I have the all metal version of the Breville in that article. It lists for $300, or $100 more that the one in the article. I think I paid $160 for it 10 years ago. It works very well.

Also have the B&D one at work. It is fine for a glass at a time juicing.

Oh how the mighty have fallen. California would be in a better place if they would have stuck to agriculture and farmers, and not the trash that currently runs the show.

I think you have that exactly right.

I used 6 Bearss Limes yesterday for just one Mega Margarita made in a frozen beer glass.

However, with 3 Bearss trees I could see that I would end up with too many so I espaliered one.

I have not juiced any yet but UCR says "numerous seeds": http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/page.html

Both the parents have seeds but I'm not sure what that means.

I haven't picked any but my first batch looks ready. I guess we will see.

In everything I've ever seen, Tango has been said to be developed by irradiating W. Murcott Afourer mandarin.

My climate is close to Riverside. Today's 84F High & 64F Low is very unusual for Summer. Normal June, July, August & September cooler days are 90F/65F and hotter days are 100F/72F. We generally get a week sometime when we see almost 110F each day. We usually see a few days above 110F but not every year.

My older unidentified GF produces fabulous grapefruit. Patty S identified it as a Pink Marsh or similar from the picture below shown with one of my Cocktail GF.

I have since readied a GF section for my grove with Oro Blanco, Melogold, Rio Red, another Cocktail

I worked at picking seedless Mandarins for my yard:

USDA 88-2
Kishu Mini
Pixie
Tango
Yosemite Gold
Gold Nugget

I did buy a couple Page Mandarins but expect to juice them like my seedy Minneola and Cocktail. Some fruits just don't have a seedless equivalent.

Pretty interesting. I'm actually in the area known as College Heights shown in this label from that website:



I doubt 1% of the people in this immediate area would even know what "College Heights" means.

I have an older Valencia Orange that keeps getting sunburn damage on the branches. It was originally overgrown with Ivy and now that it is removed, there isn't enough leaf coverage to protect the branches. Damaged branches make less leaves and the cycle repeats. Summer is coming and the sun is about to get brutal again.

I'm making a semi-temporary shade structure for the Summer. Any idea how dense a shadecloth would be good for a hot inland SoCal Valley? Upland is former Citrus country.

In case anyone is wondering why I don't just spend 10 hours painting every branch, the branches are just covered in the ivy remains and it keeps falling off. If I spent a bunch of time scraping that off, I'm afraid I would kill the tree.

I'm thinking of cutting all the sunburn damaged branches off, which will leave me with a tree about 8' tall and wide. The trunk is about 1 foot diameter. There would still be 100+ leaves on the tree but they would be mostly first year growth sprouted out of the big branches at that point.

I'm considering making the structure a bit bigger so that I can plant two others now that it has gotten a bit late in the year to plant in the full sun.

Out of 2500 dealers, the only one listed in SoCal never had that product. They were only a book and flower shop and are now gone anyway.

Expanding area to 500 miles finds one in Sacramento and one in Phoenix, AZ. Neither carry the 25-5-15.

1000 miles finds Denver area dealers that don't ship and aren't likely to be cheaper than Amazon or buying direct.

Looks like 95%+ of their distribution is East of Rockies.

I would think the CA citrus growers are using something similar but I'm not sure. The small ones I know are mostly doing it wrong according to the info that I'm learning.

I see two references to 25-5-15 missing Mg but their info sheet for 77900 shows 0.1%. Have they changed it or is 0.1% not enough. It does appear to be missing Ca but don't think that is generally an issue in CA. CA has plenty of Ca, right?