Lol Brian, I may have the weather, but you’ve got the fruit! That is a stellar harvest, I wish my trees produced like that.

Steve, thanks. Keep up the Good work.

Bob, I protect my trees as Best I can, I fear though that inevitably Cali will be over taken with HLB just as Florida has been. Only time will tell.

Evan

I really hope that’s not the case. I do love my citrus and would hate to have to get rid of them. Thankfully for me the reported cases have all been in LA and riverside. I actually just read they also had some cases in Tijuana so that’s not too far off. Hopefully all the research Florida has been putting into it will come up with a solution.

I agree bacon, that’s why I posted about supporting the university of California riverside citrus variety collections’ new project to find a cure for HLB. It’s here in this thread.

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5047703/ucr-citrus-variety-collection-hlb-prevention-initiative?n=2

It is important that we support them so they can help the citrus industry and our dooryard citrus hobby stay alive.

Evan

Forgot to post this pic earlier...my variegated pink eureka has decided it’s time to flower and fruit. Tons of little fruitlets like this one on most branches.

Evan

Thanks for the link! Will have to consider putting a donation in the budget!

Hey, Happy New Year and I hope everyone is doing great here! wonderful pics and amazing work.

Here is an in ground Lemon Meyer I had to chop way back since it is blocking too much sun in my greenhouse. It was warm yesterday a whopping 60 degrees before it plummeted 30 degrees within a half hours and down to 10 degrees within 6 hours(

Brian, Brian my friend,

that's CRAZY!! Here you sit in negative 0 temps for days on end and yet your trees still decide they like you. It's a good thing they appreciate where you keep them of they sure the heck would be stingy without your desire to keep them happy that way. Great job.

Mike, nice looking Meyer Lemon tree.

Mikey nice looking fruit buddy , that tree must be huge the branches you cut are pretty thick . Mikey looking at those pics remind me of my older Greenhouse I had the exact same one and it was well built . Mikey the temperature up here is ridiculous subzero today but no wind on Friday it was 54 F . Winter is moving along fast I can already see a big difference with the angle of the sun . Take care my friend.

Brian

I harvested this slightly under ripe Ponderosa lemon from my potted 18" tree today. It grows indoors during the winter.

I sampled it and it was pretty good. The lemon taste was not as strong as store bought, but it was still good and lemony.... I'm saving it for next weekend... I'll either make a pie or use it for Gin and Tonics.

Moro is shaping up nicely after 3 years in the ground.

Have been harvesting a few and they are coloring up nicely!Cara Caras are shaping up nicely as well
This Washington Navel was planted in 2010. Took it about 5 years and now it produces some of the largest, sweetest navels I've ever had!One of the main branches broke in a windstorm back in 2011. It sprawls out like a hedge and has over 150 oranges this year.

Beautiful trees! Very nice new growth, that is how they're supposed to grow:)

I liked the cara caras at the beginning of the season but the ones I'm buying now seem to be a bit dry... I'm eating a perfectly ripe moro as we speak. It's sooo good. Surprisingly, they're in every grocery store I go to.

Really happy that my moros are coloring up this year. Being near the coast we don't usually have the cold nights necessary to reach the color like you get in the inland growing areas. Late last year we had several mornings in the mid-40's so maybe that's the reason.

Sure enjoyed scanning through everyone's January submissions! I especially like Brian's fruit collection and PKG's blood oranges above are why I spent several hours so far this winter covering and uncovering my blood orange tree. Hopefully I'll get fruit from it some year!

Since it's already snowed here twice this winter and we usually don't get snow at all for multiple years in a row, this is my January citrus photo...icicles on Ponderosa.

Brian,

you are so right! I can tell a difference when the sun hits my greenhouse too or when it comes out after a snowstorm or when I get into my car even if it's 0 out! The temps in my greenhouse rise higher and higher earlier and earlier each day especially as February rolls in, than God! Don't you just love how the sun is starting to feel when you stand against the south facing wall of your house? in another week or two, there will be a huge difference in the angel and the warming of the sun. I can't wait until the middle of February when it's is when the UV index actually starts climbing uphill from a 0 to at least a 2..Hahah. I remember you having a greenhouse like mine. I would love to turn my whole yard into one big greenhouse but the cost of keeping it warm would kill me. Hope you are at least enjoying the bounty of your harvest and the warmth of yours! I love to spray all the leaves and walls down with water and raise the humidity while the sun is out. Gives it that tropical feel and smells so so good!

**Silica,

thank you for taking the time to notice and your kind words. Hope all is well with you.

To all those that 'liked' me. thank you and I also 'like all of yours! Great job even in the dead of winter. Oh the rewards and joy of growing these trees despite the weather and what ever ails us))

Mike

From an indoor year round basement green house. I'll never say they look OK, or even so-so as that always gets me in trouble. Waiting on a Gold Nugget, a Miho Wase Satsuma and another variegated lemon arriving before Friday.

