How to Plant Citrus Fruits?

When we think about citrus fruits, we are thinking about oranges, tangerines, grapefruits, lemons, limes, mandarins, kumquats, and so much more.

My family and I love all different types of citrus. We all love orange juice, especially for breakfast and I have my coffee along with my orange juice. I have always made a lot of different fruit salads through out my marriage. One of them that I make has citrus and other fruit such as, oranges, tangerines, apples, bananas, in Cool Whip, and different types of nuts mixed all together. During the summer months, we enjoyed a cool glass of lemonade and limeade or a cool glass of tea with lemon. I also like to use citrus fruits because they have a good source of vitamin C.

Since we use a lot of citrus fruits and juices, we really like the idea of having the ability to grow our own citrus fruit trees here at our house.

When I decide where I am going to plant some citrus fruit trees I need to check my soil. This is very important because the soil has to have the proper is vital to their growth and productivity. Different types of soil has different types of nutrients, but  they need others added to the soil to adequately feed certain kinds of trees. Sandy soil needs to have peat or seaweed added to the coil to help retain water. Clay soil has to be softened by adding compost to this particular soil type. Now with my adding organic compost or mulching materials to my soil, so my soil can support the trees that I want to plant. I can not add these materials to my soil and plant my trees at the same time because the trees will be more susceptible to fungal diseases.

This is what needs to be done to raise a citrus tree from a seed.

I will need to wash my seeds first. I will plant the seeds in a container that is full of warm potting soil. The seeds need to be planted about 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch deep. The container needs to be big enough so the roots have room to form and grow. After I plant the seeds in my containers I will need to water the seed and the soil thoroughly, and I will water them during the germination process After I plant my seeds in my containers, I will bring it in the put it on a sunny windowsill and in about a week I will see a seedling that would be visible above the soil line. The next thing, I have to do is train the seedling to be a single stem by cutting back additional branches within eight inches of the soil.



Because most of the citrus fruit trees do not produce good enough it planted root system. Because of this they are most of the time grafted, or budded, onto a rootstock of host trees that are already adapted to a certain soil environment. Been at least a years old, and when they produce buds that develop into  flowers, this is when I have to consider this procedure.

lace to plant my citrus fruit where their will be plenty of sunlight and it has to be at least 6 to 8 feet away from any fence, building, or driveway.

I have decided that I want to plant several citrus fruit tress in the same area, so I to plant them at least 12 to 18 feet from on another. These types of trees grow large heads, and being able to keep their branches away for wires and windows during bad weather is a safe thing to do. Another reason they should not be planted too close to each other is they will complete for root space, soil nutrients, water and sunshine. By me planting the trees the right distance apart, will mean that they will have on opportunity to grow and produce abundantly.

When I remove each of my citrus cultivator from each of my pot that it has propagated in, I will wash off at least on inch of potting material from each of the root ball. By doing this it will give the roots a chance to make direct contact with the soil.

II have to do these steps in planting each of my citrus fruit trees survival.

I will clear an area of plain soil that is at a minimum of three feet in diameter. I will do this to allow enough room for watering the soil around each tree deeply and this will help keep my tree from competition from other types of vegetation.

My next step is, I will dig a hole in the center of the circle as keep as the root ball is. This is done so that the roots will be totally buried and the roots will not be exposed above the soil line. They have to stay underground so they can collect all the nutrients in the soil to feed the tree. This will protect the trees from exposure tot he sun and wind.

I place each of my trees in the middle of each hold that I have created for them, then I refill the hole with soil halfway up the root ball of tree, and then water the roots and soil.

My next step is for me to add an extra inch of soil on the top of the level of root ball so this will mean it is surrounded by the soil that it will be growing in and I need to keep the soil real moist. I will do this for each of my citrus fruits trees.

Now, after I have watered all that I have planted, I will fill each hold with soil and pat the soil down real firmly. This will keep the roots staying moist and with having the soil patted close around them, It will keep each one warm.

My next step, is I need to create a ring around the tree, with the surrounding soil, raised it 1/2 feet high, so the water can be held and it can be kept moist. I will fill the ring with bark mulch so this will help keep the soil around each tree retaining the water that fills the ring.

The final step in the planting process of my citrus fruit trees is to promote the maintenance of proper irrigation each tree will need to be watered in this way three times the first week. Then each tree will need to be watered twice each week for the next tree weeks. The ring that I built around each tree will begin to disappear. When this happens, each tree is established and then I will water them only when they need water. The area around each tree that is at least 3 feet in diameter has to be kept free of weeds. After each tree has been established and there is new growth that begins to appear, this is when I will start applying lawn and turf fertilizer monthly through October and this provides each tree with the micro nutrients that each tree needs.