This Is The Best ORANGE TREE For Northern Growers To GROW CITRUS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, I share what I think is the best orange tree for northern growers to grow citrus. If you are interested in growing citrus, but you have a shorter growing season and your short warm season struggles to ripen citrus, this citrus variety may be the solution...and it's absolutely delicious!
The Brown Select satsuma mandarin orange (also called Brown's Select) is one of the most cold hardy citrus varieties, it produces top quality fruits with few to no seeds, and is one of the best tasting citrus varieties I've ever tasted. It's very early ripening and ripens about 3 weeks ahead of Owari and months ahead of navel oranges and blood oranges. It can ripen its crop before the hard freezes start in many climates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Intro To Growing Cold Hardy Citrus
2:25 The Problem With Citrus Fruits
3:47 Why Satsumas Are Better For Most Growers
5:46 The Best Early Sweet Orange Variety
8:08 Browns Select Satsuma Taste Test
11:44 Where To Buy Citrus Trees
13:07 Adventures With Dale
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0:00 Intro To Growing Cold Hardy Citrus
2:25 The Problem With Citrus Fruits
3:47 Why Satsumas Are Better For Most Growers
5:46 The Best Early Sweet Orange Variety
8:08 Browns Select Satsuma Taste Test
11:44 Where To Buy Citrus Trees
13:07 Adventures With Dale
Are there any cold hardy that aren’t hybrids?
@@sarahbelcher9320 satsumas like Brown’s Select and Owari aren’t hybrids.
amazing you got fruit on brown satsuma so fast what size container did you buy
We bought clearance citrus trees this year! One in the late spring from tractor supply for about $3. A meyer lemon. Then this fall walmart had various citrus trees for $24.95. I waited and waited and finally after our first frost in mid October they marked them all down to $12.95, then $6.95. I got 6 😅. 2 lime trees, 2 calamondin orange trees, 1 navel orange, and 1 more meyer lemon. I'm in 7b foothills, so I've brought them all indoors to my south window with grow light to over winter. They are putting on new growth and I even see a blossom forming on one. Look forward to watching all of your citrus videos for grow tips 👍
Im so jealous of these prices
@@sethmoore5640 always check walmart for markdowns. I'm sure next year they'll do it again. Tractor supply will mark everything down too I got succulents for 25 cents each after mother's day markdowns. You just have to be willing to wait and check weekly 😅😉
That is a lot of trees! Will there be enough room as they get larger. That's going to be quite the indoor fruit wall 😎
@@TheMillennialGardener 😅
I'm hoping to build an outdoor greenhouse to keep them in over winter in 2023. I lived in North Dakota before this and was a crazy plant lady with 200 indoor plants, so I can figure it out in a zone 7 winter 😅🙃!
I just bought three citrus, key lime, Meyer lemon, & calamondin from Walmart for $12.57. I should have waited buy was afraid they'd all be gone. There weren't but about ten altogether.
Sir you got me hooked on citrus trees. I had a Lemon tree for a few years and after seeing some of your videos I bought an Owari satsuma, Yosemite Gold and Gold Nugget. Last week called up Stan and ordered 2 brown selects from him. He was surprised that I called from Oregon but when The Millenial Gardener recommends a tree, I buy hahaha. Thanks for great content.
What a wonderful treat, especially since it's in your own backyard!!! Thank for sharing all your garden experiments. 😊 It's what makes your channel fun to watch💞
Thank you! I'm glad the experiments are fun to watch.
Those mandarins look great MG! I’d like to also say Stan is an awesome dude. If you’re a 2ish hour drive it’s worth it. He use to have a citrus grove behind his nursery for many years.
Stan is awesome! I've been buying from him periodically for 5 years, now. He's about 2.5 hrs from me, and it's worth every second of the drive to go to his farm. I'd drive up to 3 hrs, no problem. Maybe 4 if I have a major list!
I have got to thank you for recommending the owari satsuma. I got one several months ago and planted it. With this hideous cold front coming up, I decided it was going to be do or die, since Im really not able to baby trees thru cold weather. It got down to the low 20's several nights in a row here in Florida, and when I checked on this today, they were fine! I couldnt believe it! I am going to get another one next year. I cant tell you how excited I was to see how this tree survived. Im so hopeful now that Im going to be able to grow satsumas!
