Benny, you're welcome. Thanks for all the fruits you gave me. I have filed the report about the tour in the news topic and have invited Millet. Here's the link to that report:
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One thing thing that I forgot to bring is a digital camera.
It is a "must" bring item because of the rarity of citrus that you will find there.
Imagine over 200 varieties that are growing all over the place over hills and over there.

Shasta Gold

Joe’s clemenule as of March 15 2006
I had to clip many fruits.I need it to grow vegetatively first. You will also notice a branch that was cut and appeared falling and wilting. This is because I T-bud a wilowleaf mandarin on that branch.


Last Chandler pomello on the tree I had to clip all otherfruits for it to grow more branches

This is the same Wash Navel as the logo as of March 15 2006 new crops

Benny- I see that y ou have many citrus in barrels...Are some of them without bottoms, so that the citrus grow right into the ground now ? If so, how is that working ? Anyone else out there growing citrus in 1/2 barrels with the bottoms out ? I'm still thinking to put some trees in like that, because they would be in areas that some water accumulates in the winter...Like yesterday's rains had a few areas with standing water for 1-2 days....I'd not like to try any citrus there, except for the barrel as "raised bed" approach..Thanks...EZ

EZ:
My reasoning why I have my citrus in a wine barrel (some of it) with bottoms cut off was because of ease of maintenance i.e. less weeding per se and not because of the low water level. Maybe it will help, maybe it won't. I don't know.
But they are growing normally. Like Joe's cal which is over 10 feet high right now and a cherry tree and a oroblanco. But I believe that the roots had been gone all the way to the bottom and spread out but I have no way of checking. So if your citrus will be placed in a wine barrel in a low location and have standing water during rainy seasonpart of the roots will be submerged under water so what will happen? I don't know. Your best bet is buld a mound in that low location perhaps 5 feet wide so you can be sure that the roots of your citrus will be dry.
Just my opinion.
PS:
Remember the perfect Oros that you let me taste and gave me a branch?
I grafted it and it is now flowering in 2 different trees.
Thanks!

This is my seedless kishu 24 hours after transplanting to a coconut husk mix.
I guess I am successful because there are no leaf wilting or dropping

Thanks Millet for a gooood info

I just transferred 6 more citrus to CHC this morning knowing I was successful and some other noncitrus.

Benny, where did you buy your CHC?

Joe:
I answered you in another thread so I won't repeat it here OK?

omg, 1,723 views as of today. Quiete amazing. Is it not?

And still going, what nice pictures you have Benny!

Thanks for the compliment Joe. I like that.
For the record I clip the side branches of my Kishu so it will grow straight up. It looks good now but it is growing sideways so I am diverting the growth so it will grow straight up. Then I T-bud some more the clippings to my other citrus.

It is very painful but I had to let go almost all the flowers when I clipped all of the branches that are growing sideways.

Note: if you guys want your citrus to grow tall do as I just did.
Make sure that you clip after the bud that is growing straight up closest to the main trunk for a good support. That bud will be the dominant one and will grow crazy come Spring/Summertime.

This is my theory by the way. Noone taught me this.

This picture is for Christine to look.



A grafted satsuma plum to a sucker of a matured santa rosa plum last year. Now they are starting to bloom. The mother of satsuma plum is on the left.

Also I was just practicing here and it took.

My mistake was that I grafted my satsuma plums at the tips of the suckers so the suckers are way too long.

Or am I?

A close up view of grafted satsuma plum to suckers of santa rosa plum which was done last year.

I was tempted to cut my santa rosa plum last year because of space problem. The only thing that stopped me was my father-in-law and my wife's comment to taste the fruit of the santa rosa . They let me sample it and I was convinced they were so sweet and juicy compared to yesteryears crops. I guess drastic branch cutting did that. But the satsuma still I believe tastes sweeter. I recommend it.