Mandarin & Orange Growing Backyard Walk Through

[@OneYardRevolution]

Mark, your mandarin and orange trees are gorgeous! A citrus orchard would be paradise for me. There's nothing like fresh citrus from the tree, which is something I only experience when visiting Florida. Thanks for the tour!

[@RobsAquaponics]

Nice looking orchard Mark.. Thanks for the wander through. Cheers mate..

[@superslyfoxx1]

Oh how beautiful! I am sure it smells amazingly gorgeous out in that citrus heaven.

[@Aussiesinamerica1]

HAHA i love this old intro - propper homes and gardens style intro - LOVE IT

[@LindaPenney]

Lovely update and thank you for sharing have a blessed day

[@ianknockton2461]

Some children run for the biscuit tin ! Yours run for the mandarine tree !! Living the dream !! Beautiful citrus orchard Mark !! I could swathes of the Lancashire landscape set aside for citrus orchards !! Ha ha !!

[@scarlettrubyrose]

Im in Queensland too & the Imperial mandarin has really won me over. It's been my toughest citrus. It's targeted less by citrus leaf miner and hasn't experienced any mineral deficiencies. It's natural shape is quite formal too.

[@SilverSiren]

8 minutes in and I was wondering where the blood oranges were, and as if on queue, there they were :) Really productive citrus grove you have there, and gorgeous to look at!

[@keyplayr61greenhousehydrop14]

WOW, Mark! That's one beautiful citrus orchard! I sure do wish I could grow citrus trees here! I do plan to try a couple in the greenhouse. Great vid, my friend!

[@elysejoseph]

You and your family won't lack vitamin C that's for sure :) Beautiful trees, the only thing I can grow here is a little Meyer lemon that I grow in a pot and bring inside in winter.

[@wildchookMaryP]

Thanks for the tour around your orchard Mark. I remember reading somewhere that you have some mangoes growing in your orchard. When they fruit and ripe, can you do a video on them too, please :) I just planted an Imperial mandarin in my garden. I guess I have to wait till next year for them to fruit. I also have a Valencia and Washington Navel grafted on one. I can’t wait for them to fruit. :)

[@gardentips1249]

Great video. Australia reminds me a lot of Southern California. Love citrus trees

[@Selfsufficientme]

Thank you! Yes there are a lot of similarities between California and Australia. Citrus is my favourite fruit tree. Cheers :)

[@arji66]

Thanks for the tour mate, very enjoyable to watch. Myself and ma father are orange connoisseurs: we scour the neighborhood sampling the tastiest varieties. Pretty hard to go past a seedless Valencia. Cheers Arj.

[@Selfsufficientme]

arji66 Thank you Arj, my seedless Valencia is still too young for fruiting but I'm looking forward to trying it! We also love our oranges here - my youngest boy eats them like crazy LOL Cheers mate :)

[@tcipa100]

wow what ur trees are amazing

[@ProjectPitaya]

Great tour, thank you for sharing this.

[@como006]

Had to laugh when you showed your 'blood' orange. I have just cut the first of three fruit I allowed to develop on my little tree and it was as orange as an orange! As you say Mark, hope the colour improves! Cheers, Greg

[@briankimball966]

If you had a major Y in the tree 3 feet up and one was dominant and straight and the other was too big and going off to the side. Would you cut it so as to grow the tree? I want the tree bigger and believe the side branch will break anyway.

[@darktemplari0]

HEY from Argentina! Man your garden is awesome congratulations! I think you might be able to help me sortout a problem im dealing with; I have several growing plants of mandarin and orange but I mixed them un in a big move to another house and now I cant tell which is which. I've been reading about their leaves but there is not enough information. Could you make a video showing their leaves differences? Thanks I'll be around!

[@walcotttracey12]

Hi Mark, love your channel. Are these orange and mandarin trees grafted?

[@wamdok6742]

Your oranges and mandarines are juicy soooo succulent.... How old were they when they first flowered? I planted 5 grafted orange trees but 4 turned to be lemons, which after4 yrs no fruits yet. The only orange tree flowered last spring and have very tiny fruits on them. Could you please advise on how to care and maintain healthy fruit trees including peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots?

[@Selfsufficientme]

Our citrus trees usually flower within the first year of planting but I remove the fruit from newly planted fruit trees and then after about 2 years I will let a few fruit form on the tree to see what they are like. Citrus are pretty fast growing to a mature enough state to let them fruit at around 5 years old. I may do a video in the future on those trees you mentioned. In my next video I will show more of my orchard and citrus trees. Cheers :)

[@wamdok6742]

Thank you, I knew nothing about removing first fruiting. I look forward to learn more on your next video.

[@sojanmonms]

Do you live in atropical climate region .? What are the rootstocks have u used for those citrus.

