It doesn’t come out of me easily but you are probably the best youtuber I’ve found so far when it comes to planting and gardening. I really appreciate what you are doing for us home-growers. A big thank you from the Philippines.
I’m so glad I watched this this morning. I have 7 citrus trees in containers and they have had curling and yellowing leaves! Now I can fix the problem! Thanks Angela
@@bruinrose Sun on the container can damage the roots. Keep your containers shaded or use a larger container around your existing one to provide an air gap which provides root saving cooling. Sun damaged roots often shows as yellowed central veins in the leaves in addition to leaf curling.
Wow such lovely amazing information I have 12 citrus plants n most of the plants leaves r curling n yellow n not flowering since 5t 6 yrs now I know the reason thank u soo much 👏👍
Really good to know about how vulnerable the bark is to sunburn. I'm considering one day espaliering some citrus trees, so I'll definitely have to take some precautions to protect the bark if I do that.
The rampant spread of fungi in orange groves is a serious problem. Not skirting the trees allows spores from the soil to invade the tree. 3 foot skirting is recommended to keep splash from the irrigation sprinklers from splashing spores onto the tree. Most molded fruit is from spores from the soil and tends to affect only the lower 3rd. It also keeps ants and other crawly pests. I totally disagree with the skirting. I have broken my back gathering up an acres worth of moldy dropped fruit with every kind of mold I know of. Black mold, green and blue mold, white mold and the dreaded phytophthora. Skirt your trees, especially in Southern CA. The trunks will be fine as the sun doesn't shine directly at the trunk, it is filtered by the rest of the canopy. Mold comes from the soil! Citrus tree pathologists scream about this! It makes me cringe when I see neighboring grove owners neglect this part, plus skirting makes it easier to maintenance the sprinklers, and inspect them, and it makes it easier to spray pesticides to the inside canopy from under the skirted tree. If there are no oranges down there because you skirted, that sweetness will end up in the rest of the oranges. There should never be an imbalance of sweet. Oranges growing down there are often coming off of long stringy twigs as well, which they shouldn't. I'm talking from a Mediterranean climate, so perhaps the mold part is unique to this zone. Maybe talk about thinning too, such as how the fruit should hang solo without touching other fruit or branches. If you have bunches of oranges growing off of a single tiny twig, it's a sign that chemicals are not moving through the tree right and preventing natural abscission of the blossoms. Trees use 0.04% of the blossoms produced to make all the fruit. The other 99,96% should naturally fall from the tree.
Citrus trees typically self-thin. You can remove fruit for the first couple of years if you want to, but the trees often drop the fruit they can't support.
Hi Thk you for sharing your citrus” How to exprtize”.😁😁Love it I am pretty sure use your input! Thks again . I have one orange that need s to plant so I am sure I use your advices!😊😊❤
My soil required a jackhammer to dig the hole being mostly clay. After watching your video I realize I dug the hole to deep. I did mix Ocean Forest organic soil and the indigenous soil together. I've been fertilizing 2x a year but will now take your advice. I also need to expand the circle around the base and water farther out from the root base. It's a dwarf Satsuma and has produced some very sweet fruit. Thank you for the tips. I've subscribed.
Thank you for mentioning seasons as well as months. Our summer in Australia is Dec-Feb and it can be confusing when people say, “Do this in July” when they’re in the northern e.
Wow.. Best TH-cam info on citrus tree . thx you for sharing. Besides the wind, what cause my citrus blossoms to drop? Zone 9B Most of my 10 gal citrus manderine, tangerine and Clementine flower drop. Water citrus irrigation 2x a month.
A friend gave me an orange tree and I foolishly left it in my conservatory when I went on holiday. It nearly died, but with a bit of loving care it is now showing some vigorous growth. This video is really helpful, I've leraned some important tips about how to care for it. Thank you. 😃🟠
Thank you for getting to the point and for the "why's"... I'm in my 3rd year of my dwarf lemon and I'm pretty sure they are the best lemons I've ever had lol!
Do you recommend a drip line or an actual sprinkler emiter for watering? Im working on a project currently where the clients committed to 3 citrus trees…….. Do you recommend a gravel bed below if the soils is not well draining?
