesium sulphate) corrects the winter yellows.

Chook poo and human yellow fertiliser (!!) once the leaf colour is back to normal in late spring or early summer makes all the difference.

It has tried to fruit a couple of times at least but the foul stinking heat of the 2008/2009 summer, the water restrictions and the hot winds forced it to drop all but one of the fruit that formed.  That poor solitary grapefruit is developing nicely now.  I can't wait to eat my very own pink grapefruit!

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn and Spring

Pruned By: 2% in Autumn and Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Citrus food, chelated iron, chook poo

When I Fertilise: Winter

Pest Control:

No pests affecting it yet, touchwood!

Organic Status:Organic

imperial mandarin (Grafted) ^5/10

Comments: -

Taste of fruit, kids eat them constantly when in season!

Planted: 2010

Height 0.8 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pruned By: 5% in After Fruiting and Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: blood and bone

When I Fertilise: Winter

Question:

How many years until it will bare fruit?

Kaffir Lime

Pollination: Self Pollination

Kaffir Lime

Comments: -

Had it in a pot before but it started not to do well so i planted into the ground.  It also did not do well.  After researching i found that it had iron deficiency and after feeding iron chelate, it become very healthy and even flowered and fruited.  I use the leaves (dont use the fruit at all) in Thai and Asian dishes such as tom yam soup and curries and rendangs.

So far this is the only citrus that is thriving in my garden. It is slow-growing and more than enough to meet the needs of my family.

I hardly water it eversince it was well-established and only water during hot summer days.

Planted: 2009

Height 0.9 metres

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Seasol, Citrus Dynamic Lifter

Pest Control: Occasionally I get aphids on the young juicy leaves but usually easy to deal with at the early stages of infestations. Just got to get my eyes peeled during spring new growth.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Key lime

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Lemon - lots a lemons

Comments: - Mini meyer lemon variety that is a trooper.  Just many lemons from it as my normal meyer lemon.  Lemons are very differet though.  Sweet &awesome.

Fruiting Months June, July, August

Planted: 2007

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 15 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Compost and worm juice. Blood and bone, dynamic lifter.

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting and Spring

Pest Control:

White Oil spray.

Tomato dust for eaten leaves.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Question: How do these do in the ground?

Lemon grass

Comments: -

I have five clumps of this at various spots in the garden. Looking forward to having my own lemongrass for cooking.

Oct 2010 : The five clumps look all brown and dry after winter. The stalks do not look fat enough for harvesting after one year in the ground.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

None

Lemon Verbena (Cutting)

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1