If you guys are going next year be sure to bring your digital camera because the citrus are so rare and so pretty you would want them to be printed.
And as an advice, why not make your trip very memorable and make this as your family's annual vacation. Bring the whole family and I can help you tour the Monterey famous for its tourist attraction. I can show you the Monterey aquarium where there are live exhibits for the fishes who lived in the deepest ocean, live great white shark and just so many others, you and your family can stay in a nice hotel overlooking the ocean and if you are brave enough swim in the ocean. I can accompany you to drive the 17 mile drive and tour the most scenic area overlooking the ocean. I 've traveled all over but this one tops it all. You can also play in the golf course where the celebrities play like tiger woods and others- their favorite place to play and you can dine at clint eastwoods restaurant at Carmel. You can also dine to nice restaurants if you like fresh fiish catch of the day at the pier overlooking Monterey bay.
San Francisco is also a driving distance where you can see the golden gate bridge and dine in China town.
I would encourage you to rent a car long before you get here it is cheaper that way.

Joe:
I just bought a 5 gal seedless Kishu at Home Depot so it is not as uncommon as we might think it is.

Hi Benny, I have two seedless Kishus, and they both are presently blooming. Both of my Kishu's are more of a bush shape in appearence than the standard tree shape. How does your Kishu look? - Millet

Millet:
Mine is blooming also but there is no tag where it came from. It is also the bush type because the main trunk was cut a foot from the graft. But the good thing about it is it is semidwarf which means it may grow taller. I have 2 calamondins that the main trunk was cut off but after 2 years there was one dominant branch that grow very fast straight up so I cut and trim the other branch that grow parallel to the ground some at a time so it would grow much taller. My purpose is to convert it into a tree looking one.
Did you ever have any ripe fruit on it before?
If so how does it taste there.
I am sold to this mandarin for its sweetness during the scion tour.

Iwould be very interested in going as well ts not Far for me to drive

Plus get to meet all of my Buddys from this group ..

I have no idea there where so many citrus ..
I could stay with my uncle and aunt in arbuckle then finish the drive ..
so please let me know the dates and info Tammy

We'll keep you in touch for next year.
Arbuckle is north of us. It would be a long drive from Arbuckle, but you can stop by at our place in Davis before going on to the tour. Then we can carpool from Davis going into the tour. If Millet stays with his brother in Sacramento, just about 15 miles from us, then we meet over at our house take a quick tour around the tiny yard. Then there would be three of us Citrus Forum members carpooling from Davis going to Watsonville. We can meet there with Benny, EZ, Ashok and Laaz and perhaps other members of this forum.

How far is Davis From Bakersfield ?
I have family there as well .. My uncle in arbuckle has a huge Avacodo field i thought id get some of his stuff and bring and share he owes me about 15 trees LOL ..

i bet him i could buck hay better then he could he used a huge truck with tractor and it was me and my 6 10 when he went for lunch i pulled the spark plugs out of his rig grins ,,So i won Tammy

Which Arbuckle are you talking about? I know of one which is North of us.

Bakersfield is in the citrus belt of California. We are 300 miles north of Bakersfield. The citrus tour (Watsonville) is 232 miles from Bakersfield.

We are 42 miles south of Arbuckle, CA 95912

Joe:
Can you give me your webpage so I can give it to 2 people who wanted to learn how to graft.

Benny:

If you google up the words cleft grafting demo
my page usually comes up number 1 in the list, or in the worst case, among the top five.

Here's the link to my cleft grafting pictorial demo:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4148728&a=31606026&f=

Here's the link to my sample grafts:
http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4148728&a=31015422&f=

If I find time, I will put a demo on my own style of T-budding depending on fruit kind, also my own style of Bark grafting on a limb. Seems like I always don't have time to take pictures.

Last weekend, I checked that 19 of the 30 cultivars on my multi-grafted citrus tree are blooming. I think the rest would bloom sometime in the summer. I then added 30 buds composed of 10 new varieties unto my 30-in-1 citrus tree, if they all will take, then I will have a 40-n-1 citrus tree. I will have to recheck the tree again this weekend, I won't be surprised if there are more than 40 kinds on it.

Have bark grafted 16 new kinds of persimmons unto my existing persimmon trees. Perhaps countless apples, pears, plums, cherries and hybrids.

I still have to graft my peaches, haven't touched them yet, then topwork my green Fuji apple tree, that would be 30 grafts more, also graft more cherries.

The longest time is not the grafting itself, but finding and prospecting places to graft in my tiny yard, so that the added cultivars won't be shaded out, sometimes that take hours to solve before doing a 5-minute job on it.

Thanks Joe for repliny asap.
Gosh, 40 grafts in 1 tree?
You got my head spinning like crazy.
Anyways, all of my T-buds and grafts seem to be taking. All of them are still green. But too soon to tell yet. But they were grafted from 3/3 to 3/7. So most of them are over 2 weeks old. And they are still green. So what do you think?
Hoow about your grafts?

with citrus budding, that would be too early to tell. It takes about a month to tell if they have taken or not, especially when you graft in late winter to early spring. During summer, it takes only 2 weeks to tell if they have taken or not. Have grafted most of my citruses last March 18. So will try to force them come April 18 give or take a week. Been checking on them every day.

My quince, pear, apple, apricot, plum grafts have already taken, leafing out and most are already blooming. Will have to snip out the blooms this weekend.

My plums and some of the T-buds that I graft on 3/3/06 have about 1 cm buds sprouting. Is that too early to tell yet?

Also do you have to snip out the blooms the first year? I would like to taste the fruit how will it taste in the future. But not recommended. Huh?
Thanks.

Also do you have to snip out the blooms the first year? I would like to taste the fruit how will it taste in the future. But not recommended. Huh?
Thanks.