I bought a Tahitian lime tree 12 years ago, I haven’t bought limes in 12 years and I give bags and bags away to neighbours and friends almost all year. This year I made my own lime cordial and lime-cello!!

You make me want to hug your trees! No, I mean it, give them a hug! Tell them how much you love them for all the wonderful fruit they produce and bless them for it! They will love you back for the kind words! More fruit!

This is my new favourite channel! Such great info. Thanks Mark 🙏🏻

Hi, Mark, can you do a compilation of all the 29 citrus plants that you have in your property? That would be a treat for a lot of us who watch your videos. Cheers from India 🇮🇳

Finally, someone who knows what they are talking about. Thank you so much!

Hey Mark, what a fantastic, informative, well put together video! It's really great seeing Aussies making vids here as so much of the available information is by OS growers in varying climates to ours. I've subscribed and look forward to your channel and seeing more of your fantastic orchard and citrus loving dog - Cheers mate!

Thank you for making this video! It was so informative, and I appreciate you sharing your own experiences of each fruit.

Always amazing and inspiring. Great work Mark.

Hey Mark I just wanted to thank you so much for your channel. I've been subscribed for a while and I've gained a lot of wisdom and unique ideas from you. Big fan. Bless you.

The flowers smell heavenly also.

I just love your channel and what you do.. It's my dream to have an orchard with different fruits, just like yours... You are a real hero and I follow you🙏

Australians are cool people and Mark takes it to the next level. Great picks for sure. I am curious why he did not cover the Lisbon and Eureka Lemon given how it is grown there with the Lisbon being the strongest and toughest Lemon tree. I love his other picks though and have planted 4 of his 5 (i planted different new patented Mandarins then his variety) but i recommend them! Good picks! BTW, the Meyer can take very cold weather since it is part Mandarin so a great one to plant for sure which is probably why it is his #1 along with the fact it produces almost all year.

WOW amazing orchard!! I too am very envious!!

Another favourite of your videos that I don't get sick of watching it over and over again :) I am now convinced that I will get a Meyer lemon out of all the lemons out there. I like the sound of it.

I love this guy. I feel like I'm growing when I watch him grow as a person

This is very nice video. Lemons are my favorite. Feels like we are roaming with you in your backyard !

Hooray for Meyer lemons! We've had a Meyer lemon for about 5 years, and it is an amazing, prolific producer! The juice makes the BEST lemonade! Since we get far too many lemons to use in one season, we juice most of them and freeze the juice as ice cubes and use them gradually throughout the year. We also grate the zest and dry. This tree has given us so much joy--best decision that we've ever made in planting!

I love my Myer lemon, we do eat the fruit by itself, nice and sweet. Because of utilities easement our tree was moved into a partially shaded spot. Mine fruits twice a year, we go 2 months a year without fruit. I love it, great canopy.

Your citrus trees look so incredibly healthy! The leaves are so gorgeous, mine are always being attacked by fungis and bugs

What great information!!! Love it!!! Thank you soooo much for this video and your channel in general! A great benefit to mankind 🤗🙂😀

Lemon trees and limes are more susceptible to cold damage- white fleshed citrus. The tangerines and mandarins are better at handling cold for the most part.

I live in Georgia USA and l loved this video. It was most helpful. Thanks

My mouth is watering like crazy watching this episode.

The most cold-tolerant citrus types are the trifoliate bitter orange (which is toxic to some people, so be careful), a rare papeda, kumquats, a few hybrids of them (like the citrange and yuzu), and a few special mandarin cultivars. All those can tolerate temperatures significantly below freezing. There aren't any lemons nearly that tolerant of cold.

Wow! Very valuable sharing! thank you~

Now I want more land to cultivate. Here in New England winter bearable is key so I'd look into heritage apples for eating and making cider. Great presentation!

I love your program and I love planting my own vegies at home

That's not back yard, it's a botanic garden!

