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dnedd1 zone7 LI NY

7 years ago

My most treasured blood orange was slowly dying last summer and by this season when I put everything outside it was a skeleton. I did all I knew to recover it, changed pot, changed mix, changed schedule but it slowly died. I couldn't bring myself to throw away my first big citrus purchase and favorite so I planted it at the corner of my house as a memorial with another dead barbados cherry.

Last week I was killing weeds and I saw what looked like a flower bud coming from the lower trunk. This week the its full of buds and sprouts.

I love this tree. I will try to post pics with the progression of this wonderful come back.

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dnedd1 zone7 LI NY
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7 years ago
dnedd1 zone7 LI NY
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7 years ago
The old pics are not loading but the above pics are now. I will keep trying to upload the stages of it dying.
dnedd1 zone7 LI NY
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7 years ago
I have a calamondrin that is doing what the blood orange did as it slowly died so guess what I did yesterday, I planted it in the ground hoping to save it now.
dnedd1 zone7 LI NY
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dnedd1 zone7 LI NY
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hobbyartisan (Saskatoon, SK Canada, 2b)
7 years ago
Fingers crossed for you! Glad your blood orange is coming back. Is that a cutting or grafted? Hopefully it's not root stock. I also killed a favorite tree this year- transplant shock. Mine was def dead though. It's gone to the citrus gods in the sky now. To be replaced next year!
dnedd1 zone7 LI NY
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7 years ago
Grafted and I'm going to keep an eye on the leaves as they develop.
Laura LaRosa (7b)
7 years ago
Wow...miraculous recovery! I'm so happy to see it bounced back! I've not lost a tree yet, but I will be very upset when that happens...I guess it is inevitable sometime...

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