Some more photos of my citrus...

Bergamot:
My bergamot tree appears to be sensible to sun burn, so I keep it in a shaded place next to the buddha's hand to protect it.


Buddha's hand:
I haven't had much success in growing buddha's hand fruits, although the plant itself does well. I hope this fruit will keep growing!


Meyer lemon:
My meyer lemon does extremely well and produces lots of fruits. Last week I tasted my very first meyer lemon. The taste was very much like an ordinary lemon but maybe a tad less acid. It was different in that it was easy to peel (almost like a mandarin) and easy to take apart. I didn't like the scent of the peel though...









Moro orange:
My moro tree is producing very well also. It is now carrying golf ball sized fruits from the early spring flowers, and is currently producing a lot of new flowers. I hope the ripe fruits will be "bloody". The ripe fruits that were on the plant when I got it didn't contain any red pigment at all...









Ruby red clementine:
Very vigorous plant, currently carrying a couple of almost ripe fruits and a few young ones. I hope they will contain some pigment also.



(Spanish) Sanguinelli orange:
This plant is still small but already carrying quite a bit of fruits.


Some of my seedlings: soar orange (left) and poncirus trifoliata (right):


Star ruby grapefruit:
I received this plant a couple of months ago by mail order. It had been on transport for about a week and looked like it might not make it, but it recovered nicely, pushing out new growth and also growing some grapefruits!



More plants without photos:

- Bearss lime: very vigorous plant. Early spring flowers didn't produce any new fruits. Currently flowering again and will likely set fruit now.

- Cara Cara orange: fruits from early spring flowers failed to grow, but is now producing a lot of new flowers. Hopefully better luck this time...

- Salustiana orange: has produced new growth but until now no flowers...

- Variegated pink eureka lemon: Weak plant, not pushing any new growth. Currently flowering but these flowers are not properly developed. One fruit present from early spring flowers.

Those are very beautiful citrus plants!
Keep up the good work!!

Really like the one with the bee, what a photo! Your trees look really nice and healthy, so jealous of that red clementine

As far as the red coloration of blood oranges, the red color is caused by cool temperatures as the fruit matures. The cooler the redder. My wife does not like Moro Blood oranges. She says the dark coloration is disgusting. So I grow one of my Moro trees (in my greenhouse) under high day and night temperatures, which causes the pulp to produce no coloration as it matures. Doing so produces an orange colored pulp, and the wife likes them. Mark you have done a nice job with your impressive collection. - Millet (553-)

I'm very satisfied with the fact that my trees do so well. And to know that I live in a citrus unfriendly climate! It's all thanks to the knowledge of the good people on this forum! (...and of course the other forum I visit frequently, AgrumesPassion )

That red clementine is really a very vigorous tree. It's grown huge since I got it last year, even though I have trimmed it frequently. It doesn't set fruit easily though even if it produces many flowers. The fragance of the flowers is excellent, better even than the fragance of orange flowers.

Here's a close-up of that bee photo for you Ryan . Good to see that there are still beezzz around!



Your wife doesn't know what she's missing Millet! But I guess women they have something with blood . My wife didn't like them also for the blood coloration, until she got to know the taste! I love the taste of blood oranges, it's the best citrus taste in the world! I'm always looking forward to the winter months just for the availability of blood oranges (and other good tasting citrus fruit) on the market. Summer months are bad in that respect.

This is what the ruby red clementine looks like today (left). For comparison, I have put my salustiana orange next to it. The salustiana is now in the pot the red clementine originally came in...



And here's that original shot of the red clementine again, when I just got it...



The clementine tree has been pruned a few times already, otherwise it would have been even larger by now...

Excellent job with your trees Marc !

great pictures!

The last of my ruby red clementine fruits dropped off yesterday. It hung on the tree a few weeks longer than the 2 other fruits did, and that made the last fruit more interesting. The color of the outer peel was no longer orange but had turned somewhat pink. Many oil glands had turned red.

This is a (not so good) photo of the fruit, taken a week ago, that shows the pinkish tint of the peel and the red oil glands. In a week time the coloration had become somewhat stronger...


Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of the fallen fruit as a whole...

A little to my surprise, the inside of the clementine had some coloration too:


In my hand to show the size of the fruit:



The taste of the fruit was pleasant, a little tart but not clementine like. Not really suiteable for eating though, as the parts were very small and each part contained an (empty) seed.

wow wow wow

Awesome collection , your trees look very healthy , how do you keep them so green ?
With epsom salts ?

Thanks and excellent job!

Excellent collection !

Thanks!

About those green leaves... I'm not doing anything special for that. I have never used any epsom salts and the fertiliser I use does not contain any magnesium. Maybe it's in the soil, or in the tap water??

No, wait... that liquid fertiliser has a green color. That's why the leaves are so green!

what fertiliser do you use then..... and I can't remember what soil do you use ?

thanks

I use Sunplant Citrus as fertiliser...
http://www.sunplant.be/en/products/private-customer/44-sunplant-citrus

...and DCM Mediterra as potting soil...
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbe.dcm-info.com%2Fnl%2Fhobby%2Fproduct%2F319%2Fdcm-potgrond-mediterra&act=url

I already discussed both products on the forum, but I can't find the threads at the moment...

fertliser is ok , allthough it does have Mg but probably not shown

The soil is similar to CHC but with different recipe

Maybe the have some shade and only few hours of intense sun every day , but they sure look extremely healthy

thanks