My Edible Fruit Trees: Citrus Trees WA

Orange Berry

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - Sweet Lime

Comments: - Sweet? - yes. Lime? - no. 
Not my kind of lime but it was worth checking out. Has been removed.

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers little and often during warm weather, alternating with slow release organic chook manure pellets in winter

Lemons (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Every back yard needs a lemon tree so there's not much more to say really! We have had problems with the Dwarf range here - due to rootstocks - so I have replanted with full size trees now. We have Lisbon lemon which does great - thorny, but nice lemons. Myer...a mild lemon and Eureka - a proper acidic lemon. 
We have a range of types so that we always have a fresh lemon on hand from the garden - as I use a lot of them in the kitchen. 
They need some help to be happy with our more alkaline conditions here.

Planted: 2012

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers, little and often (summer) slow release organic chook manure pellets (a little in winter/when dormant) sulphur in spring, iron sulphate in winter or as required.

Mandarins (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - I could eat Afourer mandarins all day...they are the best mandarin so far, imho. They are deep orange, juicy, sweet - but still have that lovely mandarin tang, easy to peel and not many seeds. Highly recommend them. We have had major dramas with the new Dwarf and Semi Dwarf rootstocks here - due to the sand and lime in the bore water. It's been incredibly frustrating have to pull out all of the dwarf trees we bought and replace them with full-size rootstock mandarin trees. A couple of the Semi dwarfs are doing ok - but it depends on the scion. My research seems to indicate that there can be problems with Aforurer and some rootstocks for eg.
We have Afourer, Japanese seedless, Ortanique and Clementine. The Japanese seedless is pictured - it has been moved 3 times now and has rebounded surprisingly well. 

Planted: 2015

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers mostly, sometimes organic slow release chook manure pellets. Little and often. Sulphur in spring, iron sulphate in winter.

Oranges (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Homegrown oranges taste fantastic and are one of my favourites. We have an Early Spanish Newhall navel (a beautiful tree with lovely fruit - my favourite - and in this picture) a Joppa and a Valencia - to spread out the fruiting season. They are all on full size rootstock as the semi-dwarf and dwarf rootstocks don't perform as well here, with the sands and tendency to alkalinity. All of our citrus get a dressing of sulphur in spring and sometimes iron sulphate during the year/winter, if needed. 
I love citrus and would always have them growing in the garden - and they taste great when homegrown. The trees are so handsome and the blossom smells divine also.

Planted: 2013

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers alternating with organic chook manure pellets.

White Sapote - Lemon Gold (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Scary tree because it wants to grow into a giant here. That's interesting because it behaved totally differently 700km north of here. Doesn't have any leaf drop here either. Wishing I had planted it somewhere else now, and had to cut down the second tree next to it because they were taking over. The roots are invasive so don't plant near pipes, walls etc...
Apart from that - it's dead easy to grow in our climate, is not at all fussy about the soil, the water, the winter - or bothered by pests/diseases. The fruit needs to bagged against Mediterranean fruit fly and the parrots and possums...
The fruit is beautiful - texture a bit like avocado and the flavour of lemon meringue pie, to me. Skin can be eaten also. 
Self fertile and a good cross pollinator. If only the fruit were bigger and more numerous.
I have to hack this tree back by 50% every 2-3years.

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Any balanced fruit tree fertiliser I have around.

Lime - Sunrise

Comments: - pretty certain it's on Trifoliata rootstock - which is not so great for our WA sands. Needs alkalinity management therefore. Still waiting fot fruit from ours.

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lemonade Tree

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - West Indian Seedling

Comments: - Only planted 2weeks ago. This is a picture of our previous tree. A very heavy bearer of lovely limes. They are seedy but as we juice them it doesn't matter. I am interested to see if it will be able to handle this cooler climate.

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced Acid lovers alternating with slow release organic chook manure pellets. Little and often.

Lime - Rangpur ^4/10

Comments: - Removed - I didn't like the fruit because it was too sour and acidic and had no "lime" flavour. The tree was horribly thorny also. Heavy fruiter. 
(picture taken after pruning when removing - to show fruit only)

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Balanced acid lovers fertiliser alternating with slow release organic chook manure pellets. Little and often

Lemon Myrtle

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - Tahitian

Pollination: Self Pollination

Mandarin - Imperial

Lemon - Eureka

Lemon Myrtle

Planted: 2017

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Lemon - Eureka (Grafted) ^7/10

Planted: 2016

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Orange - Washington Navel

Comments: -

finally getting fruit (if I beat the parrots!)-beautiful juicy sweet oranges

2 of these

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Grapefruit-Ruby

Comments: - very thick skinned fruit. Supposed to be pink but apparently this happens in warmer climates. Skin is yellow-flesh 'pinkish' Has dozens of big plump fruit on it each year-shame we all hate grapefruit-planted it for my sister who moved a 5 hour drive away the year it started fruiting !!!

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Orange - Lanes Late ^8/10

Comments: - finally getting fruit (if I beat the parrots!)

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Mandarin-Clementine ^8/10

Comments: - produces beautiful, easy to peel fruit, ripens after Imperial

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Mandarin-Emperor ^8/10

Comments: - produces beautiful, easy to peel fruit, ripens after Clementine

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Mandarin - Imperial (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - produces beautiful, easy to peel fruit

Planted: 2008

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Lemon - Eureka

Comments: - Prolific fruiter, had a radical prune as getting too tall

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lemon - Meyer

Comments: - Has been my best producing tree-100s of lemons over the years

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lime - Tahitian

Comments: - Got so big it split so attacked it with the chainsaw. Has  produced 100s of limes

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Lemon - Lisbon (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

Almost Everbearing.  Seems to always have some lemons on the way and ripening except for a month or two a year. Kept pruned low to ensure easy picking, open vase shaped centre. Planted in middle of vegie bed to ensure good watering and no weed competition.Ocassionally grow lettuce and radish underneath to keep soil loose. lemon balm close by seems to help with  bug prevention.

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

Planted: 2010

Height 2.5 metres

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pruned By: 10% in Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: compost and composted manures

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control:

none so far lucky to have little problems.

Organic Status:Organic

Orange - Arnold Blood

Fruiting Months August and September

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 0.5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: seasol/chook

Organic Status:Organic

Dwarf Lime - Tahitian (Cutting) ^7/10

Height 0.4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun