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California Gardening: Growing The Best Oranges – Washington Navel Orange

In today’s episode we look at growing the Washington Navel Orange Plant or Tree. This orange variety is sometimes also called California Navel orange because it grows great in the state of California, especially Southern California. This orange was imported in the 1800s from Bahia, Brazil and made popular by Eliza Tibbets who was a resident of Riverside, California.

We look at how to grow this orange variety, the fertilizer schedule, light and water requirements and much more. We also harvest and look at the fruit in detail.

The washington navel orange tree is easy to grow and by watching this video you will know how to care for your washington navel orange tree also called mosambi fruit.

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