Growing Delicious Citrus Fruit

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Here, Tom Spellman breaks down the different kinds of citrus growers in the tropics and subtropics can grow. He also discusses regionality, and how to maintain different trees. Both experienced citrus growers and those new to fruit trees will get something from this citrus discussion. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3wrnqqR Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3TaSFiR Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3TcTIhl EG Homesteading Book:https://growepic.co/3wBMhIA Learn More: 21 Fast Producing Fruit Trees, Shrubs & Vines Connect With Tom Spellman: Tom Spellman has 25+ years of experience in the nursery industry, specializing in fruit trees. He's known for the popularization of Backyard Orchard Culture, a method of planting fruit trees at home that maximizes production for the home grower, successive ripening, and unique pruning and plant care strategies that give a home gardener a ton of delicious, sweet fruit. Instagram YouTube Web Site Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including The Beet Podcast, Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden and Botanical Interest ) Instagram (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today we're going to talk about my favorite type of fruit tree in the world and that would be the vast world of citrus.
0:20.0	I have technically 14 different citrus on the property 13 in my citrus heads we've mentioned
0:26.0	one Australian finger lime somewhere hiding in the backyard
0:30.0	that I don't even really know where it is frankly right now
0:32.0	but we have
0:33.0	Tom's moment back on the show welcome back Tom so let's dive into Citrus this is the
0:37.8	one I have I would say the most experienced with but even then it's only about
0:41.2	three four years of growing so it's not a lot compared to
0:44.0	someone like yourself sure well Kevin first of all I love citrus oh yeah I
0:50.6	think you know it is such a shame for anybody in Southern California not to have a small
0:58.8	collection of citrus varieties where they can grow fruit varieties that they can harvest off of just about year round.
1:05.0	I've been in one way or another involved in the citrus industry and the citrus nursery industry for well over 40 years.
1:12.0	And I have quite a collection of my own and I will honestly say I eat some
1:19.1	citrus every single day.
1:20.9	Yeah. So you've got such a diversification of varieties.
1:26.4	You have oranges and you've got summer varieties, you know, winter varieties, you have mandarants. You've got varieties that ripen up over a very long period of time you can you can grow three or four successive ripening mandarins and have fruit from
1:40.5	November all the way through mid to late summer. In fact, almost every year I get an
1:47.3	opportunity with my gold nugget or tango mandarin where I can eat the last fruit or couple of fruit on the tree right around
1:55.4	Thanksgiving day and I can also pick my very first satsuma Mandarin or Kishu.
2:00.3	Yeah. So you know with a few varieties that I have, I pretty much have 12 months worth of successive ripening mandarins. That is fantastic.
2:09.4	It's hard to be. You've got grapefruit. You've got ruby types, you've got white types, you've got grapefruit you've got ruby types you've got white types you've got
2:15.0	sweet types like oral blanco you've got winter varieties and summer varieties you have
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