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It is common acidic acid.  Put on sticky taps it attracts Male (and female) psyillids and kills them.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207140432.htm

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Luak, Tween-20 is a trade name.  The chemical name is Polysorbat-20. Polysorbat-20 is the very same chemical.

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I found a fruit that still had some green in the peel, really very little green, but not yet fully yellow.  I ate it and it was better than the totally yellow fruit.  It had a little more sugar (very little) but did have some what of a lemonade flavor.   My guess at this time is that taste testing should begin when the fruit just starts to turn yellow.  Taste one fruit every 3 to 5 days to determin the prime fruit color for harvesting..

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Green house / hoop house
« on: February 05, 2018, 04:19:56 PM »
Brite leaf citrus nursery   -  https://www.briteleaf.com/

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Green house / hoop house
« on: February 05, 2018, 10:07:07 AM »
Harris citrus in Florida grows their trees under approved screen houses.

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Luak, yes I have.  ST is a really GREAT lemon, you will love it.  Also makes outstanding zest.  Vlad, thanks for the information, I'll certainly try it at that stage.  I think I left mine hang too long. 

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My New Zealand Lemonade (NZL) tree has produce a nice crop of fruit.  This year I let the fruit remain on the tree until they were fully mature and very yellow.  The mature fruit was about the size of an Eureka lemon.  Yesterday I picked a couple fruit for taste testing.  Unfortunately the fruit did not taste like lemonade, but rather had a washed out lemon taste to it.  I would not say they tasted unpleasant, but rather bland.  The sour aspect was much less than that of a lemon.  In the past, I remember eating the fruit while it was still green, much the way one eats a lime, but don't remember much about the exact taste, other than I liked it.  The tree has a ton of flowers on it, so new fruit should be coming soon.  I plan on tasting the new crop at various intervals trying to determine when the fruit should be picked. Anyone else with a NZL tree have comments concerning picking time?

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Citrus General Discussion / Light Splitting Film For Greenhouses
« on: February 04, 2018, 02:17:08 PM »
The University of Colorado at Boulder to develop a cost effective greenhouse cover that splits sunlight into photosynthetically efficient light and also repurposes inefficient infrared light for water purification.  Under normal conditions, plants only use about 50 percent of incoming sunlight for photosynthesis. The new CU Boulder technology takes the form of a semi-translucent film that splits incoming light and converts the rays from less desired green wavelengths into more desirable red wavelengths, thus increasing the amount of photosynthetically efficient light for the plant with no additional electricity consummation.  The thin engineered material can be applied directly to the surface of the greenhouse.   The near-infrared wavelengths  can help clean brackish wastewater, allowing it to be recirculated in an advanced humidification-dehumidification interface and further reducing the greenhouse's energy footprint.

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For those that have already sprayed their trees with low biuret urea to set a larger fruit set in the coming crop, now there are several more sprays needed to insure that the fruits will be good FRUIT SIZE and the finest quality.  The amount of building materials, energy and hormones that are available to the developing fruit controls fruit size.  When the tree sets a heavy crop, the fruit's size will be reduced if there is an insufficient amount of any one of these factors. Summer applications of low biuret urea (46-0-0 > 0.5%. biuret) applied after the completion of EARLY FRUIT DROP, and then another spray  after most of "JUNE" drop will increase fruit size without affecting total yield.  Timing of the applications are important. The treatments increase fruit size by extending the cell division stage. The end of cell division is characterized by maximum peel thickness. In California the "June" drop sprays should be made between July 1 and July 15th. All applications should be made to give good canopy coverage, much like applying a pesticide.  All applications of low biuret urea should be made when the air temperature is below 80-F, early morning or late afternoon to early evening. The urea spray already completed, plus the spraying at early fruit drop, and June drop will give a larger crop, with fruit of nice size and high quality. (Crop Production Manual).

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Anyone know any sources of N1tri citrus?
« on: February 02, 2018, 03:04:42 PM »
I don't know of a source, but for those who don't know what a N1tri citrus is, it is a hybrid of Ichange Papeda and Poncirus,

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: What kind of tree is this?
« on: February 02, 2018, 02:53:21 PM »
The leaf does have the wide large petiole  of a grapefruit.

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Citrus General Discussion / Blooming & Leaf Drop
« on: January 31, 2018, 04:29:56 PM »
The season for citrus trees to flower is getting close.  The heavy bloom period is also the period of greatest leaf drop by the tree.  The production of flowers requires a lot of the trees energy, and the leaves that are not pulling their weight are discarded.  Therefore, when you notice more leaves falling to the ground don't become over concerned that the tree might have a problem.  This is a normal process.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Picked some freeze-damaged Croxtons
« on: January 29, 2018, 10:34:39 PM »
How did yo like the taste?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: C35 rootstock tree size
« on: January 25, 2018, 11:58:59 AM »
According  to the University of Florida's citrus rootstock selection guide, C35 produces a intermediate size tree, that produces an intermediate crop yield.

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In the outstanding text book "Advances in Citrus Nutrition", Tween-20, a food grade surfactant, was in all studies found to be the best surfactant for citrus tree applications.

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Foliar sprays can enter into the leaf only as long as the foliar spray remains in the liquid state.  Once it drys, it can no longer be absorbed by the tree.  When urea is used the situation is a little different.   Urea is highly hygroscopic.  Hygroscopic is the ability of a substance to absorb  moisture/water from its surroundings; because of this effect, after urea is sprayed on the foliage, and eventually dries, it re-hydrates into a usable nutrient as the humidity rises. Therefore, because of this property it is a valuable additive to add a small amount of urea to other foliar sprays such as a trace mineral spray, because it will re-moisturize the spray, making foliar sprays much more nutrient efficient.   

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Pineislnder its your tree do as you wish. 

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Pineislander,  Human urine, is not urea.  Ninety percent of the nitrogen content in human urine is present as ammoniacal N type, with ammonium bicarbonate being the dominant compound. 

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Laidback nice hearing from you again. As for spraying urea to obtain a better fruit crop, that advice was for growers in the northern hemisphere.  You are in the southern hemisphere, so you should spray your trees 1 to 2 months prior to your tree's expected bloom date. 

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You can find it on the Internet ----- type in Low Biuret Urea

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Waiting, for your neighbor's tree ....... no fertilizing = no growth.

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Waiting, does your friend with the Gold Nugget Mandarin regularly fertilize his tree?  For in ground citrus trees a 1 year old tree should be fertilized 6 times per growing season,  A 2 year old tree 5 times per growing season. A 3 year old tree 4 times, and trees 4 years old and older 3 times per growing season.

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