Top tips for growing a healthy and productive citrus tree | Gardening 101 | Gardening Australia
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Guest presenter Palisa Anderson visits a citrus nursery in Brunswick Heads, to learn all the tips for growing a healthy and productive tree from expert commercial grower, John Mills. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
John Mills takes Palisa around his commercial citrus tree orchard to talk all things citrus.
John started as an apprentice to a citrus grower over 40 years ago. John grows nearly 60 varieties of fruit, including figs, mulberries, olives and loads of citrus. A huge number of trees for the retail garden market.
Even growing trees on such a big scale starts small, and in some cases with a seed! Most fruiting plants are grafted, where the fruiting top of the tree is grafted onto a hardy rootstock, some of which is raised from seed in-ground. They use 5-6 rootstocks for different reasons including compatibility with the fruit or soil type.
Should people ask what roots their tree is on? “Some orchardists might be fussy about what their tree is grafted onto, if it has a reputation locally. But the most versatile for the home garden is trifoliata, that is what most home garden trees do well on”.
Once they germinate and establish, the root stock is dug up, potted and grown on, until they reach a size that they can be budded. They are lifting rootstock at the moment, which will be budded in May.
At this time of year they are focused on T-buds, where the bark of the rootstock is opened like a t-shirt and the fruiting bud slipped in - making sure the cambium of both is making contact. The union is covered, and the tree mollycoddled until the graft takes off - establishing into the tree you find at the nursery.
A healthy & productive citrus tree is a garden goal for anyone, whether you have one tree or ten! John still gets a thrill when he sees a good backyard tree.
He reckons success starts at planting. “People often ask if you can grow them in pots, and yes most will grow in pots, but for a productive tree they will be much better off in the ground”.
A warm, sheltered, frost-free spot is important of course, and a decent hole. “I dig much wider and deeper than the root system and it has to be square! If you dig a round hole you might end up with the roots running around the edge, a square hole directs them to the corners where they can escape”.
Soil needs to be well drained but rich, compost will help. To produce loads of fruit, they also need loads of food. Adding potassium will also sweeten the fruit.
PLANTING A YOUNG CITRUS TREE:
- Dig the hole twice as big as the pot.
- Place the plant in and as you backfill, make sure the soil is clear of the trunk and the graft.
- Keep an eye on it initially, any growth from below needs to be removed. In most cases it will be distinctly different in form to the desired fruiting top - i.e trifoliata. Cut with sharp secateurs.
Water is key to a good citrus tree, they are relatively shallow rooted and making fruit is thirsty work! For fruit, you need to be consistent.
Featured Plants:
TRIFOLIATE ORANGE ROOTSTOCK - Citrus trifoliata
TRIFOLIATE ORANGE ‘FLYING DRAGON’ ROOTSTOCK - Citrus trifoliata cv.
LIME ‘TAHITIAN’ - Citrus cv.
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If Johnny Mills only knew how inspiring he is over in the UK. Excellent to see him being recognised for his talents. 10/10
GOD Bless You for such a Great video, all the way down/up Ukraine :) Roman
What a wonderful teacher!
Totally agree. He loves what he's doing.
Soft spoken and to the point. Not a word extra. He should be a teacher.
Fun to learn about the citrus trees
Love growing citrus trees
I've got a Meyer Lemon and a Washington Navel Orange
Both doing very well
i have 4 finger limes 1 i grew from seed, yellow, red champagne, round red fingerlimes , a: pomello, nagami kumquat, meiwa kumquat , variegated kumquat,, Jamaican tangerine, emperor mandarin, imperial mandarin, engall's mandarin, clementine mandarin, hickson mandarin, afourer mandarin, pink grapefruit, blood orange, naval orange, eurika lemon, lisbon lemon, meyer lemon, tahitian lime, buddhas hand ,
@@Shane_O.5158 wow that's an amazing list mate
You must have plenty of fruit
And Alot of space
Great work mate
i have 4 finger limes 1 i grew from seed, yellow, red champagne, round red fingerlimes , a: pomello, nagami kumquat, meiwa kumquat , variegated kumquat,, Jamaican tangerine, emperor mandarin, imperial mandarin, engall's mandarin, clementine mandarin, hickson mandarin, afourer mandarin, pink grapefruit, blood orange, naval orange, eurika lemon, lisbon lemon, meyer lemon, tahitian lime, buddhas hand ,
Do you get citrus leaf miner in your area? If yes, how do you control them when you have so many citrus plants?
