Satsumas Lemons Limes

[B-Stealth]

Guys I will be planting some fruit trees soon on the back of my lot, and I have some questions about Satsumas, lemons, and limes.

Which variety of lemon and lime grow well down here?

The trees will have little to no natural protection from N wind.

I would like Satsumas but I'm a little concerned about the cold tolerances.

Thx

[speck-chaser]

Satsumas will be fine. Just might need a lil protection when they are young if we have another winter like we did this past winter. Lemons and limes will be a lil more less cold hardy with the lime being the least. As far as limes go, the persian and the key lime are the 2 most common. Lemons, there is the lisbon, meyer and ponderosa if you want a huge canteloup sized lemon.

[lil bubba]

If you have access to electric power and it gets cold enough decorate in christmas lights , or shine a spotlight from below near the graft. If they freeze above the graft and resprout they ok. If they freeze and resprout below the graft cut down. You can't use enough sugar to make decent lemonade. I don't know about limes but lemons go before satsumas.

[speck-chaser]

Satsumas and kumquats are about your your most cold hardy citrus

[DannyI]

As far as lemons, Meyers lemon. My tree produced as much as 16 - 5 gallon buckets last year before it froze this past winter.

If you want a good orange, Louisiana Sweet Orange tree the best.

[Matt G]

Looks like I'll be puling up my navels and going with satsumas. The winter reeked havok on my trees. They are done for. Not a single fruit since they've been in the ground.

[eman]

Browns select satsumas are the variety i have. Once the tree is established ( 3 years old) don't cover unless there is going to be multiple days of below freezing temps or teens at night. They need a lot of dormant (cold ) time to set good fruit.
Be very careful when working around satsumas . i lost a 6 yo tree from a 1 inch nick to the trunk from a weed eater.

[Goooh]

Me and my boys can wipe out a 5 gallon bucket of satsumas in a day, put then things in the fridge and do work.

Satsuma is my favorite fruit hands down (banana is a very close second) - sweet and tart, juicy and easy to peel.

[eman]

May try some marmalade with satsumas this year?

[lil bubba]

Originally Posted by eman

May try some marmalade with satsumas this year?

Made some with lemon , orange , and grapefruit. Fairly easy to do but from what i remember took a long time to cook down. You only use the rind's . It was good though. Came out better shreaded than chopped. Easier to cook down.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by speck-chaser

Satsumas will be fine. Just might need a lil protection when they are young if we have another winter like we did this past winter. Lemons and limes will be a lil more less cold hardy with the lime being the least. As far as limes go, the persian and the key lime are the 2 most common. Lemons, there is the lisbon, meyer and ponderosa if you want a huge canteloup sized lemon.

My 15 year old lemon tree had major damage from the cold weather this past winter. [Note: I was too sick at the time to protect the fruit trees.] I had to cut off about 3/4 of the limbs that had died. By May the remaining part of the tree started sprouting new growth.

There is no fruit growing on the lemon tree now. I hope the next year I will get a few lemons.
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[Cappy]

We are in almost as bad shape Gerald, we saved a few more branches and may get a dozen lemons or so. Luckily we have 5 gallons or so of lemon juice in the freezer we were gonna make jelly and maybe some rum shine with a neighbor, but will keep it to use and wait see how the tree does. The problem with living in a lush semi-tropical environment is the semi part.

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Cappy

We are in almost as bad shape Gerald, we saved a few more branches and may get a dozen lemons or so. Luckily we have 5 gallons or so of lemon juice in the freezer we were gonna make jelly and maybe some rum shine with a neighbor, but will keep it to use and wait see how the tree does. The problem with living in a lush semi-tropical environment is the semi part.

I have about 25 water bottle full of lemon juice in the freezer, I will be ok for the next year. But I have not given away as much as I usually do. I see that picture is March of '13...... not sure if date is correct.

[Cappy]

Yep I know what ya do. We gift lots of juice and lemons and make lemon jelly and lemon pepper jelly. We got busy and didn't make jelly this winter figguring its frozen so we will do it later then came the freeze and since the tree was so big we didn't worry about it. It was over 10 years old and had never froze yet. Oh well thats the way it goes. We considered planting another but this one is sprouting like yours with 12 or so fruit growing.

This is an average juice hawl from our meyer tree.

[swampman46]

Is this considered the time to plant sats?

[Shawn Braquet]

Originally Posted by swampman46

Is this considered the time to plant sats?

I think early spring is the time for sats and lemons...seems like February-March

[Cappy]

Early march is the best. Gives the tree all year to grow before winter. Next spring it's very heart breaking but you need to pinch off all the fruit before it gets any bigger than a buck shot. with some 13-13-13 right t the drip line, no more than a cup full for a small tree. this will cause your tree to shoot up like a weed the second year. Next year use your judgement and pinch all fruit off that dont look like the branch is big enough. If the tree is say 4 ft tall and bog around leave a few. remember the more you leave the slower it will grow. It's a trade off. By year 5 you will be begging folks to take fruit off your hands.