My Citrus Trees grown from seed are now over 33 months old and it's time to get you updated on the Lemon and Orange Trees! They were sown from seed on 6/11/17. In this update, I will show you how the trees did over the winter. I moved the containers under frost protection on my patio, as well as left a few plants out in the garden to see how the mild winter frost would affect them. On top of that, I will update you on a few of the other plants I started a year ago. For the next update, I will be repotting these citrus trees. Some info provided in this video for the care of container-grown citrus plants: - Be sure you plants get 8-12 hours of direct sunlight (not blistering sun, but good sun) - Make sure the pot/container is well draining - Be sure to not let the soil dry out. Moist soil is better than not moist. - Supplement 2X per year with a slow release fertilizer (citrus is a heavy feeder) - You can use Neem Oil to treat pests like spider mites, or rubbing alcohol on mealy bugs/worms. - Citrus grown from seed takes 3-5 years minimum to flower,, and sometimes it never does. I hope you'll enjoy both of my Citrus series'. Here's the Orange and Lemon series links: ua-cam.com/play/PLKJSapt21HvXKoZzEKUN44WZ98yT76Dhm.html ua-cam.com/play/PLKJSapt21HvWWRQh24P_qu26tLcQ28mtN.html Some Citrus Seedling Care Info: Citrus Trees like slightly acidic soil (5.5-6.5 PH) and it needs to be well draining soil full of sand, moss and perlite. They should be kept in warmer conditions while they are seedlings (75-85 degrees) and water them infrequently, but heavily - allowing all the water to drain from the pot, keeping it moist only. PLEASE SUPPORT MY CHANNEL (if you wish) - when you shop through the following links, it helps me continue to put out more gardening content and allows me to pursue my passion! Heirloom Tomato Seeds: amzn.to/2rBxMjE Jiffy Professional Seed Starter Mini Greenhouse: amzn.to/2jNRHrg Organic All Purpose Fertilizer: amzn.to/2rCnvUp Grow Room Rack: amzn.to/2re2cZ2 Grow Room Lights: amzn.to/2rbLzg3 Sensei Pruners/Shears: amzn.to/2HK4o0T Gardening Gloves: amzn.to/2HJZBfV ❤ Subscribe for more Free Gardening Tips and Videos: goo.gl/f3D2tj Thanks for watching! If interested in connecting with me on other social media networks, here's my links below: instagram.com/robbackyardgardenerr/ facebook.com/robbackyardgardenerr/ plus.google.com/u/0/+RobBackyardGardenerr ua-cam.com/users/robbackyardgardenerr www.patreon.com/robbackyardgardenerr
Rob Backyard Gardenerr I think you would like the new grafting tool it makes it so easy and would like you to check out clone x rooting gel I got it a few weeks ago and can’t believe the cuttings doesn’t even go into shock amazing for plant people love your channel 👍
Cool. Do u have any good citrus trees/fruit from seed? I have mandarins and lemon trees growing atm. I am going to grow some oranges once I get some seeds but they are hard to get darn seeds now due to seedless varieties. I think I might just buy some scions off someone and graft them onto my lemon Trees
I found a great natural fertilizer that my citrus seemed to love. I soaked weeds with from my vegetable garden in water with a scoop of chicken manure. After sitting a week poured the liquid on the trees. They responded with a burst of growth.
I can't believe they have grown this much.I was the person who requested this video years ago.Chamged my name though.If I started back then, then I would have a lemon tree now, I wish I started mineback then too
Rob I planted my myer lemon in the ground in the middle of my green house in western Washington and it has a yellow lemon on it now in March with a few new ones and two in pots next to it from seeds I enjoy your videos 👍
@@RobBackyardGardenerr By the way, again just want to thank you as I joined you on your "Growing Apple Trees" journey from last year's summer and your the one who inspired me to keep it up! I've got two apple trees and they have fortunately survived through the winter so I was wondering wether there's anything you know I can do to help them grow and thrive for years to come as I'm super passionate about this.
