Well, Mike, as with all citrus the bloom time, maturity time, harvest time are different with every latitude and altitude. My dates are based on California; but the color and the re-greening are constants, no matter what the time. Would you believe that I can't even tell my associate growers when their Meyers will bloom? Our strategy is to have multiple altitudes and latitudes and micro climates so as to produce lemons the whole year. At the moment we have trees at the beach producing at one year; we have trees at 7,500 feet producing at 1 year; and trees at 3,500 feet of which 70% are setting fruit at 10 months. I THINK the ideal altitude at this latitude (15 deg. N) is 1,500 to 2,000 feet; but that is based on NO evidence; because no one has done it before.

I planted ... this past summer....under a small ornamental plum tree which is sparsely leaved ===>>> transplant shock doing it in summer ... though you are a bit vague here ... possibly taking it from shade to sun ... sunburn .... leaves get accustomed to the light they are in.. when you move them.. you change it all .. anyway.. hard to tell one something in the year of transplant... observe next year.. to see a more truer picture of what it does ken

Sorry i haven't followed up in months, but to update you guys things have not gotten better. I sat down with my mom and told her I wanted to stay with my dad and she completely broke down which resulted in my sister and I changing our minds. About a week later things were the same again. My relationship with my father is very distant and has become even more distant recently. He is not someone I can count on. I guess the only thing left to do is wait until I am old enough to leave. But thank you all for your support it was great reading your advice!

I did design most of the clothes I made, but I made traditional style pants, shirts, and suits for my brother. Normally I make my own patterns. As for changing one's style, when my brother was engaged, he and his fiancé refused to register for gifts because they knew that his fiancés mother would get involved. So I found out what they wanted and registered it for them, as many of their friends didn't know what to buy them. Then the mother found out about this and went to the store and changed ALL the registered items into what SHE wanted instead of what they wanted. So after the wedding, they took back all the unwanted items to the store and exchanged them for what I had registered for them. At the rehearsal dinner, someone asked my brother's MIL what she thought about the dress I had made, and she said, "I liked the bag," because I had made a custom garment bag for it. I did not realize that she was trying to insult me, and I said, "Oh, I've made tons of these." I used to make garment bags for all the dresses I made in San Francisco, but these dresses were mostly sold in New York. When I moved from San Francisco to Austin, I stayed with my sister and BIL for a month, which is when I made clothes for my sister, and I had her pick out the fabrics. I also did all her grocery shopping for her and cooked dinner every evening. The bad thing was that my BIL asked my sister why she did not cook the way I did!