The Tropical Fruit Forum

Brian I have grown both the Chandler, and am still growing the Valentine.  I like the Valentine much better. I discarded the chandler two years back.

Yourgos, interest statement about the Valentine Pummelo.  Going on 4 years ago I chopped out a Persian Lime and replaced it with a Valentine Pummelo. Valentine  = a wonderful tree, a wonderful fruit.

I believe it is the other way around, in that the Tarocco is inferior in taste to the Moro.  Moro Blood orange is loved the world over.

The Ventura lemandarin  that was seen in the above U-Tube was propagated by a friend of mine.  He is actually a member on this forum under the name of Eyeckr.  If you see him on, you can ask him any questions.  He know a lot about cold hardy citrus.

Ypurgos you asked ...."would applying biuret to this tree in January counter the alternate bearing tendency'

The answer is it would not completely counter the alternate bearing, but it would help.  The fertilizer goal for the heavy crop year with alternate bearing trees is to provide adequate fertilizer to support the developing crop, and to also support the summer vegetative shoot growth (normally in June) which become the blooming shoots for the following year (the off crop year). Therefore, be sure to also apply a low biuret urea foliar spray directly after the tree's early drop period.  (After a citrus tree blooms the tree will set many more small fruitlets than the tree can possibly supply enough energy to bring all of them to maturity, so it drops a great number of the new fruitlets, plus many of the flowers that never set -- this is called the Early Drop). Foliar spraying low biuret urea directly after the early drop should supply much of the energy to greatly help with fruit set during the off year.

Dylan, the coloration of the Moro shown above has pretty good color for a California grown blood orange.

There is a variety of wasp that is a predator of the leaf miner.

As Yorgos wrote,  citrus leaf miners normally don't affect citrus  much until the second flush of new growth.

luak, not sure what the root stock is on my in ground Valentine pummelo.  I did not graft that tree, I purchased it.  I do know it is on a dwarfing rootstock.  I can't remember what nursery I purchased it from.  Maybe Four Winds, but not sure.

Next year's citrus expo is in Valdosta GA.

What about Record Buck Farms?  They are in Florida.

LOL

Darkman, it is GREAT seeing you on the forum again.  I looked for you at the Savannah citrus expo, and asked Hershell Boyd about you.  Really glad to see you here.