Great video. I never heard of the Brown variety before and I want to start trying out some citrus on Long Island. Brown will definitely be on the list. Thanks!
Talked about you while ordering from Stan today. We both think you’re great 👍
I love your videos, and you present them in a very charismatic way. Thanks.
Thank you! I'm glad you like them!
Thank you for sharing this great information! 😊...always helpful and interesting! 👍
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I love to see Dale run!!🐕🐕🐕🐕😊👍
Hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving
Thanks for the video🌻🦋🍁🍀
He runs like a deer! He literally looks like one when he runs. Thanks for watching!
Very useful info. Great job friend.
Thank you for this video! Being in 8a I just assumed I was out of options. I’m definitely getting my hands on a Brown Select Satsuma now.
You're welcome! I've been growing citrus in-ground now for going on 5 years in 8a, and it's really easy with some easy, basic protection methods.
Love your channel! Beautiful garden.
Thank you so much!
Love it man. My meyers are coming on strong and satsuma are very tasty this year. I even will have my first Oro Blanco grapefruit this year. My Miho satsuma is usually ready by thanksgiving here in Oklahoma so a good early one.
Same thing happening here. The Meyer lemons are looking great, and the satsumas are getting better and better every year. That cold spell in October and mid-November may have sweetened them up some.
Great vid!. I have been waiting for your update. I saw your earlier vid and I bought a Brown and LA early from Stan. We planted them last spring. We are just south of Memphis in zone 7b. We just had some temps in the mid 20s. I have them along the southern brick wall of my house. I used you method to protect them with a small change. I use the jackets from your store and some chicken warming lights. The lights have a 250 watt heat bulb each, one per tree and so far no problems. I wish I knew how to post pics of them for you here. My wife ask who this Dale person and his buddy are that keeps showing me plant stuff. She thinks I need to go to plants anonymous and do the 12 steps. Grow on sir..Grow on!
Out of all the addictions a person can have, an addiction that gets you fresh air, exercise, sunshine and some extra food security is a good habit if you ask me 😆 That setup sounds good as long as you're certain that is fire safe. I use the outdoor Christmas lights for fear of fire, so as long as it's safe for those bulbs to contact the foliage and fabric and can tolerate rain and snow, I imagine it's fine. Stan's collection is pretty incredible. He emailed me the other day saying he picked up a bunch more new satsuma varieties. I don't know how many more trees I can fit 😅
OK I seriously have to buy this tree from Stan! thanks for the motivation!
You won't regret it! Stan's the man.
Just this week I contacted Stan and bought a brown's satsuma, 2 kinds of lemons , and a yuzu. Thanks for your advice.
Outstanding! Stan is a GREAT guy. You're going to love the trees.
Thank you for sharing useful information about agriculture
You're welcome!
Lovely. Many thanks.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this, especially important in my calculations is this date of harvest, how much cold the fruits themselves can handle and that the trees can put up with colder for short periods of time, as I'm in central Missouri (technically zone 6) where I've had zone 7a and occasionally zone 8 plants survive winters without protection, so I'm going to give this a try, as I love the taste of sweet mandarin oranges but not grocery store prices nor travel costs in getting them.
Thank you for all the useful information! I always learn something new from you. Love Dale!
How about kumquats? Will they grow in the ground in your zone?
You're welcome! The tree right to the left of this tree is a Meiwa Kumquat. They're arguably as cold hardy as the Brown's Select.
So awesome and inspiring! Question: how do you store the harvest so you can eat them all year? I'm in east coastal Florida, zone 10a, have a Meyer lemon & a Persian lime, stayed in a container for a year & got a handful each. Just put them in the ground last week. Hoping you have care videos too!
This is so awesome. Im terrible at growing anything but roses for some reason. :(
Beautiful citrus! Mine are in containers and they are in the house. Just start blooming.
Thank you! Citrus really helps keep the winter blues away.
