blood orange

10 years ago

I have a blood orange that's about 10 years old that I grew from seed in a 10 gallon planter that's never bloomed does anyone have an idea how I might get it to bloom?

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gregbradley

10 years ago

Buy a grafted tree and plant it. It will probably produce fruit before the one planted from seed will. Also, very unlikely that the seed will produce good fruit as it will not be like the parent.

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pip313
10 years ago
Wait
randal92
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10 years ago
Is that supposed to be funny
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pip313
10 years ago
No. There is nothing you can do but wait
pip313
10 years ago
You can beat it with a wiffle ball bat if you want but that really only works on trees that have already reached maturity. Again no not a joke
pip313
10 years ago
Or spray lead arsenate on it, but that might only speed up fruit maturity I haven't seen research on tree maturity. Again no not a joke.
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pip313
10 years ago
Most citrus seed including blood oranges are clones of the mother. So you would get the exact same fruit. Just not anytime soon.
poncirusguy6b452xx
10 years ago
Can you plant it outside. If not and you can graft you can move high buds to many places low on the trunk and trim back the top to force the buds to grow.

the idea of a wiffle ball bat is to beat the tree with out any serious damage and the tree will push out flowers to reproduce before it dies. The tree does not know its injuries are mild. This does work in many cases.

The tree needs a set amount of leaf nodes before it will flower. This is written in the DNA code for its particular variety.

Check out this thread on seed grown lemon tree that would not flower. Look at how big the tree got.

Lemon tree from seed
TheRiGuy Manitoba Canada Zone -3a
10 years ago
I am by no means an expert on the matter but It could be that your tree is unable to grow to a mature enough size in its current pot. more information is needed and pictures would be helpful. I do remember a similar thread a while back that ended in success after increasing the pot size

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2809545/help-lemon-tree-not-flowering?n=74

from what I understand about citrus trees its not the age of the tree that counts towards maturity, its the number of nodes. If your tree isn't able to reach a "mature" amount of nodes because of pruning, being root bound, etc It will never reach maturity and never bloom.

Since your tree was grown from seed and not grafted onto a dwarfing root stock, the required node count to fruit could make for a fairly large tree that may be hard to get in a pot.

More details such as Soil type, watering habits, Light conditions and pictures of the tree would be needed to give further advice.
pip313
10 years ago
I don't think pot size is why it started to flower, the thread said that the tree was starting to produce fewer and smaller thorns, a sign of approaching maturity.