Citrus Growers Forum

bencelest · Posted: Mon 22 May, 2006 12:09 pm

I am letting EZs Oroblanco to flower this time grafted to a Midknight orange and Melogold. I've been clipping the flowers on the first of Spring but it kept coming back.

ez$$ · Posted: Mon 22 May, 2006 11:49 pm

Benny, glad to see that it wants to fruit for you !! Let me know how they turn out...This year, I got a 5 gal. Melogold, and it is doing the same (flowering crazily)...but I took them all off. Maybe next year will get some fruit. Take care...

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JoeReal · Posted: Tue 23 May, 2006 4:29 am

Hi Benny,

Can you edit your profile and place Salinas, California as your location? Click the profile icon on top of the main page and then scroll down until you find location. Only you can change the profile. It would help most of us to know that you are growing citruses very successfully in a non-citrus belt area of California. That is an achievement.

Regards,

Joe

bencelest · Posted: Tue 23 May, 2006 12:34 pm

Thanks Joe and it's done. And thanks for the compliment.
I might add that it will help a lot of people to put their address so the people who tried to help them know exactly what to 'prescribe' if they know their location. That will help a lot to pin point and diagnose the problem.

bencelest · Posted: Tue 23 May, 2006 2:30 pm

Since I noticed a very busy viewers here (over 3,800 views so far) I am adding more pictures. It is Spring and my citrus are waking up with a vengiance.

Center is Joes calamondin

Dormant for 1 yearsbut when host branch was cut it started to grow. Red Valencia, host is Cara-cara.

This Meyer is also dormant for 2 years- just fruiting but now new branches forming

Page mandarin with fruits removed. Notice the new growth forming?

bencelest · Posted: Tue 23 May, 2006 2:32 pm

I don't know what happened but my pictures turned small all of a sudden. Sorry guys.
Benny

Patty_in_wisc · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 3:03 am

That's OK for me...I only have a 13 inch screen & sometimes the pics are SO big, they run off the side of screen...and...fall on the floor .. LMAO.
Benny, the first 2 pics don't show for me.

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Westwood · Citruholic Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 454 Location: Oregon

UM benny you said a page manderin ...?

those are my fav is there a place i can actually buy one ?
Tammy

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JoeReal · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 11:44 am

You can order them online from four winds citrus growers. Our local Home Depot carries them sometimes. You can try contacting Raintree nursery and see if you can convince them to carry it in their stock.

bencelest · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 11:46 am

Patty:
I thought I can fix the pics and make it bigger but it did not work. So I posted the original again until I can figure out what happened.
Also I like your sense of humor Patty. It lightens my day.

Tammy: You can mail order it at Menlo growers 408 683 4862.
They have a lot of rare citrus on hand but when I went there 2 years ago they didn't ship plants then but I read from the grapevine they do now. They also have melogold, Shasta gold, Yosemite gold and many others.

bencelest · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 12:37 pm

This is a test. I am using Imageshack now.

Joe's calamondin in center

bencelest · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 12:40 pm

Success!!. Patty, sorry about my picture rolling off your floor.......
heh-heh

bencelest · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 1:00 pm

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I guess you have to click on the picture to get a bigger view

JoeReal · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 2:14 pm

Benny, you must have pasted the wrong link. Joe

bencelest · Posted: Wed 24 May, 2006 4:26 pm

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