10 Biggest CITRUS GROWING MISTAKES
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- 🌱Introduction 00:00
🌱Mistake #1 Planting a tree without trying the fruit 00:30
🌱Mistake #2 Planting at the wrong time of year 00:49
🌱Mistake #3 Planting the wrong size citrus tree 01:25
🌱Mistake #4 Planting a citrus tree too deeply 02:18
🌱Mistake #5 Amending the planting hole 03:01
🌱Mistake #6 Not watering deeply enough 03:41
🌱Mistake #7 Skirting and over-pruning citrus trees 05:21
🌱Mistake #8 Not fertilizing citrus trees 06:33
🌱Mistake #9 Exposing bark to sunlight 07:27
🌱Mistake #10 Not harvesting fruit 08:02
Citrus is easy to grow in warm climates, but it’s important to avoid a few key mistakes many home citrus growers make. Learn from others' mistakes and enjoy better-tasting citrus fruit for years to come.
This information is for citrus planted in the ground in warm climates that can grow citrus outdoors year round. Look for an upcoming video about how to grow citrus in containers for cooler climates.
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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!
I wish I had seen this 20 years ago when I planted my yard, but I am still glad to see it today. Thx!
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!
This video was incredibly helpful and easy to learn from. Thank you so much for the great tutorial.
VERY VERY INFORMATIVE SIMPLE IDEAS SISTER....thankyou very much sister...
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.
Thank you for making this Video. Very well outlined and detailed
Great info ! Just in time, as I'm planting 3 Citrus trees this weekend .
Good luck!
This was really good thank you.. I just got my 3rd lemon tree at my 3rd home. I've been moving as soons as the tree fruits. Maybe one day.
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 👏👍
So informative! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
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.
I have watched over 20 videos yours is most informative and answered all my questions. Thank you so much
Perfect, I just planted a lemon and an orange tree in Vegas!
Congrats!
good job done
Excellent information. I needed all of these tips and warnings. THANK YOU.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
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 very much for the explanation.
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!
Excellent information! Thanks!
Great summary on growing citrus here in the AZ desert!
Thanks so much.
Such a relaxing easy to follow video!
Thank you!
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.
Great video and fantastic explanations 👏
Thank you 🙋🏻♂️ 🌻
Thank you so much. I am planting my Satsuma tree tomorrow.
I give this video a 10! Thanks for the info!
Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching.
thank you for this video. it was very helpful!
This was so helpful! Thank yoi
Thanks for sharing
Amazing information sharing. Thanks
The best information ever ! Thank you
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.
Wow! That was very helpful. I was doing several of those wrong things.
Glad it helped!
So much good info! Thank you! 🤗
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video!!
Great info, thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love your advice 😃
Thank you so very much. Helpful advice.
Great video with very helpful info!
Love it thanks
Thats a beautiful citrus tree!
Thanks so much.
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
Thanks. Very informative and simple. I enjoyed your video.👍
So nice of you
Awsom video!!!
Citrus is great to grow and delicious to eat. Best wishes to all the gardeners out there!
So nice of you, thanks.
Thank you ❤
Thank you for the great advice.
You are so welcome!
Honestly thanks Gid that i come across to your video bfore making these mistajes.👏👍
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.
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!😊😊❤
Great tips thankyou Kit robbo
No problem 👍
Love it thanks!
Glad you like it!
Great video, thanks
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.
Excellent tips! Thanks 😀👏
Glad it was helpful!
Wow. Now I know why my lemon tree of a year hasn’t grown. Thanks for sharing
Great video.
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.
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.
Thank you so much for your advice. I have only 1 orange tree, first year, lots of oranges. I will remove them now
Thank you for this great information
Glad it was helpful!
Clearly content .... thanks for sharing ....
Glad you liked it!
Thank you Angela!!!! You're the best 👍🏻 do you by any chance have any videos about guava trees? I live in Tucson 🌵☀️🌵
Not yet :)
Nice information
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!! 🌳🍊🍋 THE CITRUS TREES DIFFERENCES!!! 🤓🙋🏾🔥🙏🏾👑✝️📖🔥
So glad I found your channel, I’m inspired!
Welcome aboard!
