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Eureka lemon is STRONGLY incompatible with Eureka Lemon.That’s what I had read in some places and others didn’t say. Which makes me wonder why all the big box stores have them on C-35. I was so tempted to buy a pink eureka because it was so pretty.
Kulasa that’s encouraging.I have never had an owari or gold nugget but I planted an owari outside this year. I was so excited until I read they are not very good tasting in hot climates. We have about 3 months of over 100-106 degrees or higher. But I’m planning to use some shade cloth. Is this claim true?
I am not a fan of sumo, I think there's alot more mandarin out there that are better. I prefer gold nugget and owari.
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I live in a hot climate and my owari is good. same with my young seto, it's good.
I use 1.5 Tsp per gallon 2 ties a week in summer. In fall I use 0. In inter I use 1 Tsp 2 time monthly and in spring 1 Tbsp. weekly. 25-5-15 jacks.Do I have this right all of it per gallon using jacks 24-5-15 which is what I have.
That's about right, I fertilize weekly but not weakly. I live in zone9a which requires me to water my trees more often. Trees are in 511 fir bark.
I highly recommend sumo, it has a permanent place in my greenhouse
Here are 2 pictures of my grafted sumo which I acquired from UCR last year. It only bear 2 fruits. They are the size of my small grapefruit. Can’t wait to taste it.
A pH of about 7.8 is the highest pH level that a Carrizo rootstock will grow. Above that pH don't even try.
It is unlikely that Carrizo will grow. unless you have a large raise bed. Seville sour orange rootstock does well with higher PH soils
Are there any that do well with high PH and have good cold tolerance since I’m in 8b?
If your soil is PH 7 you should do fine. You can also plant it in a raised bed.I will have to find out but I’m guessing it’s higher. Our water here has a GH of 22 and KH of 11. And we have really alkaline soil in this area. But I compost my garden and other beds every year to help things grow.
Do you have any other citrus growing well in ground?
If you do, then just graft the Meyer lemon to the tree that is doing well.
If the molted branch is the lower one in your photo, then you might want to cut it before it returns to all green. I had a similar branch on my variegated sumo and it turn back to green, ended up cutting it off. Now the tree is all variegated again.I’m thinking the mottled branch will stay mottled only because Madison citrus sells variegated and mottled minniolas. And the mottled looks cool too but I prefer the variegated on this tree and maybe a full mottled one down the road.
Christ is resin. Happy Easter.Happy late Easter.
What Millet said. I am very particular with feeding my potted trees.What do you feed your potted trees?
I feed them Jack's 25-5-15.
I can respond to your question about cutting the green branches to let the variegated branches grow more. Yes, you want to cut off any of the non-variegated branches if your tree is strong enough with just the variegated branches. If your tree is still too small, you may want to wait until the variegated branches have established.Thank you. That answers my question. I believe Madison citrus calls it mottled. My mottled branch actually has 2 fruit on it. I want to just try one this year. I think for now I will leave the branch and maybe trim it off next year.
I have a large, variegated Valencia orange tree which is over 30 years old, plenty of variegated branches, tons of variegated fruits each year. I deliberately leave a few green branches so that I can still get both types of fruits. There is a difference with the Valencia orange. The normal green branches have nice size fruits about the size of navel oranges. The variegated Valencia branches (95% of the tree) will have smaller stripped green/yellow fruits that turns yellow when ripe. These variegated fruits are 2/3 the size of the normal fruits and is not as sweet.
What Millet said. I am very particular with feeding my potted trees.What do you feed your potted trees?