{"id":8079,"date":"2015-12-18T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2015-11-21T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T23:28:35","slug":"growing-calamondin-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/12\/18\/growing-calamondin-orange\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Calamondin Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8080\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Citrofortunella-mitis-calamondin-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8080\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8080\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Citrofortunella-mitis-calamondin-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Calamondin orange(Citrofortunella mitis)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Citrofortunella-mitis-calamondin-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Citrofortunella-mitis-calamondin-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calamondin orange (Citrofortunella mitis)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Calamondin (<em>Citrofortunella mitis<\/em>) hails from China and is hardy to 20 \u00baF in temperate regions.\u00a0It prospers outdoors in Florida, central and southern Texas, and Southern California gardens. Its sweetly fragrant flowers develop into edible ornamental fruits beginning in late fall. Small 1-2 inch diameter orange fruits are\u00a0highly decorative as an indoor\u00a0house plant.<\/p>\n<p>Calamondin can be grown in a large tub or portable container plant in colder regions where do not commonly grow.\u00a0 It thrives in bright light near a window for best growth and fruiting, but will tolerate lower\u00a0light levels in winter. It is the most popular potted citrus, along with Meyer lemon and Ponderosa lemon.\u00a0 It performs well as a summer patio plant; it\u00a0may be\u00a0trimmed as a hedge in warm zone 8 and further south.<\/p>\n<p>Water plants as needed; excess or lack of water will kill calamondin.\u00a0Repot your plant in mid- to late winter. Add a slow-release fertilizer such as Osmocote\u2122 to the container in early spring and continue fertilizing with full strength water-soluble acidic fertilizer (Miracle Gro\u2122 or Peters\u00ae 20-10-20 or Schultz\u00ae) monthly\u00a0over the summer\u00a0and early fall. Fertilize sparingly during the winter months using one-half strength water-soluble fertilizer\u00a0every 4-5 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Calamondin may bloom 4-5 times a year.\u00a0The spring growth flush often produces the most\u00a0flowers. The flowers are self-fertile and require no cross-pollination. Flower and fruit often will appear at the same time.\u00a0Calamondin fruits take nearly a year to ripen.<\/p>\n<p>Fruits are thin skinned and have short keeping life of 1-2 weeks after picking.\u00a0\u00a0 If you eat the fruit, choose firm yellow to yellow-orange fruits.\u00a0Use pruners or scissors to harvest off the tree instead of\u00a0pulling them. Prune calamondin in late winter before the spring growth flush. Most cuts are for shaping and size control. Remove dead or damaged twigs at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Plants should be inspected for mites, mealy bugs, scales, and aphids every few weeks; particularly check\u00a0the underside of leaves. Insecticidal soaps and neem oil are effective in managing pest outbreaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calamondin (Citrofortunella mitis) hails from China and is hardy to 20 \u00baF in temperate regions.\u00a0It prospers outdoors in Florida, central and southern Texas, and Southern California gardens. Its sweetly fragrant flowers develop into edible ornamental fruits beginning in late fall. Small 1-2 inch diameter orange fruits are\u00a0highly decorative as an indoor\u00a0house plant. Calamondin can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1124,747,1256,1037,710,665,1012,1257,659,742,791,1030,843,601,729,849,1076,777,1210,630,705,706,646,756,113,455,642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8386,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/8386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}