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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: 2yr Old Fruit Tree Nursery in Little Haiti. Edible Fruit Nursery
« on: March 29, 2024, 06:26:39 PM »
cool gotta ask, do you ship to arizona?
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I sent a message over to Lynn Nursery in cali last Friday. Ill see if they reach back out to me. I asked them about buying a small lot of C-22s from them. We can share
@hammer524 did you hear back from Lyn's?
Hey Hammer, I got my C-22's as seedlings from Reid at RSI a few years ago.
He's had a bad year with the heat and is out of citrus currently.
I want to get more myself, but can't find a source.
I wish I have an un-grafted C-22, then I can try to root some cuttings or do airlayers.
Fortunately one of my C-22 rootstocks has a small sucker below the graft union so I'll let it grow out.
My experience has been that you just need to keep things underpotted most of the time. Once a pot is mostly full of roots the plant drinks all the water and it's much harder for it to anaerobic. I used to be up potting things like a banshee, getting them into 20g when they really should have been kept in a 5g.
Also lately I am into pulling stuff out and root pruning, and putting into the same pot, or after the plant kind of settles in and eats up soil to turn into tree, I will just pull the plant out, put a bit more soil in, and put it back in same container.
The main thing to avoid is any wood mulch / wood chip type soils, which Kellogg and the like are famous for. Peat moss with lots of perlite seems to be totally fine if you keep the plant in the appropriate sized container. I have had some luck with sand, pumice, and compost type mixes as well, but I stick to peat moss with tons of perlite now and have very good success.
I'm finding myself going in the same direction more and more, with greater success. For me, smaller pots are better because I water a lot, and sometimes it rains a lot. Peat, perlite, and sand are working well. I'm no expert, I like plants and fruit, and turtles.
I have most of my citrus on C-22 Bitters instead of Seville Sour Orange now. My trees on C-22 grow better than SSO, especially in the part of my yard with more calcareous soil(shittier soil). Other advantages I see are:
-Stronger heat / sun resistance
-smaller tree, but still good vigor
-less fruit granulation(maybe due to lower growth vigor or better root efficiency or both)
-better flavor in some varieties(maybe due to healthier tree)
Seville Sour is still pretty good for Arizona soil, but C-22 is better. Also some nurseries say their citrus are on sour orange rootstock, but neglect to tell you it's not Seville Sour. They use some other sour orange such as Brazilian Sour or something that grows faster than Seville to increase profits. Then customers(me) wonder why their citrus still taste like trash after 5 freaking years.
Is this not happening? Anderson Tropicals is having a Black Friday sales too.
Mine says I'm 10b / 10a now, but I know it's not really true due to being at 2200'. I had the coldest year by far last year, with two snow visits of 4".
Just cause it says mango zone doesn't mean it will be reliably...