Let's see your potted June trees and their trunks!
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myermike_1micha
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoMore trunks and tree These I have been cutting back hard and the trunks are getting very thick...One I can warp my hand around...I love them tall enough to look like a tree, yet short enough to carry easily and still be as tall as I...
As you can tell, my 5.1.1. mix is about to give way on some. I think by next year I will do another repot on most
I love how the roots stick out of the soil and create shapes...I have others I will show here soon).
myermike_1micha
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoa couple more. These ones are in air pots and they LOVE them! I get great growth on them, much fsater than in a clay or plastic pot. It works for me!
The white pots seem to do well if my plants are in full sun. I never get any roots to over heat in the hot sun. LOve them too.
Do you see all the Kaffir limes growing? I never thought I would see the day my Kaffir would bllom or fruit.
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June pics. please share some of your trees, sm. or lg. with us:-)
Comments (67)Houston..Guess what? I felt the same way about my figs! I had a couple and they are not as sweet as many rave them to be to me, and I let them fully ripen. I was told the older the tree, the sweeter they get. Oh I hope so. Mine are only about 2-3 feet tall. I hope someday to get a VERY sweet one. Keeping my fingers crossed. You can have the cooler weather.lol It's depressing to wake up 5 days out of the week with cloudy skies and temps below normal. I get enough of that in the Spring, Fall, and Winter. Our summers are shrinking while just one state away they are boiling. Strange I'll say! Protect your trees for sure in that. I hope you have a pool. Josh! Well, would you look at that! Holding back for one of the best? Very very nice. Will you be separating them anytime soon or let them grow together like a mini forest? They look pretty good together like that. Are you growing them for fun, or for eventual fruit? I love them. 46 degrees! Well, I thought my weather was cold. You must still use some source of heat for those cold nights, or at least put the windows up. Wow. Well, I can understand why certain plants may be an issue for you there. My weather is much warmer than yours, but still I have a problem with some of the plants you mentioned too. But despite them odds, what you grow still seems to relish in your care. Good work. 68 this a.m. and light drizzly rain. It's breezy and feels like fall. I think our hot summers of past have all but disappeared for good:-( Mike...See MoreLets see your tree!
Comments (46)Next year I am going to put my Christmas decorations up when I take the halloween ones down. That way I won't be so goofy and block the attic access and the entire garage up with plants, lol. Then they can stay up til spring when the plants go back outside, lol. John's son came in tonight and tripped over my planter full of ice plant and nearly broke his neck and he was worried I would be upset since he broke the pot. I told him I had already done the same thing and I was the one who broke it already. I hope he believed me, lol. The pot in the stand was getting brittle and needed replacing anyway. Maybe I will be able to look for one soon. I need a large bowl shaped one and they are hard to find around here for some reason. Well Merry Christmas you all. Love all the trees!...See More2016 December pic time..Please let's see your trees!!
Comments (75)I'm loving those blood orange pictures, it's been so long. Great pics everybody! Here is the Flame grapefruit (second crop) The one on the left I think/hope is only changing color and nothing is wrong with it. This year it was really hot and I guess it got some good growth from that. BTW the tree flowered in early July...See MoreTime for a potted aloe show. Please. Let's see them 2019
Comments (98)Eryn - Aloe plants (and almost all succulents) will indeed change colors due to light levels. Some will turn quite red, others a bronzy brown color. Many find these color changes desirable. It is not necessarily a sign of trouble. I find that nearly every time I repot or replant an Aloe vera plant, it will turn brownish for a while. This is probably due to stress. This Aloe vera plant is quite green in this picture - This is the same plant, looking quite bronze colored, or suntanned. If the plant is otherwise healthy, don't sweat the color change. It may be a good sign that your plant is getting enough good light. ;-)...See More
Atheen - 7a - in Maryland, USA
8 years agoOh My God, Mike, I am so jealous your trees look absolutely beautiful! I guess I really have a lot to learn and a long way to go :)
Here are pics of my 2 sad little trunks, lol. No apparent roots to show either. I finally got the nerve to remove the metal rods today, and just replaced the tanglefoot paper rings. Does that stuff actually work? It's nasty, and i don't see it on your trunks.
Anyway, here are my 2 ugly ducklings, lol
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Atheen
myermike_1micha
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago
cory (Zone 7a, NJ)
8 years agomksmth zone 7a Tulsa Oklahoma
8 years agoFukushu
Funky graft point on meyer
Dekopon with $15 Miho to its right. Bearrs in the black pot.
Oh and Washington naval trunk
That's all for now. It's 90 degrees at 8pm here!
