4 new trees in 20 gal containers
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Great Looking trees , I live in an area that is perfect for citrus trees, pomegranate in the ground without watering produces tons of fruit, citrus trees need lots of water and sun, my grapefruit works much better than my lemon trees, even though i do not water it much, it produces as much as 5 lemon trees and its smaller too.
I never tried growing in pots, but so far yours have a good producing rate
I never tried growing in pots, but so far yours have a good producing rate
you had a ton of avocado on that plant! Nice growing!
I'm stoked I just planted all my Citrus in new 25 gallon containers with new soil and nutes. Top has the dwarf Washington Navel on the left. In the middle is the Golden Nugget Mandarin and on the right is the Okitsu Wase Satsuma Mandarin. The 2nd pic is the Meyer lemon and the bottom the Key Lime. All my Citrus are Dwarf Trees.
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They look awesome ! 
So...it's all your fault...after reading this thread I started looking around and found a Bearss lime tree and had that bad boy shipped to my house. It's 6.5 feet tall and a little lanky but it's mine 
I will have to pull it inside for the winter and it'll go inside the grow tent until next spring. I LOVE fresh limes
I also purchased one of those 1/2 wine barrels for it next year.
I will have to pull it inside for the winter and it'll go inside the grow tent until next spring. I LOVE fresh limes
I also purchased one of those 1/2 wine barrels for it next year.
Loving this topic!
Yip I've got the same disease - I cannot resist fruit trees.
I have:
2 x "Cape rough-skin lemon" (similar to Australian bush lemon)
1 x Lemon "Eureka"
1 x Satsuma
1 x Mandarin
1 x Lime "Tahiti Bears"
1 x Navel orange "Lina"
1 x Fig "Tolouse"
1 x Fig "Avignon"
1 x Mango "Tommy Atkins"
2 x Blackberry (cv's Sylvan and Katota)
1 grape vine "Muscat d'Alexandrie"
1 x blueberry "Gulf"
1 x passion fruit
1 x mulberry "Queensland Early"
And that's the things I've kept! I have given away so may citrus and figs as gifts! I especially enjoy growing figs - I only like two of the cultivars for eating - generally not the purple figs although those are my wife's favourite (she loves them with salami and soft goat's cheese) and they are pretty so I grow them for her.
Yip I've got the same disease - I cannot resist fruit trees.
I have:
2 x "Cape rough-skin lemon" (similar to Australian bush lemon)
1 x Lemon "Eureka"
1 x Satsuma
1 x Mandarin
1 x Lime "Tahiti Bears"
1 x Navel orange "Lina"
1 x Fig "Tolouse"
1 x Fig "Avignon"
1 x Mango "Tommy Atkins"
2 x Blackberry (cv's Sylvan and Katota)
1 grape vine "Muscat d'Alexandrie"
1 x blueberry "Gulf"
1 x passion fruit
1 x mulberry "Queensland Early"
And that's the things I've kept! I have given away so may citrus and figs as gifts! I especially enjoy growing figs - I only like two of the cultivars for eating - generally not the purple figs although those are my wife's favourite (she loves them with salami and soft goat's cheese) and they are pretty so I grow them for her.
Here is an update on what I'm using with all my container trees. Its called the 5.1.1. mix I found on a citrus tree forum. I remixed all my trees with the mixture below. Since I planted my 2 producing avocado trees into larger containers last spring they did not produce for me this season. I'm hoping they will this upcoming spring as they have lots of new growth and look healthy.
5 parts pine bark fines
1 part peat moss
1-2 parts perlite
1 part garden lime
1 part controlled release fertilizer
5 parts pine bark fines
1 part peat moss
1-2 parts perlite
1 part garden lime
1 part controlled release fertilizer
I'm going to add a Bearss lime this year too.Maligator said:So...it's all your fault...after reading this thread I started looking around and found a Bearss lime tree and had that bad boy shipped to my house. It's 6.5 feet tall and a little lanky but it's mine
I will have to pull it inside for the winter and it'll go inside the grow tent until next spring. I LOVE fresh limes
I also purchased one of those 1/2 wine barrels for it next year.
It's funny that this thread popped up today. I just got finished planting five new fruit trees that my brother bought for me in my front yard.
We planted a tiny Australian finger lime, a persimmon, and a small grouping of 3 pawpaws.
He knows that I'm kind of obsessed with fruit trees. And I forgot the varieties, but he says the persimmon he got is supposed to be the best tasting there is. I think I'll have to give him first dibs when it starts fruiting, he's really looking forward to that one.
But, I'm slowly trying to create a fruit forest on my little property. In addition to those five, in the front yard I have a pomegranate, olive, yuzu, quince, figs(ichia, Celeste, and negronne), along with muscadines, passionfruit, and of course peppers.
Then in the back yard, I have a blood orange, grapefruit, kiwi, loquat, figs(Celeste, O'rourke, and some unknown), and a couple passionfruit, and a bunch of peppers.
Anyway, I've put most of them in the ground in the last three years. So there's not a lot of fruit production yet...but after a few years, it will be glorious. And there are still so many more I want, I just gotta find room.
We planted a tiny Australian finger lime, a persimmon, and a small grouping of 3 pawpaws.
He knows that I'm kind of obsessed with fruit trees. And I forgot the varieties, but he says the persimmon he got is supposed to be the best tasting there is. I think I'll have to give him first dibs when it starts fruiting, he's really looking forward to that one.
But, I'm slowly trying to create a fruit forest on my little property. In addition to those five, in the front yard I have a pomegranate, olive, yuzu, quince, figs(ichia, Celeste, and negronne), along with muscadines, passionfruit, and of course peppers.
Then in the back yard, I have a blood orange, grapefruit, kiwi, loquat, figs(Celeste, O'rourke, and some unknown), and a couple passionfruit, and a bunch of peppers.
Anyway, I've put most of them in the ground in the last three years. So there's not a lot of fruit production yet...but after a few years, it will be glorious. And there are still so many more I want, I just gotta find room.