I have had a meyer lemon in container a few years and a small blood orange tree. Both flower and bud a lot but no oranges and only a few lemons despite all the flowers and buds. Plenty of bees around. why so few lemons and no oranges?
A few of the lower hanging branches on my orange tree ended up giving fruit this past season. However, the weight of that fruit caused the limbs to hang very low, about ground level. Leaving some of the fruit to develop while touching the ground. That fruit eventually broke off from the limb or just rotted while on the branch. Would you advise me to clip a few of those lower hanging limbs or leave them as they are?
Thanks for the video! I've been taste-testing my Valencia oranges for the past few weeks. Usually, I have harvested the tree by now but they are still "no go" (almost but not quite). I've held off my Valentine's Day feeding bc of this. Should I go ahead and fertilize now?
My citrus trees 3 tangerine and three grapefruit froze last winter but have begun resproutingfrom the ground at their base ...i planted them from seed five or six years ago and they have given great large juicy fruit for two last seasons before freezing...should i help the new resprouts by fertilizing ...would loading mulch around the bases help...
Thanks for your wonderful explanation....I have planted a dwraf citrus tee in July this year and can see lots of blossoms already....should I take them off to allow plant growth or just leave them to fruit
My golden nugget mandarin is growing nicely.. but the leaves are always mild green to yellowish.. I fertilize and give water appropriately. It’s a year old and around 8 feet with less than 2 ft wide. I provide supplements for soil acidification too. Any other things I should look out for.. Also all these yellow leaves curl.. it’s moist when I checked with probe. Curling continued even in winter
Us Florida residents have a much larger problem that appears to have no non commercial solution. Even then the commercial groves had their worst harvest in 100 years, not good for a State that supplies a lot of the US. Citrus Greening has no known cure.
I just purchased a home with a neglected lemon tree (about 20 ft tall). Lemon rinds are very deformed and not smooth. Lots of dead branches, too. Are there steps I can take revitalize this tree?
If the trunk shows severe sun damage it might be too late. As long as the trunk isn't damaged too badly there might be.Remove the fruit from the tree and trim out the old branches (now is a good time to do it). Get it on a good watering and fertilizing schedule. Paint or cover the exposed trunk.
@@denimblue9725 A round ( smooth) hole in the ground can train roots to grow around the edge of the hole and circle. ( which is bad) ...while a square or "ugly hole" will force and or allow roots to grow "out" away from the tree instead of circling around like roots do in a pot. just make sure your hole is Not too deep and has extra rough edges.
Hi, I planted a lemon and lime plants yesterday and because my soil is clay, I added store bought top soil which I mixed with garden soil to the holes before putting the plants in. Now after listening to your video and it said do not amend soil, I'm wondering whether I should remove the plants and put the clay soil that I dug out back into the holes? 😢😢
Plenty of people amend and it is just fine. I think pulling them out would be more traumatic. I would leave them in place. I'm passing on best practices from The UofA Citrus expert based on what they've seen overall. Do the best you can, plants are tough and want to grow.
Any advice on Staking Loaded Orange Tree Branches SAFELY? To Stake or Not to Stake Orange Tree....? 2022, 30+ year old, Orange Tree, San Francisco Bay area Zone 10a/b - but with weird Bay-Effect Micro Climates 1 Mile off the North Bay amid rolling hills, is more loaded with large 4"+ fruit ( after dropping hundreds of early drop marble sized fruit buds last Spring which made Us concerned We might be left with no Ripe Seasonal Fruit, but We were very mistaken...! ... ) than it has produced in 8-10 years ( of poor attention / care ). We are now worried the Ripening Fruit, which is so abundant it has changed the overall shape of the dwarf tree in the last month, 7ft tall x 12ft+ wide, which now droops significantly ( no branches near or touching the ground yet ). We heavily wood chip mulched all orchard trees with 8"-12" which has done WONDERS for Apples Plums Cherries Apricots Lemons Limes; so far, so good.
Rock mulch is better than no mulch - that's what many of my trees in the front yard have. An organic mulch like wood chips or composted mulch is a better option.
