Hi Patty, Thanks again for all your usefull info. You mention the fact that 'Kishu' is a smaller fruit, so small that it prevents it from being a grocery store citrus. This fact is one of the #1 reasons why I chose to buy it. Small fruits mature and ripen much faster. From what you told me before, it sounds like 'Page' will be the same way. I have had my 'ORo Blanco' now for 1 full year now. Over the past winter(I would say up to December), it had 4 nice sized fruits. They continued to grow and mature but sadly they all dropped, and I would say that they only maybe had another month or 2 to go before being fully mature and ripe. I know my problem was that I didn't have enough space for all my tropicals and tropical fruit trees. I alson new that they needed more light but I figure the tree was still too small and now it can concentrate on growing larger and taller. I still will be hoping to get my hands on the Minneola and hopefully if I make it to FL this summer, I can pick one up and ship it back home to me. If I cannot wait that long to get it(when I really want something like that, I tend to get impatient..LMAO!!) I will either order it from Four Winds or try to order it from my local nursery. Hi Mike, I am all ready growing my tropicals in my 2 bedrooms! One I use for figs, plumerias, and a few of my tropicals such as my passionfruit vine and my keylime. I also have Laura'a agave in there. The other I Have my HPS light in and that's where the rest are except for my 'Star Ruby' which is in my living room right now. When I went to Potratz, they had HPS or Hallide lights for sale along with T5's. I was really happy to see this! I plan on buying a new light set up here and there this summer. That way by the time winter roles around again, I will be all prepared and my newly growing citrus collection will have all the light they need...along with the mango and other tropical fruit collections! I really am going to have to stop otherwise I will not have anymore room in this apartment! Were going to have to make a decision on if were going to live in NY or if were going to move FLorida. You know I would much rather live in FL! Mike, I forgot to ask you....if you plan on another trip to Logees, PLEASE let me know!! I have a few things I would like to get there. Another 'Day' avocado, the yellow gardenia, and if they have a decent sized HEALTHY Minneola, I would like that too!! It really does make a BIG diffrence to have a trusted friend(not only a good friend like you but someone who also loves there plants!) to hand pick the plants. Hi Laura, WOW sounds like the PHL flower show was a success! Between you and I, I hate the noids! You don't know what you really have and then if you go and buy something else that's similar or not blooming, you run the risk of getting another noid! I did lose around 7 or 8 plumerias this winter but only a couple were really special. One of them was 'JJ Jenny' but Sonia is looking for another one for me as we speak. Thank god for people like you, Sonia, and Mike, and all the others that I haven't mentioned. You all have made it much eaier for me to get some of these harder to find plants/tropicals. If you stumble across a nice sized Minneola or Washington Navel, PLEASE grab it for me and I will reimburse you. I just don't want to spend another arm and a leg having to order them. Ooh, and yes Laura, I am trying to persuade you to become a co citrus horder with me! What you will find cool about this hobby is that citrus can be easily propogated from cuttings! Mike is doing this all ready, and I will be asking him for some tips so I can get growing my very own cuttings. I did it years ago with Ponderosa lemon. I didn't have any trouble with rooting it but all my recent attemps at rooting have not been productive. Well take care everyone! I did check my delivery status for my Four Winds order. Right now it's in New Jersey so it should be here by tomorrow. Laura, I will be hiding the new arrivals for a while..LOL! I laughed my butt off when you mentioned how during the winter, the rooms are getting greener and greener, and fuller and fuller! Andrew

sooey--Thanks for posting your experience! It's encouraging to hear so many stories about how easy it was to ship a car. I just wish it wasn't so far! She doesn't need the car until the summer, so I have several months to figure out what to do. In the meantime, I have to decide what to buy to replace my Honda. It's been such a good car, I'm kind of reluctant to part with it! It just doesn't meet my/our needs any more. And the car my sister's driving won't pass inspection in September. She was really excited when I asked her yesterday if she wants to buy my car. Now if we can work out the details...

The aggrevation I actually find myself with this morning is Lands End and their use of UPS along with the USPS. They offered “free shipping” if I spent over a certain amount, had a decent sale, so I bought a couple of button down shirts for my SIL on the 3rd. They shipped on the 7th, UPS delivered them to the Post Office on the 11th. Not a thing has happened since and they are essentially missing in action. I did a chat call with Lands End and was told to contact the Post Office. Really? Have you ever tried to call the post office? I’ve never experienced any thing but frustration doing that AND our post office is 10 miles north of us, in a direction I never travel so I’m sure not going to drive there so I can see the blank look on their faces when I ask where my package is. When I suggested it was their responsibility because THEY choose the ship method, the response was they have no control over UPS using the post office for delivery! WHAT???? Had they disclosed their ship method in their shipping advisory, I would have NEVER bought from them. BUYER BEWARE!!! Grrrr....

Ike Trees can come into GA, but once they are in, they cannot leave. I learned that fact from Stan McKenzie of McKenzie Farms in SC last year. At the time, I was inquiring which types of trees he was bringing to sell during the Southeastern Citrus Expo which was being held in Savannah. If you check every online citrus nursery that ships trees, GA has not been classified as a fully quarantined state yet to my knowledge. I live in GA too and have had no problems purchasing trees online and receiving them from Four Winds Growers or Harris Citrus Nursery.