orange lemon lime?

[Woodland Spirit]

Th' all hath seen the dwarf citrus trio that every seed catlog doth sell?
Lemon, lime and orange.
Well I have one of those. I think it's the lemon(meyer) but I'm not sure. Also, I have an "ornamental" orange, not dwarf variety. Both have been grown in terrible sand, clay soil in 3 gallon pots. They are 1 1/2 to 2 feet tall and poorly trimmed. The were gifts.
The orange has tiny bb sized fruit that seems to not be growing.

The questions are, are these good for 18" bonsai?
What size pot need they?
Do you want to see photos?
Do oranges take grafting well? Cuz it has 3 trunks I wanna bend together and join kinda like it grew around a ball.

 

[aml1014]

Pics are always good.

 

[Random Usr]

Pics are always good.

Indeed they are!

 

[Woodland Spirit]

I'll get back to this with photos tomorrow. It's about midnight here

 

[Tentakelaertje]

Where is "here"?
Adding it to your profile makes it lotsa easier for us to help man

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

These will obviously be three different scions grafted to a single trunk, and will not likely make good bonsai. Beyond that, very few citrus trees make good bonsai because of the long internodes, large leaves, and out-of-scale fruit size.

Kumquat can be decent, but you'll be better off buying one which has been developed for bonsai than buying one to plant in an orchard for fruit production. Bonsai need to have quality or no grafts, good trunks, and foliage close to the trunk.

 

[Nwaite]

Oh oh maby brade the trunks together? That would be so cool! Like a freind ship bracelet bonsai.

God I'm getting excited. I'm going to Walmart today so I can start one to!

 

[Woodland Spirit]

These trees are not going to be bonsai. They are going to be wild greenhouse trees. They would die in winter without protection.

I've learned some new things and decided these guys are just not destined to be bonsai.

 

[GrimLore]

These trees are not going to be bonsai.

You might consider getting those in larger grow pots while getting your hands on lets say one similar to one of them with a 2 inch base or so. In a year take cuttings of all of the small ones and start grafting them to the bigger one... Each year add more... You know, a Fruit Salad tree. Serious, could be a fun project without a huge investment.

Grimmy

 

[Adair M]

You have heard of "The tree of Forty Fruits"?

Google it.

 

[GrimLore]

You have heard of "The tree of Forty Fruits"?

Google it.

Sam Van Aken - NY, lived very close to the property he took over in Geneva - fascinating story actually and more then the trees he creates - the historical value of the trees on that site.

Grimmy

 

[Woodland Spirit]

Some of my old posts make me go cross-eyed.

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I've got to get me one of those trees!

I've been testing the endurance of these citrus BTW. I reppotted cut back and root trimmed both and split the orange into two. One of the three trunks had come up from a root.

They are hard to haul in and out but they live outside when weather permits.
The orange has put on flower buds since.

They are just dwarfed, potted trees but one day, maybe....

Unfortunately I don't know what type of orange I have but I am pretty sure the other is a lime not a lemon.
I'm not sure how good a root stock either are.

 

[wireme]

My orange, 40 yrs from seed, usually indoors, no supplemental lights.
No fancy multiple fruiting or anything, no grafts, I just happen to be sitting in front of it, in the kitchen, reading your thread so took a pic.

Grafts of some different flowering and fruiting dwarf citrus, that could be kind of fun on this tree. I've grown fond of it as itself though, regular old orange, from a sprouting seed found in a grocery store orange when I was 2 or 3yrs old.

 

[Woodland Spirit]

That's a pretty cool tree especially since it's been around most of your life.

Why black switches?

 

[Anthony]

Mine Sprite,

though needest a Fortunella hindsii, will beareth smalleth fruite
and becometh denseth.
Truly though shalt enjoy, thine citruse.

Groweth easilye byne seede.
The Valar

 

[Woodland Spirit]

Istan quetë ya merin, ar lá hanyuvatyen.

I enjoy kumquats, however I have not tried this variety.

Thou shouldest not speak as though thy tongue had pox.
Thy lisping doth not become thee.

 

[Anthony]

Ha ha ha - love it.
Good Day Good Sir.
Anthony