Hi there. Great video. However, planting into clay soil with poor drainage means amendments are required as heavy clay won’t be conducive to starting new citrus trees. Isn’t amending required in ‘some’ soil conditions? (As-well as mounding up?) - also should one fertilise citrus in the first year or wait until it is established?
My cara cara citrus tree is young and it went ballistic last summer with long growth at the lower part of the tree. So I pruned all the lower branches to create a straight middle stem to where it forked out. Should I have left these lower branches or is it ok while young and training shape?
Best compost is the one you make yourself. The next best is locally sourced - check your city for resources. I like Arizona Worm Farm here in the Phoenix Area.
I have baby grapefruit trees from the seeds of the tree’s fruit before Freezezilla came to Texas and killed my grapefruit tree. They are less than a foot tall and have nice green leaves. Will they produce like the parent tree? They’re not grafted.
I uploaded a version of this with better audio. Here is the link: th-cam.com/video/KZfWBgy2KBc/w-d-xo.html
I like the way you get right to the point without unnecessary chatter. Lots of good information.
I appreciate that thanks.
That’s true. A lot of videos have too much unnecessary chatter.
Rightly said
Yes bloody yes yes yes
It doesn’t come out of me easily but you are probably the best youtuber I’ve found so far when it comes to planting and gardening. I really appreciate what you are doing for us home-growers. A big thank you from the Philippines.
Thanks so much!
Perfect, I just planted a lemon and an orange tree in Vegas!
Congrats!
good job done
VERY VERY INFORMATIVE SIMPLE IDEAS SISTER....thankyou very much sister...
I wish I had seen this 20 years ago when I planted my yard, but I am still glad to see it today. Thx!
This video was incredibly helpful and easy to learn from. Thank you so much for the great tutorial.
I’m so glad I watched this this morning. I have 7 citrus trees in containers and they have had curling and yellowing leaves! Now I can fix the problem! Thanks Angela
Best of luck with your trees!
I have mine in containers too with curly leaves in wondering if I just need to water more often
@@bruinrose Sun on the container can damage the roots. Keep your containers shaded or use a larger container around your existing one to provide an air gap which provides root saving cooling. Sun damaged roots often shows as yellowed central veins in the leaves in addition to leaf curling.
Thanks for sharing Angela. Now I know why the leaves of my citrus tree were are curled up and after a rain they were back to normal.
It's exciting when we begin to learn the language our plants use to communicate with us.
@@GrowingInTheGarden yup. The plants will tell you when they are thirsty!
Thank you for making this Video. Very well outlined and detailed
Wow such lovely amazing information I have 12 citrus plants n most of the plants leaves r curling n yellow n not flowering since 5t 6 yrs now I know the reason thank u soo much 👏👍
Really good to know about how vulnerable the bark is to sunburn. I'm considering one day espaliering some citrus trees, so I'll definitely have to take some precautions to protect the bark if I do that.
Well summarized and straight to the point
Thank you for just telling us simply what to do instead of making a long video telling your whole life story.
That was so easy to follow and stay involved, with such a great story telling voice full of experienced insight that's pure gold!
Excellent timing... I just planted 8 different varieties of citrus trees. Greetings from Puerto Rico.
Hello from Arizona! Puerto Rico is beautiful. Best of luck with your new trees.
Such a relaxing easy to follow video!
The rampant spread of fungi in orange groves is a serious problem. Not skirting the trees allows spores from the soil to invade the tree. 3 foot skirting is recommended to keep splash from the irrigation sprinklers from splashing spores onto the tree. Most molded fruit is from spores from the soil and tends to affect only the lower 3rd. It also keeps ants and other crawly pests. I totally disagree with the skirting. I have broken my back gathering up an acres worth of moldy dropped fruit with every kind of mold I know of. Black mold, green and blue mold, white mold and the dreaded phytophthora. Skirt your trees, especially in Southern CA. The trunks will be fine as the sun doesn't shine directly at the trunk, it is filtered by the rest of the canopy. Mold comes from the soil! Citrus tree pathologists scream about this! It makes me cringe when I see neighboring grove owners neglect this part, plus skirting makes it easier to maintenance the sprinklers, and inspect them, and it makes it easier to spray pesticides to the inside canopy from under the skirted tree. If there are no oranges down there because you skirted, that sweetness will end up in the rest of the oranges. There should never be an imbalance of sweet. Oranges growing down there are often coming off of long stringy twigs as well, which they shouldn't. I'm talking from a Mediterranean climate, so perhaps the mold part is unique to this zone. Maybe talk about thinning too, such as how the fruit should hang solo without touching other fruit or branches. If you have bunches of oranges growing off of a single tiny twig, it's a sign that chemicals are not moving through the tree right and preventing natural abscission of the blossoms. Trees use 0.04% of the blossoms produced to make all the fruit. The other 99,96% should naturally fall from the tree.
