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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: 6b/7a overwinter success
« on: April 14, 2024, 08:35:35 AM »
It's going to be more difficult to protect them when they get bigger.
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kulasa, you said,
"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."
If you like oranges and you like mandarins, then you should like the taste of sumo/shiranui. You must have tasted a dud, try getting some fresh home-grown sumo and decide if you like it or not. I have pretty much every type of oranges and madarins that people say tastes really good, and my sumo/shiranui fruits are very good as Brian mentioned. So, I'm thinking you may have just eaten some average store purchased sumo maybe?
At the bottom of every container is what is called perched water table. This will occur even in containers with no bottom. This is where water remains even after completely draining. Your trees roots above the perched water table look fine. 50 percent peat an 50 percent coco bark is not a very good medium. A 5-1-1 would be a much ;better soil blend.
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.
I highly recommend sumo, it has a permanent place in my greenhouse
I don't think you will be able to tell the difference. i have most of the lemon varieties UCR/CCPP sells and there is nothing really special about any specific one.
You might just get the VI-692 or the VI-929 for starters. I have a fruiting VI-692, 2K and it doesn't taste any different than the Lisbon or Eureka lemon to me. Also tasted the Amafi Coast lemon and not a lot of difference to me.
You might like the 9lb lemon, check it out on the variety database, the fruit is huge, gets to 9lbs if properly feed. My lemon only got to 3 lbs since I grafted to a weak rootstock.
Most lemons have many crops a year so it should be the same for most. The popular variety from your list is the Santa Teresa, I have it grafted so I should be able to compare the taste to the 2K this year.
Kaz, Have you made limoncello with your lemons?
You might think about getting the Seedless Lisbon or the Seedless Eureka, tastes the same as the seeded version and has good fruit production.
Millet and Kulasa, I will probably start fertalizing mine more often. I just replanted my citrus into 5-2-1 because it gets so hot here and it’s so dry.
What Millet said. I am very particular with feeding my potted trees.What do you feed your potted trees?
wow, that is a nice grafted branch. My macrophylla tree is huge so it wouldn't do that if you graft on my tree. I have a etron, 9lb lemon, meiwa, Yosemite Gold, Pink Lemonade, Yuzu, Clementine mandarin, Pink lemon (Italy), finger lime, hybrid finger lime, sumo all doing fine.
Don't know, it was small for the longest time, but now it started getting taller (3-4ft) so maybe it will eventually flower. I did graft it to my other larger in ground tree and those grafts are growing better so maybe it will flower first.
Thank you for your pictures, Kulasa! They clearly show where the shot comes from.
Inspiring. I shall begin producing leave cuttings, also.
QuoteDr Bitters' book
Which book is that? I couldn't find it by searching Any idea where to buy it?
Nice. I also have a variegated volkamer and I have it in a pot for much longer, still no flowers or fruit yet. i think mine was a cutting.