The Tropical Fruit Forum

Isn’t c-35 rootstock highly incompatible with any type of eureka? If so why am I finding all these trees here at big box stores with them grafted together?  Am I wrong or do they not care and are just trying to make money? How long does it take to show incompatibility? Their grafts look really good so I’m just wondering.

Soooo excited. I just bought a Miewa kumquat (it’s been in my list for a long time) and a variegated minneola from Madison citrus nursery. And it’s sooooo beautiful. I’m so excited. And there are so many more I want.

I want to use an old ceramic glazed pot for my new tree. But I don’t know why my last lime tree  died. Is there any risk in putting my new minneola tree in the same pot with different soil?

Does the size of perlite in a 5-1-1 mix matter? Can you use a pine and fir bark mix instead of just pine or CHC chips?

I’m going to switch my citrus to 5-1-1 mix soon. I have used coco coir chunks in the past and had great success but I have heard you can use pine chips. What’s the difference? Is one better? Other than pine being cheaper.

I have had this naval orange for 4-5 yrs. It gave me fruit the first 1-2 yrs but nothing since. It flowered amazing last year but I lost all of it. I tried spraying it with urea 2 years ago and I still lost the fruit. I have it in the turf mix that others have used here but I have not consistently fertilized it. I use the jacks fert but I’m thinking of changing to osmocote plus and foliage pro in hopes the osmocote will help it get fertilized more. I really really want fruit this year any tips? Would planting it in the ground right now help? I live zone 8b.

Help! I’m loosing all my Meyer lemons. How do I make it stop? They are almost grape size and I’m afraid the golf ball sized are next. I bought it at star nursery in Las Vegas for my mother in law a couple of weeks ago. And bought one with lemons on it so she would like it better. I moved it to a semi shady spot then it started loosing the really small lemons so I moved it to a sunny spot. I also sprayed it with the correct amount of neem oil because aphids were attacking 2 near by trees. I also pulled back a few 1-2 inches of soil and added compost. At that time I noticed the feeder roots were at least 3-4 inches down and that compared to my other citrus the soil drained a lot slower. I have been fertilizing it and it has a new flush of leaves. It was just loosing the tiny lemons but now it’s gradually loosing larger and larger lemons. It’s possible I over watered it in the beginning but I haven’t watered it in a week and it’s still dropping lemons.

I just purchased a Meyer lemon from Las Vegas not even thinking about root stock. It turns out the root stock is Macrophylla. What are the pros and cons of that root stock?  It will not be living at my house it was a gift and will be in zone 5 so indoors in the winter. I also was going to buy myself one from the same nursery until I realized that rootstock might not be very cold hardy.

So far I have gathered that Macrophylla, is not very cold tolerant, FD is but is very slow growing and that C-35 is cold tolerant and slow  growing. I’m not sure if I got that correct or not.
I also just bought an owari on C-35 that I plan to plant outside with protection. I also want to buy a Meyer lemon, and Meiwa komquat for outside. For inside either another Meyer or a pink lemonade, and a lime. What rootstock is the best for those situations. I would rather have a tree grow faster and produce more fruit and have to trim it than have one that takes forever to grow and bare fruit. Any suggestions?

Are lemon and limes usually grafted like most other citrus? Also I just bought an owari mandarin and I don’t think it is grafted. Was that a mistake?

I hope everyone had a good holiday. I have a few questions about my lime tree.  It seemed to be doing really well this summer, but there has not been any fruit that has stayed on it since I bought it a year and a half ago. I brought it inside about mid nov and it was green and looking good. Then it bloomed and it started getting fruit that was hanging on. About a week ago I noticed some spider mites And noticed a lot of the fruit starting to drop.  So I sprayed the tree with dawn Soap and water About 3 days ago. Since then more fruit have dropped and not just the little ones. And the leaves started looking veiny. Does anyone know why it’s doing this and why I can’t ever keep any fruit. It is potted in the miracle grow garden soil mixed with the turf. I think I put it in to large of a pot last year because that was what I had. It is next to 2 south/ east south/west windows. I added rabbit poop for fertilizer but only added it to the top of the soil because it’s so high in nitrogen and have not added any other fertilizer in a while.

I have had a lot of citrus and the only tree that has done well was my meyer lemon in CHC. Maybe I should go back to CHC. That tree froze and boy do I miss it.

Can anyone please tell me what is going on with my orange tree? It was doing just fine until about a week or 2 ago. Half the leaves are yellowing and the other half are curling and looking almost variegated.

I have decided I want to try growing some muscadine grapes. They do well in the heat and humidity but will they grow in dry hot weather? Has anyone grown them in weather similar to Las Vegas?