Don't worry about going off topic. I could care less and find it interesting.
Mark since you already have a tractor. Would something like this be cheaper than buying one that has a motor
Not practical for me. All I had to do, which I thought of after the event (of course) is T off my big outside propane tank to run the free standing pot, if I could get a licensed person out in time to do the job. Should of could ofs will buy you a cup of coffee. Again, no one could have planned for such an event. At least we weren't without power for 3 weeks like some around here.
Do you grow the new Citrus variety sugarbelle?
Nope, would love to get my hands on some scions though.
My oldest brother is a farmer / truck driver. Being the wisenheimer that I am. I call him The Astronaut Farmer. He just delivered one of those windmills last summer to Texas. I will ask him why he did not fill it full of antifreeze.Lol
All the avocados are pushing except for a Pinkerton. GEM has flower buds and Sharwil is pushing from limbs sitting on the ground up about 6' on the big 4" trunks.
It's just frickin' crazy how tough Reed is! It's been through two bouts of super freezing temps and recovered well. 18F in 2018, 21F now. WHAT'S REALLY CRAZY is out of about 5 Reed seedlings that were sitting on the ground 4 have NO damage and are growing fine. Reed shrugs off sustained temps up to 112F too.
I don't get it.......
"Reed is cold hardy down to 30F degrees". Glad my trees can't read.
Don't know about the mangos. Been 5 weeks and nothing but new leaves where I covered them up at the bottom.
Citrus is doing great. Here's a Moro blood orange that's pushing some of the healthiest, dark green foliage AND blooming too. Why? Because I hit them with a pound of ICL's flagship Osmocote 15-9-12, a 9 month food. I more than doubled the Osmocote on all trees. Been eating oranges like crazy. Lost about 50 or so Lamb and Sharwil avocados to the freeze. What's very cool is when Sharwil's were dropping early 2021 most tasted great, every bit as good as store bought Hass albeit not filled out.
Out of about 6 orange varieties on my key lime tree Cara Cara is our fave. Just unreal......