9 Fruit Trees You Can Grow Indoors, According to Horticulturists

[Michie]

Create your own home orchard with delicious olives, avocados, oranges, and more.

Indoor fruit trees provide both fragrant blooms and lush fruits—if they receive the right amount of care. Trees in pots will need their soil replenished more often than ones in the ground, according to Samantha Sergeant, an arborist at Fruitstitute. Additionally, most indoor trees will need as much light as you can give them—usually through a southern-facing window or grow lights.

All that being said, if you're up to the task, the fruits of your labor will be more than worth it. Read on for a list of expert-approved fruit trees that can flourish indoors—as well as some important tips and tricks for growing and maintaining them.

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9 Fruit Trees You Can Grow Indoors, According to Horticulturists

You don't need a garden to grow fruit trees—some, like olives, oranges, lemons, and avocados— can also flourish indoors.

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[Wendy of Gilead]

Thank you for this! We're in preparation to move (the permanent kind) with our little one on the way to a very, very small town as part of our mission, and raising our family there and despite a vaguely similar rural upbringing in Iowa, there are no doubt differences in climate and soil that make little cultivations like these tricky for the uninitiated. This looks like something we'd want to plan out right away after arriving, and soon see the literal fruits of our labors.

 

[linux.poet]

Bookmarked. As a perpetual lemon scone baker, orange juice drinker, and lime eater, this may be useful information for the future. Even if my citrus trees grow outdoors, they may have to be in pots, so this may be good intel anyway.

 

[Wendy of Gilead]

Bookmarked. As a perpetual lemon scone baker, orange juice drinker, and lime eater, this may be useful information for the future. Even if my citrus trees grow outdoors, they may have to be in pots, so this may be good intel anyway.

Oh wow sounds a bit like our dream kitchen! We've done scone baking ourselves plus lemon meringue pie making so we've certainly found uses for whatever lemons and their citrus cousins we can stock up our pantry with. It's actually been awhile since our last homemade scone bake so we've already got some recipe plans for the next weekend!