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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What Would Happen If You Stopped Doing Maintenance?
« on: March 18, 2024, 11:28:11 PM »
It used to happen a lot here in Florida with our citrus groves. Its a lot of work to the pull vines out of trees and cut the Brazilian pepper bushes down, etc. Very few of the trees ever died, though. On occasion it is helpful to have an overgrown grove. Particularly durring freezes. The vines take the brunt of the cold at the tops of the trees and the bushes help hold the heat in. In one particular story I heard recounted, the only grove to survive a freeze had been abandoned a year or two before. The higher price of fruit the next year paid for the grove to get cleaned up and then it still turned a profit.