The way I seen a guy prune his trees he had the growing like a Y so the sun could like cut though the tree
Fungus is not really a " bad" thing. Just keep the trunks dry! You don't "need" a bunch of chemicals.
I have watched over 20 videos yours is most informative and answered all my questions. Thank you so much
So helpful!!! I just bought a little three year old Valencia orange tree. It’s got quite a few blossoms already on it. Do you thin these?
Citrus trees typically self-thin. You can remove fruit for the first couple of years if you want to, but the trees often drop the fruit they can't support.
Thank you very much for the explanation.
So informative! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
Excellent information! Thanks!
Hi sweet I am very love of fruits plant I am growing a lot of plants fruit plant in garden you have best knowledge on fruits plant
This is great! I just moved and inherited two citrus trees that are in rough shape. Hoping to save them!
Hi Thk you for sharing your citrus” How to exprtize”.😁😁Love it I am pretty sure use your input! Thks again . I have one orange that need s to plant so I am sure I use your advices!😊😊❤
Hi Angela, I have an orange tree with die branches and the tree looks lopsided. Can I cut branches off now in January to balance out the tree?
I give this video a 10! Thanks for the info!
Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching.
My soil required a jackhammer to dig the hole being mostly clay. After watching your video I realize I dug the hole to deep. I did mix Ocean Forest organic soil and the indigenous soil together. I've been fertilizing 2x a year but will now take your advice. I also need to expand the circle around the base and water farther out from the root base. It's a dwarf Satsuma and has produced some very sweet fruit. Thank you for the tips. I've subscribed.
Thank you!
Thank you for mentioning seasons as well as months. Our summer in Australia is Dec-Feb and it can be confusing when people say, “Do this in July” when they’re in the northern e.
Thank you so much. I am planting my Satsuma tree tomorrow.
Excellent information
Great video with very helpful info!
Thank you so much for this! This is very helpful to me as I’m growing orange trees. They’re still plants 🌱 right now but they’re doing great!
Wow.. Best TH-cam info on citrus tree . thx you for sharing. Besides the wind, what cause my citrus blossoms to drop? Zone 9B Most of my 10 gal citrus manderine, tangerine and Clementine flower drop. Water citrus irrigation 2x a month.
Citrus trees often self-thin only keeping the blossoms for the fruit the tree can support.
Great summary on growing citrus here in the AZ desert!
Thanks so much.
This was so helpful! Thank yoi
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!! 🌳🍊🍋 THE CITRUS TREES DIFFERENCES!!! 🤓🙋🏾🔥🙏🏾👑✝️📖🔥
The best information ever ! Thank you
thank you for this video. it was very helpful!
Thats a beautiful citrus tree!
Thanks so much.
Amazing information sharing. Thanks
Excellent video!!
Great info ! Just in time, as I'm planting 3 Citrus trees this weekend .
Good luck!
Great info, thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Citrus is great to grow and delicious to eat. Best wishes to all the gardeners out there!
So nice of you, thanks.
A friend gave me an orange tree and I foolishly left it in my conservatory when I went on holiday. It nearly died, but with a bit of loving care it is now showing some vigorous growth. This video is really helpful, I've leraned some important tips about how to care for it. Thank you. 😃🟠
Thanks for sharing
Awsom video!!!
Thank you so very much. Helpful advice.
