Growing Citrus
 

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Nice...a lemon?

We're living in Mexico and confusion reigns concerning what name to attach to which citrus fruit. Common names go only so far, and, when the young folk at the various nurseries sell us 'named' trees...and three years later they are fruiting different 'named' fruit...confusion reigns.

Does anyone know of a pictographic webpage that shows and compares citrus types?

All is not lost here, as we were harvesting about 200 lemons off our 3 year old grafted tree a couple months ago. Lemon is not a popular citrus here and we had to order the grafted tree (lemon on top of a hardy lime root)

Thanks for input.

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This is Tangelo

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Posted this in the wrong thread. Thank goodness for the editing feature! :ha:

I have a lot of baby citrus that I am growing from seed, but also have a couple of Mandarin orange trees and a Meyers Lemon.





~JaNan

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Is this Mandarin orange

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Yes, I have two trees. It is Miho Satsuma Mandarin, supposed to be good for Texas in my zone according to Texas A & M. We'll see. I haven't had much luck with citrus here. ~J

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Here you go: UCR Citrus Variety Collection: Selected Citrus Varieties in Alphabetical Order

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Great site

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Meyer Lemon

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Citrus....
Tampa, Florida January 6, 2007


Left to Right:
Arkin Carambola (star fruit), Sri Kembangan Carambola (star fruit), Lula Avocado, Nippon Orangequat, Variegated Pink Eureka Lemon, Valencia Orange, Honey Murcott Tangor/Tangerine, Duncan Grapefruit, Lee Pumelo and on top Variegated Calamondin


And we still have room to grow bananas....

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We've been having some discussions in other scattered threads about making your own nutrient mix for citrus. This looked like the best place to consolidate it.

Anyway, the hot topic has been "how to mix natural sources of plant nutrients for citrus?". The answer is: there are many ways to do it, but ultimately the goal is to have the N, P, and K in ratios of 3 to 1 to 2 -- with respect to each other.

Since we are also having this discussion with regard to tomatoes, I have created an excel spreadsheet that might help you make decisions on fertilizer mixes for citrus and other fruiting plants. Well see :)

Here's a link to the spreadsheet: N-P-K_Mix_Analysis_v02.xls

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I'm growing in heavy old laguna soil...rich, but sans oxigen from sand, etc...any suggestions for an ammendment that will help my slow-growers?

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Make sure that there is 3 to 5 inches of 1-inch diameter mulch on top of the soil surface so that the soil surface does not completely dry out. The mulch should extend past the "drip line" of the tree canopy.

Contact A&L Laboratories West. Get the materials from them for a soil analysis and send them the sample. The will send you a PDF file with the analysis -- send it too me when we get it and then we can talk about it here or in private if you like.

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I have some tangarine and lime plants which are nice and bushed out. Does anyone know if cuttings from citrus plants can root in an aero-garden?

I find peppers & tomatoes to root with ease in the AG, but blueberries or other cold weather plants tend to fail in the AG very quickly.

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For citrus rootings, use semi-ripe cuttings in midsummer.

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Some folks asked for dosage information in the spreadsheet, so added that and called it: N-P-K_Mix_Analysis_v02.xls.

As an example, you can get the citrus ratios of 3:1:2 by mixing:
4 lbs Blood Meal (steer)
1.1 lbs Bone Meal
0.7 lbs Potassium Sulfate
For a citrus plant outdoors in a 15 gallon pot, the maximum annual dosage would be about 0.8 lbs, which you could divide up into monthly or trimester feedings.

Keep in mind that this only covers the N, P, K ... there will be follow-on posts about obtain the minors, micros, and hormone ratios for citrus and other near tropicals.

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Anyone have a good video showing how to prune a young citrus tree. The tree is about 6 feet tall, 4 feet around. It's a Paige.