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Shasta Gold Mandarin
Millet:
I purchased a Shasta Gold mandarin from Logee's greenhouse and planted it on October 18, 2019 in a 3-gallon Root maker air root pruning container. The tree is planted in a 5-2-1 medium (5-parts Repti-bark wood chips, 2 parts peatmoss 1 part perlite). This is a highly aerated and rapid draining medium, so I water the tree by soaking the entire container for 1 hour per week (at least at this time of year). An hours soak allows the Repti bark to absorb up a supply bank of water for extended use by the tree. Soaking the root system for this period of time does no damage to the roots. A citrus tree can remain submerged for two days before any root damage begins to occur. In the 5 months since the tree has been planted, it has had one flush and one flowering. However, the tree dropped all the small fruitlets from this initial bloom. I expect that the next flowing should be around August. If at that time some fruit is retain, I will allow the tree to keep one fruit. Retaining one fruit, even on a young small tree, does not effect the trees potential growth at all. This is because all the energy a fruit requires to produce and grow to maturity is derived only from the 3 or 4 closest leaves to the fruit, and not from the entire tree (research my Karen E. Koch U. of Florida). For container growing I find the 5-2-1 medium works very well. An additional 5-2-1 advantage, is one does not need to worry about over watering. I fertilize the tree with Jack's professional 25-5-15 w/micros fertilizer.
brian:
I bought a shasta gold from logees also, this winter. I am looking forward to trying the fruit. Though it is flushing it didnt put any flower buds out yet.
Millet:
See that Brian......Great minds think alike.
lebmung:
--- Quote from: Millet on March 21, 2020, 07:41:50 PM ---For container growing I find the 5-2-1 medium works very well. An additional 5-2-1 advantage, is one does not need to worry about over watering. I fertilize the tree with Jack's professional 25-5-15 w/micros fertilizer.
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Millet do you actually need to worry about overwatering a PT or FD rs? They are pretty strong to root rot.
Millet:
Lebmung, your correct. Thanks for pointing that out. Poncirus does well in wet conditions and clay soils, Because trifoliates do better then most rootstocks in wet/clay soils, they have a hard time with dry conditions.
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