Hi Antonio, I watch all of your videos and I go back and refer to them over and over. You are a very smart gardener. I realize you are about gardener, but the raising a garden just does not stop at raising and harvesting vegetables. Here are some ways you could branch out and help those out there whom are able to raise things, but once they get their harvest they have no idea of how to prep them for cooking and preserving them for future meals. You live in or close to areas where people have tons of great recipes. Why don't you begin to make videos sharing how to cook and preserve all of these fresh garden vegies. Another Idea is: A lot of these present younger adults and even young kids have been eating all of the wrong things for healthy diets of Burgers and fries and loads of fried foods, that is why 80% of the people in the USA is obese (fat, overweight). We (people like you and myself) need to help change this problem. You are someone from the younger generations, younger people are more apt to hear you rather than to someone 74 year old such as myself. I also have another Idea for you: You don't have much space in your back yard, you do great utilizing what space you have. Have you ever thought about buying a couple Acres just for a much larger garden in order to make videos on all of these vegetables. Developing what I would call a community garden to teach others who are willing to learn. In a community garden those who participate working and donating their time to work in it would be able to take their share of the produce that was ready to harvest at the present time. It would be a way to encourage people to eat a much healthier diet. Just a few ideas for your future videos. Jessie from Arkansas
I don't really have the ability to store much food. I don't have the room for it, because where we live, houses are built on slab foundations due to the high water table. We don't have basements, so significant food storage isn't possible. Garages don't really work, either, because they're 100 degrees in the warm season. It's just too hot to do anything other than store sweet potatoes during winter. You're limited to indoor pantry space, which is already overflowing. I've experimented with recipe videos in the past, and nobody watches them, so I've mostly stuck strictly to gardening. Usually, when you mix too many different types of content, it upsets a lot of regular viewers. I would have to start more of a homesteading channel to get that going, but I don't really have the time, ability or land to do so, unfortunately.
I’am in zone 8a .
Thank you for this information
You're welcome!
What a splendid must grow 👍🏼☮️🇺🇸
Thanks!
Where can I find these water barrels for decent prices please? They are pretty expensive on Amazon. Thanks in advance.
Hello my friends! I from Brazil.
Christmas lights, I like it.
It works, and brilliantly!
Satsumas are the best. I got an Artic Frost Satsuma last spring. It was developed by Texas A and M. It on its own roots so if it dies back to the roots the new suckers are still good and it survived 9 degrees supposedly. I haven't eaten one yet but I've never had a satsuma I didn't like.
Be careful with the tree on its own roots. It will grow much larger. Satsumas aren't as tall as some orange trees, but it can still reach 15-20 feet in time. The benefit of growing a tree on its own roots is that you can actually prune it into a bush. That's what I'm doing with my Meyer lemon to keep it small and cover it easily.
Wow! That is a beautiful fruit!😋
Hey Dale! 👋 Maybe all that turkey was slowing him down.😄
Dale had *very* limited turkey this year. We learned that the hard way on our first Thanksgiving together. Too much love resulted in pancreatitis. Never again!! Now, he eats like a king every day.
@@TheMillennialGardener Oh my! That must have been scary for y'all! It hurts when our fur babies are sick. 😔 We always gave our fur babies the turkey dinner dog food on Thanksgiving.
You can tell y'all are good fur baby parents...Dale always looks amazing!🐕
I'm about an hour North of you and have Frost Satsumas, Grapefruits, and Hamlin Juicing oranges that have done very well. The Frost Satsumas have been completely ripe by October for the past two years. The Hamlin just now finished ripening after a couple of frosts. The grapefruit seems to take the longest.
Where are you located? That's great.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for your support and generosity! I really appreciate it ❤
Another great one! Thank you. I’m in zone 7B foothills of Western NC. I called Mckensie Farm an left a message. When do I plant the Brown’s Satsuma (and a lemon tree)? Is there a specific time if the year to plant? I will look to see if you made a video on how to properly plant them.
Brown select Satsuma sounds like something I can grow heart thanks.
That's excellent! The fruit quality was incredible.
Thank you so much for the great video and info!
I'm in Western WA, zone 7b.
3 hours from the Canadian border, 3 hours from the coast. Been growing citrus in 25 gallon pots for 25 years, minimal protection in winter.
We just fully closed in our 30x48' hoop house and am excited about actually planting in ground.
I'll be giving Stan a call.
Lauri Miller
Miller Compound Honeybees & Agriculture
Glad it was helpful! Best of luck on your endeavor. Stan is a great guy.