Mike
poncirusguy6b452xx
8 years agoAtheen - 7a - in Maryland, USA
8 years agoandrew pruit
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoHere's the Meyer Lemon tree I just picked up on sale from the local nursery. I tried to pick out the healthiest-looking one (since this is my first potted citrus and I'm scared silly of killing it) but I guess I got one with a trunk growing at an angle :( You can't really tell quite as much because when I re-potted it I tried to put the root ball in at a slight angle so that the stem would come out of the ground at a slight angle but would then hold the rest of the tree more perpendicular to the ground after its little bend (though now I'm wondering if that will somehow do it harm and if I should just adjust it and let it grow all slanty like I got it....) So yeah, absolutely no idea what I'm doing, but it's been in a pot since last Thursday night and it's not dead yet, so here's my June tree :) Oh, and this is it photographed from its "better" side... from the other side you see a lot more trunk and have a lot fewer branches and leaves coming out. I figure if I can get it to live long enough that will change. :)
btw, kudos to everyone else in this thread, it's encouraging (if somewhat humbling!) to see people have such success. I would love to one day have a thumb that green.
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8 years ago
sonyawrites
8 years agoMeyer lemon - had this tree for about a month. It lost half its leaves after I repotted and then didn't water frequently enough. I've been watering every other day now and the leaves look and feel a lot better (they felt brittle for a while but now they feel smooth and healthy). No new growth since I got it. I didn't know about the 5-1-1 mix at first, so when I moved it to the larger pot from the nursery pot I'd followed advice from a friend who's been gardening for years and used a mixture of leaf mulch and potting soil. I realize now this isn't the best soil for it and will probably repot again soon.
mksmth zone 7a Tulsa Oklahoma
8 years agomyermike_1micha
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agomksmith
I started writing my last post above before you posted so I had not seen your pictures. I tell you now that your tree look great. You got the Idea, FEED, FEED, FEED, and FEED and they will take off. And don't forget lot of water with out the sog.
I am back in town now and can share my new trunk.
Meiwa bottom with 6 new shoots totaling 2 feet of combined growth. 2 rootstock shoots I will wrap twist-tie to strangle and hang a cup of dirt to get rooted cuttings for fukushu
top half profusely flowering with kumquat forming below
Steve
bmelz
8 years agoa little late, but here's my Meyer Lemon that I've had since Feb. Must not be on rootstock since it 'Y's right away.
myermike_1micha thanked bmelzponcirusguy6b452xx
8 years agofukushu kumquat trees from seed have trunks 5/64 inch diameter and are growing well
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evdesert 9B Indio, CA
8 years agoI feel left out.... Can I join the party? Here's some in ground tree trunks....
Newly planted (today) bearss lime tree on C35 rootstock
Variegated eureka pink lemon
Mystery orange tree, I think it's a trovita. It's been in the ground for 8 years now.
Rio red grapefruit tree also in ground for 8 years.
Key lime tree trunk diameter 6" in ground for 8 years
Cara cara navel orange tree on C35 root stock, in ground for 17 months
Gold nugget mandarin
sorry for butting in, but I wanted to join the trunk party.evan
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7 years ago
hobbyartisan (Saskatoon, SK Canada, 2b)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agomyermike_1micha thanked hobbyartisan (Saskatoon, SK Canada, 2b)poncirusguy6b452xx
6 years agoWell Only 1 month late this time. 5 year mold Poncirus trifoliata
Seed grown Fukushu kumquat#1in 10 gallon pot
Susanne Michigan Zone 5/6
6 years agoSo interesting to see all the trunks here. Some beautiful trees too.
Well, couple of years and one month later here are some of mine :)
First my mineola. I never really paid attention but this indeed added a lot of width since it joined my place.
same tree
Moro
and my Teresa trying to stand up again, She was almost laying horizontal. Trying with a stake to get her upright every couple of days a little bit more. Need to be trimmet too but one thing at a time.
Meyer was not as bad leaning but still needed to be helped. Trimmed her out a lot too to get some air in to hopefully win the fight against the scales before winter comes
myermike_1micha
6 years agoponcirusguy6b452xx
5 years agolast modified: 5 years ago2 drunk Meiwa kumquats sitting in the gutter
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22 month old seed grown Me1wa kumquat.
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In ground New Zealand Lemonade.
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New Zealand Lemonade on US897 roots
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Poncirus trifoliata in ground
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5 years agoMeyermike(Zone 6a Ma.)
4 years agoponcirusguy6b452xx
4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago2 year 10 month seed grown Meiwa kumquat
New Zealand lemonade on US897
Seed grown Fukushu kumquat in ground entering 4 winter outside.
NZL on C35 in ground entering 3 winter outside.
Valentine pomelow on US897 entering second winter in ground
Steve
Atheen - 7a - in Maryland, USA
4 years agoponcirusguy6b452xx
11 months agolast modified: 11 months agoSeedling Fukushu outside, in ground in a prepared soil space 15 feet by 5 feet by 4 feet seep over hard pan Teays river clay.
Seedling Meiwa kumquat in same as above.
Meiwa kumquat grafted to PT for inter stock grafted to sour orange i a 10 gallon pot.
poncirusguy6b452xx
10 months agolast modified: 10 months agoMeiwa kumquat on flying dragon
Sour orange
Poncirus on Sour orange
Fukushu kumquat on sour orange
poncirusguy6b452xx
10 months agoMy last trunk for the season.
One of 2 buds grafted to my twin trunk tree survived. I don't know whether it is the Fukushu kumquat or the Poncirus trifoliata
Meyermike(Zone 6a Ma.)
10 months agoAtheen - 7a - in Maryland, USA
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