I reworked the irrigation system over in the Blood orange grove this past April. The trees are now getting a better watering application to their root systems. I added two - 8 inch long "spaghetti" lines to each tree, from the mail drip hose supply. I previously had a sprayer type emitter at each tree....that kept clogging. No more emitters on this farm! We've upped the fertilizer rate also.
We have several hundred oranges this year......not bad at all for such a young orchard. I cannot wait till the 5th or 6th year of these trees.....?
A mature orange tree may produce from four to eight boxes of fruit. Oranges are packed in boxes of 90 or 100 or 120 oranges. So a median figure might be 600 oranges per tree.
Those will not necessarily all be harvested at the same time. There may be two or three pickings, as the smaller fruits grow and mature following the picking of those that were larger and ripened earlier.
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