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I want to plant some citrus in containers out in front of my house. Basically, I have rocks in front of my house where my flower beds were. I just want to have the citrus in a container so I can move it when I need to and I can get rid of it without having to rip it out.

So what varieties can I use that will be ok in a 24-30 gallon pot. It doesn't freeze where I live so I was thinking lemons and limes, but I am a big fan of tangerines as well.

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Any.

Most of them should be on dwarfing root-stock so that they don't break the pots apart. Consider though that Mandarins (aka Tangerines), Limes, and Kumquats are by nature smaller stature plants so I grow them on standard root-stock even in large pots.

Here's what I consider the top picks in Citrus:
Blood Orange, Moro
Blood Orange, Sanguineli
Calamondin
Citron, Fingered
Citron, Seville
Grapefruit, Oroblanco
Grapefruit, Rio Red
Kumquat, Nagami
Lemon, Eureka
Lemon, Pink Lemonade
Lemon, Pomona Sweet (acidless)
Lime, Bearss (aka Tahitian Lime)
Lime, Kaffir
Lime, Mexican Thornless (aka Thornkess Key Lime)
Lime, Sweet (acidless)
Mandarin, Gold Nugget
Mandarin, Tango
Navel Orange, Cara Cara
Navel Orange, Washington
Valencia Orange, MidKnight

Don't overlook the Sweet Lime. It's awesome as a flavoring in sauces and pastries.

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I am growing Grapefruit,tangerine,lemon,lime,tangelo and orange all in containers.

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I'd recommend Lemons, Limes, and Kumquats. Those will give you lots of useable fruit. I also have grapefruit, oranges and mandarins in pots, but they really don't produce enough fruit to make them worthwhile, in my opinion. Also, I think Mandarins do better with 2 trees, unlike most citrus where you only need the one. Oops, although I do have a Ponkan tangerine, which tastes good and gives a good amount of fruit.

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I have several 5 to 24 gallon pots of Calamondin(kalamansi), Lemon Meyer, tangarine, Kaffir Lime, and Pamello(large like grapefruit but sweeter). All have fruited in the summer. I bring them in my green-sunroom for the winter. They are great in containers. I dont even bother buying citric fruit. I use the sour agent from my Calamondin as food flavoring and marinating. Calamondin is the best pot container because they always fruit year round; the more you pick, the more it flowers-just like okra, and it has great taste with seafood and as lemonade.

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I've got two nagami kumquats, a dwarf washington naval, and a bears lime all in containers. I did have an improved meyer till the scale killed it! GRR.
The hardest part for me is just making sure they get enough light, and decent humidity inside in the winters.

-Luke

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My improved Meyer is somewhat prone to scale as well. Horticultural oil helps a lot though.

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Meyer is not a Lemon, it is Lemon x Orange.

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Of course Grapefruits, Lemons, and Oranges are hybrids also, the true species of the Citrus genus are citron, mandarin, and pomelo. Limes and Kumquats are actually not in the Citrus genus, but in the citrus family Rutaceae.

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blood orange

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Just looking at that fruits makes me wanna pick-em and yumm.

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This one is in a container and is loaded with fruit.

:)

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Congratulations :08:

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Morning sunshine variegated lemon! Anyone ever grow this or know anythimg about it?

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Looks like a seedling of variegated Eureka Lemon, also known as "Pink Lemonade".

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Pretty