I use Comcast as my ISP and they have blocked people that I email with a lot as spammers. They blocked my boss, his secretary, one of the companies I represent (I am a sales rep) and several of my personal friends. They all had to fill out a form and say they weren't spammers. One of my personal friends has never been able to get unblocked despite filling out the form several times, I've filled it out for her so I know it was right and I also called and emailed Comcast but they insisted her domain sent spam. It was a tiny local ISP in Texas, I doubt it.... Anyway, it can be very frustrating. I get real spam all the time but messages I need can be blocked. They don't go to my spam folder for me to click this is not spam, they just get bounced back with a very similar notice to the one the OP posted.

Actually, Jerry..we did have a pretty good frost two nights (?) before...(I covered everything). Then the heat wave two days straight right after...I've been finding some damage on two more hostas since...and it occurred within 48 hours of frost. It could be frost damage instead? I'm not that familiar with frost damage...cold damage yes, but that is different. Sandy, it always happens in May (a lightbulb went off in my head re your unfurling comment) and coincides with heat waves during the day. Last year it occurred around the same time or earlier as I have pics dated May 29/14 that show damage that is somewhat aged already...but the exception this year was that it wasn't fully leafed out yet. Bruce, Sandy, Jerry and Don - I asked for advice because I was waffling, sitting on the fence, ... thank you for giving me the nudge I needed. I really appreciate it and will leave her alone as recommended. . . and yes, I shall enjoy the beauty, Bruce. :-)

Vladimir, you might surf the DirtDoctor's website and see if he has posted data. I doubt folks who don't want to mess with the organic gardening concept would care much for Garrett Juice but I think the ingredient list and the assay label link the product to sources of nutrients that people generally believe in and work hard (composting for example) to achieve. Folks who want to grow organic would appreciate that the product has apple cider vinegar, not white vinegar. Apple cider vinegar (obviously in very low quantities) is supposed to promote microbes, white vinegar is not known to do that. Vinegar is not just vinegar. You may already know that but it's not a commonly known truth. Howard Garrett's view (based on a lot of his research if what I have read on his website is true) is that we use commercial fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides that often harm the beneficial microbes in the soil....bacteria, fungi, nematodes, worms, etc. Those critters help compete with disease-causing bacteria, fungi, and nematodes and all of them excrete waste which provides a steady flow of nutrients from organic material in the soil and in the things we put around our plants, and they help aerate the soil and help mobilize micronutrients that may not be in the right form for plant uptake. Garrett Juice contains liquid from compost, molasses, seaweed, and other ingredients that are meant to feed the micro-organisms and the tree itself. Notice the N-P-K is quite low as compared to commercial fertilizers. I don't have data but the concept seems to be very much in line with our own digestive systems. Some antibiotics will wipe out the natural micro-flora in our intestines....so we are encouraged to eat yogurt and other foods that help return the good bugs that keep us healthy. I can get non-organically grown fruits in stores that I have to wash before I eat. A part of my pleasure in growing fruit in a more natural setting is that I get something I believe is better.

Here's my first expereince with FWG: In September when I got the alert that the New Zealand Lemonade was available, I ordered it and contemplated ordering several other tress. I waited too long and missed the STL. I debated about the Genoa, the GN, and the Kishu, but you guys wisely counseled that I not go over board and I thank you for that (there are still at least a half dozen other varieties, that I have to resist the urge to buy on a daily basis!). When I received my NZL, it had spider mite damage and had lost half it's leaves. It had a decent shape and branching, but as I told FWG, it looked like something I would have purchased in the discount section at Lowes. It was my first time ordering with them and I was disappointed, so I sent an email. I received a professional email from Kendra where she basically admitted that they dropped the ball and the NZLs should have never been sold in that condition. They offered me my money back or a replacement tree. So, I opted for a replacement tree because A) I have a problem and B) I wanted to give them another shot. I emailed back and ground with Kendra and gave here a few trees I was interested in and ultimately settled on a Golden Nugget. Everyone is always happy with a GN. She kindly offered to search for a Santa Teresa lemon for me. It took two weeks and I hadn't heard anything, so I nudged a bit. She offered to have a picture taken of both a ST and a GN and let me decided. Another few days goes by, I nudge a little more and it turns out they're sold out of GN. She ended up sending me a picture of the ST and shipping it out the following week. Kendra was ultimately helpful and professional although she did get a little peeved at me when I pointed out the the website listed GN's for sale, but they were sold out and didn't show ST's and they had them (what I perceived as a slight attitude, could have just been me misinterpreting email). She explained that she did me a favor and pulled it from their 'sister site as they are intended for the shift up stock'. I think FWs and Kendra handled it well overall. Status of NZL: I received it about 7 weeks ago. It was tall, but sparse and missing lots of leaves (and they did not fall off during shipping) with spider mite damage. Roughly half of the leaves it had when it arrived turned yellow and fell off. I expect at least a half dozen more to fall off in the coming weeks. It put out a few new growth shoots right before coming inside for the winter, but only 2 survived. I expect that it will recover just fine, but I think it will take until the end of the next growing season at least to look as it should have when it arrived. I pulled it out of it's pot yesterday because I was going to put it in a different size and got a good look at the roots, they look happy and healthy. I do feel a little bit like a snob for complaining because I do think it will be a lovely plant some day (key words being 'some day'), but had I seen it in my local nursery, I never would have paid full price for it. It was not a great example of what FW's has to offer as a first time customer. Status of the ST Lemon: It is a LARGE tree. Like I said, I have no other experience with FW other than my sad NZL. My current citrus collection was all purchase from either my local nursery or Logees. My trees started tiny and most are still quite petite. This ST is a real tree and I'm a little intimidated. It is roughly 33 inches from dirt to talllest branch and 32 inches wide. I've seen all of your pictures, but it's hard to tell how big they really are. (I hear Susanne laughing at me for complaining that my trees are too small. It's going to be quite a jungle when they all get this big.) That being said it is healthy. There are a few leaves with white spots, but it doesn't look like spider mites. This is looks like an iron deficiency or magnesium. I’m not sure I found one buggy on it and I picked it off, wiped all the leaves with a damp paper towel, then a q-tip with alcohol a few times. I sprayed it with Neem oil last night and left it in a separate room. It was growing it what looks to be 100% bark and it was seriously root bound. I'm no expect, but it doesn't appear to be grafted. There are these two tiny shoots just below the main branches. Should I prune them off? There is a small cluster of tiny branches completely devoid of leaves. It's previous pruning does leave something to be desired. It really looks like someone just hacked away at it in odd places. It looks fairly full in the pictures, but really there are three main branches and two are long and gangling. One has no branching at all. They are a little unruly and I'm not sure if I should prune the entire thing back several inches to encourage a full canopy and more branching from the base (like Susanne's Fukushu that she posted yesterday). If I do any pruning, I assume that I should probably do it in the spring? I know a lot of you are antipruning, but I want it to have a nice shape.