Hello! Great video! My dream is to grow citrus fruits. When I get back to work I will use your suggestions. Good luck to you👌🌻🐦
They're so fun to grow. It's so great seeing trees full of fruit during winter.
I have my first ever orange tree in my kitchen with my lemon trees and a date plant all from scratch.
Great! Are they seed grown? If so, they may take a long time to fruit, usually around 7-10 years. If you grafted your own from mature scion wood, they often fruit within 1 year. All my grafted citrus fruited the following season after planting.
I so wish we were not in the zone 5-6. We have lemon trees in pots that have to be moved in and out of doors for wintering.
Thank you. Great video. And I love your channel. What are the other cold Hardy citrus that you grow. I think you mention in passing Blood Orange and a lemon?
Thank you! I have two recent videos that will answer your questions:
th-cam.com/video/o9eQIFvAnSo/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/QWtspDbFtFU/w-d-xo.html
@@TheMillennialGardener thank you!
Stan is the real deal!
He's awesome! His farm is great and worth the trip to visit.
LOL, zone 7 and 8, NC, being considered a cold northern zone makes me chuckle.
Nice bro, what would you recommend for greensboro nc area?
I’m in zone 7b NC and where can I find the Brown Select Orange tree? Great video!
do you have a video of how and when to plant our citrus trees? I live in Raleigh. thank you
Have you tried Okitsu Wase Satsuma. It seems to be better performing at least in some taste tests and it ripens earlier that Owari Satsuma.
Have you tried ‘Arctic Frost’ and ‘Orange Frost’ satsuma cultivars? They’re supposedly the most cold-hardy satsuma, and I planted one of each in the ground this year, already have fruit ripening this year!
I have not. From my research, neither are hardier than Owari and Brown Select, and Arctic Frost is thorny. I would not want a thorned satsuma. Owari and Brown Select are some of the highest quality cultivars, and they’re so hardy that I couldn’t justify growing other cold hardy types. That’s my personal opinion only.
Thanks so much for sharing! Did you also get your kumquat from Stan?
Yes, it's a Meiwa from Stan. Delicious! I can't wait until it's bigger. You can sit there and eat them all day.
@@TheMillennialGardener 😍 yum! We love those things.. I'll give him a call! We're about an hour north of you in Jacksonville, so looks like our zoning is a great match for them.
Thank you for this information. I have wanted to try citrus fruit and I am in 7b. I do not have a place to bring them inside as I have only one window facing south and the rest just do not get enough daylight.
Depending on your 7b, it may be possible. If you're in 7b NYC or 7b Philadelphia, it would really be a challenge. But a 7b like Charlotte, Atlanta, Raleigh, Huntsville, etc., I think it's definitely doable with some of my cold protection methods outlined here: th-cam.com/play/PL1gY7BoYBGIG1w1u_K6CDIhfsqG8dMnPj.html
@@TheMillennialGardener I'm south of Nashville in Tennessee.
Do you know if you can grow Brown Select (or any other citrus) in containers in zone 5? I'm assuming I would need it to either set fruit or ripen fruit indoors? The growing season would be mostly 60-90F days, 40-70F nights, lasting 5 months from mid-May to mid-October. Early May and late October might get only 1-2 light frosts, but at that point it'll only be 50-60F in the day, 35-45F at night, so I'd expect growth to be minimal/stalled.
Thank you, I look forward to growing citrus when I get on our property in Oregon, you've inspired me. I'm a little confused about big breebas, do they appear in the fall or the spring? I'm wondering because I don't know if I should pull off all the little figs on my plants that are going dormant. Thanks
Breba's are figs that form on the previous year's wood on fig trees. I do not grow figs for breba's. Breba figs do not hold here. Despite all my trees and growing them for 5 years, I have never once had a breba fig. They drop 100% of the time. Breba figs are inferior to main crop figs, so I would not grow them unless necessary. In the PNW, the warm season is not long enough for many crops to ripen main crop figs, and breba figs tend to hold much better in the PNW, so growing varieties for breba's is common. That wouldn't be worth it in the Southeast where I live. Growing figs for breba's require an entirely different pruning strategy, because you must preserve the previous year's wood.
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks for responding , that was interesting .
I love Oranges! Can I grow different varieties all year around. Can you recommend the varieties for year around harvest. I live in Central California. Thank you.
