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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Wed 09 Mar, 2011 6:47 am |
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The ground is as well prepared as it is going to get. All in all it has been tilled at least ten times with each pass finding less and less roots and debris. Thursday the area will be raked level and then stakes placed in the ground where each plant will go. I'm hoping to buy the majority of my citrus trees three weeks from now.
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BobsCitrus
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Joined: 23 Feb 2011
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Location: Hot and Windy, Tucson, AZ : Zone 9a
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| Posted: Thu 10 Mar, 2011 2:27 am |
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This should be interesting. Please keep us updated, with photos. I've seen mention of this venture in some of your other postings - is this commercial or just large-scale hobby farming? You may want to summarize the overall idea and plan for those of us tuning in late, yes I am lazy.
Eric, who has ideas about a half-acre or so of desert scrub he owns... |
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wd40
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| Posted: Thu 10 Mar, 2011 8:20 pm |
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That just sounds grand. have you had your soil tested?
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Thu 10 Mar, 2011 10:47 pm |
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| Uncle_Dirt wrote: | This should be interesting. Please keep us updated, with photos. I've seen mention of this venture in some of your other postings - is this commercial or just large-scale hobby farming? You may want to summarize the overall idea and plan for those of us tuning in late, yes I am lazy.
Eric, who has ideas about a half-acre or so of desert scrub he owns... |
It's just large-scale retirement soon hobby farming. I'll do an update/summary with photos in the near future. I'll start the layout tomorrow moring at 0600. I'm putting survey stakes everywhere a tree is going. It helps me to make sure I'm not making any big mistakes.
WD40
I have not had it tested recently but I hope to get a sample sent off soon. The ground has not been modified in the last twenty years. I wanted to wait until I had brought in all my loads of dirt and compost which I finished last week.
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Sat 09 Apr, 2011 11:37 pm |
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Finally these are in the ground.
4 - Satsuma Owari
4 - Satsuma Xie Shan
2 - Satsuma Kimbrough
1 - Tangerine Fremont
1 - Tangerine Ponkon
1 - Tangerine Sunburst
2 - Orange Parson Brown
3 - Tangelo Orlando
2 - Navel Orange Cara Cara
2 - Navel Glen
1 - Clementine Fina Sodea
2 - Orange Hamlin
2 - Lemon Improved Meyer
1 - Kumquat Meiwa
I try to post some photos soon. I can't post them from this computer.
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Millet
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Sun 10 Apr, 2011 12:13 am |
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Nice collection. Lot of work - congratulations. I would be interested in how the Clementine Fina Sodea preforms, as to the amount of trouble the tree has with insect problems. Of all my trees Fina Sodea is a magnet for insect damage (and by a huge margin). I came within an inch of tossing it on the compost pile earlier this spring. - Millet (646-) |
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joeb
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Location: Statesboro, Ga. zone 8b
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| Posted: Sun 10 Apr, 2011 11:33 pm |
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looks like you have done your homework on a great selection of citrus. I have a few of these in my collection, but one of the ones I want is the xie shan satsuma, could you please tell me where you got them from,as I would like to get some as soon as possible Thanks joe b |
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Mon 11 Apr, 2011 6:06 pm |
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| Millet wrote: | | Nice collection. Lot of work - congratulations. I would be interested in how the Clementine Fina Sodea preforms, as to the amount of trouble the tree has with insect problems. Of all my trees Fina Sodea is a magnet for insect damage (and by a huge margin). I came within an inch of tossing it on the compost pile earlier this spring. - Millet (646-) |
Thanks Millet,
I had to go back and add two Glen Navels and two Parson Brown oranges to my list. I couldn't remember them all. I am watering by hand now but I will install my irrigation at the end of the month. I never thought that watering can make you tired but with this many trees it will wear you out. I hope that the Fina Sodea isn't a bug magnet BUT if it is maybe it will keep them off the rest of my trees. LOL I'll make sure to let you know. Do you see any pollination issues as in will the Clementine or others cause a lot of seediness in the others.
| Joeb wrote: | | looks like you have done your homework on a great selection of citrus. I have a few of these in my collection, but one of the ones I want is the xie shan satsuma, could you please tell me where you got them from,as I would like to get some as soon as possible Thanks joe b |
Joeb,
I researched the selections for a long time and I am still not confidant that I made the right ones. My local fruit market said that people do not like the Orlando and Hamlin. I'm not planning on selling commercially but if I could barter with him for things I can not grow that would be great. With twenty eight trees I hope to have some surplus.
I sourced the Xie Shan from Harris citrus nursery but they are a Florida grower and can not ship out of state. Don't give up looking, it took me six months and many phone calls to locate them. I would try Alabama. Maybe call University of Auburn as I think they trialed this variety at thier Fairhope experimental station. Monte Nesbitt, in Texas now, might could tell you where they got them from.
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Millet
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| Posted: Mon 11 Apr, 2011 7:16 pm |
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The Clementine will not make any of the others seedy, but the other citrus varieties will certainly make the Clementine seedy. - Millet (644-) |
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Darkman
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| Posted: Mon 11 Apr, 2011 8:21 pm |
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| Millet wrote: | | The Clementine will not make any of the others seedy, but the other citrus varieties will certainly make the Clementine seedy. - Millet (644-) |
Thanks
I can live with that! I read that the Clementine would act as a pollinator and increase yields of the others.
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