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The Gala and the Granny Smith are just starting to ripen. Nice lot of fruit for young trees our of their environment.

Mick

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Thanks Millet for your information. Understanding the problem means that you are well on the way to solving it.

Mick

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Is anyone able to say what effect/s using urea biuret of 1% would have on citrus? Not that I am using it, just curious

Mick

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Thanks

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What do you call low biuret in urea?
The urea I have access to has 1% biuret. Is that high, low or mid range for urea ?

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That's great news. What's the climate like where you live?

Mick

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G'day all,
I thought I would update you on what's happening in my backyard down under. We had warm winter and I didn't know if there would be much activity in my Gala and Granny Smith. The Anna and the Tropical Sweet failed to drop all their leaves but came alive with the onset of warmer weather and set enough fruit for me to have to thin. Both continue to flower.
The Gala and the Granny Smith slowly dropped most of their leaves over the winter months and had done nothing until late in the second month of spring when they started to push their buds and at this time I grafted on a number of other varieties that took. They have both now bloomed and it seems that the Gala is continuing to flower and set fruit while the GS seems to have finished. I guess that I'll have a rolling harvest. Both have set a heap of fruit and I expect to be thinning out before long.
Looking at what the trees have done in my backyard suggests that a warm climate can support some apple varieties that have a generally accepted higher  chill requirement than the area can provide. Good news for people like me accepting conventional wisdom that you'll never grow apples here because it's just too hot!
Mick


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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Second Citrus bloom?
« on: June 20, 2017, 11:02:03 PM »
The second bloom on my Washington navel is starting to colour just now so I am looking forward to tasting any difference from the main crop

Mick

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Thanks guys for your responses. I shall have to spend a bit of time on the videos.
I am glad to know that now is a good time.

Of the two trees providing scions, one has just started to flush,so that one will have to wait until it's next flush. The other is usually a week or so behind so I hope I can get home before it starts to flush also.

I don't recall if they flush in the winter months. Is there a problem doing the grafts then considering that we don't frost where I live?

Thanks again

Mick

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I have an established R2E2 seedling mango tree that has been fruiting for the last four years. I also have two seedlings of other varieties that I wish to graft onto it. We are in our fall here and our trees never defoliate. The R2E2 should flush soon and I expect that this is the best time to do the grafting.
I assume that cleft grafts will be the go.
Has anyone advice on the best way to do this?
Thanks

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Leaf Drop Period
« on: January 28, 2017, 03:44:37 PM »
You guys must be coming into an early spring or is this happening with trees that have been moved inside for the cold over winter and are still waiting to go outside? Is this happening with inground trees also?

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My mandarin harvest looks promising
« on: January 26, 2017, 01:04:15 AM »
Thanks Millet for that very interesting article. I just knew that the answer would not be simplistic. At the very least it has given John and I a lead into how the problem can be understood. It is interesting that the imported oranges I was buying in previous years had dryness problems and they don't seem to have this year. It seems to suggest the possibility of drought conditions and/or juvenile plantings in the region.

John, last year was the first time I had a good harvest off my 4 year old Washington navel and fortunately the fruit was first class. This season is looking pretty promising and I hope that the tree appreciates the TLC it gets and delivers another first class crop 🤞.

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My mandarin harvest looks promising
« on: January 25, 2017, 01:45:56 AM »
John, I used to think that dryness was caused by lack of moisture in the root zone but that is too simplistic.
For some years I wouldn't buy oranges grown in the US because of consistent dryness  in the fruit. This year they are fine so it seems to be anyone's guess as to what causes it.

Perhaps there is someone on the forum who can enlighten us.

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My mandarin harvest looks promising
« on: January 24, 2017, 09:43:09 PM »
G'day John, that looks like a great crop. Hope they are nice and juicy.

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Has anyone seen this before?
« on: January 23, 2017, 12:10:05 AM »
That's interesting Sonny. My Washington navel has been in the ground for the last four years and this is the first time it's done this. Whilst I expect this of my Myer lemon (ground dweller) and my pot dwelling Eureka lemon, for some reason I don't expect that of the navel. I wonder what causes it to do this.
Like you I have two sizes of fruit on my navel.. not that I'm grumbling.. anything to extend the harvest 😀
Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Has anyone seen this before?
« on: January 22, 2017, 10:29:13 PM »
It is almost as though my Washington navel is saying that it's sorry that it didn't set enough fruit this season and is trying to make it up by flowering and setting fruit for the third time this season.
A lot of fruit set on the Spring bloom, about another 10% set on the 2nd flowering about six weeks later and now, another six weeks or so on there's another light flowering during a flush. Though I would be surprised if it set fruit this time.

Is this unusual??

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My mandarin harvest looks promising
« on: January 21, 2017, 05:36:25 PM »
Ha Ha! You just make me laugh 😂. Here I was feeling sorry for you and thinking that you would have to do all the hauling using hand carts and wheel barrows. Not so! Nothing less than forklifts.
With all that lighting I wouldn't like your power bill. Or are you off the grid and running full solar?? 😀
Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My mandarin harvest looks promising
« on: January 21, 2017, 05:00:57 AM »
Thanks Luak.
I don't know how you people manage in such cold places, having to lump your potted trees inside in autumn, nurse them through winter and then drag them back outside in spring. If certainly shows dedication towards your trees. I just can't imagine having to do that and still enjoy my trees as much as I do at the same time. You guys must be from pioneering stock 😀
Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My mandarin harvest looks promising
« on: January 20, 2017, 12:38:26 AM »
Thanks Millet. The main problem I have with all of my citrus trees is with leaf miner which I attempt to control with white oil and I have to start spraying the moment the new leaves start to show and keep it up every week or so until the leaves harden.
I fertilise at every change of season.

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / My mandarin harvest looks promising
« on: January 19, 2017, 07:56:04 PM »
My Imperial mandarin is going great so I thought I would show you how it's going. It is just under 4 years old and with my Washington navel both are looking like giving a great harvest in a few months time. I can't wait 😊

Mick


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Good luck with the fruit set, Spaugh.
The photo shows some of the fruit setting on the Gala.. quite a lot of it, actually. I was beginning to think that perhaps the Gala was not going to work. Glad to see that it is happening at last!
Mick


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I was in the garden this afternoon when I noticed that the royal gala had flushed and that it was starting to blossom. On closer attention it had set 3 small fruit. Nothing else was in flower but I had been away for a couple of weeks and it may be there were flowers on the Granny Smith. Exciting!

I also noticed that the Tropical Sweet and the Anna were setting more.blossom.

Mick

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Merry Christmas
« on: December 24, 2016, 05:25:35 PM »
Have a wonderful and peaceful Christmas and a great New Year

Mick
From Down Under

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Which Type Of Container To Use
« on: December 07, 2016, 01:34:12 AM »
Also the cost difference is quite substantial especially if funds are limited and the number of trees to be potted is high.

Mick

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That's really cool!
I am wonderingwhat variety it is. Is it a recognised sub Tropical?
Hope you can let us know

Mick

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