I just got a Brown Select Satsuma seedling. It's about 14" tall. It already has about 4 or 5 tiny green oranges budding on it. Should I prune them off before I plant it? I feel like I should.
How did you get your Brown Select Satsuma to produce so nice ? I have a 3 year old tree planted outside and its nice and round and about 8ft tall, this past summer it made hundreds of flowers but they all eventually fell off the Tree. I fertilized it with Citrus Tree Food and i put organic stuff on the ground near by. It did not produce any Fruit --- Any thing i can try out for this coming summer? I am in the New Zone 9a now. We had a couple nights where it got down to 18 Degrees F, i got christmas lights wrapped around it and 5 - 500 Watt Quartz Halogen Lights pointing up at it around the Main Trunk all thru the night for those cold nights. The Leaves further from the tree curled up some so i am waiting to see how it turns out.
Love your channel. Great content as always.😁 Dale can't outrun you with the head halter on. If you remove it and he is still pulling, there are better training techniques that work without equipment in my opinion.
I guess I didn’t think of that. Walking on his harness is brutal. He is like a bull in a china shop. He goes where that nose takes him with 200 lbs of force.
@@TheMillennialGardener Here's my 2 cents worth..LOL! WOW that's allot of force. I know your a great owner & Dales a great dog. I've been there myself dragged in all directions by 60 Lbs of force & nearly had my shoulder pulled out. I found some is links on LEAD Training which may help you. But there are so many trainers with different styles, find one that works for you. Eg: Cesar Millan th-cam.com/video/HCLpUg_r_CM/w-d-xo.html or www.youtube.com/@McCannDogs😁
Hi! Fairly new watcher here and have been appreciating all your citrus videos. We're in 7b in SW Oklahoma and I planted a Meyer Lemon in a large pot this year. After watching your videos, hoping to add Cara Cara oranges and Satsumas next. Question: I followed your Amazon link and am trying to figure out exactly what you are calling the "plant jacket"? I see the Planket--would that be it? I have (and use) frost blankets for other things, but would be interested in seeing more in-depth how you put them on your citrus trees. Also, do you tend to leave them on for a long time, or take them back off after a cold snap? The past two years, we've had a pretty intense cold snap in early February, so I'm trying to think ahead to how we would handle that.
Just to clarify, after watching your videos, I plan to plant the Meyer Lemon in-ground next year, as well as any future citrus trees.
The Planket is a frost blanket. It is used to cover plants, but it must be removed every day, because it blocks the light. Plant jackets are the white fabric covers with drawstrings. They let light in. Plant Jackets are listed under PLANT FREEZE PROTECTION and are mostly made by the company Agfabric, which makes very high quality plant covers. Those are what you want. Just make sure you have a way to warm your plants under the plant jackets, like incandescent Christmas lights or water barrels. Simply covering the plant won't do anything, because they'll freeze through. You need a heat source underneath the jacket.
Thanks for your response. And yes, I would be using lights, at a minimum underneath. Excited to take on a new garden project with the citrus!
Also in my other harbor freight greenhouse have a meyer lemon in ground with incondecent lights. Will see how it fairs. Did survive 19F thus far.
What zone are you in?
@@pollywalters3787 zone 7a south jersey
19F isn't too bad for a Meyer. Mine went through 14F last winter without so much as a burnt tip the way it's protected. Even the flowers were unharmed. 19F would start to reach the danger zone for some light damage and damaged fruits/blooms if the tree is not protected, though. If you have enough lights to add an advantage to your greenhouse, you may be able to do this! Water barrels are a good supplement, too.
In zone 7a south jersey. I am building a 12x40x10 greenhouse unheated in hopes of growing citrus. Already have flying dragon outside. I ordered yuzu and another for the greenhouse.
What material you use with depend on your success. Plastic film has a really low r value, so heat escapes very quickly during night. Placing pickle barrels full of water inside the greenhouse up against the trees may help you retain warmth like I do with my trees: th-cam.com/video/7iBohqx9ch8/w-d-xo.html
Hi, can you do a citrus compilation in your garden - all of them ?
