Satsuma mandarin trees for the holidays. GARDEN. By Erle Nickel, Freelance Writer Dec 19, 2010. Owari Satsuma orange. Monrovia Growers.

Planting a mandarin tree in a container lets you grow it far from Florida, California, Arizona, Louisiana, or south Texas, the areas in the U.S. where it can thrive outdoors year-round.

In the Valley, where they go by the name of ‘Mikan’ mandarin or Citrus reticulata, they are available at Papaya Tree Nursery (papayatreenursery.com), located in Granada Hills at 12422 El Oro ...

Young trees bear coarse fruit with a “pebbly” rind and blander flavor, says Johansen, so he culls the roughest ones before harvest. It takes 10 years or more, he says, for a mandarin tree to ...

Mandarin trees need between one and 1.5 pounds of actual nitrogen per year. This works out to a total yearly application of approximately eight to 12 pounds of a fertilizer formulated for citrus.

Derek New’s Satsuma mandarin trees produced fruit for four of their seven or eight years of life at his farm in Baker. Unfortunately, below-freezing weather killed each of his four Satsuma trees ...