Millet, yes, I called them and the lady I talked to was as nice as could be. We even talked about the neighborhood and I told her where I used to live and she knew the area and some of my old friends (one of whom is on the city council now!) Very postive experience - too bad they're closing up!

Don't know who Bonnie Childers is, is she a forum poster and does she know about this new one?

Regarding my Silverhill, please go to the propagation forum!

Casa, I see on the member list, Bonnie just joined this forum yesterday. His screen name is Buddingman. If you have a question on satsuma's I bet he can help you. Just say Hi to Bonnie, and ask your question - Millet

I visited Pacific Tree Farms a couple of months ago to purchase some of their tropical fruit trees and was actually suprised to see the "closing clearance" sign on the gates. I was also suprised to see how bad some of their trees looked and how inflated the prices were for certain tropical plants(Longan, lychee, sapote, pineapple guava, cherimoya etc.). On the other hand they had many nice large citrus specimens. The person helping me was very nice & went out of her way to show me each plant I was looking for. She was stumped though when I asked her about hardy citrus. Listed in their catalog is a maccioroli citrangequat & eromocitrus glauca which she could not produce. Prices were 30% off at that time, but I ended up buying most all my plants from other local nurseries. As for mail order, their catalog prices include preparation and postage.

I tell ya' I was expecting quite a bit more for $65. Apparently Joe was right, the sale did not apply to mail orders. This thing got here with more leaves off than on and a single immature fruit lying in the bottom of the package. Now, is it just me or does this (2nd pic) look like a double graft? Overall, I'm not real impressed. Maybe that's why they're closing.

Hi Casa. It looks like a single graft. The second area you are looking at is probably where the tree was "Topped" to force it to branch.

Millet:
Don't know if you saw my (other) post about contacting Pacific Tree Farms. I called to participate in their sale and was prompty told that "the sale doesn't apply to shipped items"...so I didn't order anything or continue the conversation.

No Joe, I did not know that the sale was only for tree picked up at the nursry - Millet

Hi Tam & welcome to the forum.

Hello Tam I always enjoyed you postings glad to see you here