Works here now too! Nice collection!

I noticed you have the ruby red clementine also. That plant is still on my list; it's different from the variety I have.

How many varieties of red clemetine are there ?

Well... don't ask me, but I know from the French forum that different varieties exist with different levels of coloration. The one I have is different from the one that can be seen on the florentsia facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=304101659656075&set=a.304100902989484.73096.171360736263502&type=3&theater
which has a much more intense coloration. But I have seen that plant label in real and do believe that the red coloration of the fruit is "tuned"!
Still, I think the real fruits will look something like these...

http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/amoa8.html

My recently ordered valencia orange tree is "out for delivery" at this moment!
Waiting anxiously like a little kid...

Here it is finally!

The box, still closed...


Inside the box...


Unpacked...


Looks like a nice specimen. Full of flower buds already...

There's something I don't quite understand with my new plant...

As far as I know, citrus plants should not be pruned because if it is pruned, no flowers would appear on the new growth.

Now my new plant clearly looks like it has been pruned and there are a lot of flower buds present! How about that?

Your plants look great! Since we do not live far apart I must ask you, how did manage to make them keep their leaves like that?
During winters I need to make mine survive while yours look very happy.

I'm not doing anything special actually... During the winter months the plants are put in our unheated veranda. Temperature always stays at a reasonable level inside there. I think it never goes below 5°C even when outside it is deep freezing. And I make sure the soil remains moist.

There's always some leave drop during the winter months, but I think that is normal. Only my buddha's hand loses (nearly) all of it's leaves, but it recovers nicely when spring comes.

The bud or scion was from mature wood. Pruning like that make the tree branch out nicely & you will get flowers buds on many new branches "if" it is the flowering season for that variety. Very nice tree BTW.

Do you mean the production of flowers is not influenced by pruning once the wood is mature?

The new growth will produce flower buds if it pruning is done prior to the flush in the flowering cycle.

Mark sent me some Page budwood that I cleft grafted a month ago, The budwood is now producing flower buds. It seems every year when I graft in Jan / Feb the new grafts will produce a bunch of flower buds.

If you graft or prune in the middle of summer you will not get any flower buds as it is not in the flowering cycle...

As promised in Laaz's thread, I post a picture of myself here!

It's a picture of me with one of my cockatiels



edit : uploaded a different picture...

I thought you were slightly younger

Older, actually... this picture is taken 4 years ago...