Why do we not offer free shipping? At Just Fruits, we price all of our plants online exactly as we do in the nursery. It’s as if you came and picked them up right from our nursery yourself! The plants are watered well before they are packed and wrapped in a shipping bag to ensure they stay moist during transit. We do NOT ship bare root: Our trees are shipped in the same exact containers they are grown in, for the most healthy transition. Unpacking Your Plants Guide: Prior to receiving our plants, please click this link to read our Unpacking Your Plants Guide to get to know the steps to keeping your plant healthy after receiving it. Here are some important things to know about your shipments Also, citrus trees cannot be shipped outside of the state of Florida. We’re so sorry… but due to agricultural restrictions we cannot ship any plants outside of the United States, or to the states of California, Hawaii and Alaska. Click here to see find our Container Citrus Planting and Growing Guide For more help, we have a full guide strictly on container citrus. Every few years you should trim the outside of the root-ball about 1-2 inches, add fresh potting soil, and reset in your container. Their fibrous root system adapts well to a lifetime in a pot and their evergreen foliage and colorful fruits are the perfect accent to a patio or atrium setting. Citrus trees are the perfect container tree. It’s the sure way to enjoy this fruit as well as giving you the ultimate access to the wide world of citrus varieties. Some of the more unique varieties like blood oranges, key limes, and citron can only be grown in containers north of the tropics. Find an area that’s sheltered from northern winds for the more tender citrus varieties.Ĭontainer Citrus: For areas where winter temperatures drop too low for growing citrus outside, try growing your citrus in containers. Never fertilize after July as this promotes late, tender growth that is susceptible to freeze damage. Once established, citrus trees can tolerate lower temperatures and recover more quickly from freezes.Cover completely with a two-layer combination of a blanket and then plastic.It pays to protect these small trees during 25 degrees F or lower freezes. Fertilizer to Maintain: Our varieties of Citrus Trees work great with Espoma Organic Citrus-tone Fertilizer.Ĭlick here to see find our Citrus Tree Planting and Growing Guides Additional Information on Citrus TreesĬold Hardy Citrus: Most people lose their citrus trees in the first or second year of the tree’s life.This will increase root mass and help avoid transplant loss in difficult planting conditions. Starter Fertilizer: Plant with Espoma Organic Bio-tone® Starter Plus. Recommended Fertilizers for Planting and Maintenance Oranges and grapefruit will grow larger so are best trained into small round trees. Use them for hedges or foundation plantings around the house or line pathways with them. The Kumquats, Lemons, Limequats and Chinotto Orange grow densely and can be sheared into any shape or form. Tuck them around your windows so you can enjoy their sweet fragrance in the house. Beautiful, evergreen plants with lush bright green foliage and heavenly fragrant blooms. The results are what looks like giant pink peeled shrimp, the texture is chewy and the flavor is out of this world. The fruit are sectioned and then the sections are peeled of there tough outer skin. There is an art to preparing pummelo for eating. It has a marvelous chewy texture and a flavor much like grapefruit without a hint of bitterness. Hirado Butan pummelo tree bears one of the pink- fleshed pummelo. Called many things in many countries, some know it as pomelo, shaddock, chadec, Malayan limau besar, Bali lemon and as the Chinese grapefruit. Hirado Butan Pummelo Tree – Citrus maxima ‘Hirado Butan’Īlthough here in America we have not caught on to the pleasure of eating pummelo’s, one thing is for sure, pummelo’s are one of the most popular fruit world wide.
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