[@Annie65H]

Well I just love that beautiful Garden of Eatin' grocery store you have there! LOL! Mandarins are my favorites. Just think of all that wonderful Vitamin C your family is getting! And no chemicals YAH!! Once I bought a blood orange in the store - they are fascinating - and it seemed like I liked the taste too. I looked up what it said about blood oranges & the color - because I was curious when you mentioned no red color - and I don't know if this helps at all but this is what it said - "In order to produce blood oranges with bright-red pulp, somewhat cooler nighttime temps are necessary. Florida nights are not cool enough and therefore the blood oranges that Florida produces are not deeply red inside." That came from an eHow article. I don't know if that is the case where you are - but that could be a similar situation. I will have to send you a recipe for an Orange Julius - if you want - popular in the U.S. - especially in the 50's in California - and then we once had Orange Julius places all over :)

[@Annie65H]

***** Hello Mark! This little recipe is nothing fancy and there is not much to it. But I remember it was good and seeing all of your oranges made me think of how much I used to love Orange Julius drinks. I would spend a lot of time at the local shopping mall in West Virginia as a teenager, and usually before leaving the mall (after a hard day of shopping LOL) I would stop at an Orange Julius shop - and get the drink by the same name - I would order an Orange Julius. I LOVED them! I left West Virginia in 1986 (for work) and came to Virginia - hard to believe, but it was 9 hours travel at the time before they completed the interstate road. Before I left, I sat down at the kitchen table & copied all of my favorite recipes. This was one of them & it was taken from a church cookbook. I forgot it calls for orange juice concentrate (which has the water taken out) - so you could probably skip the recipe part about adding water to your fresh orange juice and also it calls for Cremora - which is a brand of powdered non-dairy creamer that people often add to their coffee. I would think you would have powdered non-dairy creamer product there - let me know if not. This is just one of many Orange Julius recipes around - I've seen many others online. I would think these could be tweeked also - to your liking. And a little history behind this - this type of drink was actually around as early as the 20's here in the U.S. I had forgotten that they had actually gone back that far. If you make it - or some other version - hope you enjoy - and I would think it would be even better with your fresh oranges!! :) Orange Julius 2/3 cup water 4 Tablespoons orange juice concentrate 2 Tablespoons sugar 5 teaspoons Cremora 5 ice cubes Put in blender. Blend until creamy. Yield - 1 drink

[@xuejiang1207]

Sir, I admire your backyard garden. You have a green thumb. Which state do you live? Do you know which state has the best clime for growing vegetable and fruit tree?

[@Volleyball_Chess_and_Geoguessr]

gorgeous orchard. Jealous! When we get a house I was thinking we could get some apple trees. I don't think my climate could grow oranges.

[@Selfsufficientme]

+Lulu Barretta Find out what fruit trees grow really well in your climate and then exploit it! Cheers :)

[@sirianmuother2916]

how old are mandarin trees before they start producing fruit? I have just planted a mandarin tree and is about hip height with a nice amount of leaves, im not expecting anything this year, but i do go out and check on it everyday hoping that theres a little sign of fruit coming, nothing yet

[@McDowallManor]

Thanks Mark. That was really very informative mate. I have so little room at my place that I need to select my varieties carefully. I also reckon you've been sold a dud blood orange. I wonder how mine will turn out?

[@McDowallManor]

***** Noooooooo.... that's where I got mine!

[@suchitrasmusiccollection357]

nice😀😀😀

[@wayangede2007]

Hello.i am wayan in Bali.why my sunkist and mandarin's yield,the colour not as same as orange like in aussy?thank you.

[@TheVish18]

Awesome video love from India

[@Selfsufficientme]

+TheVish18 Hi there and thank you! Cheers :)

[@TheVish18]

+Self Sufficient Me ur welcome ur inspiration to start my own farm

[@TheVish18]

+Self Sufficient Me ur welcome ur inspiration to start my own farm

[@Selfsufficientme]

TheVish18 Good on you and I wish you all the best in starting your own property to farm - may all your crops grow well and be plentiful! :)

[@EhsanFarsy]

Hello, nice garden. Which rootstock do you use for your clay soil?

[@Selfsufficientme]

+Ehsan Zaby Hi, that's a good question and to be honest I never look for a specific rootstock for clay soil and go with whatever rootstock the grafted plants have and I've never had a citrus that has not grown well here in clay. Our clay starts from about 6 - 12 inches under the topsoil and I make sure I plant the new tree with some compost and well mulched. I have sourced my citrus from many different places and they all cope fine with our heavy soil conditions - even the native limes. Cheers :)

[@gurungroshan3770]

the best...

[@growingtolive2383]

The problem with Blood Orange trees is that they need a certain amount of high heat, direct sun hours and a certain amount of cold chill hours. That's what will really give the flesh that red color. I'm not sure if it will get quite as much as it needs in your area.

[@Selfsufficientme]

+Growing To Live oh really... I might be out of luck then :)

[@sheilafade2016]

Is need oil okay to use on fruit trees?