Enjoy your videos. In Houston and I planted 3 seeds from same Lemon in 5 gallon pots 9 months ago. One was so tall, one branch, it was hitting the roof so cut it in half and now branching off but still has extensive leaves on bottom, also very long thorns. Second, just as tall as the first and after cutting it it has sprouted 2 branches with no bushing effect and small thorns. The third hasn't gotten taller than a foot, no thorns, but the trunk is very woody. I use for growing, the cooled down water after boiling eggs, I cut banana peels place in water wait a few days then use the water and semi bury the remaining banana pieces and coffee grounds, weekly. I wanted trees and not really interested in the fruit, these are on my patio so from info I've seen on your site there are no rules.
Thanks for the update Rob, I watched your video on growing Kiwi's from seed and have tried it myself ... so far no luck, but that could be due to our climate over here in the UK. Thanks again for the videos.
Good news on the frozen lemon. I have a lime that completely flagged, not sure if that was the fungus gnats, ugh... but still holding out hope for him, as he has the best looking trunk so far.
Plants looking great and have gotten huge. Excited to see if they flower and if they’ll be good! If you like figs, you should get into it... they get addicting
I think after wintertime a few flowers are coming first and then the new growth/shoots appear so I think that ship has sailed! Correct me if i'm wrong..
Hey rob your videos are great! Thank you. Am doing the same with Meyer lemons seeds I bought over 1000 organic seeds and out of all I got two polyembryonic seedlings should be identical to the parent I have about 300 others growing!
Hey Rob I have a question. So I have an orange and a lemon tree and they arent doing do well. They dropping their leaves and drying out from the top and eventually the whole plant. What should I do. I give them enough water, and sunlight. Is it the nutrition.
Your orange trees are amazing! Are those suckers in the second Lemon that you left out? I have a lemon tree and I'm having trouble distinguishing two rapidly growing branches. The leaves are much larger than the others.
Great video i'm just starting to grow a lemon tree and the tree is now 25 months and it has made progres and i'm growing it in holland so i need to take them inside when there is winter
Very cool :) I just started growing my seedlings, from a cross lemon, so I've been told that they will produce bitter orange/bergamot instead of lemons. Will I be able to tell from a very young plant or do I have to wait till it matures to know for sure? How about your plants from the lemon seeds? Did they turn out to be like the parent tree?
For our winters in Southern NV (9b) I’m gonna graft my seedlings onto trifoliate orange, some studies said it adds 3-4 degrees hardiness. I’m growing them from seed too 😂
Looking pretty good. I'm thinking I should try some orange seeds even though they're not supposed to be able to grow here. I do have a Meyer lemon (not from seed) that's in the ground and has so far survived two winters (but with cold damage from both as I didn't protect it at all - coming back pretty well right now, though). I also have a kumquat (not from seed) in a pot that seems to handle the cold pretty well. I have two kumquats in the ground (from seed) that also seem to handle the winters just fine, and I just planted a kumquat (from a cutting) in the ground, so I'm hoping I can get some good production from the ones in the ground someday! The one in the pot makes great fruit but definitely doesn't make enough.
Hi.2 years ago I put lemon,mandarine and orange seeds in 3 different pots and they have grown well now and almost of the same height.... unfortunately the labels are no more visible on the pots😕(i did not notice it).Now i just can't differ which is which as all 3 plants looks the same .How can i tell them apart?Thx
Hey rob you know how they say you won’t get the same fruit from seed but if all the trees in the orchard are the same grafted varieties you would think it would be really close right it’s not like it’s a different varietie cross pollination right
So quick question about your straight rotted oranges planted on the pot. Did you specifically get oranges woth seeds in them? I guess you did, but you didn't mention what type of orange they were. I just got into gardening a couple months ago and I'm trying to germinate some seeds out of store bought lemons right now and wanted try oranfes as well
My sisterz lemon tree is about 4 feet tall. Never been trained in any way. How far down can she safely cut and not kill the tree? I would like to plant(propagate) the cut taken from the top.
So I'm following thos series after the fact, and it used to be 1 lemon tree and 4 orange trees, but in this update it's 2 lemon trees and 3 orange trees 😂, so what actually happened there?
