In fact I grew habanero magnum orange last year, but never got any ripe pods. But that's my fault... I started too late with the seeds...
Habanero will be too hot for me anyway. I want to be able to eat them raw!
The korean dark green I'm currently growing turns out to be seriously hot also. I don't know what their rating is on the scoville scale, but they must be at least as hot as the golden cayenne I grew last year, which is rated up to 80.000.
The cayenne thick I'm currently growing is much better than last year's. Last year it was quite hot but not so good tasting (eaten raw that is ). This year the heat is mild but with a nice sweet chilli taste!


Now back to citrus...
I just noticed some tiny flowers on my in-ground flying dragon tree. It looks like more flowers will be popping out in the next days. It's the first time in more than 2 years that I see flowers on my FD. Unfortunately it's almost fall, so I probably won't get any fruits. I hope next spring will bring more flowers...

It literally took off... at the wrong time! I'm wondering if the tree would be able to keep the baby fruitlets over the winter, if provided with some kind of freeze protection... Given that you could "enjoy" your first crop of flying dragons by this time next year, or even sooner. It'd be cool, but I don't think it's worth all that effort, after all.

I'm not even sure if any fruit will be formed at all... the flowers are really tiny, I don't think they are properly developed...

It's been a while since I posted something on the forum. Time to change this!

Took the plants inside for the winter about a month ago. This usually has one effect: dropping of young fruitlets. This year is no different, but now I'm also getting plenty of flowers on several plants. I'm not entirely sure if I have to be happy about that or not... Lemon plants produce flowers a couple of times a year, but oranges don't and that's what scares me a little. The flowers I get now will probably not result in any fruit.

Here are a bunch of pictures:

The small meyer lemon plant, filled with flowers. This one has only 2 maturing fruits present.


Kara mandarin: this tiny plant has a problem with the weight of the fruits hanging on it.


Chinotto:


Some of the fruits on my larger meyer plant:


Bergamot fruit. This is still a fruit from the flowers of spring 2012! There's another fruit growing from this years spring also. Despite the root rot problem this plant is still doing very well. It is currently growing new shoots but no flowers.


Sanguinelli has fruits and lots of flowers...


Amalfi lemon flowers...


More Amalfi lemon flowers...


Etrog flowers...


Etrog fruits...


Salustiana orange...


Valencia orange...


Valencia orange flowers...


Tahiti lime...


Tahiti limes...


Tahiti lime fruit and flowers...


I did eliminate some of my plants this year. I took the worst growing ones and cut them to pieces! But there's still plenty left to fill the room I have available.
To be totally honest I have been considering quitting the citrus hobby entirely (with the exception of a couple of plants I really care about) in favour of chilli peppers! But my wife convinced me not to do that and at some point in time I'd be sorry anyway...

Your wife she's right! If you give up with citrus you will regret later! I've a very bad start this year and thinking about to give up with citrus but thanks to few good friends who encourage me to continue!
As you suspect something is going wrong with your oranges!

Take care mate!

Great job!

I think I've seen some nasty scale on your pics. Trust me Marc, horticultural oil is your friend!
Speaking of pest and their elimination, it really does miracles for my trees.

Igor

Lots of scales this year! I squeeze them when I see them, but I don't want to use the oil as long as it isn't really necessary...

I find it to be very effective against scale, but not against red mites, which are driving me crazy at the moment...
Generally, I'm averse to using pesticides and acaricides on anything one grows to eat, as well.
If I have to use them, I always follow the time to harvest restrictions very strictly.
I usually do not harvest the fruit at least twice the amount of waiting period time.

I've found that neem plus diatomaceous earth works pretty well for mites and scale. The neem gets the mite eggs and diatomaceous kills adults. the oil makes it stick well too.

The problem is always where to find such products...

http://www.neem-holland.nl/neem-holland.nl/index.php?item=&action=page&group_id=10000001&lang=NL


http://www.bio-ron.com/verkooppunten/vind-een-verkooppunt.html


At your service

Thanks!

1gor.fogarasi, Horticultural oil is not a acaricide or an insecticide. It is simply plain paraffin oil. Completely 100% non toxic. Horticultural oils kill by suffocation., not by poising. It is as non toxic and crushing a bug with your fingers. A person can spray a fruit, then immediately pick it from the tree and eat it. - Millet

@Bob - Yes, I know. However, the product I am using based 100% on paraffin oil active ingredient, is still considered an insecticide/pesticide. It also has a waiting period of 21 days, which is well marked on the product label.