Citrus
I bought 3 citrus trees today, from ALDI for $15ea. I was planning on
planting a row of hedges along a fence line. How far apart should I be planting them? Close as possible without being detrimental to their health. Thanks! ...aprill |
g'day april,
we planted ours 2.5 meters apart but 3 would be ok as well. snipped With peace and brightest of blessings, len -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.users.bigpond.com/gardenlen1 |
"Aprill Allen" wrote in message ... I bought 3 citrus trees today, from ALDI for $15ea. I was planning on planting a row of hedges along a fence line. How far apart should I be planting them? Close as possible without being detrimental to their health. Thanks! ..aprill To grow to their best size plant them at about 4 m but if you wouldn't mind them to be slightly stunted by root competion say 2.5m to 3 m. At the closer spacing they will still look good and bear well if you feed and water them well. David |
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Aprill Allen wrote: I bought 3 citrus trees today, from ALDI for $15ea. I was planning on planting a row of hedges along a fence line. How far apart should I be planting them? Close as possible without being detrimental to their health. You won't get much of a hedge from citrus unless you are talking about bush lemons. Citrus are generally trees, rather than shrubs. Do you want privacy, a windbreak or what? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
Chookie wrote in message ... In article , Aprill Allen wrote: I bought 3 citrus trees today, from ALDI for $15ea. I was planning on planting a row of hedges along a fence line. How far apart should I be planting them? Close as possible without being detrimental to their health. You won't get much of a hedge from citrus unless you are talking about bush lemons. Citrus are generally trees, rather than shrubs. Do you want privacy, a windbreak or what? -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. While we're on a citrus topic...I have a mystery tree in the backyard. It appears to be citrus like, has fragrant lemony smelling leaves, 2in thorns at the base of each petiole, and very small light green/yellow flowers. I'm not sure if they are flowers, as they are so small, but I think so. The leaves are largeish and shiny, bright green. I had to prune off all the thorns as they are very hard and dangerous. Does anyone have any clue what this might be?? thanks |
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meee wrote:
While we're on a citrus topic...I have a mystery tree in the backyard. Sounds like a bush lemon, well that is what I call it.. Basically, all the root stock of citrus trees sold are bush lemons with the top being a graft of the desired citrus. Add a few different types of graft and you have a citrus fruit salad. They use the bush lemon as it is the best root stock, so either cut it off and graft something else to it, or cut it out, unless you want to grow it as a shelter tree for small birds, |
Terry Collins wrote in message .... meee wrote: While we're on a citrus topic...I have a mystery tree in the backyard. Sounds like a bush lemon, well that is what I call it.. Basically, all the root stock of citrus trees sold are bush lemons with the top being a graft of the desired citrus. Add a few different types of graft and you have a citrus fruit salad. They use the bush lemon as it is the best root stock, so either cut it off and graft something else to it, or cut it out, unless you want to grow it as a shelter tree for small birds, Thanks for that! We rent this place, so it's probably not much use doing anything to it. I was hoping to get some fruit from it though :) Oh well. |
meee wrote:
Thanks for that! We rent this place, so it's probably not much use doing anything to it. I was hoping to get some fruit from it though :) Oh well. Err, gee, it wouldn't hurt if you did. Those spines must be rather dangerous. {:-). |
Terry Collins wrote in message .... meee wrote: Thanks for that! We rent this place, so it's probably not much use doing anything to it. I was hoping to get some fruit from it though :) Oh well. Err, gee, it wouldn't hurt if you did. Those spines must be rather dangerous. {:-). yeah i sat there for about half an hour cutting off all the spines in case the kids or dogs put an eye out...it's only a small tree, but the spines are about 5cm long, very hard and very sharp, all the way up the trunk and branches....gave me shivers just looking at them!! |
Terry Collins writes:
Sounds like a bush lemon, well that is what I call it.. Basically, all the root stock of citrus trees sold are bush lemons with the top being a graft of the desired citrus. Add a few different types of graft and you have a citrus fruit salad. They use the bush lemon as it is the best root stock, so either cut it off and graft something else to it, or cut it out, unless you want to grow it as a shelter tree for small birds, Or fertilise, add manure and keep watered and you may be rewarded with a crop of deliciously sweet fruit. It is a bit of a lottery, but some bush lemons are good bearers. I grew some lemons from seed, the trees were very good bearers, fruit were the conventional Lisbon shape and very juicy, but the thorns made it mandatory that I use a hook on a stick for harvesting hard to reach fruit. I'd be hesitant to do a mass snipping off of many thorns as this probably opens up a lot of points for disease to take hold. -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) |
John Savage wrote in message om... Terry Collins writes: Sounds like a bush lemon, well that is what I call it.. Basically, all the root stock of citrus trees sold are bush lemons with the top being a graft of the desired citrus. Add a few different types of graft and you have a citrus fruit salad. They use the bush lemon as it is the best root stock, so either cut it off and graft something else to it, or cut it out, unless you want to grow it as a shelter tree for small birds, Or fertilise, add manure and keep watered and you may be rewarded with a crop of deliciously sweet fruit. It is a bit of a lottery, but some bush lemons are good bearers. I grew some lemons from seed, the trees were very good bearers, fruit were the conventional Lisbon shape and very juicy, but the thorns made it mandatory that I use a hook on a stick for harvesting hard to reach fruit. I'd be hesitant to do a mass snipping off of many thorns as this probably opens up a lot of points for disease to take hold. -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) That's a good tip; I'll give it a try.My husband says he remembers lemon trees being thorny, so maybe it might bear for me!! I had to cut the thorns off, unfortunately, as it's only a small tree and my boys play around near it. The thorns were just too long and i had no way of fencing it off. I will just keep a close eye on it, and prune off and seal any diseased looking bits. No-one around us has citrus trees, so hopefully it should be ok. Thanks for the advice!! |
On 16/9/05 7:21 PM, in article , "Aprill Allen" wrote: You won't get much of a hedge from citrus unless you are talking about bush lemons. Citrus are generally trees, rather than shrubs. Do you want privacy, a windbreak or what? Yeh, I didn't actually mean to say hedges.LOL .. But it will, I hope, be a bit of a windbreak though I'm not sure how they'll survive the wind while they establish. ..aprill I've decided to move my citrus. They are not coping with the heavy winds we get here. So to the east of the house they go.. And I will replace them with Lilly Pilly which I will plant nice and closed to become hedgy and break up the wind. ...aprill |
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Aprill Allen wrote: I've decided to move my citrus. They are not coping with the heavy winds we get here. So to the east of the house they go.. And I will replace them with Lilly Pilly which I will plant nice and closed to become hedgy and break up the wind. Might be an idea to have a few different plants there. Lilly pillies are rainforest plants, and may not relish wind either. Try coast rosemary (westringia) and wattles to nursemaid them. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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