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Big_al
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Joined: 13 Feb 2008
Posts: 49
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Posted: Mon 06 Jun, 2011 11:35 am

Hi gang!
it has been 1 week and 3 days since I started my indoor citrus project in my office.
What fun! I am learning so much from you folks...thanks!
The Good:
The page is pushing out a nice new flush. So is the pink lemonade.
not one single leaf has dropped from any plant.
the heating mats keep the roots between 80-88. (may need a
thermostat to lower temps a bit)
air temps stable at 78
humidity around 45
installed a small fan
The Bad:
lots of the little fruitlets that the plants came to me with are dropping
the gold nugget still has some leaf curl (see pic) not as bad though...
little tiny flying things showing up...they are no more than pinhead sized if that. not sure what they are...
Anyway...
Pics of lemonade, then page, then gold nugget...



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Millet
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 6656
Location: Colorado

Posted: Mon 06 Jun, 2011 11:59 am

The dropping of small fruitlets by a citrus tree is very normal. All citrus trees selectively drop many of the young fruitlets that were initially set, and will retain only the number of fruit that the tree is capable of bring to maturity. This is true of trees of all size and age, and especially true of very young trees.Nothing to worry about. If a citrus tree retain every fruit it would be crushed under its own weight. - Millet (587-)
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Big_al
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Joined: 13 Feb 2008
Posts: 49
Location: Minneapolis, MN

Posted: Mon 06 Jun, 2011 12:15 pm

Thnaks Millet! No issue with the curl on the nugget then?
Also, been meaning to ask...what is the story with the seemingly random number at the end of your call name in posts?

Al
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Tom
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Joined: 11 Nov 2008
Posts: 261
Location: Alabama [Central]

Posted: Mon 06 Jun, 2011 1:12 pm

The number that many of us are interested in as it counts down is the number of days our current president has until the end of his term of office. One term only some off us hope......

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Tom in central Alabama
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