Citrus Growers Forum

danero2004 · Posted: Sun 21 Aug, 2011 6:30 am

Hi Karoly , congratulations.

With what doy you fertlise your trees , they look so green , I know that many of the fertilisers in Hungary can be found in RO too.

Thanks , and you did a great job there, I will see you over the winter time.

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GT · Posted: Mon 22 Aug, 2011 12:23 am

Karoly,

You are most welcome! I'm very glad the seeds turned into such healthy and strong seedlings. Great job!!! Smile

Karoly · Posted: Mon 22 Aug, 2011 3:17 am

danero2004 wrote:

With what doy you fertlise your trees , they look so green , I know that many of the fertilisers in Hungary can be found in RO too.

Hi danero2004,

I'm using Universol Green (23-06-10) + potassium nitrate.

La revedere! Wink

danero2004 · Posted: Mon 22 Aug, 2011 4:47 pm

what for potasium nitrate ? I also use green universol Very Happy

isn't it too much

Fertilizer

Potassium nitrate is mainly used in fertilizers, as a source of nitrogen and potassium – two of the macro nutrients for plants. When used by itself, it has an NPK rating of 13-0-44.

Karoly · Posted: Tue 23 Aug, 2011 3:35 am

Universol have a ratio of 4-1-2 and I'm adding potassium nitrate 13,7-0-46 to get closer to 5-1-3 ratio. Smile

Citrus are heavy feeders, N&P are washable from pot. Wink

danero2004 · Posted: Tue 23 Aug, 2011 4:09 am

I understand that , but I thought that is a little to high on K , 44 is a big number

How much of them do you use for 1 L of water , both universol and potasium nitrate

Thanks

SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Sat 24 Sep, 2011 4:17 pm

Beautiful citrus trees you have there. Good work. I'm also building a bigger greenhouse mainly to contain my growing citrus obsession. Only have 3 right now (Meyer's Improved, Eureka & Calamandin) but may double that number tomorrow when I visit my new friend Tom at Tiny Tom's Tangerine Farm in Delta, BC (about 40 minutes drive from where I live).

Anthony

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Karoly · Posted: Tue 27 Sep, 2011 3:06 am

Karoly wrote:

Citrus are heavy feeders, N&P are washable from pot. Wink

Apologize for typo! Instead of N&P should be N&K! Embarassed

Karoly · Posted: Tue 27 Sep, 2011 3:08 am

SeaHorse_Fanatic wrote:

Beautiful citrus trees you have there. Good work. I'm also building a bigger greenhouse mainly to contain my growing citrus obsession. Only have 3 right now (Meyer's Improved, Eureka & Calamandin) but may double that number tomorrow when I visit my new friend Tom at Tiny Tom's Tangerine Farm in Delta, BC (about 40 minutes drive from where I live).

Anthony,

thanks a lot and good luck! Wink

Karoly · Posted: Tue 27 Sep, 2011 3:44 am

Few updates before winter which is very close! Sad

First time when I leave one lemon on the tree!
Imperial Lemon or C. Limon "Lipo":

Lemons:

Clementine:

Kumquat:

Here the nights temperatures are around 44F degrees and because the glass doesnt fit perfectly on frame I start to insulate the greenhouse using bubble foil!

Danero, 7C(44.6F) degrees is the morning and inside the greenhouse I have measured 15C(59F) degrees at floor (between pot's). Isnt so bad, if I could live them until end of November then I will be very happy!

My helper, she give me a hand and now she's very happy!!! Laughing

Laaz · Posted: Tue 27 Sep, 2011 9:36 am

Very nice Karoly. Looks like your Imperial Lemon is the same as our Ponderosa lemon.

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SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Wed 28 Sep, 2011 2:08 am

Karoly wrote:

SeaHorse_Fanatic wrote:

Beautiful citrus trees you have there. Good work. I'm also building a bigger greenhouse mainly to contain my growing citrus obsession. Only have 3 right now (Meyer's Improved, Eureka & Calamandin) but may double that number tomorrow when I visit my new friend Tom at Tiny Tom's Tangerine Farm in Delta, BC (about 40 minutes drive from where I live).

Anthony,

thanks a lot and good luck! Wink

Well, I did manage to acquire a beautiful Pink Eureka (from cutting), a 4' fruiting Key Lime and a fruiting Vietnamese Cooking Lemon tree from Tom. I will be learning how to graft next weekend and adding to my collection of course. Hope to one day emulate all you experienced citrus growers on this forum. Mr. Green

Love your pics of the fruits, trees and your "little helper". I have my own little helper in training (Felicia aged 3) with another waiting in the wings (Isabella aged 3 months). Wink

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Karoly · Posted: Wed 28 Sep, 2011 3:10 am

Laaz wrote:

Very nice Karoly. Looks like your Imperial Lemon is the same as our Ponderosa lemon.

Thx Laaz!

Yes it looks similar to Ponderosa but the taste of Imperial Lemon is worse, its more ornamental citrus but it looks good! First reaction when somebody sees the huge lemon says whoooaaauuu, thats so big! Laughing

Karoly · Posted: Wed 28 Sep, 2011 3:38 am

SeaHorse_Fanatic wrote:

Well, I did manage to acquire a beautiful Pink Eureka (from cutting), a 4' fruiting Key Lime and a fruiting Vietnamese Cooking Lemon tree from Tom. I will be learning how to graft next weekend and adding to my collection of course. Hope to one day emulate all you experienced citrus growers on this forum. Mr. Green

Love your pics of the fruits, trees and your "little helper". I have my own little helper in training (Felicia aged 3) with another waiting in the wings (Isabella aged 3 months). Wink

So, it looks that you start to increase your citrus collection. Very Happy

Here is the right place and I hope to see soon some photos with your citrus trees! Wink

My little helper (Alexa aged 2.5) and I have a bigger helper but he has been occupied playing game with PS (Roland aged 7). Evil or Very Mad

danero2004 · Posted: Wed 28 Sep, 2011 5:26 am

Thanks Karoly , I will start to measure myself the soil temp from now on but I will bring them inside into an enclosure at the end of october , here at night we still have 50-60F so it is ok

I was thmking of using those bubbles too but covered again with plastic since the bubbles will hold the the snow and may break it down !

good luck