Sad Minneola tangelo. Transplanted a few weeks ago and it went splat.

Great pictures everyone! I was looking at the temps for the southeast US! They had some frigid temps last night. Hope the citrus weren't damaged too bad.

Everything here is now in bloom. Here is a few

Calamondin

Meyer

Matt, the temps here (southeast metro-atlanta) have been in the negatives with the windchill for multiple hours the past few nights. Temps will finally be above freezing today. So ready for spring!

Here’s an update on the GA and FL groves: http://citrusindustry.net/2018/01/18/7915/

Fortunate that only warm blooded animals feel wind chill. If it is 15F outside and the wind chill is 5F the citrus tree feels only the 15F. If it is 20 F outside and the dew point is 5F outside a citrus tree may lose moisture through sublimation and cool the leaves to 10F but if you have a wind chill of 5F the 20F air temp may keep the leaves at 18F instead of 10F in still air.

Steve

Thanks for the update Kelley! I can't believe the cold reached all the way down to Naples (not freezing but in the 40's there). I saw it sitting at 18-20f Atlanta. It's scary but thank god it's ending for most of us today.

Mikey buddy Ground Hog day is just around the corner man this month is flying by . I'm noticing now a huge difference in the sunsets so nice. Mikey wouldn't it be fantastic if we could just dome our properties house and all then it would be summer all the time. I love when the sun is on the Greenhouse it really makes it nice and warm and gives the air a beautiful tropical scent you just can't beat it . Take care .

Brian

My Eureka lemon tree with a nice crop.

Brian

Beautiful fruit, Brian!!

Brian, gorgeous bounty of lemons!

Thankyou Kelly and Sunshine the lemons look beautiful but I am worried the tree might suffer a burn out . This pic is the backside of the tree the front of the tree which is pressed to the south side wall has even more lemons huge clusters and the branches with those huge clusters have not many but a few leaves turning yellow so tomorrow I will be picking some lemons.

Brian

When I think about the bushels of fruit you picked from your trees I keep coming up with numbers too big to be prime and more.

I wished my New Zealand lemonade tree looked like that.

Steve

Brian, do you thin the fruit on your large trees, when you see heavy bloom and fruit set?

Thx Steve, your New Zealand is nice and big gorgeous tree it should start producing like crazy soon. I am anxious to try the New Zealand fruit to but my tree is only a foot tall .

Sunshine never have I thinned the fruit on any of my citrus tree's I thought that most citrus varieties would do that on their own , I was wrong . My Bearss lime is doing the same .

Brian

Brian, I just cannot stop ogling over the fruit on that Eureka Lemon. Be still my beating heart.. ♡ And all of that wonderful fruit you harvest, your body must be stocked full of vitamin c ! :)

Sunshine, you have lovely trees, that Meyer fruit looks so pretty hanging on the branches.

PKG, Wow! I am so impressed by your beautiful trees and all of that fruit! I have a young, liner Parent Washington navel tree and I hope in a few years or so it will produce some great tasting fruit!

Mike, Evan, Nancy, John, Matt and Dave, thank you for sharing pictures of your trees and fruit. I am impressed.. Good job everyone! :)

Jinnylea your so very kind thankyou ♡ . Lol what I do with them is probably not so healthy (beverages).

Brian

Brian - do you remember when your Eureka set the fruit that is now ripening in your pics? Mine now has at least 6 - 8 clusters of fruits on various branches that have developed over the past couple months and I am assuming that if it manages to hold even a few of those through this coming year, then they could potentially be ripening by next fall/winter.

The Eureka is a FW one that was bought in the fall of 2016 as a "choice" tree (which I think they consider about 2 years old), so this coming year would be its 4th year (and the first time I have gotten fruitlettes on it).

Hi Jenny honestly my tree is always setting fruit summertime is more intense . Jenny the tree will hold fruit at all different stages of maturity from the constant blooming, the fruit that's on your tree now will probably be ready by mid summer . The lemons can become quit large if left on . Jenny I picked some lemons and limes this morning to help the tree's out from fruit load . I still have enough fruit on the tree's to carry me through the rest of the winter.

Good wash.Then off to the processing plant for juice for my ice cube trays.

Brian

What a harvest Brian!!! Enjoy!

Thank you Brian! :-D

It’s amazing how fast these trees grow after 10 days:

Meyer cutting

Two key limes that look nothing alike

Too many Valencias - need to get rid of all but two for room

Sad little lemon - was root bound in a dense soil. Bare rooted up and now in the 5-1-1 mix. Hope it recovers - my oldest seedling

I will be potting all up to gallon pots in the spring.