Best wishes from India 🇮🇳
I have a recent video on them all here: th-cam.com/video/o9eQIFvAnSo/w-d-xo.html
Can you do an update on all your citrus trees -current please 🙏🏼
I eventually will, but citrus are winter ripeners, so there isn't much to show yet.
I think I’m going to try Satsuma this upcoming season. I’m in the Dallas area. Do you need multiple trees like a tangelo that needs to cross pollinate?
Satsumas are self-fertile. You only need one tree. I recommend either Owari or Brown Select for your area, because they're the most cold hardy.
Ya know how the lessons the folks teach you when you're young stick with you? One of those lessons for me was to never plant a tree near the foundation of the house..roots.. cracks..etc
It always freaks me out when I see how you and a lot of youtube gardeners have trees so close to the house.
have you ever poured a home's foundation walls? they are typically 16x12" deep or larger and have rebar through them. No dwarf fruit tree will damage a concrete footer that big. Only large trees like oaks over 30+ years have roots big enough. stop worrying about nothing. If you could actually see the footer you'd be laughing about how silly your fear is.
@@southbridgeforestHOA I didn't say it was rational.. just ingrained in my brain. I'm guessing someone in my family had a problem way back when and neglected to include what kind of tree in the family lore.
It depends on the tree. I specifically choose very small, dwarf grafted trees. My satsuma is grafted on trifoliate rootstock, which is a wiry little bush with shallow, small roots. My avocado is a semi-dwarf with small, soft, non-invasive surface roots. My Meyer lemon is a natural dwarf. It's not like planting a live oak next to your home. You have to plan the trees you choose and choose the rootstocks appropriately.
@@TheMillennialGardener I wish I knew what kind of avocado my little tree is.. I planted 9 whole avocados..that when I opened them to eat, they looked fibrous so as I found them.. I planted them. 3 came up, only one survived the summer. I know it probably won't produce but I'm happy I got one to live.
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Thanks for watching!
How do you over winter the Cara Cara
Best time in 8a to plant a potted plant in the south carolina soil?
Curious how much being above the 45th parallel has on zone B NW Oregon regarding ripening.
The problem with your location is the overall lack of growing degree days. The summers aren't warm enough to ripen the citrus by the winter. You have enough heat to grow lemons and limes problem-free, but sweet citrus need to be left on the tree until the following season. Basically, instead of the citrus ripening in 6 months, it takes 12-18 months. This gentlemen is growing citrus in-ground in British Columbia and explains how to ripen sweet citrus in the PNW: th-cam.com/video/pZ_UJe9hbqM/w-d-xo.html
I live in Southern California but my elevation is 5000 feet
Some years we don’t get freezes we probably could have orange trees out but most years we do
If you're in Zone 8 or warmer, it's definitely doable. I get 30-40 freezes a year where I live, and it's no problem here.
The mexicola avocado is fairly cold hearty for an Avocado. But maybe not below 20f, some people have said 18degrees f. The fruit has a nutty flavor and is slightly smaller than store bought avocados. Young avocado trees need to be covered in colder weather. You might want to container grow it for a few years, to move it indoors for the winter. Mexicola Grande is not as cold hearty as the Mexicola.
I grow Lila. It is hardier and smaller than Mexicola.
I'm enamoured with your Owari Satsuma! But I'm in a far more Northern zone than yourself. Is it realistic to grow this tree forever indoors, pruned under 6ft high, in a pot?
A tree like this will not grow well indoors permanently unless you give it lots of supplemental light with grow lights. However, they will overwinter fine once they've been harvested. What makes satsumas special is they ripen their fruit in fall, whereas most varieties of citrus don't ripen their fruit until the dead of winter. Usually, in most areas of the US, the cold in November is not severe unless you live very far north. If you can maintain this tree mostly outdoors until Thanksgiving aside from carting or carrying it in on nights
@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks a lot! The snow is deep right now and I have another citrus bush in the basement, with grow lights. Do you have any suggestions on how to eliminate the insects that inevitably come indoors when you bring the pots inside in the Fall?
I have a 25 foot south facing space. How far away from the foundation should the trees be planted?
It depends what they’re grafted onto. Mine are all grafted onto trifoliate, so the trees only get about 6-8 feet tall, and I keep them pruned to my height. My trees are planted about 36 inches away, but I’m on a concrete slab. You could never plant full size citrus that close. It would be a big risk.
