Varieties I am considering for my new home in Missouri City, TX. I'll have space for around 10 trees. I'm putting in a special sprinkler zone with a drip line just for these trees. A friend has had much more luck growing citrus than me and he irrigated his trees weekly. His trees grow much faster than mine and his fruit is better. I'll have mine on a timer and irrigate regularly.
New Zealand Lemonade Tastes like a grocery lemon that has been sweetened. The best of the "sweet" lemons IMHO
de Nules clementine one of the best clementines
Nova one of the best mandarins
USDA 88-2 Lee x Nova new and promising
USDA 15-150 Lee x Orlando new and promising
Minneola tangelo a really great but late fruit
Xia shan satsuma I've grown a dozen varieties and don't see a need to grow more than one. Fruit quality on my satsumas has been lousy even on mature trees.
Bream tarroco blood orange a supposedly better selection of tarocco
Sanguinelli blood orange one of my favorites
Nordman seedless nagami great with no seeds for marmalade
Changshou kumquat very large fruit
Golden grapefruit IMHO the best variety to grow in Houston area
Cocktail grapefruit very nice fruit
Cara cara red navel best navel for good color
Midnight valencia wow can this be good
Seville Sour Orange I'm growing this out from seed
Giant key lime large selection of key lime
Meyer lemon very productive and most cold hardy lemon
Out of the running:
Page - very sweet but too small fruit