Beautiful trees! Can’t wait to try my own again. I tried years ago & failed. What soil do you use to start your seeds please? Do you make your own mix? Thank you for sharing Also, where do you live? Just curious because you mention frost yet you grow all kinds of fruit trees 🥰
I have 4 - 3 month seedlings that have been outside ( mostly protected since April). Should i have them in the 8-12 hours of sunlight? They are probably no taller than 4-5 inches
My Citrus Trees grown from seed are now over 33 months old and it's time to get you updated on the Lemon and Orange Trees! They were sown from seed on 6/11/17.
In this update, I will show you how the trees did over the winter. I moved the containers under frost protection on my patio, as well as left a few plants out in the garden to see how the mild winter frost would affect them. On top of that, I will update you on a few of the other plants I started a year ago. For the next update, I will be repotting these citrus trees.
Some info provided in this video for the care of container-grown citrus plants:
- Be sure you plants get 8-12 hours of direct sunlight (not blistering sun, but good sun)
- Make sure the pot/container is well draining
- Be sure to not let the soil dry out. Moist soil is better than not moist.
- Supplement 2X per year with a slow release fertilizer (citrus is a heavy feeder)
- You can use Neem Oil to treat pests like spider mites, or rubbing alcohol on mealy bugs/worms.
- Citrus grown from seed takes 3-5 years minimum to flower,, and sometimes it never does.
I hope you'll enjoy both of my Citrus series'. Here's the Orange and Lemon series links:
ua-cam.com/play/PLKJSapt21HvXKoZzEKUN44WZ98yT76Dhm.html
ua-cam.com/play/PLKJSapt21HvWWRQh24P_qu26tLcQ28mtN.html
Some Citrus Seedling Care Info:
Citrus Trees like slightly acidic soil (5.5-6.5 PH) and it needs to be well draining soil full of sand, moss and perlite. They should be kept in warmer conditions while they are seedlings (75-85 degrees) and water them infrequently, but heavily - allowing all the water to drain from the pot, keeping it moist only.
PLEASE SUPPORT MY CHANNEL (if you wish) - when you shop through the following links, it helps me continue to put out more gardening content and allows me to pursue my passion!
Heirloom Tomato Seeds:
amzn.to/2rBxMjE
Jiffy Professional Seed Starter Mini Greenhouse:
amzn.to/2jNRHrg
Organic All Purpose Fertilizer:
amzn.to/2rCnvUp
Grow Room Rack:
amzn.to/2re2cZ2
Grow Room Lights:
amzn.to/2rbLzg3
Sensei Pruners/Shears:
amzn.to/2HK4o0T
Gardening Gloves:
amzn.to/2HJZBfV
❤ Subscribe for more Free Gardening Tips and Videos: goo.gl/f3D2tj
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hello May I have one of your trees so I can make a forest?
Rob Backyard Gardenerr I think you would like the new grafting tool it makes it so easy and would like you to check out clone x rooting gel I got it a few weeks ago and can’t believe the cuttings doesn’t even go into shock amazing for plant people love your channel 👍
Nice, I don't get why these videos haven't had more views! I've been doing the same thing for years. Right on bro, keep the dream alive.
Cool. Do u have any good citrus trees/fruit from seed? I have mandarins and lemon trees growing atm. I am going to grow some oranges once I get some seeds but they are hard to get darn seeds now due to seedless varieties. I think I might just buy some scions off someone and graft them onto my lemon Trees
I found a great natural fertilizer that my citrus seemed to love. I soaked weeds with from my vegetable garden in water with a scoop of chicken manure. After sitting a week poured the liquid on the trees. They responded with a burst of growth.
I can't believe they have grown this much.I was the person who requested this video years ago.Chamged my name though.If I started back then, then I would have a lemon tree now, I wish I started mineback then too
I learned a few things from your citrus tree videos. Our orange tree thanks you!
Rob I planted my myer lemon in the ground in the middle of my green house in western Washington and it has a yellow lemon on it now in March with a few new ones and two in pots next to it from seeds I enjoy your videos 👍
Your citrus is extremely healthy
man u are LIVING your life. Respect
Honestly you have great patients for all this 👍
LOL - Thank you Ethan!
@@RobBackyardGardenerr By the way, again just want to thank you as I joined you on your "Growing Apple Trees" journey from last year's summer and your the one who inspired me to keep it up!