How would you compare your Owari and Brown select? I got enough space for just one of them. Which would you purchase if you had only space for one of them also?
Brown's Select has been a staple in Louisiana for a very long time. I'd go with brown's due to the earlier ripening like MG noted. You don't want to harvest until they've been hit with a good frost. Citrus taste fluctuates a lot due to the weather, more-so than other fruit IMO; however, if it was a perfect year for satsumas, I'd have a hard time telling the difference between owari and brown's.
@@MrEunderwood thanks for the advise. I ended up buying both from Saxon Becnel & Sons Citrus Nursery.
Wonder if Sugar Belle is on par with Brown Select ?
I will find out in a few months. My tree has 4 fruits on it. Although, I will say that citrus improves each year for the first few years, so it's not fair to compare a new tree to an established tree.
I have some kind of citrus tree in Maryland that is in the ground. Had it over 10 years and it’s fully grown. The only problem is the fruit can’t survive the bitter cold. I have no idea what it is, someone gave it to. I planted it in ground just as an experiment. This tree was covered in 2 feet of snow for 2 weeks.
Is it covered in enormous thorns and does the fruit taste a little like gasoline? If so, that’s the Trifoliate Orange. The thorns are absolutely deadly. Trifoliate orange can survive down to Zone 5/6. I would guess it is that. That is my rootstock of choice.
@@TheMillennialGardener Yes the thorns are like swords. Thanks for the info, had no idea what type of orange it is.
I looked on Amazon to buy a citrus blanket for Meyer lemon tree. The tree is 3 years old about 6 or 7 feet tall and very wide. This has been the first year I've had lemons and they are delicious! The tree has bloomed twice and I have a lot more lemons on the tree so I want to protect them it's starting to get cold. I have no idea what size tree blanket to get can you help me ? Thank you
If you look click on my Amazon Storefront link in the video description, I have plant jackets listed under the list Plant Freeze Protection. I have comments on them organizing them by size and what I use them for. I’ve isolated the largest ones I can find, because Amazon is hard to navigate for sizes.
I was wondering how we could go about exchange seeds or seedlings as I really enjoy germinating and end up with more than I can handle
Citrus isn't something you want to grow from seed. Many citrus varieties do not grow to type, much of the seed will be cross-pollinated and you'll wind up with a random cross, and seed-grown citrus takes 7-10 years or longer to bear fruit. It's always best to buy grafted citrus, because you'll know what variety you're getting and you'll get fruit next season. Seed grown citrus is an inefficient use of time and money. I only advocate growing fruit trees from seed if you're interested in breeding new varieties and you have 1-2 decades of time on your hands to see the experiment through.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanx for the info, and I understand, I am growing for as a hobby, am hoping to turn some of my lemon trees into bonsai, and if I get any good fruit from all the seed variations I've planted I can always graft, I'm in no rush, just learning as I go and learning a lot by choosing this method and looking forward to learning more
mandarine X red navel since both are essentially seedless.
Have you tried eating satsuma skin peeling? It is good like kumquat skin and essentially acid free.
Satsuma skin is edible. It's fairly sweet - much sweeter than a navel orange skin, which is mostly unpleasant. It's still pretty oily, so I imagine if you eat too much, it may not be great for your stomach.
I'm battling citrus mites on a Ponkan satsuma. Have you ever had issues with them? Horticultural oil doesn't seem to be helping.
You'll want to use a real insecticide. You have two options I'm aware of if you want to stay natural: pyrethrin or wettable sulfur. Wettable sulfur is your best bet, but you need to make sure all oily residue is gone, because oil+sulfur = LEAF BURN. If you haven't applied the oil for a couple weeks, you should be able to get a handle on the problem with 2-3 sulfur treatments applied every 7 days. If you've recently applied oil, you can use pyrethrin every 7 days for 3 treatments.
@@TheMillennialGardener Will do! I really appreciate your help. Thank you!
Where I live the cold removes something from the roots that makes the oranges not editable taste wise.
I'm not sure what you mean. Frost usually sweetens the fruit for some reason. If it isn't cold enough to kill the tree or damage the fruit, something else is going on. Perhaps bad soil, lack of nutrients, or they aren't ripening properly due to not enough light and time.
