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What is the oldest container orange tree that you have?
« on: June 21, 2014, 11:56:23 AM »
I know of a 124 year old Sour Orange tree growing in a container at the Monastery Of Our Lady Of The Rosary in Summit, NJ.  It is cared for by the Dominican nuns.  In fact this containerized tree was a cutting taken from the famous Saint Sabina Sour Orange tree in Rome. 

My oldest container citrus tree is a Star Ruby grapefruit which has been growing in a container for approximately 10 years. - Millet

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Re: What is the oldest container orange tree that you have?
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2014, 02:12:45 PM »
Millet, How large is your container for a 10 year old tree? My biggest containers are approx. 22 inches across the top. Probably my oldest tree is 6 years old and I just moved it up and into that container. Tom

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Re: What is the oldest container orange tree that you have?
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2014, 05:55:44 AM »
I have no orange trees as in the UK it was too cold to make them sweet enough to eat, I have an old mandarin tree but its fruit is realy sour unless the weather gets very hot in the summer

I have a few old lemon trees and a mandarin that I have had in 200L pots for about 8 years, full grown trees I bought them that way though from a nursery, never reepotted 100%, just the edges chopped out and new compost packed in down the sides

This is probably the oldest, but I only bought it last year in July, a calamondin

It was cheaap on ebay.....

it had massive frost damage and twig dieback due to turning into a block of ice,  it had been left outside all winter with no protection in England, I paid very little for it... about £20 and a couple of gallon of diesel for the van

It has now mainly recovered after spending the last year under growlights and it seems to be quite healthy, it is now in Bulgaria outside

The seller had owned it for over 25 years and said the owner before him was a nursery that was closing. They had used this at the nursery as a display item and for taking bud wood from for about 15 to 20 years or more before that and it was just as big when they bought it from another nursery , he thought it was from reads nursery initially

He said it was repotted in the same pot by removing the top compost last march, just growing in a shop bought peat based potting compost

Im over in he UK at the minute, when I get back next week it is getting repotted in something decent into a bigger pot , the seller said it had been in this one at  least 10 years it might have been more....

It has to be at least something like 40 or 50 years old from what i was told

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Re: What is the oldest container orange tree that you have?
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2014, 11:59:09 AM »
Tom to answer your question.  My Star Ruby Grapefruit is the oldest containerized tree I have (10 Years old), it is in a container that is 18" high and 16" wide.  However, the tree that is in the my largest container is a Chandler Pummelo, its container measures 26" high and 27" across having a circumference of 96 inches. This tree is about 5 years old.   Both containers were made using Root Maker's Root Builder-II which comes in 100-ft. rolls. - Millet

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Re: What is the oldest container orange tree that you have?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2014, 08:14:57 AM »
Most of my citrus trees are 10 years in pots. Several times repotted.

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Re: What is the oldest container orange tree that you have?
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2014, 03:41:14 PM »
The exotic plant nursery near my house has some very old citrus on display that are in something like 2.5ft diameter by 3ft tall containers - ~30gal?  The trees themselves are about 9ft tall.  These are actually what got me interested in growing container citrus.  Over the years these old trees seem to be doing worse and worse, and have been mostly butchered for rooted cuttings that are sold there.  It is kind of sad to see.  I think they've given up on them.

 

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