How to Grow and Care for Orange Trees

Orange fruits are a variety of Citrus, which grow on attractive, ornamental evergreen trees. Usually reaching a height of up to 1.8m. It is one of the most recognized-type of citrus tree featuring full. Leafy canopies and fragrant flower displays follow by their famous fruit. Orange trees produce lovely, white, fragrant flowers that appear all the year round. But more profusely during late winter.

The tree is now grown all over the world for their delicious and nutritious fruit. And can be grown indoors or in a greenhouse if you don’t live in a warm climate. Orange tree is not reliably cold hardy in Britain. So is best grown outside in containers from late spring or early summer to the beginning of autumn and then brought inside for the winter.

How to Grow

An orange tree grown from seed will be more vulnerable to disease, and its oranges may not taste as the fruit came from the seed. The trees need a warm, sunny, sheltered position outdoors in summer and a well-lit position indoors for autumn, winter and spring – preferably a cool greenhouse or conservatory.

Hold some orange seeds under running water and gently rub off any pulp or other material that has gathered onto the seeds. Plant the seeds in a small pot of well-draining potting mix or soil. Plant them about 1/2 inch deep from the surface. Keep the soil in a full sunlight place. Whether indoors or outdoors, the soil does the best at temperatures between 75º and 85ºF.

Care

Oranges are best bought in spring or early summer, giving them time to acclimatise with the conditions before the onset of autumn. Water the plants freely in summer, but never allow the pot to stand in water. All the citrus are hungry plants and need good feeding. Use a high-nitrogen liquid feed and trace elements from March-July.

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