Lime, Orange, Mandarin, Lemon, Grapefruit or Lemonade at ALDI this Saturday.
Before JV asks normal price is $19.99
Have been looking to buy an orange tree and the starting price is usually $25. So I will rush to Audi on Saturday mourning.
2.5kg of Citrus Fertiliser $4
when is normal price ever in the title?
I got a couple at Woolies for around $12 not that long ago…
same growth level?
And was the deal posted, or did you upload yourself?
It was posted on Ozbargain by someone else.
I was dubious about the quality, being from a supermarket, but they have doubled in size over the summer.
@jv: Cool. So do you have the link to the deal, or do you just ask of others something you can't provide yourself? Curiosity of course.
Where's the JV cheap lemons offer on OZB?
I didn't post it, it was under one of the weekly woolies sales, but they had them in stock for about a month. It was last year sometime.
I think there was a Coles one too for $6-$7 each.
So you're spruiking a deal you can't verify? Interesting.
So you're spruiking a deal
Nope, read my post. They don't sell them anymore. Just letting people know that this price is nothing special…
@jv:
My original post wasn't about JV posting the Woolies offer, it was when we can expect to see jv selling the lemons from his tree that he bought from that offer :).
It's aldi, this wouldn't be sold normally.
are they dwarf or full size variety?
in b4 jv!
Couldn't resist…
Haven't you noticed? JV ONLY responds to the comments at the top.
"So I will rush to Audi on Saturday mourning."
Hmmmmm.
In its Aldi A4
So OP will be mourning while rushing?
Auto correct no doubt striking again.
I really, really hope it is auto correct…
Auto correct
Lol
Intentional seeds
He'll get more than a citrus tree there
Been to Thomastown Sunday market 2 months ago and bought lemon trees for 15 dollars….Worth a look at.
Lemonade
As a tree?
Yep, it's a citrus fruit
Cross-breed lemon with navel orange. They're awesome.
I was wondering the same thing, does it have lemonade on tap?
It's a Lemon cross. We have one growing, very nice to eat straight off the tree
I need one now. Sounds delicious. om nom nom nom.
Hi has anyone actually tried these aldi trees, how big are they and are the the dwarf ones ?
I was planning on getting some fruit trees from bunnings this week. I have never grown fruit trees before so any advice is appreciated.
I have read online that Aldi have sold dwarf trees in the past. I just bought a dwarf lemon for $50. It was very well established though, nice and tall. If they are dwarf for this price I will get a few more.
Check out Masters as well because if you buy a plant from Masters and it dies within one year, they'll replace it for free. I bought some $ 2 Petunia seedlings from them back in December and fortunately they're still well alive. However, I still keep the receipt in my shoe box 'coz - you know, just in case if they die.
Aren't petunias annuals? So they will die after they flower?
My fruit growing experience had been limited to keeping a lemon tree alive, but we moved into a new house 4 years ago with a big garden that cried out for fruit trees.
I planted mandarin, orange, peach, nectarine, apricot, cherry, plum, olive, almond and 3 types of apple. In addition to trees I planted grapes, blueberries, and this year, raspberries. Already there was an old gnarled apple tree and a beauty of a lemon.
The peaches and nectarines have gone great, they are 3m high now and nearly big enough to sling a hammock on. We get big fruit bowls full of produce from these trees. You need to watch them carefully, as if you let the fruit get fully ripe the possums and birds will eat them all in a night. So we pick them a week or two early (but I leave a few pieces to get fully ripe, if I get them before the possums they taste great).
Most of the other new trees have either not fruited, or have done so very modestly. The first few years I picked off budding fruit to let the trees focus their energy on growing.
My almond is about as tall as me. It got a handful of nuts this year, but all were taken before I could harvest.
Same deal almost with my cherries, which set maybe 100 berries. I have been burnt in past years, so I protected some of the fruit, so I got maybe 25 cherries.
Peaches and nectarines were prolific.
Apricots had a modest harvest, less than 20 pieces after accounting for blemished fruit.
Olives and raspberries haven't borne anything yet - too young I think. Neither has the plum tree. It is growing well, however, so maybe I need to look into pollinators.
New apple trees all gave us modest amounts of fruit, maybe 6-12 pieces per tree.
Citrus except the old lemon have failed to thrive. They are growing slowly (one got some damage from a snow storm). The most advanced set three oranges this year. They are still green and the size of a golf ball, so we will see.
My conclusions from this are that citrus need to be fed with compost or other fertiliser often to grow well. Olives need a lot of water, and time. Cherries, peaches and nectarines go well, as do apples, given time.
As for my old lemon and apple. We had a year or so where I left them alone, then I fed them fertiliser. The difference was dramatic. We now get a full crate of lemons from the twisted old tree, and maybe 300 apples on this one apple tree. The cockatoos end up with most of the apples, as the tree is a bit too unruly to put a net over.
