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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Southern Ag citrus spray
« on: April 20, 2017, 12:18:24 PM »
The one most often used for a manganese deficiency is a foliage spray of manganese nitrate, you can also use manganese sulfate, or Southern Ag's Nutritional spray.

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Mainly Citrus spp., at least two species of Murraya, and at least three other genera, all in the family Rutaceae.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Groves in Central Florida
« on: April 18, 2017, 10:43:26 PM »
At the present time in Florida it is very expensive to maintain a HLB infected grove to remain as productive as possible (and almost 100 percent of Florida groves are infected).  Some growers cannot afford the cost, and some barely can.  Those that spray, provide extra nutrition, and avail themselves with the various scientific programs, have groves that look as good as possible.  Others have abandoned their properties which then become Asia citrus psyllid generators..

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Best mandarin recommendations?
« on: April 18, 2017, 05:25:53 PM »
If they were actually determined to have HLB I think the trees would have quickly been removed.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Is this citrus greening?
« on: April 18, 2017, 05:24:16 PM »
Lory, the  link below shows many good pictures of Citrus Greening symptoms.  There is even one picture of what  "corky veins" look like..   

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Is this citrus greening?
« on: April 18, 2017, 05:13:44 PM »
Not sure if your leaf symptoms are showing symptoms of greening.  Yellow veins is common in nitrogen deficiencies, but the balance of the leaves shown on your link are still very dark green, so at this point that rules out nitrogen deficiency.  Citrus greening symptoms normally show a more blotchy appearance.  Another greening symptom is what is normally called "corky veins".  I'm not sure what "corky veins" looks like, perhaps you can find that out on the Internet. 

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Southern Ag citrus spray
« on: April 18, 2017, 04:27:16 PM »
bigalxx15,  your tree's leaves might have an iron deficiency, but I'm not 100 percent sure.  However, the tree's leaves are showing a magnesium deficiency.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Southern Ag citrus spray
« on: April 18, 2017, 04:17:37 PM »
gozp, the deficiency your leaves are showing is manganese, not iron.  At this time of year these "transient" Manganese deficiency symptoms are VERY common.   These transient symptoms are due to a marginal supply of available manganese in the soil, which the tree roots temporarily are unable to extract enough Manganese to supply the large rapidly growing new flush of leaf growth.  Normally the leaves will return to the normal dark green color as the grow flush ends, and the roots are able to once again catch up.  However, you can apply a manganese spray such as Southern Ag Nutritional spray if you wish, or in most cases simply do nothing.   In the rare event that the leaves still look deficient upon the completion of the flush, there is always time to apply manganese. 

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Inspectors from the California Department of Food and Agriculture are going home-to-home inspecting trees after the devastating citrus disease Citrus Greening was detected in La Habra.

http://abc7.com/news/deadly-citrus-disease-detected-in-oc/1885842/

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citsuma Prague
« on: April 17, 2017, 03:54:22 PM »
ILYA11 Thanks for the link

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citsuma Prague
« on: April 16, 2017, 08:48:05 PM »
Interesting, to bad there is no supplier of the tree in the USA.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My Citrus trees
« on: April 16, 2017, 08:44:39 PM »
Louisport, you have a great  collection of citrus.  Plus you have a second collection of four varites of different colored Finger Limes. Very impressive.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Southern Ag citrus spray
« on: April 16, 2017, 08:38:34 PM »
Gozp, no its manganese

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citsuma Prague
« on: April 16, 2017, 03:10:45 PM »
Ilya,11 the Satsuma Prague is a cross between the Citsuma unshiu X Poncirus trifoliata correct?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: My Citrus trees
« on: April 16, 2017, 02:55:12 PM »
Your trees would appreciate it if you removed the grass from around their trunk.   I see you have a Bahia orange. The Bahia orange tree is the variety that was originally imported from Brazil into the USA in 1870 by the USDA. The USDA then sent out out from Washington two of the trees to Mrs. Luther C. Tibbes, of Riverside, California who grew them in her yard.. The trees were among the first to bloom and fruit in the USA.  It is from these two trees, one of which still is living, that the navel orange industry of California and mainly of the world has developed. The variety came to be referred  commonly as the Washington Navel orange, and was distributed under that incorrect name.  Later horticulturists attempted to introduce the correct name, Bahia, but to no avail: the markets had become so familiar with the designation Washington navel that it could not be supplanted.  We would be interested in seeing the rest of your citrus collection.   

