Mike, laughing at your mom's comment. She has sense of humor! I love to see pictures of your Epi. flower. Mine is so short lived, we even did not take picture of it. We did not know it will bloom that night. Only see the flower bud grew longer, and larger. We know it should bloom soon in general but we really did not pay special attention to it. It bloomed very later at night. It was near/after midnight if I remembered correctly. I was told it bloom in every short time frame but in our mind,we really expect the flower lasted longer than it actually did. My common cactus is much easier and have good looking flowers as well. Not as grand , but it is also very pure white, and large. The flowers last much longer indoor. Most of my citrus trees, when I ordered them from nursery, I check the type of root stock , same thing goes with my other fruit trees. The root stock in somewhat is more important than what was grafted on. The rest of collection, I purchased in either Home Depot or Lowe's. I can see the root stock grow from the side. I know what the fly dragon's leave looks like. Its leave has very unusual shape than most citrus' It also has large thorn! My last Kumquat plant I bought had fly dragon grow when i bought it at Lowe's/Home Depot. I only paid 5 bucks for it. I just cut it off when I got the plant home. No big deal. The only citrus I have that is not grafted on fly dragon is my unknown Chinese variety Kumquat. It was grafted on some Chinese citrus, I heard it was a type of sour orange grow from seed. I don't know if we have it here. But I was told the fruit does not taste good, so they use it as root stock to graft a Chinese Kumquat onto it. The tree is 5 years tree, I kept it under 2 feet. It grows fruits every year for last two years now. My another kumquat, Fukushi also grows fruit for the past two years . I compare the taste of both kumquats I have. My unknown Chinese variety is noticeable firmer and sweeter. I read somewhere, the Fukushi was supposed to be sweet, but it tasted sour to me. Its fruit is larger. The Kumquat I bought from Lowe for 5 buck is different type, Nagami? I no long have the tag on the tree, not sure I spelled it correct. Somebody said it is a Chinese type and is supposedly very sweet. I can't wait to find it out. If you tell me how to post a picture , I will post some pictures . Josh, I agree with you. The duration of exposure has a lot to do with it.

Toni. Thanks. But I don't understand your question. What stock did I use to graft all citrus on? As you can see all the host plants are different. All I did was to graft a different tree to a branch of the host plants so what do you mean by what stock did I use? Marc, heh, I do just what you do Marc. Every morning I can't wait till daybreak till I go to my yard and look specially for the new grafts that I did whether there is any changes as of yesterday. Then I'd inspect each and every one of them for bugs and such. Yesterday, I saw a BIG bird munching on my riped cherries. My first thought was to get my newly bought air rifle 1000 fps velocity but then I debated it only was looking for its food and must be hungry. And I just shoo'd it away. I end up plucking the cherries and munched them myself. So sweet. Those Prince Ranier cherries. And when my kid came from school we got as much as we can and ate them last night while watching TV. My kid kept on putting them in his mouth while harvesting them. So those are the fruit of your labor. Are you bored really? Those are the happppiest moment waiting for your fruits to ripen. At least for me. It makes your every day a pleasant one.

It wouldn't hurt to add a slow release, Canuck. I do, I use Osmocote Plus on top of watering in FP. I don't use FP with every watering, just because I don't always have time to mix it up, but many of us, especially in the summer, use a time release product as well. And I agree, so nice to take advantage of our wonderful California weather! I do love Vancouver, grew up off and on there all my young life. My entire family is from Canada, but I was born in California. Beautiful place, I especially love Vancouver Island, Victoria, and one of my most favorite places to go as a kid was Queen Elizabeth Park, especially when the roses were in bloom. Patty S.

sgreer13: I live in the Houston area and grow roughly 170 varieties of citrus. Sunburst is a little seedy, but is a very productive one for me (I have a photo of my 3-year-old Sunburst tree with 200+ fruits on it!). I know of only 2 southeast Texas commercial (wholesale only) growers who propagate Sunburst and sell to local retail nurseries: Saxon Becnel & Sons (located of the Beaumont area, sells to many Big Box retailers), and Brazos Citrus Nursery (located in the West Columbia, sells mostly to retail plant nurseries and Master Gardener groups). Both of them T-bud onto Carrizo citrange (not the most hardy rootstock for central Texas and not a "dwarfing" rootstock, but better adapted than some others sold around here). You may have luck looking at your local big box store (our nearby Home Depot has Saxon-grown Sunburst in 5 and 15 gallon sizes). You might also check with E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore at Hill County Natives (www.hillcountrynatives.net) in Austin to see if he has any for sale. Unfortunately the greater Houston area is all under a citrus quarantine right now so you can't come here to buy a tree to take home. Let me know if you need more help. Scott