How to Grow Citrus in a Container @BriansGarden

The Calamondin is a petite tree and belongs to an interesting group of plants that is a garden hybrid of two different citrus genera – Citrus and Fortunella, in this instance the mandarin orange and kumquat. That’s why the ‘x’ appears before the genus name – denoting a bi-generic hybrid. The specific epithet (microcarpa) is a derived from the Ancient Greek words mikros meaning “little” and karpos meaning “fruit”, as the fruit of this variety is indeed small. This botanical trivia, however, has little relevance to the virtues of this versatile and attractive small citrus tree.
During spring and summer, the Calamondin produces an abundance of white, waxy, five-petalled flowers, lending a sweet fragrance to the garden for weeks on end. Small orange-like fruits then develop, turning bright orange as they ripen in July and remain on the plant for several months. In very warm climates or in a mild winter, the fruit can remain partially green when ripe. The fruit has an acquired taste with its mix of bitter-sweet skin and flesh that leaves the mouth tingling with delight. Because the fruit is difficult to peel, they are best popped straight into the mouth and enjoyed.

How are you doing gardening friends I hope everyone’s doing well today so as you can see I’ve got my hands on a new plant it’s called a calamondin and this particular one is a variegated version of that um a calamondin is a mix between a um mandarin orange and a kumquat and

It only gets up to 1.8 m tall so I’ve decided to plant it in this terracotta pot and um what I’ve done is I’ve added some Premier potting mix into the pot uh I’m going to make sure that I’m planting it at the same level it was in the

Nursery can that it came in I’m also going to be adding some maragold flowers to the pot uh these are excellent for keeping aphid and other unwanted pests away from your uh fruit trees roses and also in your uh vegetable garden Gardens and so on I also managed to pick up a uh

Sixpack of a type of s grass called an Acuras and the particular variety is called uh mini gold and these particular SED grasses um don’t get very big it’s a miniature version and it looks very very cute amongst maragold and I like the coloring of the yellow with the gold and

Then the variegated leaves of the calaman tree it is very important to um remember to water this pot um two to three times a week at least depending on the weather if it’s hot obviously increase that um to maybe four times a week and also remember you’re going to

Need to fertilize this to keep it healthy um water soluble fertilizer ER is excellent and also you can get a slow relase granular fertilizer which you can add to the pot and then it basically takes care of itself so I hope you enjoyed this new plant that I’m adding

To my garden and getting inspired to potentially growing a fruit tree in a PO in your garden have a great Day