Navel Orange Tree. In today's episode we look at growing the washington navel orange plant or tree. The only way to grow more navel oranges is to amputate a blossoming bud from an existing navel orange tree and unite it with another compatible fruit tree's trunk or root.
Not to be confused with the mother orange tree up in oroville. Being thick skinned and easy to peel, it is one of the most popular varieties. Navel orange trees bloom in early spring to late winter, with their abundant citrus aromoa filling the air all around. Sometime before 1950, the roots of this tree began to die.
The fruit contains a good quantity of juice.
The tree characteristics are very similar to those of washington navel orange. To graft a navel orange tree, a cutting is taken from a tree already in existence and joined carefully onto what's called a rootstock of another type of tree, applying adhesive to keep the branches together. Select an open full sun spot that will let your new navel orange tree mature to it's full size. The brazilian orange which generated a spontaneous mutation hundreds of years ago.
