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Reply With QuoteSome healthy looking trees! Very nice.
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The Value in Feeding Citrus in December
When you talk to Horticulturist that don't grow, repair, graft, propagate, etc trees I find they offer little good information on Citrus growing. It is very important to feed your citrus trees with a worm casting, a organic time release citrus balanced fertilizer, and most important - Ironite.
Our Moro Blood Orange got infected with Mites and Greasy Spot. So that is a insect & fungus at the same time. By feeding in December & treating with Neem Oil it was able to spring right back over the winter. In the first & second picture you can see all the new growth along with a ton of blooms. The second picture is the leaves the tree is shedding due to the treatment working.
Here is our Rio Red Grapefruit, a 3 year old tree, so I only allowed 9 grapefruit to remain this past growing season. They take over a year to ripen fully. The second picture are the blooms of a healthy citrus tree fed in December.
Check out the blooms on our Meyer Lemon. Just as temperamental as a Blood Orange, just running away with new growth due to the December feeding.
Key Lime & Persian Lime loaded with blooms.
This tree is 2 years in the container so a total of 3 years old. It was unusual when sold because it was a tiny wisp of a tree just a year old. Not allowed to fruit and regular feedings is why it is growing so fast.
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Check this out, I stuck some prepped fig cuttings in one of the Citrus containers and they are budding out.
Last edited by SuperDave336; 02-27-2024 at 08:33 PM. Reason: Rotate pic
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Very cool. I stuck some in a pot outside and haven’t seen anything from them yet. I imagine they won’t survive since they weren’t prepped or anything. I’ll know by spring I hope. Wife will be wanting that pot for her geraniums.
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Fig Tree Propagation Update
Checked the cuttings and found 9 that need potting this morning.
I carefully cut the rubber band & plastic bag from the rooted cutting taking great care to not disturb the roots while un-bagging. I used a regular potting mix from Sam's to pot up these plants and only used rain water to wet down after completion.
No rhyme or reason why these rooted so fast ahead of the others. I don't dare disturb the rooting media to look.
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They look good and healthy. Nice roots. Were they all the same variety? I think some root easier.
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So almost equal, 3 different varieties, different thicknesses, different ages. I'll take the win anyway even though I can't explain why. BTW the Dentist cuttings is in there and the leaves are not Smith.Originally Posted by SuperDave336
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If not Smith wonder what they are? I have seen a video though where the same tree from cuttings gave different leaves. Something about recessive genes or something like that. I’ll see if I can find that video.
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I can’t find the video I watched but found one from Harvey at Figaholics.
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Smith, Condria, and Mission have the same distinct leaf shape. It's reliable, every time, their leaf is very unique.
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