Citrus Growers Forum

mrtexas · Posted: Fri 13 Feb, 2009 11:24 am

I would avoid any satsuma with early in the name as they bloom earlier as well. This tree is actually a pink grapefruit on flying dragon in Bridge City, TX pre hurricane Ike (poor town that got flooded out by hurricane Ike. Out of 3,500 homes, only 14 escaped flooding.)

A.T. Hagan · Posted: Fri 13 Feb, 2009 11:40 am

mrtexas wrote:

I would avoid any satsuma with early in the name.

Why so?

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Nice set up. I'm planning on something similar with mine though perhaps more of a teepee shape.

.....Alan.

mrtexas · Posted: Sat 14 Feb, 2009 1:44 am

Earlier satsumas bloom earlier as well. Blooms can be frozen with a late frost. My armstrong early got knocked by a late frost one year and bloomed a 2nd time!

Millet · Posted: Sat 14 Feb, 2009 4:43 pm

If, or when, your area becomes threatened by greening, you could use your cold protection frames as a screened house, keeping the psyllids out. - Millet (1,435-)