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Southern Ag citrus spray
« on: April 16, 2017, 02:22:40 PM »
If it is from Southern AG it is OK.  The nutrition spray contains Iron 1.2%, Zinc 1.7%, Manganese 1.2%, Magnesium 1.0% and Sulfur 4.1%

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Wonderful Halos
« on: April 16, 2017, 02:06:27 PM »
rickshaw, it is a game for children which they can play by collecting the stickers . Click on the link below and then scroll down to "How To Play".

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Painting trees
« on: April 14, 2017, 12:27:49 PM »
ORGANIC tree paint???  Never knew there was such a thing.

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: Looking for rare limes
« on: April 13, 2017, 03:16:32 PM »
Bush 2 Beach, there is not much information on the Black Twig Lime.  I got some bud wood from Joe Real five years abo, who I assume got the bud wood from Gene Lester.  below is the most information I've found about the variety. 

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"Winged lime, is an unusual lime in that it has a fair amount of sugar, so it can be eaten out of hand by most people. Pleasant lime flavor. Fruit is globose, about 8 cm and gets ricey if left too long on the plant. Lots of long thorns, as the name implies.

Very unusual dark brown, almost black twigs. This color is retained in two- and sometimes three-year wood, the only citrus that I know of that has this characteristic. I called it "Blacktwig" for obvious reasons.

I planted some longispina seeds from UCR, and years later, when they first fruited, I could see that they were my Blacktwig, both from the fruit taste and dark twigs."

This information was given by Gene Lester, who grows this variety in Central California.

"Blacktwig" is one of the most beautiful and striking citrus trees I have seen. The deep violet-black twigs form a spectacular background for the pale green leaves and the pale yellow fruit. The Latin name longispina means long thorns and they are giant in size, by far the biggest and strongest thorns I have seen on a citrus tree, longer and thicker than on any trifoliate hybrid.

Gene's 8-foot tree has a spreading bushy appearance with slender long branches bending down under the weight of the fruit in heavy grapefruit-like clusters. It makes a beautiful ornamental plant and is very productive, but needs space. The taste is sweet but lacks acidity, some might say the fruit tastes a bit insipid. Definitely worth having as an ornamental and at least children like the plentiful fruit.

Winged lime is called Tai la mi san in Chinese and Taramisan in Japanese.

It is a great tasting lime, you can eat it out of hand.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Chelated iron
« on: April 13, 2017, 11:55:07 AM »
 6546 EDDHA Iron Chelate should take care of it.

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Because of greening disease the estimate for Florida grapefruit harvest dropped 800,000 boxes to a total of 8.1 million boxes. Just for comparison’s sake, the grapefruit harvest during the 2003-2004 season was 40.9 million boxes.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Chelated iron
« on: April 11, 2017, 10:42:09 PM »
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ss617

Look under:
"Recommended Rates & Timing"
Iron

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: In-ground Fertilizer
« on: April 11, 2017, 04:07:39 PM »
The time the tree spend growing in the container would certainly count in the age of the tree.  However, the size of the tree's root system since it was restricted by the size of the container, would not come close to the size of the root system spent growing in the soil for 3 to 5 years.   I guess personally I would not count the container years. We'll see what others on this forum think.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Wonderful Halos
« on: April 10, 2017, 10:33:55 PM »
It all began at the University of California Riverside where scientists irradiated budwood from Nadorcott mandarins to create a new seedless variety called Tango, which has since taken the U.S. market by storm. Spanish seed company Eurosemillas aims to mimic that success in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South America but has faced legal challenges from France’s Nador Cott Protection (NCP). These actions have left growers undeterred however, as demand for plants continues to outstrip supply.

http://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2015/03/16/nadorcott-case-against-tango-just-a-delay-tactic-says-eurosemillas/

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