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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus Bloom Time Is Comming
« on: February 26, 2016, 04:43:45 PM »
Pineapple Orange


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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus Bloom Time Is Comming
« on: February 07, 2016, 03:36:47 PM »
This Cara Cara Naval I got is throwing out blooms



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Citrus General Discussion / Re: GMO Trees Or Perhaps Only GMO Rootstocks
« on: January 11, 2016, 09:48:41 AM »
I see some being replanted locally, but honestly I see more healthy groves being lost to urban development now.
Lotta folks switched crops or began phasing out citrus after the hurricanes. Its been a very slow death since the 80's where I live.

I have a bout 33 wild ferral citrus trees, no greening. The grove here was mainly wiped out during the  mid 80's and the rest were killed during the Hurricanes so we missed the greening thing even though we musta had young plants at that time. Most of the property turned into a forest/overgrowth

Btw phatom hi from across the bay ;)

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: GMO Trees Or Perhaps Only GMO Rootstocks
« on: January 10, 2016, 09:01:35 PM »
I got 10 of the UFR 15, I assume thats one of the ones they're talking about... 3 Years and still no greening on the UF grove.
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=17816.0

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: Where to buy citrus online (USA)
« on: January 10, 2016, 02:11:32 PM »
Thanks! Any idea what happened to Harris? I was planning on visiting but their website suddenly disappeared.

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I saw this locally. There are lots of groves in the area that have died or are dying now (probably greening) however I've had tons of new citrus plants sprout up out of nowhere for quite some time (various sizes and ages from seedling to 12'). Our grove never used ferts or insecticides and we were wiped out during the, freeze of 85/86 and the hurricanes in 04-05. Our last citrus tree was a blood orange which stopped producing in 2012 then died. (probably a 40-50 year old tree)
So I don't know.What I do know is development is claiming healthy groves at an alarming rate, while untended and dying groves often sit vacant.

Here are some photos I collected for a project I did for school I called "The Post Citrus Landscape"



Citrus Tower Clermont, FL

Today

Today

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: How do they do that?!
« on: October 18, 2015, 04:57:52 PM »
Looks like a tomato cage... Really cool thanks for sharing

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Is The GMO Citrus Tree The Silver Bullet?
« on: October 04, 2015, 11:57:04 PM »
I thought they found greening damage to be to roots first. Tolerant root stock would then tolerate it?

http://news.ufl.edu/archive/2014/04/surprising-find-ufifas-discovers-citrus-greening-affects-roots-before-leaves.html

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Citrus General Discussion / UFR-15
« on: October 02, 2015, 06:52:02 PM »
I was just given 10 plants of these out of Philmon Nursery in Dade City. Data reports no incidences of greening. Excited to use these as root stock. Photos also show this as being used to be grafted on top of.

Put these in pots and gave a bit of worm castings. Next stop for these fellas is the ground once they are established and acclimated to my yard.





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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citruswall
« on: September 26, 2015, 04:13:12 PM »
Very awesome garden! I love the citrus wall :)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself
« on: September 22, 2015, 05:42:05 PM »
Hi I'm Acocyetly, its an ancestoral name... I am a thesis candidate in graduate school for Architecture atm.

I live in West Central Florida, growing all kinds of things such as Passion Fruit, Loquats, Avacados, Peruvian Apples, Tomatoes, several other rare tropical plants (not all fruiting). We used to have a very awesome diverse citrus grove. Freezes, canker and the hurricanes got us pretty good. I'm not sure whats left but there is some citrus growing wild... I presume either the rootstock or something unfortunately some of these have canker so more removal. But I hope to replenish the the grove to what I can.



the grove in the 70s

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: Where to buy citrus online (USA)
« on: September 22, 2015, 03:54:19 PM »
Looking for some for Florida citrus tree dealers. To my knowledge you cant import citrus trees here anymore. I need new grafting stock resistant to disease.
https://www.justfruitsandexotics.com/JFE/product-category/fruit-trees/citrus/
That is what I have found

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Thank you for this! I am hoping to replant some of the citrus we've lost over the years!! We got hit by everything it seems.

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