And finally, 1/3 Moro seeds finally sprouting after 2 weeks (please excuse my dragon hand - winters at the barn leave them dry all season)

I realize that growing citrus from seed is considered a fool’s errand. After killing two grafted trees, I decided to acquire knowledge and experience, trial and error if you will, before spending any more money on grafted trees. I am going to give it another go this spring.

Thank you all for your pictures! I love seeing the growth and success each and every one of you are having, no matter the climate or setup.

Jinny, congratulations on your granddaughter! She is absolutely beautiful! Hope momma and baby are doing well.

-Kelley

I killed over 300 seedling in my learning curve before I was given my first, second, and, third grafted trees. My new Zealand lemonade is the first grafted tree I have killed.

So many beautiful trees! Kelley, I wish I could have more Valencias! Love them. Finally got my Meyer trimmed. It looked like a sideways saucer with one end touching the ground! In the pic it's begging the potted variegated pink lemon, which is finally doing well in its 511. Then my bearrs lime, lisbon lemon, and rio grapefruit. The grapefruit isn't much younger than the lime and lisbon but it keeps growing sideways instead of up.

I don't have a picture of my sad Valencia. Most of my trees have prospered in the ground but the Valencia seems to be suffering a bit.

Kelly, your trees look fantastic! Sorry to hear about your Valencia - I hope it recovers ok! I loved the fruit so much, I compulsively started the seeds. I plan to purchase a grafted tree in the next year or so.

Brian, I'm in awe!!!! What the heck do you feed those? lol

By the way I have a question?

You know how the Pro-mix has perlite in it? Do you find that the perlite floats to the top and it seems as if the top dries out faster than the center of you pots?

What do you do to prevent that?

Thanks buddy and yes, spring is only 4 months away!! But the sun says otherwise..haha

*****Kelly,

I must add that your trees are beautiful..Nice to have you join by the way)

Mike

Hello Mikey a banner crop this year with pretty much all my citrus and the funny thing is I can't remember my tree's overly blooming I guess every flower took . Mikey the mix has perlite but I haven't noticed an excessive amount laying on the surface . My larger tree's do dry out on the surface faster than my smaller tree's but I am sure that the mix is still moist a couple of inches below the surface . I water every Tuesday evening most of the plants in the GH. Very sunny day here today it hit 84 humid degrees in there around 12.00 pm . I took a few pics today .

My Tangogetting a bit crowded in there Take care my friend.

Brian

Kelley - I think if my little valencia every produces I will try to grow from seed just to see what happens. Every January I setup my seeds, heat mat and grow lights in our kitchen to start all my plants for spring. I will add that to it if it every happens!

MyerMike - thanks! I have been on here posting the pics since about 2016 when my poor lisbon and bearrs lime were sunburnt when i first put them in the ground. It was my first time planting a tree(we had just got the house) and I couldn't figure out what was wrong with them and I just didn't want them to die. I'd killed plenty of trees previously on a patio that was in full sun. Even my local nursery gave me BAD advice. I couldn't believe it. The good folks here have helped me get my trees thriving. I've since added a few more trees(and I want to buy more every year). I'm so thankful for this forum and all of you! Helped me help my trees.

Nules - those lemons and limes are so beautiful! What do you do with them all? I hope to one day have a lime crop like that!!

My tree that got hit with WLD but coming back with tons of blooms!!!!

myermike - winter leaf drop? Do they really go through that? Maybe that's what my valencia is doing. It looks healthy otherwise. I had a eureka lose all it's leaves. But it stayed green FOREVER before finally giving up the ghost. I chalk it up to the pot. It was a self watering pot that i drilled holes in and never dried out. Spiders lived in that hole where you water it. Nothing prospered in it. I tossed it a month ago. Poor Eureka.

My Valencia

Last day in January over here. (We are in the height of summer in oz and my poor plants are suffering in this ridiculous heat).

My chinotto and my lemons have started flowering again after some tlc. Smells like heaven :).

Kelley, what lovely idea for a topic. I have really enjoyed everyone's pictures. So interesting to see everyones different setup. All the wonderful trees and fruit.

Jinny congratulations on your beautiful little grandchild.:).

Last for January

New Zealand lemonade cuttings in rooting chamber.

Close up

Seed grown Meiwa kumquat tree shoot, 1 inch per week

Outdoor in ground New Zealand lemonade tree flowers.

Steve, your outdoor overwintering is working beautifully!

Thanks for the likes and compliments. This has been a hars winter and I have had no problems keeping these outdoor trees warm. My seed grown Fukushu kumquat has na 72 watt heat lamp and the NZL uses 350 watts. The electrical drain is much less than I expected.

Had to share a few pictures of the Persian Lime I gave my mom for Mother’s Day ‘17.

It’s battling mites right now, but otherwise looks pretty good. This was a RBF tree from Lowes.

Constantly producing blooms, but drops all of the fruit.