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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Oddly shaped leaves on new Lakeland Limequat
« on: September 04, 2017, 09:08:21 PM »
The leaf crinkle was caused by insects before the leaves firmed up.  It is very common.  On my trees I spray all new leaf flushes every 3 or 4 days with a 1 percent horticultural oil spray until the new leaves firm up.  Doing so prevents the leave distortions.  Other than a few misshaped leaves there is no real damage to the tree.  Many times the invading insect are never seen, as some of them, such as thrips,or white fly, are so small it is difficult to see them.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Xie shan
« on: September 04, 2017, 10:19:13 AM »
Phil, in south Texas has Xie Shan's peel already turned color, or is it still green (satsumas can mature before color change). Mine here in Colorado (greenhouse) are large enough but still very green.  I should try one and see how it is.  Xie Shan is one of the earliest citrus to become eatable.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Hurricane Harvey vs Citrus
« on: September 04, 2017, 10:13:14 AM »
I heard from a friend of his that Buddinman had a stroke about a month ago.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus noob here, needs help
« on: September 03, 2017, 05:58:42 PM »
Going along with Susanne's question.  Tell us how you planted the tree into the ground.  Did you dig a hole larger than the size of the tree's root ball, thinking that the new tree would like a nice big hole?  Also, did you add any amendments to the back fill such as peat moss, leaf mold etc., or did you back fill the hole only with the dirt that was removed while digging the hole.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Hurricane Harvey vs Citrus
« on: September 03, 2017, 03:47:52 PM »
Flooding injury is highly probable if the root zone is saturated for three or more days during the summer when soil temperatures (86°F-95°F) are relatively high.  Flooding during the cooler December–March period can be tolerated for several weeks at low soil temperatures (<60°F).
 
Full article
http://www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/extension/trade_journals/2015/2015_June_flooding.pdf

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Help with my meyer lemon
« on: September 03, 2017, 12:16:47 PM »
The symptoms of Mtlgirl's tree look simular to Matt-citrus' tree.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus noob here, needs help
« on: September 03, 2017, 12:10:54 PM »
Need much more information on how you have been caring for these trees.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Hurricane Harvey vs Citrus
« on: September 03, 2017, 12:08:23 PM »
Mr. Texas, a member of this forum (and long time member of the old forum) lives in Sugar City, Texas.  I sent him a private message asking how his family was. So far i have not heard from him.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Help with my meyer lemon
« on: September 02, 2017, 09:45:01 PM »
It certainly does not look like greasy spot

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Yes, but it takes a long time before the abandon trees dry out enough for the psyllid to leave them alone.   Meanwhile it is a field day  for the psyllids.

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Its been a full month since the first HLB tree was found in Riverside.  How many psyllids that fed on that three have now flown to other trees to feed and spread the disease?  It takes up to several years for an infected tree to show symptoms, there could possibly be many more trees with HLB to show up

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Now a second citrus tree infected with HLB found in Riverside California. Agriculture officials said they received notice of a positive test late Monday for an orange tree on a property adjacent to the one where the first tree to test positive for citrus greening was found earlier this summer. Both trees are near the 60/91/215 freeway interchange. The second tree was removed Wednesday.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: new greenhouse planning
« on: August 31, 2017, 11:57:00 AM »
Excellent, excellent, excellent work.  You could go into the greenhouse building business.  Thanks for the up date. exciting.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cara Cara yellow leaves??
« on: August 30, 2017, 08:55:31 PM »
Hope your tree does well.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cara Cara yellow leaves??
« on: August 30, 2017, 06:48:02 PM »
Well one thing for sure.  If the tree's root system absorbs the water from the medium, up into the tree, then it also must absorb the irons that are dissolved in the water, such as nitrogen.  The tree certainly does not absorb the water and screen out the nitrogen.  A fertilizer that contains   nitrogen in the nitrate form, even the ammonium forms. will enter into the tree.  I still believe, your tree is nitrogen deficient.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cara Cara yellow leaves??
« on: August 30, 2017, 10:24:23 AM »
Susanne, because your tree is not all dried up, it shows that the roots must be working, as they are drawing up water from the medium. all nutrition that a tree requires is supplied to the tree dissolved in solution.   Therefore, if the tree is drinking, and if sufficient nitrogen is in the solution, then the tree should be able to produce chlorophyll.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cara Cara yellow leaves??
« on: August 29, 2017, 09:23:47 PM »
Susanne you can certainly grow your trees as you see fit.  In my opinion, for what it worth, I would forget organic type fertilizers.  Citrus are heavy feeders, and do best on conventional  type fertilizers.   I would also fertilize the tree once every two weeks instead of once a month.   From looking at the coloration of the tree's leaves it definitely looks VERY deficient in nitrogen.

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I'm not a fan of Meyer lemons.  They are not a crisp lemon, nor are the a good orange.  I dug my Meyer lemon out two or three years ago. However, it did make a good addition to the compost pile.  I had an Eureka Lemon, which I think is a great lemon variety. Eventually I replaced it with a Saint Teresa Feminello lemon which is very  much like the Eureka or Lisbon in taste. It was named after Saint Teresa so it won out.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Cara Cara yellow leaves??
« on: August 29, 2017, 03:02:50 PM »
There is hardly any green coloration at all in those leave.  I would fertilize the tree with a 250 ppm nitrogen.

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The largest lemon, however the fuit's quality is poor.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Large spines on second growth
« on: August 28, 2017, 02:52:16 PM »
Most all immature seedlings have spines. The spines will continue to grow on all new growth until the tree reaches a height enough to become a mature tree.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: What Grafting Can Do
« on: August 26, 2017, 04:19:49 PM »
Joe Real, who was member on the old forum, and a friend of many of us, had a multi variety citrus tree. The last I heard from Joe, the tree had a 104 different citrus varieties growing on his tree .  Under Joe's care the tree didn't have much trouble, and did just fine.  This tree has been written up in many newspapers, and other publications.

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