Growing Trovita Sweet Oranges Outdoors in South Coastal British Columbia

This video reports on recent successes growing Trovita sweet oranges as in-ground plantings outside in the Pacific Northwest. The growing system is identical to that already described for growing lemons and limes (see link below). A hot, full-sun south-facing wall with a glass overhang was found to provide a favourable environment to consistently produce an abundant harvest of high quality fruits. In this outdoor environment, the oranges require a significantly longer period to develop adequate sugar content and typically ripen between August and May about 18-24 months after bloom.
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Other ‪@fruittreesandmore7431‬ videos include how to grow loquat, feijoa, olive, pawpaw, and how to prune fig trees to maximize fruit production in our climate.
Featuring Bob Duncan of Fruit Trees and More Nursery & Demonstration Orchard in Sidney (North Saanich) BC, Canada. Created by Allison Gratz. Music by Steppin' In It. Filmed April, 2020.

[@TheMillennialGardener]

Awesome seeing citrus grown so far north.

[@patrickboylan4901]

Thank you Bob, you are legend in my books

[@TheEricrya]

Amazing!

[@ellaolesen]

Thank you for all your efforts here. I’m super excited to try growing citrus in my Nanaimo garden!

[@DignitaryPoodles]

Hi Ella, Nanaimo is a lot colder, you may want to email Bob and Verna. You could grow under full cover or in a green house maybe?

[@AllYourRAw]

Yuzu and Sudachi will do fine in Nanaimo, Meyer as well

[@vlacroix7329]

Amazing, not sure I could wait 2 years for the fruit

[@plantingthenorth7225]

Thank you Bob, Family, and team

[@samuelnormandeau8770]

Thank you for your pioneering work Bob! I'm glad to see you making new videos and continuing to try new things!

[@eithieus1652]

Best how to videos on how to grow fruit in cold climate areas. Thanks for posting

[@plantingthenorth7225]

Amazing! YOU DO SUCH GREAT WORK THANK YOU!!!!

[@sonjabohmer7265]

Watching from SW Ireland and originally from Florida so the idea of citrus and tropical fruits in this climate is music to my ears! Thanks for the great videos.

[@plantingthenorth7225]

I love these videos so much

[@AlexM-sg8fn]

Greetings from SW England, UK! Absolutely love these fascinating videos, brilliant presentation and so informative especially for people like myself who grow them in a different country but with a very similar climate. For the past 20 years, I have grown Oranges, Blood Oranges, Mandarins, Satsumas, Lemons, Yuzu’s, Limes, Grapefruits and Kumquats, also Olives etc. Looking forward to the Mandarin upload, stay safe and many thanks again! Alex

[@decentparks3597]

Wow. This man is amazing. I will be trying something like this except my winters are cold so I want to breed my own sweet orange with poncirus genetics. This will hopefully help me so I won’t graft and if the branches die the graft won’t fail

[@jonathanstephens7015]

When you say your winters are so cold what do you mean? Bob’s ain’t exactly balmy, yet the average winter low temperature in his microclimate is never below freezing. If you go just 10 miles inland from his location it becomes far too cold for the citrus he grows. I live in the central Willamette Valley in western Oregon, and my winters are slightly cooler than his, and I’m nearly 300 miles south of Vancouver Island. The advantage I gave here in the Willamette Valley is that my summers are loads warmer than Vancouver Island. We are around and we’ll into the 80’s by May and stay that way until October. So we have a huge advantage for ripening the citrus. The downside is I don’t have the ocean to moderate the winter lows. We don’t ever average below 34 in any winter month, but it’s not unheard of to hit 18 degrees. During most winters our coldest mornings are around 20, so citrus like the sudachi and ichandrin yuzu do very well. I also have success with meiwa kumquat, dunstan grapefruit and carrizo orange. I also grow more frost sensitive cultivars, but I use a greenhouse for those. I don’t mess around by trying to expose meyer lemon trees and satsumas to temps below 20. Even with a cover and lights they still don’t like it at all. What zone are you in? And what area of the country? Not all zones are created equal. For instance, I’m in 8b here in western Oregon, the same as areas of southern Georgia and Texas. The thing is, the Oregon zone 8b is kind of a fluke. We are at 45 degrees North latitude, north of Toronto. We are only mild here in Oregon because of the Ocean and the mountains. Without those this place would be a zone 5 or 6. So even though we can ‘get by’ with the subtropical frost sensitive plants, they don’t thrive in the same way they do in the zone 8’s you find down south. Still a fantastic region to have such mild weather where it isn’t bleeding hot and humid. Anyway, I wish you luck, but I would encourage you to get a greenhouse if you want to grow citrus in a zone below 7. If you are in zone 7 you might be able to grow yuzu outdoors with protection, but I doubt you can grow any other citrus besides a poncirus. Email me back if you want to discuss.

