The Tropical Fruit Forum

ILYA11 Thanks for the link

Louisport, you have a great  collection of citrus.  Plus you have a second collection of four varites of different colored Finger Limes. Very impressive.

Ilya,11 the Satsuma Prague is a cross between the Citsuma unshiu X Poncirus trifoliata correct?

If it is from Southern AG it is OK.  The nutrition spray contains Iron 1.2%, Zinc 1.7%, Manganese 1.2%, Magnesium 1.0% and Sulfur 4.1%

ORGANIC tree paint???  Never knew there was such a thing.

Bush 2 Beach, there is not much information on the Black Twig Lime.  I got some bud wood from Joe Real five years abo, who I assume got the bud wood from Gene Lester.  below is the most information I've found about the variety. 

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"Winged lime, is an unusual lime in that it has a fair amount of sugar, so it can be eaten out of hand by most people. Pleasant lime flavor. Fruit is globose, about 8 cm and gets ricey if left too long on the plant. Lots of long thorns, as the name implies.

Very unusual dark brown, almost black twigs. This color is retained in two- and sometimes three-year wood, the only citrus that I know of that has this characteristic. I called it "Blacktwig" for obvious reasons.

I planted some longispina seeds from UCR, and years later, when they first fruited, I could see that they were my Blacktwig, both from the fruit taste and dark twigs."

This information was given by Gene Lester, who grows this variety in Central California.

"Blacktwig" is one of the most beautiful and striking citrus trees I have seen. The deep violet-black twigs form a spectacular background for the pale green leaves and the pale yellow fruit. The Latin name longispina means long thorns and they are giant in size, by far the biggest and strongest thorns I have seen on a citrus tree, longer and thicker than on any trifoliate hybrid.

Gene's 8-foot tree has a spreading bushy appearance with slender long branches bending down under the weight of the fruit in heavy grapefruit-like clusters. It makes a beautiful ornamental plant and is very productive, but needs space. The taste is sweet but lacks acidity, some might say the fruit tastes a bit insipid. Definitely worth having as an ornamental and at least children like the plentiful fruit.

Winged lime is called Tai la mi san in Chinese and Taramisan in Japanese.

It is a great tasting lime, you can eat it out of hand.

Because of greening disease the estimate for Florida grapefruit harvest dropped 800,000 boxes to a total of 8.1 million boxes. Just for comparison’s sake, the grapefruit harvest during the 2003-2004 season was 40.9 million boxes.

The time the tree spend growing in the container would certainly count in the age of the tree.  However, the size of the tree's root system since it was restricted by the size of the container, would not come close to the size of the root system spent growing in the soil for 3 to 5 years.   I guess personally I would not count the container years. We'll see what others on this forum think.

spaugh, 5-1-3 is not the fertilizer formula, it is the fertilizer ratio.  5-1-3 has a fertilizer formula of 25-5-15 (25% N, 5% P, 15% K)

robbyhernz--- Below shows the number of fertilizer applications that should be made to in-ground citrus trees. (These are the recommendations by the University of Florida)

1 Year old tree -- 6 applications/year
2 Year old trees - 5 applications/year
3 Year old trees - 4 applications/year
4-year old trees - 3 applications/year
5+ year old trees - 3 applications/ year.

Like spaugh wrote you can certainly use other fertilizer formulations if you wish. Common ones are 6-6-6, 8-8-8 or 10-10-10.    The University of Florida does not recommend dry granular broadcast fertilizers stronger than a 8% N content on in-ground citrus tree younger than 4 years old.

Florida may reimburse citrus growers millions for lost citrus trees

Florida may drop a long-running legal battle and instead agree to pay millions to homeowners across the state whose healthy citrus trees were torn down in a failed attempt to eradicate citrus canker. House Republicans have agreed to spend $66 million to end lawsuits filed on behalf of homeowners in Broward, Lee and Palm Beach counties. There are also lawsuits that were filed in both Orange and Miami-Dade counties that could eventually push up the cost even more. Rep. Carlos Trujillo, a House budget chairman, defended making the payments now because lower courts have already ruled against the state in several counties. The House has included the money in its proposed $81.2 billion budget that will be voted on next week."We should pay a judgment that has been levied against us," Trujillo said. "Just kicking the can down the road for the next legislature is probably not the best idea."Class-action lawsuits were filed and courts agreed. Judges ordered homeowners in Broward, Lee, Orange and Palm Beach counties to be fully compensated. Those rulings total about $100 million and a Miami-Dade County case that remains open could double that. Part of the judgments include payments to the law firms that filed the lawsuits.

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/173712/Florida-may-reimburse-citrus-growers-millions-for-lost-citrus-trees

Last January I planted the Red (Blood) Clementine seeds that I got from Laaz. Some of those seeds produced just one seedling, but many of the seeds produced multiple (nucellar) seedlings. Last week I was stunned to see three of the now 3" tall 80 day old seedlings have just sent up more   nucellar seedlings.  One of the original seedlings  produced one additional tree, and two of the original seedlings produced an additional two trees.

Try this mark.vanness@tamuk.edu  This link was posted by Mr. Texas as an answer to the same question a week or so ago.