Thank you for just telling us simply what to do instead of making a long video telling your whole life story.
this was great
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thanks
Great channel Angela. I'm here in zone 8b and Winter Storm Uri devastated the two 7 y/o lemon trees (variety unknown) in our backyard. Leaves are dry, crispy and bright uniform yellow. A few leaf drops but the bark has some splitting. I pruned one of them down heavily since it had serious canker and fungus 8 inches above the graft union. The other tree I left alone since it is healthy and has a better canopy. Any tips would be appreciated
Hard to know. A good dose of fertilizer and watering - see how they come back this spring.
Thanks for sharing! I made some of those mistakes, but learning from them is always good.!
Same here. Learn and grow!
Great video
Thanks!
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Finally a video that is actually correct! But don't forget to make a square hole - not round.
Great information! Thank you for sharing 👍
I was thinking of getting an apple tree. When should I plant that?
Now is a great time. If you live here in the low desert get it in as soon as you can.
@@GrowingInTheGarden ok, thanks for your advice!
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.
i just got a baby lime tree, and ive never grown one from such a small size before. Thank you so much for these tips! P.S, do you have any tips for growing lilies here? theyre some of my favorite flowers and theres not much information, mostly ive heard growing them with northern exposure and protection are best
I haven't grown lilies before, sorry.
@@GrowingInTheGarden It's all good, ive learned theyre extremely toxic to cats so i won't be growing them after all. Thank you so much for your videos though!
Hi Angela, just found your channel I love your teachings of vertical space and this video on Citrus, I have a dwarf tangerine tree that has produced fruit once. It is potted and i keep on my porch in a shaded area with full sun in morning and then bring indoors during winter, it is about 10 years old and has been re potted one time I have been thinking maybe I need to go one more size up this year. it's healthy but not as abundant as the planting/care instructions that came with it (Beautiful Picture of it in adult age). I am currently awaiting arrival of a dwarf meyer lemon. I am in zone 7a in Alabama (birmingham). Sunday from Bama
It can be helpful to increase the pot size. Best of luck to you.
Are there any good complimentary plants to grow around the base? I was thinking of planting a couple watwrmelons near the base so the vines can meander around the basin of my new lime to cool the ground and retain moisture and utilize space better.
Citrus roots are pretty close to the surface. You can try that, but the watering needs of the watermelon and the citrus may be different.
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...
Wow....
Hi Angela, Im a new subscriber. Where can I buy basalt dust for making my own compost? I don't live close by, otherwise I would get a truck load of the compost mix. Great stuff!! Love all the info you give. Thank you.
You can get it on amazon: amzn.to/2NynnDG Thanks for watching!
Very good
Thanks
Hey thanks. Good and to the point. One question - bark damage from sunlight, how serious is it and what does it look like?
Lighter, may crack. Trees are more susceptible to diseases. Damaged bark can't be replaced.
@@GrowingInTheGarden I think I've seen it. Thanks 🙂🙂🙂
Good information video....
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Thanks for watching! Hello from Arizona!
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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.
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.
I just transplanted the grapefruit tree from the ground to the pot. Can you please tell me what do I need to do? I keep it in the small pot and in shading cause it’s too cold now. Thanks in advance
Can be tricky to transplant from the ground to a container. Container plants are more susceptible to frost damage as well, keep it in a sheltered location.
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.
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.
Didn't know about the lower fruit. I do remove any branches pointing downward so the fruit doesn't touch the ground on my dwarf tree.
Glad it was helpful.
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.
Oops, recently planted a cara cara orange tree, and I amended then soil 😢 hopefully it doesn’t hurt it too much.
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.
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.
I bought a lemon and lime tree in February. I couldn't plant because we're waiting for our pool to be done. Now its done, finally, and its almost June!! Should I just transfer the trees to a 5 gallon bucket until fall or next spring and then plant? (I'm in Mesa)
It depends on the the location. If they get afternoon shade in the new spot it would be better to get them planted. If the area is in full sun, then keep them in a larger container in partial sun until temperatures cool down.
@@GrowingInTheGarden Thank you so much! It'll be full sun so I'll wait. Glad I asked.
Darn it! I just planted a lemon 2 weeks ago and I amended the soil with compost and I think I covered the root ball.
If you covered the root ball, I would consider replanting. Planting too deep is hard to recover from.
If it's only been two weeks, you can dig it up and replant.
@@GrowingInTheGarden Thank You!! I will do that!!!