If you can actually grow Navel or
Valencia oranges in your area, you'll love the blood orange, with its red
patterned fruit, few seeds, high levels of juiciness and refreshing sweet-sour
flavor. The Blood oranges are as ornamental as they are productive, and a tree
laden with fruit is a pleasing sight in winter and early spring.
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Blood Orange Info
The Plant name: Citrus x aurantium
Sweet Orange Group
Location: Full sun
Plant height: 8m
Width: 3m
How to Grow Blood Orange Tree
Blood oranges actually need a warm
temperate to subtropical climate. They also prefer hot summers and mild, dry
winters – seasonal conditions that promote fruit coloration. Cropping can
extend for several months from winter to spring, and the fruit will remain
fresh and juicy if left on the tree.
Like all citrus, blood oranges actually
need full sun and deep, free-draining soil with lots of compost. Slightly
acidic soil and shelter from strong winds enhances performance. Blood oranges
can be planted at any time of year and all young fruit should be removed for
the first 2 years.
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Blood Orange Tree Care
You can feed 4 times a year between
late winter and autumn with a balanced, granular organic fertilizer. Hand-weed
around the blood orange tree to avoid harming surface-feeding roots and also maintain
a 5–7cm layer of organic mulch over the soil under the leaf canopy. Make sure
you don't allow mulch to touch the trunk. For the juiciest oranges, water
regularly, most especially when the fruit is forming. Immature fruit drop
indicates irregular watering during fruit development.
Furthermore, Citrus need pruning for
shaping rather than fruit production. It is very vital to remove any shoots
emerging from below the graft union and any shoots that are weak or spindly. As
the blood orange tree grows, regularly remove any dead wood. Harvest time is
the best time to shape the young trees. Keep the best upright stems, and aim to
create an open, vase-shaped crown, strong enough to support a heavy crop. Cut
off fruit when harvesting to avoid damage.
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Disease and Pest Control
Bronze orange bugs feed during warm
seasons, weakening young trees. You can spray with horticultural oil in winter
while the pest is in its nymphal stage.
Sooty mould blackens foliage, a sign
that scale insects or aphids are feeding on sap. Spray thoroughly with
horticultural oil.
Citrus leaf miner tunnel through the
tissue of the new leaves, distorting them. You can spray new growth regularly
with a horticultural spray oil to deter egg-laying.
Fruit fly may also attack during
autumn, so monitor with baits and traps and also use splash bait on foliage.
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