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I replaced my Incompatible Kuharske Citrange rootstock on my dyeing Meiwa kumquat with a flying dragon roots.  I used an approach graft.

Wow!

kulasa, you said,
"I am not a fan of sumo, I think there's alot more mandarin out there that are better. I prefer gold nugget and owari."

If you like oranges and you like mandarins, then you should like the taste of sumo/shiranui. You must have tasted a dud, try getting some fresh home-grown sumo and decide if you like it or not. I have pretty much every type of oranges and madarins that people say tastes really good, and my sumo/shiranui fruits are very good as Brian mentioned. So, I'm thinking you may have just eaten some average store purchased sumo maybe?

That's right. I had my first sumo (store bought) in maybe '17? I could not understand the hype about it. I probably tried the fruit several times. But I have not tried a home grown one. Same thing with owari, gold nugget and orri. I liked them the first time I tried them. But. like you said, nothing is comparable to home grown.

At the bottom of every container is what is called  perched water table.  This will occur even in containers with no bottom.  This is where water remains even after completely draining. Your trees roots above the perched water table look fine.  50 percent peat an 50 percent coco bark is not a very good medium.    A 5-1-1 would be a much ;better soil blend.

There's this thing going on citrus groups on facebook where some people are saying bark based medium are garbage. That bark turns into "muck" in about 6 months, it's not sustainable, it's useless, and does not provide any nutrition to the tree. Makes my ears hot every time I read them.

I highly recommend sumo, it has a permanent place in my greenhouse

I am not a fan of sumo, I think there's alot more mandarin out there that are better. I prefer gold nugget and owari.

I think the risk with the miracle gro 24-8-16 is ammonium toxicity as its nitrogen form is mainly urea and a little bit of ammoniacal nitrogen. As to the micro nutrients that Jack's have in comparison with miracle gro, I have no idea.

Millet and Kulasa, I will probably start fertalizing mine more often. I just replanted my citrus into 5-2-1 because it gets so hot here and it’s so dry.

Best decision I ever made when it comes to caring for my trees.  You won't regret it. I will also modify my mix as it gets too hot here as well. A bag of Jack's is about $55-$70, I forgot, but it lasts a long time. Ii don't really know how many potted citrus trees I have but it does last for months. I have also started fertilizing my in ground citrus with it for a few months now.

Quote from: kulasa on March 27, 2024, 06:12:44 PM

What Millet said. I am very particular with feeding my potted trees.

What do you feed your potted trees?

I feed them Jack's 25-5-15.

Very nice looking lemon, looks like its seedless. I wonder why it doesn't ripen up (turn yellow skin) even though the fruits are getting large.

Here's my special lemon:

wow what are they?

No, it's not the variegated pink lemon. The tree is not variegated at all, the only thing pink is the pulp. I will post photos later.

wow, that is a nice grafted branch. My macrophylla tree is huge so it wouldn't do that if you graft on my tree. I have a etron, 9lb lemon, meiwa, Yosemite Gold, Pink Lemonade, Yuzu, Clementine mandarin, Pink lemon (Italy), finger lime, hybrid finger lime, sumo all doing fine.

I do not have a large tree except for my oldest ponderosa. I do not really like the ponderosa. I have a standard Eureka (I think) that grows regular lemons in the outside but pink fleshed in the inside. I was thinking maybe that's the Italian pink lemon?

Here are the photos

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Dr Bitters' book

Which book is that? I couldn't find it by searching Any idea where to buy it?

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