What causes oranges to be dry?
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17 years ago
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dry, lacking taste, no juice oranges
Comments (9)My blood orange tree is 7 years old. It produced fruit only three times so far. The crops of oranges were tasteless other than a sweet flavor, but not a good sweet flavor and absolutely no citrus taste. Absent of citrus! The flesh is very pretty , juicy and healthy looking but nasty flavor. My other citrus trees have good fruit. It gets regular water via automatic water system. I use citrus fertilizer as well as 15-15-15. I've tried over fertilizing and under fertilizing. Could it be missing a particular nutrient? The tree came from a reputable grower. Any ideas? I plan to give it another 2-3 yrs then I'm pulling it. My mothers tree produces the best tasting oranges ever. I want the same!...See MoreIs Dry Weather the Cause of Fruit Drop?
Comments (6)I've been mining this site for information on early ripening and reliable breba producing figs. It's just great. Gardeners in general seem to be nice people, but fig folk are just plain wonderful. I got my first fig in the early '80s, a generic "fig tree" from a discount store. And like a lot of you here, tried to find out what to do next. I already belonged to the North American Fruit Explorers and I found another group, The Friends of the Fig Society, which I joined about a year before they folded into NAFEX. By this time one fig wasn't enough - I was infected with Fig Mania - and tried to find more figs that would do well in this area. Unfortunately, I had a major change of circumstance in the early '90s and gave most of my figs away. During the ten year period that I was growing figs, I got a great deal of help from other fig folk (some things never change). Cuttings, advice, information were always available for the asking; though we generally communicated by snail mail and it could be slow going. There were many kind and generous folk who helped me out, but it was an exchange with one particular gentleman that is the heart of this post. He is the original "Fignut", Mr. Paul M. Starnes of Newnan, GA. Mr. Starnes was in his late 70s when I made his aquaintance, and had been growing figs from the time he was 12 years old. Mr. Starnes knew figs. He verified the identity of my mystery fig - it was a Celeste. That tree gave me the most figs of all the fig trees that I had, and when it suddenly dropped a whole crop for no apparent reason, I ran to the phone and called Mr. Starnes in Georgia. He told me that it wasn't something terrible - Celeste did that under drought conditions. I said it must be something else, since I had watered that tree religiously - it had never dried out. He responded that it didn't make any difference if I had watered it. When it gets hot and dry, Celeste drops figs. Well, I didn't doubt him, but I sure didn't understand it. In the years since I've realized that it's more complex than just having water. Even well watered plants are stressed during a dry spell. They seem to hunker down and go into a holding pattern. The plants seem to know they are in a drought situation. It's been a long time and I don't remember the duration, but my Celeste dropped figs twice, both times during dry spells. That isn't enough times to tell you Mr. Starnes was absolutely correct. But it sure supports what he said, and if I were a betting person, I'd have a bundle down on him being right. How about it - is this a fit for anyone else's experience?...See Morerid of film on pot caused by orange peels, please?
Comments (2)I wonder if you soaked it in hot water and a few tablespoons of electric dishwashing detergent over night if it would do the trick. That stuff is really good at cleaning things....See MoreExtremely Dry Skin/Cause????
Comments (7)Dancey sorry to hear about your skin troubles. I cannot speak to the menopause and hormone issues (though I remember my older sister telling me her skin became super-soft following hysterctomy hormone therapy) - but I have lived with dermatitis, exzema, and fussy skin allergies all my life and over the years have found these helps: 1. To the extent you can, try to reduce the total chemical load in your environment - do not use dryer sheets, fabric softener, room fresheners, hair creme rinse (or minimize it at least); put your clothing through a double rinse cycle; use gloves/other barrier to protect your skin from harsh detergents, etc. 2. Add evening primrose, flaxseed, tocotrienols, and more fish to your diet (the inside-out approach). 3. I have fussy impossible skin, and my red-head spouse has his own set of skin troubles (sun damage, pre-actinic keratoses, etc.). We're both in our 50s now, and though we're fit, free of health problems, and comfortable with our ages, we wondered if we might improve the appearance of our sun-damaged faces. Together we read Perricone's Cosmeceuticals book, and decided to try some of his recommendations. We found the author's products to be way beyond what we considered reasonable to spent, but we have had stunning results with similar products we found online through Amazon.com from Reviva Labs: Alpha Lipoic Acid Vitamin C Ester and DMAE Cream (for the face and neck day and night); Firming Eye Serum (night-time eye cream); and their hand lotion from the same line (sorry my bottle is out in the car so I can't give you specific name). My skin responded immediately (thank god I was getting a little worried about lip creases and papery eye and throat). We're both looking a lot clearer and more well-rested, with much-improved skin texture - that's as much as we can expect because we'd never go for elective surgery - only a natural approach... and no, we have no financial interest in the above-noted products. 4. Two other creams that settle my skin, as well as seeming to change the texture, are Nivea Skin Firming Lotion with Q10 plus Biotin, and Aveeno Stress Relief Moisturizing Lotion with Natural Colloidal Oatmeal, Lavender, Chamomile and YlangYlang. You can find these at any of the larger drugstores (I am on West Coast) - they're a bit more expensive than, say, Jergens, but I have been thrilled to find them. Sorry for the rambler, but I hope you'll try any or all of the above. So nice to have happy skin. Good luck!...See Morepedroza
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