Citrus, Blood Orange 'Moro'

Purchased 3' Moro Blood Orange and treated it just like all our other oranges. 2nd year in the ground, it is 4-1/2 ' and it produced abou...Read Moret 25 medium size oranges, better than any of our other oranges. Here, in Hawaii, they don't get the deep color as they would in cooler climates, but they were perfect, sweet, delicious. Very pleased with its progress. I feed it when I think about it, maybe every 3 months and occasionally toss on some dolomite and some epsom salt and a month or so before harvesting, I add K-Mag for sweetness. Neighbor's trees took much longer to fruit (5 years) but when they fruited, they did it big time: a hundred or more. They have their own taste, less sweet. We like to eat these in an avocado/ruby red grapefruit/blood orange salad (Google it - delicious!) The Moros are excellent eating whereas we squeeze the tangerines for juice.

To my surprise, and delight, this has been the easiest citrus variety to grow indoors. (In my experience at least.) I absolutely love thi...Read Mores plant, and everything it has to offer!

I planted a Moro Blood orange tree 5 years ago. It is now about 12-14 feet high but has yet to bloom. I have never seen a flower on it. I...Read Mores this common for this type of tree? I have other citrus like naval, tangerine and lemon that all were planted around the same time that bloom and fruit every year. Is there something these blood orange trees need to bring them to flower or is there a maturation period before they do so?

I moved into my house 8 years ago and there was a brand new dwarf blood orange tree in my back yard about 3 feet high. That first year i...Read Moret produced one little sour orange without much red in it. And it had not produced anything since then. But this year it produced, and it produced big time! We've already taken at least 30 oranges off of it and there are probably 100 more still on the little, now 5 ft. tree. And the flesh and juice is as dark as beet flesh and juice. When I cut them they stain my fingers. What did we do to the tree? Nothing. But my father tells me that new fruit trees usually don't produce right away. They need a couple of years to establish themselves. Well, its been 8 years, but I guess he is right. My blood oranges are all the rage now.