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Your flower looks nice, congrats. Make sure to hand pollinate the next flower at 9am-10am or you may not get fruit set. I did learn the hard way that if you wait until after noon, it will not be good since I have so many bees, they take all the pollen from the flower before I can hand pollinate. I was wondering why some days I get hardly any pollen on the flower to use. Also, another good trick is to cover the flower immediately after you hand pollinate it so the bees don't try to remove the pollen you just put on the stigma. I use the organza bags (8"x12") since the flower is so large, works great.
Thanks Janet for the reply, then maybe I don't need to worry to much about the weight. My vine is growing over and through my blood orange tree and fence so I can use that as support for the new vines. This vine grows so fast, its hard to keep up with the number of flowers I need to hand pollinate every morning. Going outside again to do my routine to hand pollinate the flowers now.
If you want a fruit to mature on the tree, and still let the trees highest chance for good growth, you can leave one fruit on the tree until it matures. This is because all citrus draws its energy to grow and ripen from only the three closes leaves to the fruit.
Z4 is a hybrid correct?Improved selection of the red hybrid.
Very few of the Lane Late flowers will produce fruit. Therefore, if you wait until the bloom is over to remove the new (if any) fruit, you will have a much easier time doing so.
