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Synovia
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| Posted: Mon 05 Nov, 2012 12:12 pm |
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| MarcV wrote: | This weekend I found some small but beautiful meyer lemon plants at a local garden center. I could not resist taking one home!   At 8.99 they were quite cheap!
Some pictures of the plant:
They had plants available loaded with fruits and flower buds. My plant only has one fruit on it and 2 or 3 flower buds, but the plant itself looked better, which is why I chose this one. |
That tree has a much thicker trunk than most of the cheap trees I see... they're usually pencil-thick. |
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MarcV
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| Posted: Mon 05 Nov, 2012 3:04 pm |
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Yes and that's one of the reasons I got it. It looks like a "decent" tree! 
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MarcV
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| Posted: Sun 11 Nov, 2012 10:27 am |
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A little personal history! 
I found some old pictures of the one plant that actually started my citrus hobby. The (poor quality) images date from halfway the seventies I guess (the EXIF info was erased )...
The plant was grown from a seed of a yellow grapefruit. I grew the plant until it was about 20cm / 8 inches high. At a certain point my mother decided to trim the plant. I was really unhappy about that  and I lost interest in the plant. That's how it came to an end... 
But my interest in citrus has always remained! 
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MarcV
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| Posted: Sun 25 Nov, 2012 11:18 am |
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It's starting to look like spring is here already! I'm not sure if I should like this or not...
Bearss lime flowers...
Chinotto flowers starting to appear...
Meyer lemon flowers. No purple buds, they never turn purple when the plants are inside...
Some of the fruits. Feminello lemon with salustiana oranges in the background. Both the feminello and salustiana currently have flowers also...
Valencia orange:
Bergamot:
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Laaz
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| Posted: Sun 25 Nov, 2012 11:42 am |
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Looking good.
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MarcV
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| Posted: Sun 25 Nov, 2012 1:43 pm |
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What I'm worried about is, with the flowers I have now, I won't have any in spring! I don't think the flowers I have now will set any fruit...
I've been thinking that maybe it would be a good idea to keep the plants in there all year instead of putting them outside during the warm season. After all, inside it is always warmer than outside, which might help fruit development. And I can keep better control over the amount of water and fertiliser the plants get. The pots won't become soaking wet during periods of heavy rain (which is, I believe, the reason I already lost a couple of plants)...
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citrusguy
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| Posted: Sun 25 Nov, 2012 1:49 pm |
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| MarcV wrote: | This weekend I found some small but beautiful meyer lemon plants at a local garden center. I could not resist taking one home! At 8.99 they were quite cheap!
Some pictures of the plant:
They had plants available loaded with fruits and flower buds. My plant only has one fruit on it and 2 or 3 flower buds, but the plant itself looked better, which is why I chose this one. |
Holy lemon! Never seen Meyers that large, ever! Ponderosas are nice but the drawback are their thick rind. Congrats! Fantastic pictures btw. |
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citrange
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| Posted: Sun 25 Nov, 2012 3:33 pm |
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| Quote: | | What I'm worried about is, with the flowers I have now, I won't have any in spring! |
I usually have the autumn (fall) problem that as soon as I put my plants back into the greenhouse in September/October they think that spring has come. Many start flowering and then in the long, cool, dark days of winter botrytis mold starts. Usually beginning on the flower petals it can easily spread to new leaves and stems. I go round the plants removing any flowers with visible mold and many others too. It's upsetting but I'm sure helps with flowering when spring genuinely arrives. |
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MarcV
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| Posted: Sun 25 Nov, 2012 3:41 pm |
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It was indeed a large fruit, much larger than the ones I usually grow. But I think it was normal sized for a meyer lemon .
It also tasted very nice. My wife used the juice to put in her tea!
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MarcV
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| Posted: Sun 25 Nov, 2012 3:44 pm |
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| citrange wrote: | | Quote: | | What I'm worried about is, with the flowers I have now, I won't have any in spring! |
I usually have the autumn (fall) problem that as soon as I put my plants back into the greenhouse in September/October they think that spring has come. Many start flowering and then in the long, cool, dark days of winter botrytis mold starts. Usually beginning on the flower petals it can easily spread to new leaves and stems. I go round the plants removing any flowers with visible mold and many others too. It's upsetting but I'm sure helps with flowering when spring genuinely arrives. |
Thanks, I will keep my eyes open for any mold!
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MarcV
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| Posted: Mon 31 Dec, 2012 9:56 am |
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My last set of pictures for this year, virtually identical to the previous update...
Two thirds of my bergamot harvest...
One half of my valencia late harvest...
A couple of salustiana oranges...
One half of the feminello lemon harvest...
The other half of the feminello lemon harvest...
Chinotto flower buds with a youn chinotto fruit in the background...
Meyer lemon flowers...
Bearss lime flowers...
Young bearss lime fruitlets...
Young bearss lime fruits...
In the mean time, my moro orange tree is seriously losing it's leaves. It does that every winter but this winter it is more serious...
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Millet
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| Posted: Mon 31 Dec, 2012 1:43 pm |
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I'm nor sure about your Moro, but it is natural for citrus to drop leaves when they start blooming. Millet |
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Sanguinello
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| Posted: Mon 31 Dec, 2012 1:52 pm |
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Lovely plants and fruits !
You should put the Moro outside .. it really needs cool themperatures in winter. |
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MarcV
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| Posted: Tue 01 Jan, 2013 7:35 am |
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My moro has a bad habit to start flowering in the late summer/early fall. By the time I take it inside for the winter months it is loaded with fruitlets that promptly start to drop off when the plant is inside. After a while the leaves start dropping. I always thought it's just old leaves that drop off but now I'm not sure anymore...
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