[@MLucyLuna]

Your mandarin tree is beautiful. ! I'm growing a gold nugget that has thorns. It's on its third year. When I bought I it it had delicious mandarins. But it hasn't flower since. It has some thorny branches and some that are thornless I read that the mandarines are thornless. What do you think? Should I remove it? Prune it? Please I need an opinion

[@Selfsufficientme]

+Luz Padilla Hi and thank you! It's difficult to diagnose for sure without seeing a pic of your tree but I'm thinking your mandarine tree may have been taken over by its root stock and that's why the branches are showing thorns. Personally, I would remove all the thorny branches and leave only the thornless ones on the tree. If new growth comes from below the original graft I would keep removing them until the thornless branches grow and become dominant. Always make sure no stem growth or sucker growth is allowed to grow below the graft otherwise it can suck the energy from the grafted part and over time it will overtake the tree. Best of luck! Cheers :)

[@zhiennam2343]

Hi I envy your Imperial mandarin, mine is not growing well 😢 it lost it's leaves only a few is left. I also have a clay type of soil any tips on how to bring it back to a healthy tree? I am from Melbourne, thanks.

[@Selfsufficientme]

ZennyTree Tree Hi, I'm wondering if your tree had fruited well and now is a little depleted of nutrients? It takes a lot of energy for citrus to fruit and this particular mandarin I notice can also be a biannual fruiter meaning it will fruit really well one year and then sparsely the next. I would give it a really good feed of citrus fertiliser, water in some mixed trace elements, and mulch it heavily at the start of this spring - plus plenty of water and this should give it a nice boost! Follow up with another feed in a few months after that or as directed on the fertiliser packet. You can also go more organic and use manures plus compost with the trace elements as well but ensure the manure is really well rotted otherwise you could burn the feeder roots of the tree. Best of luck! Cheers :)

[@zhiennam2343]

Thanks Self Sufficient Me, it gives fruits but it will not grow to maturity, fruits fall and not much leaves maybe I will try your advice of putting fertilizer and will put manure and I will observe.

[@nataliamccoy]

Hi Mark I was watching ur video to get advice on my mandarin tree .. this is my first time planting one I have never planted fruits or trees before so im no expert in maintaining them! Resently I notced some white looking type of bugs growing on the branches .. I dont know how to attach a pic on here lol I have never asked quetions on here before ! Should I be concerned ?

[@nataliamccoy]

Ahhhh thank u I will do that tomorrow !!! I will let u know how it goes ! Thank u so much !!! :)

[@urbancitrus6869]

are your trees of the dwarf varieties?

[@ZachKirkendoll]

I have one tango tree , it seem like it was going to produce but didn't, can you tell mel what happen, it bud out like your but fell off and no tango

[@Selfsufficientme]

Zack Kirkendoll Did the buds flower Zack? It could be several reasons such as: not enough water during fruit set; no pollination from insects (although unlikely); fruit tree too young and shed it's fruit; citrus bug, bud mites, or other pests attacking the buds; alternate cropping (missing a season); etc. Has the tree produced fruit before?

[@chrisregpick]

Do you make a living growing mandarines and oranges? Great video. I thought Mandarines grew in India and China, is there a big citrus industry in Aussie and do you have problems with Grasshoppers swarming? Thank you.

[@Selfsufficientme]

We grow fruit and veg for personal use and sometimes give it away to family and friends. Yes there is a big citrus industry in Australia and no we don't generally have problems with big swarms of grasshoppers although plagues can happen on our farms from time to time. Cheers :)

[@kristinelee2237]

Blood orange do better in a cold environment, the frost helps bring the red out..ive been told

[@moniquehoff8354]

You should start a seed company Mark. You would definitely have enough seeds!

[@mmpgj1]

Can anyone tell me why there are many branches on my mandarin trees that have tiny leaves? Those branches don't produce fruit. The rest of the branches have normal sized leave and they produce a lot of fruit. My trees are 3 years old.

[@brianaee]

I love u accient

[@Selfsufficientme]

+brianamilling G'day from Australia and thank you! Cheers :)

[@catscats50]

I think the blood orange is the wrong veriety. About 10% of the fruit trees I buy are wrong but I don't find out for 2 or 3 years. I put this down to non English speaking packers. I don't grow citrus here in Yorkshire but I do ok with peaches. We can't get ripe peaches in the shops here, just ones that have been picked well under-ripe then allowed to go slightly soft. Yuk. All the best Paul.

[@devbachu7072]

we inthe Caribbean can grow citrus all year round guy

[@Selfsufficientme]

+dev bachu Yes you have a great climate in the Caribbean to be able to grow citrus and other plants! Cheers :)

[@amilom007]

yes but you can't grow apples or stone fruits & Citrus Greening is knocking your doors

[@ahmed.dhaheri]

Hello

[@jdogwhasup999]

CARN THE BLUES!!!