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Citrus General Discussion / Re: sunburn from led lights?
« on: May 10, 2022, 08:29:43 AM »
Fukushu = Changshou is correct. My area is so humid I get mold on my car body by early spring. If your tree is grafted to phytophera resistant rootstock it will be no problem.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: sunburn from led lights?
« on: May 07, 2022, 11:35:32 PM »I certainly hope not.. My healthiest trees are all Fukushu kumquatsMeiwa and nagami are very hard to grow. Fukushu kumquats grow much better.
According to oscar tintori the Fukushu is unsuited to humid areas because susceptible to phytophera.
So also not good for my region.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: sunburn from led lights?
« on: May 06, 2022, 07:15:45 PM »
Meiwa and nagami are very hard to grow. Fukushu kumquats grow much better.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Juice concentrate?
« on: May 05, 2022, 04:23:19 PM »
I am growing New Zealand lemonade fruits to get around the diabetic Issues.. Kumquats will work to.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Rooftop citrus trees
« on: May 05, 2022, 02:05:25 PM »
Thanks Brian. The handles make is so easy to transport. I wish i could get 15 gallon buckets like these 5's. It took me 5 minutes to get the 12 gallon fukushu kumquat/FD up 8 ladder feet.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Juice concentrate?
« on: May 05, 2022, 12:15:52 PM »
Pressure cooker. A 5 gallon bucket would be crushed long before the required vacuum would be reached. Atmosphere is 14 psi at 1200 feet elevation. Your pump will need to bring that down to 1 PSI
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Juice concentrate?
« on: May 05, 2022, 09:38:33 AM »
with a vacuum pump you can boil the mandarin juice at 100F with out damaging the fresh flavor but you will have to freeze the concentrate to save it.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: testing a switch to wide & shallow containers
« on: May 02, 2022, 11:23:29 PM »
Your trees look good. I have been using shorter container to. Mine are not that short. They are 55 gallon drums cut in half. That makes for greater diameter than depth but not shallow like yours.
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Citrus General Discussion / Rooftop citrus trees
« on: May 01, 2022, 09:29:59 PM »
I have moved my potted citrus trees om top of my roof where they will get light.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Can I use Jack's 25-5-15 on in-ground citrus trees?
« on: April 28, 2022, 09:13:05 PM »
I have found that bags of XX-XX-XX do not have trace elements
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: update on hardy citrus collection in PNW, April 2021
« on: April 28, 2022, 07:55:53 AM »
I transplanted a Fukushu kumquat tree outside from a 30 gallon container.
We dropped to 3F this year and average below 0-F 10nout of 30 years. Those 10 years often have multiple night below 0-f
We dropped to 3F this year and average below 0-F 10nout of 30 years. Those 10 years often have multiple night below 0-f
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Horticultural Oil For Insect Control
« on: April 24, 2022, 05:32:29 PM »
85F
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Kumquat trees
« on: April 22, 2022, 12:20:46 AM »
Seville sour promotes extra sweetness needed to sweeten the pulp of the Fukushu. I am going to try Flying dragon for my New Zealand lemonade and valentine pomelo.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Kumquat trees
« on: April 21, 2022, 07:44:10 PM »
Yes. I used the Poncirus to serve as an inter-stock to bridge between incompatible sour orange and kumquat scion. My previous direct graft of kumquat to sour orange all died quite quickly.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Kumquat trees
« on: April 21, 2022, 03:16:10 PM »
The 3 trees in ground are seed grown Meiwa kumquat trees and the 5 gallon are Grafted Fukushu kumquats
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Flowering Fortunella
« on: April 19, 2022, 11:49:28 PM »
I am not storing pollen or hybridizing citrus.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Flowering Fortunella
« on: April 19, 2022, 07:41:18 PM »
My Meiwa kumquat tree has 2 flowers on in
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meyer lemon as graft stock for other citrus
« on: April 19, 2022, 08:15:01 AM »
For a potted plant yes.. The roots are to frail for good outdoors rootstock
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Grafting golden nugget to lemon tree.
« on: April 14, 2022, 12:03:27 AM »
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Grafting golden nugget to lemon tree.
« on: April 14, 2022, 12:01:47 AM »
When daytime temperature are in the 80'sF regularly for graft joining growth
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Grafting golden nugget to lemon tree.
« on: April 13, 2022, 11:21:21 PM »
yes
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: PT graft growing well
« on: April 04, 2022, 11:19:11 PM »
I guess you are right
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Half dead scion wood on a graft
« on: April 04, 2022, 11:14:02 PM »
I would bet on the tree doing well.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / PT graft growing well
« on: April 02, 2022, 02:27:26 PM »
stock is growing after nearly 9 months from grafting date of 6-22-21.
Check out the 2 Trilobites on each side of the grafted scion.
Check out the 2 Trilobites on each side of the grafted scion.
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