My Edible Fruit Trees: Citrus Trees

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 - Coxs Orange Pippin

Apple - Cox\'s Orange Pippin (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: - Tree is growing in Katoomba. Excellent taste. Good crop in 2015. None in 2016. Big crop again in 2017.

Fruiting Months April

Planted: 2011

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Apple - Cox\'s Orange Pippin (Grafted)

Apple - Kidd\'s Orange Red ^8/10

Comments: - Grown in Katoomba. Very tasty..

Planted: 2014

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 3 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: No

Organic Status:Organic

Apple - Orange Pippin

apple cox\'s orange pippen (Grafted)

Comments: -

Planted same time as Granny Smith.

Planted: 2008

Height 1 metres

Qty: 1

Pest Control:

none

Organic Status:Organic

Australian Lime (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Citrus of the Year 1995.  Not native. Rootstock - Troya citrange.  Begins as a lime when green and becomes a lemonade tree when it turns yellow.  Very prolific. 

Planted: 2003

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 4 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Backhousia citriadora (Lemon Myrtle) (Seedling)

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 3

Blood Lime

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

Bush lemon ^7/10

Fruiting Months September

Planted: 2002

Height 4 metres

Organic Status:Organic

Bush Lemon Tree

Bush Lime ^7/10

Comments: -

Microcitrus australis.

Planted: 2002

Height 2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Organic Status:Organic

Cherry Tomatoes, Basil, Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano, Sage, Spring Onions, Chives, Banana Passionfruit, Black Passionfuit, Mandarin,

Organic Status:Organic

citrus pomello ^8/10

Fruiting Months July, August, September, October

Height 2 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Organic Status:Pesticides Used

Citrus Splitzer - lemon/lime

Comments: -

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

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

Height 1 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Citrus, Tangelo Minneola

Comments: -

Very juicy, well suited to area, very good frost resistance. susceptible to harlequin bug

desert lime

Comments: -

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

Desert Lime - Citrus glauca

Double grafted lemon/lime (Grafted) ^6/10

Comments: -

We don't have a lot of room at our place, so the idea of a double grafted tree was attractive, although it was an expensive tree. It also looks nice with the different foliage and flowers on the one tree

Planted: 2009

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Apple - Blenheim Orange

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 Apple-Coxs Orange Pippin (Grafted)

Growing: In a Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Cross Pollination