I've got two apple trees and they have fortunately survived through the winter so I was wondering wether there's anything you know I can do to help them grow and thrive for years to come as I'm super passionate about this.
@@RobBackyardGardenerr hello May I have one of your trees so I can make a forest?
Those orange trees are looking awesome for how young they are!
I love watching your videos! There so relaxing to me!
Please make a video on update of your mango plant
Enjoy your videos. In Houston and I planted 3 seeds from same Lemon in 5 gallon pots 9 months ago. One was so tall, one branch, it was hitting the roof so cut it in half and now branching off but still has extensive leaves on bottom, also very long thorns. Second, just as tall as the first and after cutting it it has sprouted 2 branches with no bushing effect and small thorns. The third hasn't gotten taller than a foot, no thorns, but the trunk is very woody. I use for growing, the cooled down water after boiling eggs, I cut banana peels place in water wait a few days then use the water and semi bury the remaining banana pieces and coffee grounds, weekly. I wanted trees and not really interested in the fruit, these are on my patio so from info I've seen on your site there are no rules.
Thanks for the update Rob, I watched your video on growing Kiwi's from seed and have tried it myself ... so far no luck, but that could be due to our climate over here in the UK. Thanks again for the videos.
Can’t wait until mine are that big
Very nice backyard, thanks a lot.
Great looking citrus dude, those raspberry or blackberries at the end look super healthy too! 😎
The raspberries are going crazy!
My seed sprouted 20 days ago and now the tree is noitiosable
Amazing on the orange trees 👍👍👍👍
This was really good Rob .
Good news on the frozen lemon. I have a lime that completely flagged, not sure if that was the fungus gnats, ugh... but still holding out hope for him, as he has the best looking trunk so far.
Plants looking great and have gotten huge. Excited to see if they flower and if they’ll be good! If you like figs, you should get into it... they get addicting
I think after wintertime a few flowers are coming first and then the new growth/shoots appear so I think that ship has sailed! Correct me if i'm wrong..
Hey rob your videos are great! Thank you. Am doing the same with Meyer lemons seeds I bought over 1000 organic seeds and out of all I got two polyembryonic seedlings should be identical to the parent I have about 300 others growing!
That was a maze video clip you dun there rob off your trees. 👍 👍 🌱 🍋
Hey Rob I have a question. So I have an orange and a lemon tree and they arent doing do well. They dropping their leaves and drying out from the top and eventually the whole plant. What should I do. I give them enough water, and sunlight. Is it the nutrition.
Akshar patel too much water? citus like sandy soil that drains well.
Your orange trees are amazing!
Are those suckers in the second Lemon that you left out? I have a lemon tree and I'm having trouble distinguishing two rapidly growing branches. The leaves are much larger than the others.
Yes - I left the suckers on for now - I will likely prune heavily for next year - hoping for flowers.
Nice
Man this recent deep freeze in texas is crazy
Great video i'm just starting to grow a lemon tree and the tree is now 25 months and it has made progres and i'm growing it in holland so i need to take them inside when there is winter
Been waiting!!
This is so different, glad I finally started watching.
Very cool :) I just started growing my seedlings, from a cross lemon, so I've been told that they will produce bitter orange/bergamot instead of lemons. Will I be able to tell from a very young plant or do I have to wait till it matures to know for sure? How about your plants from the lemon seeds? Did they turn out to be like the parent tree?
You can also get some ladybugs. Ladybugs will eat some of those pests on your plants. Aphids are one of the ladybugs favorite meals
For our winters in Southern NV (9b) I’m gonna graft my seedlings onto trifoliate orange, some studies said it adds 3-4 degrees hardiness. I’m growing them from seed too 😂
Enjoyed the vid
You should have Charlani do the garden videos. You could help her grow her channel.
Troy the Man she’s not much into gardening. I’d love for her to be a part of it!
@@RobBackyardGardenerr hello May I have one of your trees so I can make a forest?