Awesome video. After watching this video early this morning I went to our local Lowe's Home Improvement store here in Central Florida and purchased and planted a new small Valencia Orange 🍊 tree. We had a Navel Orange tree but I was excited to have another orange tree. We just planted a Tangerine 🍊 tree a few weeks ago and we have a Loquat tree too. The Loquat are producing fruit now and the Navel and Valencia are flowering. Great video. I'm subscribed now. Good content too. God Bless you and your family from Sunny Central Florida. ☀️😎🙏👍

Love your video’s, great inspiration

Love your channel...thank you for your information!! 🤗

Washington Orange - great to eat as a fruit Imperial Mandarin - balanced taste Tahitian / Persian Lime - year round lime Valencia Orange - great for juicing Meyer Lemon - produces lots of lemons

Amazingly dreamy citrus garden! I have a mature Valencia and just picked an orange from last season yesterday and it was tasty! I’m adding to the yard this year and truly enjoying it! Awesome video, thank you! 🍊 🍋 🍊

You have giant back yard, and you keep if so green and beautiful. I love Meyer lemon too, great choice for every one

I am quite happy with your top 5 as I coincidently chose your top 3 to grow in a planter box as an espalier along my north facing back fence. I have a Meyer lemon, Tahitian lime and seedless Valencia orange going gangbusters up against some steel reo. All 3 only been in for 2 years. Tahitian lime currently loaded with tiny little premature limes and the Meyer lemon loaded with flowers. The Valencia a little slower in flower production but still got 20+ premature oranges on the tree and it vegetative growth is very vigorous. They are in a bottomless planter box full of high quality potting mix. I pH'd the mix down to 5.8 (I know quite low)... give a monthly drink of gogo juice and bimonthly feed of Black Marvel + Seamungus and they love it. I do water just about every day too which I'm sure helps. But really looking forward to the first harvest... especially looking forward to eating my first home grown orange!

Thank you for tour. It’s like living in heaven.

I really enjoyed watching this, I would struggle to have many citrus trees outside in my part of the world, but it's always interesting to see what people can grow in other parts of the world. Thank you.

Beautiful orchard.

My new favorite channel

Beautiful looking orchard flex.

Thank you for the video! It was very educational.

Love it. Beautiful orchard.

"Washington" Navel Orange is so named because the original scions were sent from Brazil to the US Agricultural Department in Washington, DC around 1910. They were grown in a heated greenhouse before they were eventually sent to California.

I love watching your videos ! Very informative . I got my container Meyer lemon plant already 😀 thanks for sharing these lovely videos with us . God bless you and happy new year 2019 💐💐💐

Loved your videos and tips you gave, Im a fan, and I wanted a backyard orchard as well👍

Very calm video Maybe it's because you spend lot of time in nature . Cheers mate!

We just bought a mayer lemon and a Valencia no seed tree today then I found you lol awesome

Awesome video! Thank you

Great video friend, definitely a great list ! 😊

I have citrus envy Mark... your orchard is amazing and oranges are my favourite fruit. It's a pity the weather over here in the UK just wouldn't allow many citrus fruits to grow. Great video mate, your passion for these fruits really came across... Cheers Adam

I want my lime and lemon tree to be like that. I will follow your tips.

I am wondering if you have heard of the tangor, I was visiting a guy who had several tangor trees, the fruit had an exceptional flavour. It tasted like a cross between a mandarine and an orange, which is what it was. It was growing in the south of WA where the climate is cooler than Perth. Another variety I think I tried in the north of WA at Carnarvon was the lemonade fruit, apparently a cross between a mandarine and a lemon. I was very impressed with the flavour. It is interesting that I seem to like hybrid crosses between the mandarine and orange or mandarine and lemon. the only citrus I have now is the west indian lime which hasn't produced fruit and not being in a tropical climate may be waiting a long time for it to fruit. It is a true lime and I guess the reason I didn't worry about the Tahitian lime is because I thought it tasted too much like a lemon, which it is partly. I bought my daughter a Tahitian lime tree, but she is growing it in a pot as she doesn't have the room in her garden for it to be in the ground. I did have a Washington navel orange tree years ago and the tree produced the best tasting oranges for sure.

This is my second of your videos. I think I will subscribe. This is a good teaching video. I may be an arborist but am not a pomoligist. (No, not that kind of pom!) I wish to simply submit, for the edification of some readers here, that some trees need a year of rest between production years. It is normal. Even some oaks here, which feed the deer, have better crops of acorns every second year. Your orchard is beautiful. It reminds me of my grandfather's orange grove in southern California.

I love this video and I have shared it. Thank you.

I love this show !

Amazing video. I’m really enjoying all your videos over here in Texas. You said your trees are grafted. Where did you get the graft from? And do you have a video on how to graft?

