citrus trees

Hello!

I have about 6 citrus trees (lemon, orange, grapefruit, and tangerine) that I would like to transplant. The tallest is about 2 meters tall (about 6 feet), and i think they are about 3 years old. What I want to know, are they still transplantable at that age and size?
would love any feedback, i am afraid my trees feel like when they see me!



Isaac

 

Hi Isaac , 3 years old?? that sound strange as citrus are really slow grower ,unless you are living in a hot country, but anyway , a friend of mine sold his house and try to take is citrus trees with him and they all die , plus usually they should start to flowering soon , that is a really big risk to disturb the plant now , If I`m not wrong and say again if I`m not wrong you can only move the plant in January /february when the plant is resting from the fruits , wich usually will take between 3 up to 9 months to ripen .

 

Thanks, Sal! Yes, I leave in a hot climate, really HOT! Mozambique has a tropical climate, so that explains their size at that age.
I think I will leave them be, as its not a necessity to move them, just a preference. They will still be on the property we are renting, i had just thought about moving them to another property my dad is going to do an agricultural project on. But I'll plant new ones there!! And actually since we are in the southern hemisphere, we have opposite seasons.

isaac

 

My family was growing (and still do it) oranges for generation back in Sicily and I remember that my grandfather have never moved a plant , but always replaced with a seedling.....I think the fact that you live in the south hemisphere , the fruit will still grow from October up to December , the difference will be that the colour of the fruit will stay green , orange , lemon and mandarine will only change color with the cold...
If you wishing to start an agricultural project , you should learn how to crafting the citrus , as you can change the fruit with the market request .
My family was producing tarocco red oranges , but they only last 1 month so they craft all the trees to white orange and scirea oranges as they last 6 months , but they are not as tasty as the tarocco (strawberry taste) .....same thing with the lemon at the moment they are producing red lemon .

tarocco orange.

that`s a red edible lemon , really acid but sweet

 

How interesting! thank you for all this info!

 

A red Lemon!!, what was grafted on to what to produce that Sal?

 

The red lemon is a craft of red orange on the lemon tree , unfortunatly as my uncle was telling me , they initially craft it for commercial use , but appear to have take the same problem of the red orange and the red lemon as to be eat in no more then 3 weeks , so at the moment more then the lemon in shop you can only find the plant in the shop ...apparently as the carecteristic of the red orange , the red lemon will appear at xmas time and it`s sold more of alternative to xmas tree......that appen in South Italy .

 

Surely Sal, if you graft lemon onto orange you just get lemons? yellow ones.

Is "red lemon" a particular variety?

 

I know the red orange, Tarocco is true ... but I don't believe the lemon ... there is that very pic on the net with no details ...

By the way, I know it's the wrong time of the year, but I have planted some red Peach stones ... two in the shells and one unshelled ...

Pete, how did yours do .. or anyone else who had Sis's stones .... ?

 

basicaly the commercial seedless red sicilian orange is a craft of
bitter orange (tree)+ red orange (innest)= tarocco orange
the red orange is a true species look like the spanish red ruby but is more red and not sold in shop.
the red lemon is
lemon (tree) + red orange (innest)
like this

 

Sal.
If I graft a clementine onto poncirus I get clementines.
If I graft a lemon onto poncirus I get a lemon.
If I graft a grapefruit onto poncirus I get grapefruit.

What I'm saying is how does this work?

 

Victoria, I have two of the red peach trees just going into bud burst.
Hoping I can keep leaf curl under control this year.

 

, Pete ...do you know how many time my grandfather try to teach me how to do it......do you really think I was listen to him at the time......I will ask my uncle , he actually is the only one that still working in the oranges and most of is work is crafting.
But if i remember right it was something to do with completly cutting the plant down , what you have may done is just crafting part of the plant.
Plus when I say bitter orange I don`t mean the poncirus , but it`s a complete different plant , the fruit it`s actually really big with a really bitter taste.
Don`t know when but in case I will manage to go there in summer I will ask all the question and try to get seeds .

bitter orange , Citrus aurantium

and this is how they craft .

 

OK, Sal, Seville Orange, (bitter orange). The rootstock.

But you still only get a plant which is the same as the one the the scion was taken from.The top growth.

That is the reason you graft, to maintain a variety, if it changed once grafted there would be no point.

it wont come true from seed.

 

No Pete it`s not the seville or poncirus, the bitter orange in not edible is more of a wild variety almost seedless, no expert but there are 2 main crafting , the hybrid fruit and the variety fruit.
you can produce orange from a lemon plant ..why do it ? the bitter orange is used as base because it`s one of the hardy tree down there so you will have a frost or draugh tollerant plant or simple stronger to diseases.
Or you can mix the 2 plants like red orange , red lemon and who know a red mandarin .,
I remember many time , my GD was cutting many innest because of the chimeras , wich look great but consider a disease in the market.