[@truthseeker1364]

Some of the best information I have found so far thank you

[@jan10-l]

I love this video. I think it's so important to experiment and push the limits on growing things previously thought impossible in your area. We do the same in Phoenix, Arizona and it is exciting when things are successful. Keep growing and trying! Thank you for sharing, that is a beautiful orange tree.

[@conormcgovern9054]

Great videos- please keep them coming

[@seanmeredith4574]

Great video and that is so cool. I wonder if we are able to grow oranges in Ontario?

[@milesvonlehman2526]

Wow really cool, I live in the Seattle area and I am thinking of planting outdoor citrus. What time do you plant them outdoors? Spring? Also how big are they when you plant them in the ground?

[@fmsg16]

Why did he stop posting videos?🙄 2 years ago is his last video. We need the experience from someone like him🙄

[@urbancitrus6869]

oh wow these looks so gorgeous!

[@Camille_Boomer77000]

Truly impressive and amazing

[@koylller]

I’m convinced 😀 it’s going to be delicious

[@HealthyFreshHomegrown]

Awesome news, Bob! I'm here in Victoria and hoping to grow both a lemon and mandarin tree in my backyard garden. I'll be in touch by email.

[@Dendrobenarium]

Nice

[@jacobblurton3904]

I have a couple of Kiyomi Tangors that seem to do pretty well in our climate. I'm in SW Washington they have proven themselves Hardy to at least 17degrees Fahrenheit for me they are a cross between Trovita and satsuma mine haven't fruited for me yet but the trees themselves seem to do well.

[@LookNook2020]

👍🏻

[@eithieus1652]

Need more videos update citrus

[@deblawson1575]

Thank you I've been looking into this for about a year or so. I live on Camano Island in Washington State USA. I was wondering are the tree's in pots outside or planted in the ground?? Thanks again God Bless.

[@dmitriydotsenko6896]

Liked and subscribed. Do apricots, peaches, grapes, persimmons bear fruits in Greater Victoria? What neighborhoods or suburbs are the warmest in SUMMER in Greater Victoria?

[@SeroSerereSeviSatus]

did you ever tried plant kumquat/kinkan outdoor?

[@cds1520b]

I have a south facing wall that would be perfect for this, thanks for your insights and experience. Can you tell me how you build your glass overhang? It looks quite easy but effective. Also where do we get Trovita Oranges stock? I am in sunny South Surrey, BC

[@bakmaratya1963]

Whats the climate zone, winter minimum on average?

[@DaveM-mp6yu]

Have you tried Avocado trees outdoors like this?

[@Dicofol1]

Did you use Poncirus trifoliata seedlings or you bought already grown root stock ?

[@addy113]

Grafted onto root stock

[@thetruth392]

Can I grow these oranges in New York zone 7

[@stickitothemaneosis]

Do you think these would succeed in the Kootenays?

[@DignitaryPoodles]

Highly unlikely, to cold. Maybe in a greenhouse.

[@hedykarim3614]

Where are you?