Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
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Among those that grow true are: Most sweet oranges (with exception of Pineapple and some navels, which can make some variation in seedlings, though technically nucellar), most grapefruit, most lemons, most mandarins, key lime, calamondin.
Among those that do not: Persian lime (mostly seedless anyway), pummelos, Temple 'orange' (actually a tangor), and Meyer lemon.
Found this info on Gardenweb whilst I was looking around, Ludi. I love that site.
Ooh, here's a whole forum for citrus growers! Hope y'all enjoy it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
Mercury-
Thats my favorite citrus site! Lots of smart people on there.
PO-Nice peaches...distant warm blooded cousins of mine Cold in Texas today. I saw earlier even Brownsville was in the upper 40's. Brrr... We didn't even hit 0F here today! Gorgeous deep blue sky, however. I really want to get some snowshoes...today would have been an awesome day to go out on the lake snowshoeing.
I have 6 Kumquat seedlings right now. _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:02 am Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
PeakOiler wrote:
Did you get your lemon tree, mercurygirl?
Not yet, I think they will ship in about a month to avoid freezes. We've had more than our share of quite cold weather this winter. I bought from a great nursery in my region. Pretty expensive, but they are 2-3 year trees and I figure they will pay for themselves quickly if I can keep them alive. I need advice on repotting and such, guess I will look on that citrus forum. I also purchased some special citrus fertilizer for a good start.
Off-topic, I'm looking into growing ginger in a pot. It's tropical and needs hot weather to sprout. A little fussy, but can be done. My family is suffering from an intestinal virus right now and ginger tea is the best!
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
OK, I got my citrus trees and need to pot them. I got some good organic soil with compost and castings. I plan to mix with perlite, sand, and a little dolomite. Does that sound like a good recipe?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
m-girl, make sure dolomite is good for them first. Is it not a Ca, lime, source? My orange trees (tiny, indoor, like houseplants) came with instruction that lime was a no-no. But I guess there can be varieties of citrus too.
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:49 am Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
Yes, nocar. The sources I accessed seemed to agree that a little dolomite when repotting is good, since it will be in a container forever and most fertilizers lack this. However, I did spring for some special citrus fertilizer and I will check to see if it's included.
Off-topic, I picked up the supplies at a chain store and when poking around in their indoor plant section, came across a beautiful big aloe heeling over in a tiny pot, on the sale rack for two bucks. I've been wanting one and it needed a home, yay!
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:56 am Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
mercurygirl wrote:
OK, I got my citrus trees and need to pot them. I got some good organic soil with compost and castings. I plan to mix with perlite, sand, and a little dolomite. Does that sound like a good recipe?
I can't answer to that recipe but I wish you success with your citrus!
I read that sphagnum peat moss is good for limes. I used some in the satsuma potting mixture too. _________________ About my avatar: Guess.
Joined: Sep 16, 2004 Posts: 4439 Location: Southwest WI
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: Re: [Food] Production - Trees
Checked my seeds stratifying in the refrigerator after someone on Nafex mentioned they had sproutage... Well... heres what my 6 Reliance peach seeds looked like!
Potted them up, will plant them out wheneve i can get them in the soil. _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
-President Bush 11/07/07
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