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HI! I live in a place that is only warm for about, 5,6,7 months. We are making an indoor patio so you can enjoy the winderfullness of nature without having bugs eating your brains out! Well, we went to oakland nursery's yesterday and were shopping alond when we came to a small tree about 5 feet high. On it were big fat juicy oranges. I put my hand under one and they were ready to pick. SO since orange trees are tropical plants and need heat and sun for 10, or 11 months of the year, I was wondering if I was aloud to succesfully put an orange tree into our indoor patio?
Thank you much!
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How climate controlled will your indoor patio be during the summer? Oranges need summer heat in order to sweeten up, so if you live in an area with hot summers and you can keep it indoors during cold weather it shouldn't matter that you aren't in a tropical climate. Depending on the conditions on your patio (temperature & amt of sun) it's very possible that the orange would be happier outdoors during the warm months though rather than indoors on the patio. And if you live somewhere that doesn't get enough summer heat to sweeten up the oranges, you could still consider other citrus like lemon, lime, grapefruit that don't need to be sweet.
Good advice ecrane. Also a way to "sweeten" your oranges further is to cut back on the water dramatically about a month before harvest. This will make the not-so-sweet varieties sweet and the sweet varieties even sweeter.
