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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Chlorosis or something else?
« on: January 15, 2024, 02:35:34 PM »
Is the midline of the fruit curved or straight? If it’s curved when you cut the lemon down the poles is HLB.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Possible solution for HLB?
« on: November 22, 2023, 10:56:25 AM »
I wonder if Texas has a similar program.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: New Questions
« on: February 17, 2023, 03:37:54 PM »
Looks like rust mites.  Lemons are very susceptible to those little guys.  Also, you tree looks under nourished.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: HLB Virus Map
« on: January 02, 2023, 12:12:51 PM »
I’m in the quarantine zone and had to take down a couple for HLB trees in ‘21 and it doesn’t show anything. Must be good in California only?

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Um, I am in Houston as well and had a large grapefruit and blood orange diagnosed with HLB by Texas A&M a couple of years ago.  Harris County is in the quarantine zone for greening and while the trees you buy may not have the disease the Asian psyllid is here and can infect your tree as it did mine.

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If you take one of the fruit and cut it down the middle from pole to pole (not through the “equator”) if the center is curved it is definitely Greening.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Does this tree have citrus greening?
« on: January 02, 2023, 11:27:03 AM »
If they have any fruit the center column (the columella i think) will be curved. 

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My citrus are only in the ground 1-2 years (all my 14 or so citrus were extirpated by Winter Storm Uri Feb '21) and are currently not holding fruit.   Does this foliar spray benefit a tree without fruit?  BTW, I do have my trees on a regular fertilizer regimen, fertilizing them 3-4 times a year.
Thanks

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Fruit dropping
« on: July 22, 2022, 03:21:28 PM »
Ah...yes, the fickleness of citrus.

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Yes, it is clearly a California Citrus not Texas Citrus...
Well as the say in Texas,
"Remember the Alemow".
Its "Alamo"  the Spanish word for the poplar tree.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: sign of citrus greening
« on: June 20, 2022, 04:22:23 PM »
I do not see any fruit on the tree, but if it has some, cut it down the middle along its axis (not along the "equator").  If the central column in the fruit is curved, rather than straight, that is a tell-tale sign of HLB.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: when to pick Chandler pummelo?
« on: June 06, 2022, 11:34:12 AM »
Fortunately, my Chandler died due to winter storm Uri.  My Bloomsweet and Ruby Red grapefruits nearby all developed wonderful flavor, but the Chandler always tasted flat to bad even when picked all yellow.  And when I let it hang until Feb or Match it got dry and really bad.  Never could figure when the best time to harvest the fruit was because early or late it was less than satisfactory.
Clearly I was doing something wrong.


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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Making mamalade
« on: February 14, 2022, 02:28:00 PM »
Skip the sure jell, climb to the top  of kilamenjaro with you svea stove and cook away.

The pic of that svea stove takes me back.  I still have mine from when I bought it to backpack in Big Bend 1973.  Still works. Sounds like a jet engine when its going strong.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: CCPP Budwood Price Hike
« on: January 17, 2022, 03:08:24 PM »
Total agree with Vlad.  Buy a grafted tree from nursery cost around $30, and 6 buds cost $30.  Totally not worth it.
Living in a citrus quarantine zone I can't always find the varieties I am looking for at local nurseries and mail order is not permissible.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Sumo Citrus
« on: January 10, 2022, 06:25:42 PM »
Is the sweetness for Sumo a result of cumulative heat units like for grapefruit?

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I am under the understanding that frost owari is a nod to the name of the individual who developed it. It has no reference to its cold hardiness.  So, Frost owari has the same hardiness as other satsuma's. If I am incorrect, someone please correct me.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Are these leaf minor eggs?
« on: September 08, 2021, 02:23:51 PM »
Yep.  Wasps are effective caterpillar hunters on my citrus.  I wish there was something that targeted CLM in such an efficient manner.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Are these leaf minor eggs?
« on: September 03, 2021, 05:22:51 PM »
Leaf minor eggs would be so small you need a microscope to see them.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Are these leaf minor eggs?
« on: September 03, 2021, 05:21:40 PM »
Giant Swallowtail eggs. While the larvae in great quantity 'might' be a problem, a couple will eat some leaves but not really hurt the tree unless the tree is small.  How big is this poncirus?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: What is this bug on my blood orange tree?
« on: September 03, 2021, 05:16:18 PM »
Yup. A LMB

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Osmocote Plus is cheap on Amazon right now
« on: September 01, 2021, 12:14:46 PM »
Good deal. Thanks

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Bears! I doubt a few poncirus branches will do much to deter bears. I would think squirrels would also find a way around them, those nefarious vermin.   

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If you can lure them to the ground in your backyard, a break-barrel pellet gun is a fairly covert way to deal with them. It takes a lot of time, and while it vents your frustration, doesn't really do much to the overall population.

I  feel your pain.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Madison Citrus Nursery.
« on: July 19, 2021, 05:57:36 PM »
Is there a robust source of so many varieties that can be found in Texas?  I am jealous so many cool varieties can be delivered outside of my area. The growers i am aware of around here are wholesale to the nursery trade only.  The other sources for citrus this forum speaks about won't deliver in Texas. Would love to get a shiranui somehow.

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Bovine, I have not seen that particular wrap, so I can't comment on how well it would work. What I have seen most frequently for freeze protection is the Tree T-pee that I mentioned in the other thread. It has to be used in combination with a microjet or it does not provide much protection. They leave them on year round for the first 3-4 years. Here is a link to the Frostproof Growers Supply that sells in bulk to local groves.

https://frostproof.com/tree-t-pees-1/

Below is a link to an article that should be a fairly accurate review of the t-pee since it is from the University of Florida not the inventor.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://crec.ifas.ufl.edu/media/crecifasufledu/extension/extension-publications/2016/2016_September_tpee.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj88N2NkL3tAhUwvFkKHRMiBNcQFjAFegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw315r8QYWfMvk4Mi4qxXBfe
This looks like a good product but because they sell to commercial groves, you must buy at least 10 ($7.95 per t-pee) and the shipping was minimum $73 for the 10.   Anyway for 10 my bill would have come to over $150.  If you order 30 the shipping goes up to $120.  I am hoping they respond to my contact and get a more reasonable shipping rate. 

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