May I know the address? I am looking for guava trees. Also, I mihgt be interested in others trees. Thank you.

Probably won't bother the oak much. My bigger concern would be the fruit trees getting enough sun under the oak.

I did keep it small -mostly pruning it because of the leaf drop every fall when I brought it inside. The tree's name is Olivia - I also named it when I was four or five years old so she is very special to me. She spent many years decorated as my christmas tree when I was single and broke. Anyway, I'm so glad I found this forum, I spent some time searching other posts this weekend and discovered one by Dr. Miller that showed the different types of leaves. I believe my citrus tree is a minneola tangelo. When I get a chance I will post a picture of the leaves and see if anyone agrees with me. I also read through the information on how long it takes a tree to fruit. I'm glad I didn't give up on my tree. I thought all along that it was the age of the tree, not how big it was. Thank you all for your posts.

I can only be sorta general here....perhaps someone else knows better... The cold (or drought stress) is to induce flowering, not really fruit set. Fruit set needs certain minimum temperatures, amongst other things. Sorta makes sense then why citrus often flower in the early spring (after winter lower temps and subsequent rises in springtime temperature) and then set fruit in that warmer temperature. A lot of citrus are not really tropical but subtropical. Some types (prolly more tropical ones like Keys or kaffir) instead get stressed by relative drought patterns (water stress). For some reason citrus flowers when under some sort of stress (I don't know enough to say if this is something that other plants tend to do since I frankly *don't care* lol...). I have come to recognize sudden, out-of-character, excessive flowering in a tree as a sign of severe stress of some sort (heck come take a look at my backyard I can show you plenty of examples, and for me that is usually the signal to *please remember to water*--oops--lol). I think of it as an evolutionary concept--if the tree is heading towards that great compost bin in the sky, then it should hurry and try to leave something behind for the genetic pool. I'd venture to guess that those trees that tend to be everbearing ones maybe get stress signals from smaller variations in temperatures (like typical diurnal changes) or perhaps from extreme sensitivity to changes in water availability. Which may explain why I hear of how some cultivars are everbearing in some climates but not others. I think the range needed to induce flowering is not very low. Like in the 50-60's range or something like that. I think I read it here on this forum from a long time ago? And so for the orignal poster of this thread, in theory you can try to induce some stress by changing irrigation patterns but I've never deliberately attempted to do so. The other option is to wait it out and see what the tree does. Maybe it needs more time between the chilling and spring temps to develop those flowers, since the colder weather was atypically late. Shuttin up now. HTH.