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SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Sun 02 Oct, 2011 5:32 am

Went out to visit Tom at Tiny Tom's Citrus Farm in Delta today and we had a very productive 4.5 hours in his greenhouse. We transplanted/repotted approximately 250 small citrus plants into bigger pots and we barely scratched the surface. Just cleared out one small corner of his collection.

Just blows my mind that someone in the Lower Mainland (BC) has that many citrus plants and that many varieties. In terms of greenhouse space, we literally only dealt with about 5-10% of what he has growing today.

There were different lemons (Meyers, Eureka, Pink Eureka, Persians, Vietnamese, Ponderosa & a few I can't remember), limes (Key, Vietnamese, & more I can't name), sour orange, Calamansi, Kumquat, Limequat, Lemonquat, Mandarins, Clementines, Guavas, Rumbutan, Olive, Grapefruit, Pomelo, Blood Orange, Papaya, Flying Dragon and a shwack more.

Very productive day but also very tiring. Learned alot from talking to the guy so that was a real bonus. The scary part is we didn't even transplant any of the bigger citrus yet. Hanging out with Tom is dangerous though since I'm now thinking my planned 12' x 8' x 7' tall polycarbonate kit greenhouse (for citrus) will not be anywhere big enough & I'll probably have to look at doing a 20' x 8' by 10' tall one instead.

Oh well, back to work for me (editing papers).

Anthony

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SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Sun 02 Oct, 2011 5:33 am

And yes, I'll bring my DSLR next time I visit so I can take some pics and post them on here.

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paul_curtis mac · Gest

Look forward to seeing the pictures. How many did you come home with Very Happy

SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Sun 02 Oct, 2011 7:25 am

paul_curtis mac wrote:

Look forward to seeing the pictures. How many did you come home with Very Happy

None this time. Already have 4 from Tom's collection (Calamansi, Vietnamese lemon, Pink Eureka & Key lime). I'm sure I'll be picking up more from him in the near future. He's holding a papaya for me and keeping my 5 years old Avocado tree in his greenhouse for the winter.

I plan to add a Moro Blood Orange and a multi-species grafted citrus tree when ready. Probably do Satsuma, Ponderosa lemon, Sour Orange, and Pomelo for my 4-in-one tree. Would love to eventually do a 6-in-one (maybe add a Persian lime & Buddha's hand (just to be different).

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Lemandarangequatelo · Citruholic Joined: 01 Mar 2010 Posts: 485 Location: UK

Now that sounded tiring but fun! I look forward to the pics Smile

What is a Vietnamese Lemon? Is it any different to the store bought lemons?

SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Sun 02 Oct, 2011 1:43 pm

His has little nibs that stick out of the end like an anteater's nose.

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Karoly · Posted: Sun 02 Oct, 2011 2:00 pm

Anthony,

It looks that you have some fun this weekend! Laughing

Repotting 250 citrus in one day, nice, very good job! hate-ok

Waiting for photos!

Cheers,
Karoly

SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Mon 03 Oct, 2011 12:16 am

It was fun, but tiring and I even volunteered just because I thought it would be fun and informative & it needs to be done. I would imagine that repotting all the other trees would take another week or two, easily. We tackled the easy smaller stuff (nothing over 3'). He's got some monsters in the greenhouse that are 8'+ and containerized in barrels so those will be a PITA to upsize their containers.

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Mark · Posted: Sat 08 Oct, 2011 2:59 pm

SeaHorse_Fanatic wrote:

It was fun, but tiring and I even volunteered just because I thought it would be fun and informative & it needs to be done. I would imagine that repotting all the other trees would take another week or two, easily. We tackled the easy smaller stuff (nothing over 3'). He's got some monsters in the greenhouse that are 8'+ and containerized in barrels so those will be a PITA to upsize their containers.

He needs to go with RootMaker RootBuilder. Buy the 100' roll, either 18" or 36" wide, cut to any length for any size custom pot you want.

I just erected a Nexus Zephr, 10' columns, 18' atrium roof. Polycarb SolarSoft covering. That is what you need.

What variety of avocado, and is it producing? I am planting avocado and citrus using RootMaker pots.

Mark

SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Sun 09 Oct, 2011 12:46 am

Don't know but the Avocado is from a seed from a store bought avocado.

I read they don't fruit till 9 years old or so (mine's about 5).

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SeaHorse_Fanatic · Posted: Tue 01 Nov, 2011 8:47 am

link

Link to pics of the citrus trees/seedlings we transplanted.

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