Great channel great video My fave is the Valencia Orange tree How long til it makes fruit?

Nice vid mark as always.

WoW! You’ve got such an inspiring fruit garden! Love it. Thanks for sharing ❤️❤️❤️

i LOVE my Valencia oranges :) thanks for all your awesome content. ... even more than my meyer lemon tree :)

Tangelos will extend your citrus season right into August here on the east coast as well. And don't forget the magnificent blood orange, for eating and juicing alike. Cheers

OHi! Alice from Colorado USA, I'm so gelouse of all your acreages! Nice looking trees. Good job! Happy Holidays🎅👋

great job man

Love this! Thank you!

You videos are inspirational

Thanks for the video :) I am in Russia and I grow citrus trees at home (since i live in a flat). I have a Washington navel, a Thaitian lime and a Meyer on my kitchen window :) Of course I can't let them grow as they wish and have to trim them, but I do have about 15 fruit from the Meyer, about the same number of limes and 4-5 oranges every year! Plus I have some other citrus species on my other two windows. I, too, am obsessed with growing citruses :) wish I had a least a balcony though... could have more of them

Hi mark i like and support your citrus channel thank you for educating us about the variety citrus fruits I would like to taste the Washington naval orange but we don’t have Uk

Thanks for making your videos, super helpful and also fun too :)

I love my Citrus Trees. They need the feed but they are the best value fruit trees and its true, if you juice them regularly, you wont get a cold. The other thing I like is that they are evergreen and make a great privacy screen. Never had any luck yet getting a lime to grow but maybe this year.

Finally someone who understands it a bit. The trees are in very good condition, only like all fruit trees they would like to "lighten up". Cut out the inner and intersecting branches.

Growing up we had Valencia trees in our backyard. They're very good. Navel oranges are even better I think and we had a couple of those. We didn't have Mandarins but they're now probably my favorite. We had lemon trees but not the Meyer. I've heard great things about Meyer lemons from various sources though and definitely want a couple of them one day. I also want tangerines as well. We had grapefruit but I wasn't at all a fan back then. I kind of like them now but they're still not a favorite. I think Ruby Red has the best taste. I definitely miss being able to walk outside and pull fresh citrus right off the tree, so I envy you. I want that again one day soon. Right now the best I could do would be containers, but they can't produce anywhere near the volume that ground-planted trees can.

I am so excited because I got an Imperial Mandarine tree for Christmas 2015 and it's happily growin away in my parents backyard (I'm renting and wanted to plant in the ground not a pot). Can't wait for it to start fruiting! It's one of my favourites too!

Hi Mark! Another great video that I hadn't watched before! Always so much interesting information and inspiration thank you! I would appreciate your help! I'm going to have to MOVE my raised beds to a different area of the property because here, on the south east coast of Italy, this year has been in the 40C plus degrees. The heat and direct sun and has ruined and burned most of my veggies from salads that didn't stand a chance, to sweetcorn, beetroot etc. despite watering, (zucchini are the only ones to produce well, even the tomatoes have suffered with tough skins and cotton-woolly flesh - ok for passatta though! So... I would love your advice please: I have an area of garden where I planted a few fruit trees that in a year or two will provide a little shade, although they are suffering in the heat this year too, as some of them were only planted at the beginning of this year. Can I successfully plant a raised bed vegetable garden amongst the trees? It will mean moving all the raised beds from their location I built four and a half years ago plus all the soil but it may well be worth it... also I have a Well in that location! The only other area I could use is to move the hens to the fruit tree area, and use their enclosed area but the snag is it is also totally exposed to the burning sun dawn until dusk! thank you so much...

They are also excellent in the front yard especially as attractive privacy 'hedge rows' of sorts. I have a small string of them blocking the view from the road due to high density evergreen.

Doing great job!!!

just ordered my Meyer lemon this year, haven't received it yet. I have to grow my citrus trees in containers so I can bring them indoors for winter here in Midwest usa. I sure wish I lived in Australia! lol! you have a beautiful orchard! :)

Excellent video Mark!. Thanks for all the advice and tips you have given us!. Because of you I have planted a 'Dwarf Washington navel', a Eureka lemon (which btw has grown 2 meters in just one year. And also a 'Sunrise finger lime X qumquat which is also doing well with plenty of fruit setting. Cheers from the south side of Brissie!.