Fantastic teacher so easy to understand
very nice sharing about lime farming
Can you please tell use the Growing material you people uses for rootstock on the ground and in the pots?
How you people keep the tree lines so clean?
Excellent information, thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Great show
I have my first myer lemon in this year, its full of buds/fruit. Now I guess I will have to take them off to help tree grow bigger, maybe leave just one yeah. A bigger yield will be better than a quicker fruiting.
How neatly cared property
Great I just got my first kara kara orange tree which is in full bloom and was wondering if I should remove the flowers to allow it to establish so that's real handy to know.the flowers are some of the nicest I have smelt,yum
Very informative! Thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful!
No such thing as Tahitian lemon.
Its actually Persian lemon, It was evolved in Southern Iran hundreds of years ago.
Americans renamed it.
That guy is a great man.
Great 👍 I wonder why my mandarin tree hasn't had fruit.its 10 yrs old
such a great character :)
Hi John! Love watching your video. I’ve got three kumquat trees growing in the containers and their leaves are yellow and small. Please give me some advice 😊 I need to prune those trees badly because the branches are all over the place and taking all the nutrients. Would you please tell me when is the best time to prune and what are the best fertiliser for kumquat tree? When is best time to give fertiliser. Oh I forgot to tell you that I live in Melbourne. Thank you very much Sir
Great show people 😊😊😊💯💯💯💪💪💪Les from Perth
Great 👍
Do you know if I can use gorilla hair mulch on citrus and fruit trees?
Pembibitan bosqu, 🙏🇮🇩
has he got Honey Murcott mandarin ?
can I buy 1 please
most hardwares do, try a kumquat instead, you will like it more.
what is the distance of the lemon plant as in this video?
It depends on the rootstock. If the lemon is grafted on a flying dragon then you can plant them 1m apart. Grafting on a regular poncirus trifoliata, 1.5m. If you use a Carizzo c35 citrange, then you need more space. Apparently this guy wants his plants small, so he only uses trifoliates and dragons.
@@nemanjamilicevic7568 thank you for sharing your knowledge
Sir can u provide five tree of mandarin orange in Bangladesh??
Kindly gives name of rootstock,( which tree rootstock is used)
It’s mentioned if you watched the whole video, but for the sake of saving you time it’s trifoliate orange and trifoliate orange “flying dragon” for pot/dwarfing purposes
Hello sir, what a wonderful nursery, do u sell trifoliata seed for me pls
Try auscitrus if you're in australia
How I wish you in my country
Why do they do that business with the rootstock and the buds. Why not just grow your citrus from seed?
The selected rootstock makes a more versatile and resilient tree. Plus by grafting a mature full size tree bud onto a dwarf rootstock, the overall growth of the tree from that bud is limited to the size of the tree rootstock it was grafted to. This is ideal for tight spaces, pots and those who don't want the full size tree.
Of course not all grafts are dwarf to limit their size, they'll graft for a full size rootstock and therefore tree anyway because of that added resilience and versatility.
Not to mention, grafted trees means shorter time until fruiting than if growing from seed.
@@ErraticPerfectionist I didn't realise that but makes sense; the source tree grafted on is going to be older/more mature than when you grow fully from seed. So you're already ahead from a tree the same size started from seed (mature tree on rootstock vs young tree from seed still maturing as it grows)
Yet not a single comment on diseases and pests. What a pointless videp
Spray with copper for fungus (or ecofungicide), neem and eco oil for pests, same as every other fruit tree, citrus or not.