Excellent information. I needed all of these tips and warnings. THANK YOU.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for getting to the point and for the "why's"... I'm in my 3rd year of my dwarf lemon and I'm pretty sure they are the best lemons I've ever had lol!
Honestly thanks Gid that i come across to your video bfore making these mistajes.👏👍
Wow. Now I know why my lemon tree of a year hasn’t grown. Thanks for sharing
Thank you Angela!!!! You're the best 👍🏻 do you by any chance have any videos about guava trees? I live in Tucson 🌵☀️🌵
Not yet :)
Thank you ❤
Nice information
I love your advice 😃
So much good info! Thank you! 🤗
Glad it was helpful!
Love it thanks
Great video.
Do you recommend a drip line or an actual sprinkler emiter for watering? Im working on a project currently where the clients committed to 3 citrus trees…….. Do you recommend a gravel bed below if the soils is not well draining?
Bubblers are great for citrus. I wouldn't plant if soil is not well draining.
I have had a meyer lemon in container a few years and a small blood orange tree. Both flower and bud a lot but no oranges and only a few lemons despite all the flowers and buds. Plenty of bees around. why so few lemons and no oranges?
Thank you so much for your advice. I have only 1 orange tree, first year, lots of oranges. I will remove them now
Excellent tips! Thanks 😀👏
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks. Very informative and simple. I enjoyed your video.👍
So nice of you
A few of the lower hanging branches on my orange tree ended up giving fruit this past season. However, the weight of that fruit caused the limbs to hang very low, about ground level. Leaving some of the fruit to develop while touching the ground. That fruit eventually broke off from the limb or just rotted while on the branch. Would you advise me to clip a few of those lower hanging limbs or leave them as they are?
With apples I often use some poles or stakes to temporarily hold up heavily fruit burdened branches, might not hurt to prune a bit
You may want to trim those lower leaves, but I wouldn't prune the entire branch off.
Thanks for the video! I've been taste-testing my Valencia oranges for the past few weeks. Usually, I have harvested the tree by now but they are still "no go" (almost but not quite). I've held off my Valentine's Day feeding bc of this. Should I go ahead and fertilize now?
It's ok to fertilize with the fruit on, especially if blooms are forming. The tree needs the fertilizer to when it is blooming for sure.
Great tips thankyou Kit robbo
No problem 👍
My citrus trees 3 tangerine and three grapefruit froze last winter but have begun resproutingfrom the ground at their base ...i planted them from seed five or six years ago and they have given great large juicy fruit for two last seasons before freezing...should i help the new resprouts by fertilizing ...would loading mulch around the bases help...
Great video
Thanks!
Thank you for this great information
Glad it was helpful!
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Great video, thanks
Wow! That was very helpful. I was doing several of those wrong things.
Glad it helped!
So glad I found your channel, I’m inspired!
Welcome aboard!
Thanks for your wonderful explanation....I have planted a dwraf citrus tee in July this year and can see lots of blossoms already....should I take them off to allow plant growth or just leave them to fruit
Many may fall off on their own - but you can remove most if you want.
My golden nugget mandarin is growing nicely.. but the leaves are always mild green to yellowish.. I fertilize and give water appropriately. It’s a year old and around 8 feet with less than 2 ft wide. I provide supplements for soil acidification too. Any other things I should look out for..
Also all these yellow leaves curl.. it’s moist when I checked with probe. Curling continued even in winter
I would take a branch to a local citrus grower to see if they can help you identify what is going on.
@@GrowingInTheGarden thanks will ask
Clearly content .... thanks for sharing ....
Glad you liked it!
Us Florida residents have a much larger problem that appears to have no non commercial solution. Even then the commercial groves had their worst harvest in 100 years, not good for a State that supplies a lot of the US. Citrus Greening has no known cure.
Thank you for the great advice.
You are so welcome!
I just purchased a home with a neglected lemon tree (about 20 ft tall). Lemon rinds are very deformed and not smooth. Lots of dead branches, too. Are there steps I can take revitalize this tree?
If the trunk shows severe sun damage it might be too late. As long as the trunk isn't damaged too badly there might be.Remove the fruit from the tree and trim out the old branches (now is a good time to do it). Get it on a good watering and fertilizing schedule. Paint or cover the exposed trunk.