Omg you are awesome love your work

Thanks for the video. I've been told all hybrids grown from lemon and orange seeds will produce bitter lemon fruit unless they are grafted. May I know physically the difference between you orange trees vs the lemon trees?

Hi Mark! Enjoyed your amazing videos! Thank you! Can all these citrus be grown in Queensland, Australia?

Ever consider entering the realm of ASMR? I think you'd be a good fit for something like that. You have a nurturing presence and you don't want others to experience the pains you have, which is part of why you teach. You can still reach people in other ways. In time you'll find yourself in the niches of the world which let you shine the most.

I am citrus obsessed and fortunately, they now sell some varieties that can be grown in the UK. I see temperature limits for each plant, but I am yet to see if they tolerate the climate of the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. I aim to pamper the trees as far as possible, but I envy your collection there - it is so impressive! Out of interest, the biennial tree - is it biennial or does it tend to go into a biennial habit due to heavy cropping? I have come across both examples with apple trees, where over zealous trees can be manipulated by reducing the number of fruit, say to a third. A true biennial will of course, just fruit every two years. I was wondering which type your citrus tree was and if you have tried manipulating the number of fruit to disrupt its habit. There is certainly something about citrus and you have an amazing collection and knowledge to be proud of. Thanks, Vox. ( Now back to reality, my Valley terraced house and garden!)

Awesome update thank you for sharing

What citrus trees can I plant in pots I live in an RV? In Texas thank you any help would be appreciated. I absolutely love your Channel

Love your citrus collection. I have 2 young Washington Naval Orange trees. They flower well in spring but the little fruits fall off after a couple of months. I feed them potash. Is there any advice you can give me

Saludos from Costa Rica!

Another great thing about Meyer Lemons is that they are the best lemons to bake with.....lemon bread, lemon meringue pie, etc. The ex loves it when I dump a big bag of these on her porch just before Christmas...

Another fantastic video, thank you! WOW to 29 varieties you are growing - I didn't even know that there were that many! Could you please give me any advice on fertilizing to get big juicy fruit? Im not sure if something like granular Osmocote for fruit and citrus, or Rooster Booster being high in nitrogen would be better to feed my dwarf citrus and my young orange tree? Im in NSW

Hey Mark, I am looking at buying some dwarf citrus trees (bunnings has them for around $45 currently). As I am renting in a share house I want to keep them in pots, which this video has given me more confidence in doing so, so that when I move to my own block, I already have a bit of a head start with the fruit. My question for you is are you aware of the fruiting situation with dwarf citrus trees in comparison to their standard relatives? So for example if you get X amount of fruit per square meter on a standard, is it likely to be similar ratios with the dwarf counterparts or do the dwarf trees produce significantly less fruit per square meter of foliage. Thank you in advance. Kindest regards

I was waiting for a Grapefruit tree..😜

Wowww, Amazing trees...How do you get lush, dense, green citrus trees? Mine are semi naked and the leaves aren't dark green and i'm in the Sydney region.😢

hi there I'm on the gold coast. where is your citrus growing. great to watch your videos. i really appreceate you coverage of the topic and you great communication. I have some of my own I'd love to share them with you.

I live in zone 5 so can I still grow these? Thanks for sharing

Meyer lemon is considered by some sources as being a cross between a lemon and a pomelo (which is grapefruit). Meyer does have some grapefruit characteristics. Size is one. A little cold hardiness is another. Most lemon varieties have no cold hardiness. Probably no one knows for sure exactly what its parents are. It MAY even be a cross of sour orange and lemon. Most lemon connoisseurs say Meyer is weak-flavored compared to real lemons. It is good, though and very productive.

Thank you

Thanks mate!

Love Meyer lemon!

My question is can you grow one of those trees from a c specially the Washington down where I live a lot of people like to plant satsumas and kumquats I've always wanted to try to germinate the seeds but I don't know if I'm going to get the same plant

Your trees are so beautiful. No sooty mold or leaf miners? I'm battling that now.

great video...love you slice of paradise down there...i have a kafir lime tree and a lemonade tree which i think is a orange lemon cross. I had them for about a year and a half now but it looks like it is not growing. there were a couple of fruits but it never ripened. anything I can do to fix it?