The only kumquats I've ever seen for sale were Nagamis.  They are very sour and sort of astringent but I love them.  Nobody else I've offered them to seem to like them.  I don't have any true Nagami trees but I have Nordman Seedless which tastes about the same.

That's really cool... is this for fun or profit??

Yes, I got a whole roll of the stuff and repotted everything in them.  They really do seem to make a noticeable difference.

plantlover, Fukushu fruit seems to be somewhat more sour and juicy, and meiwas more pulpy and sweet.  I prefer fukushu so far but I've only had one crop of each.

I still get ants in peat/cedar mixture, it doesn't seem to bother them. 

OVer the winter I watched my Eustis Limequat steadily decline.  When it start losing most of its leaves I pulled it out of the pot and realized the roots were all rotted, likely due to poor location of drainage holes in the container.  I repotted it and treated it with AgriFos and watched every leaf fall off and every branch die over the spring.  It just sprouted some new growth above the graft line.  Hopefully it will make a full recovery.

I quit drinking orange juice when I realized I could eat something like four oranges for the same calorie intake, and the oranges taste much better and are more filling.  The flavor pack thing is just dishonest, too.  I don't think there is anything evil about using them, but the "fresh squeezed" marketing should not be allowed by FTC.

I never understood the anti-GMO movement.  This kind of thing is modern tech at its finest.

I still don't see Xie Shan on the site... I'll have to call back again

You got a Xie Shan from Harris?  When I called them last month they told me they wouldn't be ready for sale until July/August.

Thanks, I need to get some of this anyway because I read that Minneola Tangelos may require it to set fruit properly.

So does spraying with gibberellic acid when insect pollination is unavoidable still prevent seedy fruit, or is it whichever "gets there first" (pollen or GA3) that determines this?

Lotusblos, Millet had mentioned in another thread that most tomato & pepper "bloom setter" type products that are widely available at garden stores contains gibberellic acid as the active ingredient and so those could be used on citrus.  I'm sure it can be found online also, though I haven't looked.

I'm not sure if kumquats are affected by this but as I have two of various types of roughly the same size and maturity I may spray one of each type and not the other to see if there is a clear difference.

Thanks, Millet. 

So is it safe to use Jack's HPF as a foliar fertilizer on citrus, at the low concentration?   

I need to get a 55gal rain barrel anyway, my 5gal buckets are not sufficient anymore.  I was corcerned that leaving fertilizer mixed with water might cause it to degrade too quickly but it sounds like that is not the case. 

I am thinking I will use osmocote during spring repotting hwn trees get rained on outdoors, and move to rain-barrel water with liquid fert in the greenhouse in the winter, as I have very hard water.

These are from fourwinds so I assume they are all on Cuban Shaddock. 

I am worried that they might be confused from moving to a 90F/55F greenhouse to 70F/50F spring outdoors in PA.   After going through a huge growth flush I'm not sure if I should expect a flush of only flowers sometime soon, or if they already missed the boat and won't flower until the next growth flush.

I've increased the number of trees I have in containers and now I am getting sick of mixing buckets of water-soluble fertilizer to fertilize them all.  Is it possible to use time-release Osmocote as the sole fertilizer, foliar spraying only, or Osmocote plus a foliar spray?  Foliar spraying is far easier to do on a large scale than mixing buckets for me because of the tiny amount required.  And I can mix osmocote into the potting mix or add it on top later.

I have Jack's Professional 25-5-15 - thanks to whoever posted that coupon code on the CGF.  Is this usable as a foliar spray?  The instructions don't mention this.  It contains 0.12% iron, and I know iron is not recommended for foliar spraying.

I also have Osmocote Plus (with micronutrients) 15-9-12, which doesn't have the right NPK ratio for citrus.  I would have to add extra and deal with too much potassium and phosphorous.  How big a deal is this?  I repot yearly, and when outside all trees get rained on regularly.  When i water manually I usually give around a gallon to each tree.