Finally a video that is actually correct! But don't forget to make a square hole - not round.
Why?
@@denimblue9725 A round ( smooth) hole in the ground can train roots to grow around the edge of the hole and circle. ( which is bad) ...while a square or "ugly hole" will force and or allow roots to grow "out" away from the tree instead of circling around like roots do in a pot. just make sure your hole is Not too deep and has extra rough edges.
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing! I made some of those mistakes, but learning from them is always good.!
Same here. Learn and grow!
Hi, I planted a lemon and lime plants yesterday and because my soil is clay, I added store bought top soil which I mixed with garden soil to the holes before putting the plants in.
Now after listening to your video and it said do not amend soil, I'm wondering whether I should remove the plants and put the clay soil that I dug out back into the holes? 😢😢
Plenty of people amend and it is just fine. I think pulling them out would be more traumatic. I would leave them in place. I'm passing on best practices from The UofA Citrus expert based on what they've seen overall. Do the best you can, plants are tough and want to grow.
@@GrowingInTheGarden thank you! 🙏
Any advice on Staking Loaded Orange Tree Branches SAFELY? To Stake or Not to Stake Orange Tree....?
2022, 30+ year old, Orange Tree, San Francisco Bay area Zone 10a/b - but with weird Bay-Effect Micro Climates 1 Mile off the North Bay amid rolling hills, is more loaded with large 4"+ fruit ( after dropping hundreds of early drop marble sized fruit buds last Spring which made Us concerned We might be left with no Ripe Seasonal Fruit, but We were very mistaken...! ... ) than it has produced in 8-10 years ( of poor attention / care ). We are now worried the Ripening Fruit, which is so abundant it has changed the overall shape of the dwarf tree in the last month, 7ft tall x 12ft+ wide, which now droops significantly ( no branches near or touching the ground yet ). We heavily wood chip mulched all orchard trees with 8"-12" which has done WONDERS for Apples Plums Cherries Apricots Lemons Limes; so far, so good.
this was great
Thanks
I see a tree in your video with rocks at its base. Is that a recommended mulching option for citrus? Valencia Orange and Meyer Lemon. Thank you.
Rock mulch is better than no mulch - that's what many of my trees in the front yard have. An organic mulch like wood chips or composted mulch is a better option.
I watched your #5 mistake video but do you add and type of soil conditioner like Gypsum to loosen the hard soil ? I live in Surprise AZ.
Gypsum isn't a bad idea if you want to add it.
Oops, recently planted a cara cara orange tree, and I amended then soil 😢 hopefully it doesn’t hurt it too much.
Hi there. Great video. However, planting into clay soil with poor drainage means amendments are required as heavy clay won’t be conducive to starting new citrus trees. Isn’t amending required in ‘some’ soil conditions? (As-well as mounding up?) - also should one fertilise citrus in the first year or wait until it is established?
I'd be careful planting citrus anywhere without good drainage. I would wait to fertilize.
My cara cara citrus tree is young and it went ballistic last summer with long growth at the lower part of the tree. So I pruned all the lower branches to create a straight middle stem to where it forked out. Should I have left these lower branches or is it ok while young and training shape?
It's usually best to leave the lower branches.
Do I need to add compost to citrus trees?? What compost you recommend to buy
Best compost is the one you make yourself. The next best is locally sourced - check your city for resources. I like Arizona Worm Farm here in the Phoenix Area.
@@GrowingInTheGarden thanks yeah I’ll call local good idea
@@GrowingInTheGarden a lot of stores sell cow manure but I don’t think it’s good for it
Love it thanks!
Glad you like it!
I have baby grapefruit trees from the seeds of the tree’s fruit before Freezezilla came to Texas and killed my grapefruit tree. They are less than a foot tall and have nice green leaves. Will they produce like the parent tree? They’re not grafted.
Probably? I would ask a citrus grower to be sure, most citrus is grafted so I’m not sure how it will grow in your area.
i have over five hundred trees and dont have the fertilizer since its not available in our market
What should I do if I did put rich soil and compos when I planted?
Leave it in place; it will probably be fine.