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What's the diameter of the self-watering pot you have your Moro Blood Orange in? I've only been able to find smallish ones at Walmart. Have you ever tried to grow a Washington Navel Orange? I got a ripe one off a potted tree once in zone 8b southern Oregon, and it was the best I've ever tasted.
I'm not sure off the top of my head. They were carrying them at Walmart 5 or 6 years ago, and I haven't seen them since. It's either a #5 or #7 pot. I have a Cara Cara planted in the rear property next to the Brown's Select. A Cara Cara is a mutated Washington Navel Orange with a redder interior. It's essentially the same fruit.
@@TheMillennialGardener I found 11.5-inch pots just like yours at Walmart recently, but yours appear to be much larger, more like 16 to 19 inches. The brand is HowPlumb, I believe.
That's surprising about the Cara Cara. I don't really like the store-bought ones. Maybe the Washington navel orange was so much better because it was home grown. I'll be interested to see what you think of your Cara Cara when you pick some.
Hi. Where did you buy your Brown Delect Satsuma tree
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Whats your plan when that avocado tree is 40' tall?
Is that a kumquat beside your brown select satsuma?
Yes. It is a Meiwa. I love it!
Were do you get your fruit from to start off with
Where I get them is chaptered in the table of contents in the video description and the pinned comment.
@@TheMillennialGardener thank you sir
I'm in zone 5b and I'm nervous about growing oranges here.
In-ground wouldn't be possible without a greenhouse, but in containers is doable if you have a place to overwinter them. They'll likely need supplemental grow lights, but it's doable.
How often and when do you prune you citrus?
You prune citrus after you harvest the fruits off during winter. I have a guide on how to do that here: th-cam.com/video/knY009Esk6Y/w-d-xo.html
@@TheMillennialGardener I was asking in regards to scion. Do you trade cuttings? I wasn't to try my hand at grafting.
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Saying north carolina is "far north" is a bit odd to me since its basically at the same height as south spain.
Spain is far north. The entire northern Mediterranean region is firmly in the temperate zone. Half of North Carolina is in the temperate zone. If you situate the Earth properly on its equator, you'll see even South Florida is very far north. The US/Canada border is subarctic. Most people fail to realize how far north even the most southern parts of the Continental US are, because they're used to maps that center the US. Not the case in reality.
@@TheMillennialGardener I guess its all about perspective. If you think a tropical place like south Florida is "north" then I dont know what my place (northern Sweden) is. I live just below the artic circle, so its most definitely "far north" yet not "artic".
Where can you buy these fruit trees?
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Have you ever ventured into tangerines or tangelos?
I have a Sugarbelle in-ground, but it hasn't fruited yet. It's only been in ground since April. That is a tangerine, I believe.
I lived in zone 6B and I have an owari satsuma, and afraid to leave it outside.
6B is going to be too cold to grow a satsuma in-ground without a climate-controlled enclosure. You'd want to keep that in a container and move it indoors in the winter.
@@TheMillennialGardener thanks you for answer, soon I will have a greenhouse and heat for my citrus, I love citrus 😍
Can orange grow in hot country.?
Citrus naturally grow in the understory of forests in Asia where they are native. If you live in a place where it is very hot and sunny, you can try growing citrus trees underneath other trees to give them some shade protection. It cannot be complete shade. They still need to be able to get a good amount of light, but the dappled, partial shade can protect them. Here in the US in Florida, they plant orange trees underneath tall oak trees to provide sun protection. You'll want to mulch around them to keep the roots cool with something, and they might need irrigation, especially when young. I'm not sure if it will be a success if you're in a very hot, dry place, but It's worth trying.
@@TheMillennialGardener thnks doc.😃 I love orange fruit cause it's delicious.
Oranges NEED some frost to really sweeten
We're do you buy tree's
I bought mine from Georgia grown citrus 🍊 only 20 minutes from me they had a sale in June for Satsumas for $8 for a foot tall they grow fast here in 8b, got brown select, silver hill, cara cara red navel, frost owari, LA early, and 2 Hamlin oranges.
@@hardstylzz5024 😊 thanks
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I kind of want to build a Huge dome greenhouse cuz I want to go oranges sooooooo bad but I live in indiana so all I can do is cherries bahahahahaha