Oranges and Grapefruit

[Guest]

Do they grow in Puna ? I haven't heard of them.. I love me some Ruby Red Grapefruit juice !

[Hawaii Bound]

I live in Leilani Estates at about a 700' elevation and I have four (4) varieties of oranges and they all do great. I just planted a Ruby Red about a year ago and it is doing excellent too.

[lquade]

i have both ruby red and oreo white and they both do excellant upper hawaiian acres. citrus seems to thrive throughout puna

[Carey]

Keaau town, have 3 navel oranges (older, most likely "Kona", & a "Lane Late" & "Fisher Early"...The 2 newer ones I have been training, so not allowed to fruit yet, the older is the best orange I have ever tasted....& is in fruit most all year.

Have an older tangerine that is seeded & honey sweet (no idea what varietal)with winter only fruit and Rangpur & Tahiti limes that have fruit most of the year.

We have a Star Ruby that is mostly seedless, juicy & sweeter, most of our neighbor have much older white grapefruit, though seeded are more on the sweet side.

and Surinam & Brazillian cherry, white & Maui Pineapple, pomegranate, coffee trees, random self seeded papayas, spice trees, blueberry, strawberry, sweet & yellow lilikoi, Malabar cashews, Moringa, Bilimbi (sour starfruit), Maui & White pineapple, banana, 2 different unknown avocado...all have been in fruit here.

Recently added 2 apples, 2 dif. dwarf mangos, dwarf mulberries, Meyer lemon and will be adding a Meyers lime & some other dwarfs.

also do have a stone fruit, a peach, that is in its' first fruiting year, Image of the young fruit:
http://ulocal.kitv.com/mediadetail/18752706

All this & more on a small city lot...hope this will help you plan ;~)

[Guest]

Yes! That is great news!

Carey, It sounds like my house I just sold here. Probably only 2,000 Sq ft yard and I had pineapple, banana, mango, papaya, etc..!!

[Rene Siracusa]

I'm at 1200 feet elevation and have 200 tangerine trees more than 40 years old. Very productive, sweet, juicey. I also have grapefruit. My neighbor grows limes commercially. Citrus just LOVES Puna.

[Malapuaao]

200 tangerines trees, wow! Do you sell them? Is there a wholesaler you sell them too?

aloha

[MarkP]

I have a small lemon tree given to me by a friend. He air-layered it from one of his trees. It is languishing. Hardly growing and the leaves are all yellow, but not dying. I'm at 1,750' in Eden Roc, but I don't think elevation is the problem. I let it get overgrown with tall grass, taller than it. Could that be the problem?

[allensylves]

Yes. Grass is a very bad competitor.

Allen
Finally in HPP

[Carey]

Grasses really consume a lot of nitrogen & nitrogen is one of the greening nutrients...so weed the grass away (at this point, using any herbicide may effect the lemon, unless very carefully applied only to the grasses, not a drop should be on the ground or on the lemon tree - some will use a paint brush to gently paint the solution only onto the target plant...but it must be very carefully done with this poor lemon) so GENTLY pull the grass out, try to gently get the roots, as you may end up ripping up the root system of the poor tree if you aggressively rip the weed grasses... if you do GENTLY get the roots of the grasses back (try to leave an area about 2-3' in dia clear for this little tree) mulch around the tree (but not up to the trunk - leave a few inches-1/2 ft between the mulch & the tree trunk to prevent rotting the trunk bark)

The lady we bought our house from (with the most awesome tasting orange) stated to always fertilize with 10-10-10 every April & August.... since the orange fruit was sooo spectacular, we have followed her advice every April & August for all of our citrus