Looking pretty good. I'm thinking I should try some orange seeds even though they're not supposed to be able to grow here. I do have a Meyer lemon (not from seed) that's in the ground and has so far survived two winters (but with cold damage from both as I didn't protect it at all - coming back pretty well right now, though). I also have a kumquat (not from seed) in a pot that seems to handle the cold pretty well. I have two kumquats in the ground (from seed) that also seem to handle the winters just fine, and I just planted a kumquat (from a cutting) in the ground, so I'm hoping I can get some good production from the ones in the ground someday! The one in the pot makes great fruit but definitely doesn't make enough.
Hi.2 years ago I put lemon,mandarine and orange seeds in 3 different pots and they have grown well now and almost of the same height.... unfortunately the labels are no more visible on the pots😕(i did not notice it).Now i just can't differ which is which as all 3 plants looks the same .How can i tell them apart?Thx
You'll likely have to wait until they flower/fruit. BUMMER but cool that they are 2 years old now!
Epic
Hey rob you know how they say you won’t get the same fruit from seed but if all the trees in the orchard are the same grafted varieties you would think it would be really close right it’s not like it’s a different varietie cross pollination right
You would think but it's always tough to gurantee.
More vids cause we in quarantaine
I've been growing from seeds 2 lemon trees. They're around 15 years old now and they never flowered so far.
Sometimes it may take up to 35 years! So have patience
It can happen - hoping mine don't take that long as both my apple trees and peach tree have flowered within 4-5 years.
I think the first one that will bloom is one you've forgot at frost
So quick question about your straight rotted oranges planted on the pot. Did you specifically get oranges woth seeds in them? I guess you did, but you didn't mention what type of orange they were. I just got into gardening a couple months ago and I'm trying to germinate some seeds out of store bought lemons right now and wanted try oranfes as well
Weren’t there 4 orange trees in pots in the last update? I’m wondering what happened to #4. 🤔
do you not have problems with root rot keeping them so moist? I've lost a couple citrus due to over watering.
Didn't you say to water citrus after the soil becomes almost bone dry?
My sisterz lemon tree is about 4 feet tall. Never been trained in any way. How far down can she safely cut and not kill the tree? I would like to plant(propagate) the cut taken from the top.
What zone are you in Rob? I’m in zone 8b and I am growing 5 lemon plants from seed. I’m curious as to how it’s all going to work out in winter...
So I'm following thos series after the fact, and it used to be 1 lemon tree and 4 orange trees, but in this update it's 2 lemon trees and 3 orange trees 😂, so what actually happened there?
I thought you had four orange trees, not three, what happened to the last one?
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Natalie Emilia it did not make it. BUT that’s how it goes sometimes.
@@RobBackyardGardenerr hello May I have one of your trees so I can make a forest?
Can I try and grow grapefruit trees from my seeds. Thanks jim 80
Beautiful trees! Can’t wait to try my own again. I tried years ago & failed.
What soil do you use to start your seeds please? Do you make your own mix?
Thank you for sharing
Also, where do you live? Just curious because you mention frost yet you grow all kinds of fruit trees 🥰
I think he's in north tx
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Rob, I am afraid you will not see any lemons unless you graft those trees.
I have 4 - 3 month seedlings that have been outside ( mostly protected since April). Should i have them in the 8-12 hours of sunlight? They are probably no taller than 4-5 inches
It is 2020! Update! Update! Update!
What was your watering and fertilizing schedule when you did this. And what kind of fertilizer did you use?
What is pep guardiola doing here ? 😂😂
Dude, what happened? You just not doing videos over the winter?
Why would you grow any citrus from seed? Why not graft?
I mostly grow from seed for fun.
How are your citrus trees doing now?
it's a pretty hobbi . i've germinated date seeds and lemon ones, and planted them 3 days ago. (Russia)
I can’t find an orange with seeds in Washington
Are there none in stores
All seedless
@@natemurphy4367 are there no organic oranges anywhere
Well on lock down because of carona will definitely look when it lifts
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Lol you kept on saying 45 and adding this emoji 🤦♂️
I wrote the wrong year in my script and noticed it during editing LOL
WHY ARE YOU SCREAMING
Der Fremde sensitive ears?
yay!!!
im growing grapefruit!!!!
What happened to the avocados
I have an update.
Yay a
Rob Backyard Gardenerr for the pear trees you haven't updated in one year sorry if I'm too eager