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From my experience, I’ve pruned in September/October and never saw any flowers that season. That was the last time I prune late in the season for me…Edit:From an hypothetical/experiential point of view; you laid out your hypothesis now give it a shot and let us know the results!
Quote from: Fishinsteeg234 on December 14, 2021, 07:34:27 PMFrom my experience, I’ve pruned in September/October and never saw any flowers that season. That was the last time I prune late in the season for me…Edit:From an hypothetical/experiential point of view; you laid out your hypothesis now give it a shot and let us know the results!Thanks for sharing Doesn't seem to be any topic other than squirrels that you can get a discussion going. I have a half dozen trees that I'm not going to let carry fruit to experiment with. My experience last season with PPK and dwarf Hawaiian was even when I let the fruit let's get to the size of peas ior marble and pruned. That tree would just rebloom. Had to do that three times. This time I will keep notes. You would think this close to the holidays folks would be more chipper and chatty I've tried a discussion about gibbing brasolining and bloom. Maybe if I start a thread about how I feel it is inhumane and unethical to exterminate rats I will get a responseMost of my trees are just starting to push now still have half dozen still dormant seems to be more of a South Florida problemLolThis is my new sugar belle Mandarin
So could this be a strategy used to manipulate the tree into blooming when it should normally do so?