I reckon it will take another 5 years before I have enough fruit to make a dent in my fruit bill. I also think if I had a routine where I could spend 10mins every day on the trees I would get much better results, but they are often left to fend for themselves for weeks at a time if my work schedule and the weather align poorly.
All up, I am quite pleased with the outcomes so far. It is cool when kids pull an apple of a tree to eat. I love the taste of those few cherries I grew. And the trees look nice, especially as most are deciduous, so add to the changing of the seasons. But it is a minor hobby, not a practical exercise so far.
Good on ya mate…
Masters have got some good nets. Saved nearly all our cherries this season.
I was thinking the same, obviously they are not all in a tight spot so netting them all might be impossible/impractical but I'm sure you could save a few?!?
Just curious - whereabouts are you?
You'd need somewhere with a decent amount of chill for some of those trees…
As for the citrus - they are famously gross feeders and dislike competition so you do need to regularly fertilise.
I am more than a little jealous of your orchard.
Just curious - whereabouts are you?
Yes.. yes.. I'm hungry curious too.. and what time do you go to bed? Do you have a tall fence at all?
;)
We're up in the Blue Mountains behind Sydney, so we get plenty of cold to set the stone fruit, but means we struggle with frost vulnerable plants.
Help yourself. The lemon tree is very heavy with fruit at the moment. I keep meaning to take box up to the food co-op.
I was hoping to just buy dwarfs and keep them in pots on the deck maybe. I'll eventually plant them somewhere. I was planning
2 lime, 1 sweet, 1 sour
2 lemon, 1 sweet, 1 sour
and maybe an orange
From what I understand you would need quite big pots, not 30cm diameter, more like 1m for each, and you would need to feed the trees fertiliser once or twice a year, and water all the time (in ground trees can grow roots down many meters to find moisture, not so in a pot).
Go for it!
We have a dwarf lemon on our deck and it's loving life. About 3 years old now and the second round of lemons are turning yellow. It's in a large terracotta pot. It seems happy with some slow release fertiliser and good soaking when I water the herbs
Have similar plans…any chance of a photo for scale? Weight is an issue.
I went along to bunnings and got a lemon and a lime, the staff gave me good advice on how to look after my trees. I picked this one and the same brand in the lemon
http://www.bunnings.com.au/180mm-citrus-x-latifolia-tahitian…
Bother members of staff said they hear good receives and these were a general all round good started citrus tree.
How much do bunnings sell these for?
Bought a Eureka Dwarf in Bunnings Alexandria in March 2015, cost $35. Plant has been growing well! Hopefully next year it will bear fruit!
Non-dwarf varieties are $25.37 at Bunnings for citrus (three different lemons, two limes, three grapefruit… Etc). Good sizes too, all over 1m high. I bought a few in Feb15
Had a look at lime trees not too long ago and couldn't find less than $50.
You didn't look in Masters or Bunnings? Unless you are talking 2m+ tall then nearly everywhere sell citrus for sub-$50
If you have a diacos in your area they are worth checking first. Paid about $25 each for lime, mandarin, blood orange. Trees between ~ 1.2 and 1.7M tall.
20cm pot lemons are in their current catalog for $20, should be bigger than the aldi ones.
Masters are all $35 plus with most towards $50
Bunnings I can get quite a few varieties for just over $20 are their plants smaller or of a lower quality?
I'll have a look for discos duff, ta
We once got a lemon tree from a supermarket and it failed within in a year. Got a Eureka variety lemon tree from Bunnings for about $20 and the tree is going great.
Wish they had kumquat too. Good price. Ceres had grapefruit for $17 a few weeks ago.
If you want sweet kumquats, Meiwa is a best choice. You can place special order at Bunnings at less than 30. Or go to Springvale South Garden world to get one for 37.
If you want to grow a decent citrus tree, it's better to buy from bunnings, masters or nurseries. Supermarket ones may not be grafted. It grows slower and may take longer to bear fruits.
I will stay away from Aldi trees and spend $10 more to get a decent tree.
They are grafted to dragon rootstock.
Usually flying dragons rootstocks are for dwarf trees. Correct me if i am wrong.
Yeah the dragon rootstocks are for dwarf trees.
The new Aldi fruit trees from last weekend were all grafted as well, but they didn't specify which root stock which isn't ideal at all.
They are grafted, but the aldi orange tree we bought has yet to bear fruits, the buds that come out eventually just fall off
Free liquid fertiliser. From ABC Gardening Australia
Remember that urinating on the soil around lemon trees is beneficial to the plant.
Better to dilute 1:6 for young trees.
so urinate and then water with the hose.
Am in the Blurmountains and have a Meyer Lemon to swap. I am after a Meiwa cumquat or a walnut or Peacan tree. Just on the Aldi tree, they always get discounted the week after so they dont have to water them.
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