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Sour orange is what does the best here in Arizona and you are very similar there.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Replacement for dying citrus tree
« on: August 05, 2023, 06:37:34 PM »
Andrew
I am growing some Kishu here is San Tan Valley but all mine are in pots, they wont take the full sun here, they are an understory tree, I keep mine under a mesquite tree all summer long and only put it out for the fall and winter, you could try putting some shade cloth over it to protect it from the sun or transplant into a pot and put it in the shade for the rest of the season.
This has been a brutal summer here and most of my inground citrus has sunburned leaves.
I do get some fruit on mine every year and it is delicious, don't give up yet.



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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Variegated sport on my Cara Cara
« on: May 12, 2023, 03:53:55 PM »
Here is what the fruit looks like today, still have 4, interestingly these are the only fruit on the entire tree, had some blossoms on another branch but they did not develop into any fruit.



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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Variegated sport on my Cara Cara
« on: March 29, 2023, 07:18:53 PM »
 Yes, I will be grafting it to some sour orange root stock as soon as its large enough to get a bud off of it.

Millet, yes I will be posting more pictures as things mature. Crossing my fingers that it will keep some fruit, it has 5 or 6 blossoms now and a couple have already formed a small fruit.

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Citrus General Discussion / Variegated sport on my Cara Cara
« on: March 28, 2023, 08:52:54 PM »
Last year towards the end of the season when the late summer flush of new growth started I got a variegated sport show up on my Cara Cara.
Now that spring is here it has blossoms and is setting fruit on the variegated branch, they look like they will have the variegation also, I'm excited to see what they look like.
This tree is in a greenhouse right now and I will probably keep there until it gets to hot for it here in Arizona then put it outside.




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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Identify this citrus tree
« on: October 23, 2022, 03:31:48 PM »
It looks like you should know pretty soon, when the fruit ripens, please describe it, naval or not, general shape, color  etc.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Question on Kishu mandarins
« on: December 06, 2020, 09:27:06 AM »
Andrew
I am in San Tan just south of you and I tried one of mine this morning, and its still at the bland stage, I think its a little early for them, we need some more of these cool nights to bring the sugars up in them.
I have had some in years past and they were really good, just be patient.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: A few days in hell.
« on: May 27, 2019, 06:15:19 PM »
Yeah, I remember those days when I went to high school there, 100° and 90% humidity makes some really rough days.
At least here in AZ its a dry heat... LOL

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Everything I have bought at the big box stores here in Arizona comes from California and all of it is on C-35 and they all seem to grow very fast and vigorous here in our desert climate.

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According to the article it was a grafted tree, it did not say what the root stock was.

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Here's a paragraph from an article about that tree.

Facing the inevitable loss of the parent navel orange tree in its dedicated park, a decision was made by the University of California scientists to try to save this tree by inarching. The tree had been girdled by gummosis and was rapidly deteriorating. The inarching was done by Dr. H. J. Webber, H. W. Mertz and Glenn Blackman.  They inarched with seedlings of sweet orange, rough lemon and sour orange. The gummosis lesions can be seen in the lower trunk just above the top of the protective cylinder. Dr. Klotz again photographed the inarches on July 17, 1944, twenty six years after the initial inarching was done in 1918 and the inarches are shown on the right in Fig. 4. In 1951, it was noted that some of the original inarches showed lesions of Phytophthora.  Therefore, in that same year, a second inarching was done using three seedlings of Troyer citrange and one of trifoliate orange. The grafting was done by Denard C. Wylie, Senior Superintendent of Cultivations at the Citrus Experiment Station.
The survival and preservation of the parent ‘Washington’ navel orange tree was dependant on the successful inarches made in 1918 and repeated again in 1951.   This same fungus killed its sister tree at the Riverside Mission Inn in 1922. However, the timely inarches saved this historic tree.  The tree was in good health and bearing a good crop of fruit.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Strange Red Clementine Seedling
« on: April 01, 2019, 08:18:44 PM »
Can you post a picture, I would like to see it as I have 8 of those from the same seeds growing, 7 in ground and 1 in a pot.
Most are about 2.5' tall but none showing the growth you are having.

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Amazing, the fruit looks very much like my Murcott mandarins, very good flavor.

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Citrus General Discussion / Swingle
« on: February 24, 2019, 05:11:05 PM »
Hey LAAZ
I bought some Swingle and Rubino Clementine seeds from you in December of 2016 and planted them in a seed starter on January 1 2017.
Here is a picture of one of the Swingle trees I planted in ground when it was about 6 months old, it is now 8' tall in just over 2 years.
A question I have, is what is your experience with this variety, how long to flower the first time and has this been a good root stock for most orange varieties for you?


The Rubino Clementine seeds were fantastic, out of 6 seeds I got 9 plants, I have read that many others had the same experience with them.

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It sounds like you might have a variety of Blood orange, navels are usually seedless.

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Note that Flying Dragon (FD) seed do not produce the true FD cultivar 100% of the time.  Only about 50 percent +- will be the true cultivar.   

Will that really make much difference if using Flying Dragon for root stock, aren't most Trifolate dwarfing to some degree and these being Flying Dragon,
even if not a true 100% cultivar would still have a large influence and have most of the dwarfing effect you would be seeking with the variety?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: ID request - mystery trees
« on: April 14, 2018, 08:16:31 AM »
Hmmm, well  here is my best guess,
#1  looks like some variety of orange, maybe sour orange if you think its coming from the rootstock
#2 is grapefruit, Pummelo or some variation of that.
# 3 and 4 is probably a lemon... no petole on the leaf.

Lets see what others think, this may be an interesting exercise...

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Citrus General Discussion / Maturity for the best quailty of fruit
« on: March 03, 2018, 07:48:34 PM »
A question I have is what needs to mature for a citrus tree to produce good tasting fruit? is it the root system that needs to develop to the point it supplies the tree with all the necessary nutrients for good fruit or is it the scion growth that needs to mature?
For instance, could you graft on to an older existing tree with a new scion variety and get pretty good fruit in a couple of years?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus Growers Forum
« on: February 21, 2018, 06:33:11 PM »
This is so cool, this was the first forum I joined and learned so much from the good people there.
Thanks for doing this.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: HLB Getting Worse in California
« on: January 13, 2018, 08:25:50 AM »
I really wonder what this means for us in Arizona, almost all of the new trees in the big box stores come from California nursery's, is this how it will eventually spread to our state?

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: yuzu seeds available - ending Dec 26
« on: December 26, 2017, 07:21:17 PM »
I am interested if you have any left.
PM sent

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: New Member, Central Texas
« on: December 10, 2017, 04:13:42 PM »
The link wants you to login to google to be able to see the pictures.

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I wonder if we may be safe here in southern Arizona with our 115 degree plus summer temperatures that do burn the leaves sometimes.
They never did say how high a temperature they were using, I would be curious to know.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: ID of a citrus tree grown from seed
« on: October 01, 2017, 06:41:14 PM »
You beat me to it BajaJohn
I was just looking on the same site and it definitely looks like a Grapefruit, look on page 2 at the Flame, same type of petiole and leaf shape.
http://idtools.org/id/citrus/citrusid/gallery.php?show%5b%5d=Petiole&page=2

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Hurricane Harvey vs Citrus
« on: September 04, 2017, 03:07:57 PM »
Sorry to hear that, I have spoken to him a few times on the phone and he offered very good advice.
I hope the best for him..

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