Some time has passed since anyone has posted on this, but I used the Bayer Advanced product for fruit trees (apple in my case) - in about May of 2013 on 3 apple trees. Now that harvest time is here, my apples are bigger and less diseased then I've ever seen them. The trees are very old - over 50 years and not much has been done to them except the last few years - slight pruning and a little one-time application of this or a similar product - and sometimes a lime sprinkling. Anyway, I am now so concerned about having used this product that I'm looking for comments from anyone else who has. I called the company a couple of weeks ago and was told that the amount of Imidacloprid used in the product is so small that it will not affect the fruit in terms of it's 'edibleness'. OK - so I picked several bushels of apples and started making pies, etc. I did eat some - raw and cooked and this past week my tongue has been kind of numb. It is possible that I burned it or overbrushed it but am not sure. I'm wondering if anyone else has used this and had anything similar. I'm just trying to figure out if it could at all be related to the Imidacloprid in the apples. I really hope that is not the case. Others have eaten a few slices of pies and are not having any reactions so I'm probably just being paranoid. My trees are huge and I used less than what the recommended amount was - but reading all the different posts - I thought I'd resurface this and ask some follow-up questions. (Had tons of bees on them this year and used the product after flowers were all off). As I'm about to hit 'submit' - I'm realizing that my daughter's friend gets a numb tongue from apples - maybe its in a lot of the apples we eat and children would be more 'allergic' / sensitive to this .... ? food for thought.

I've tasted a fruit from a selection of Poncirus trifoliata that was not bad tasting (or maybe one should say "less bad tasting"). I don't think it was " Poncirus+ ". I was told the plant came from an ordinary Flying Dragon (variety) that the owner originally got at OneGreenWorld. I've tasted hybrids of Poncirus (like one citrange) that were completely inedible and made me want to immediately spit it out, whereas this pure variety of Poncirus that I tried was tolerably edible. The taste was insipid, flavor a little like pine, a slight turpentine taste (though not really in a bad way), and just a hint like eating a perfumed soap, but it seemed to have virtually none of the horrible flavor that a Poncirus fruit normally has.

Yes, but is the lemon alive, or is the root stock it was grafted to alive, very few variety of Lemons can survive outdoors in your climate, even here in SW Louisiana where I live I have to cover and put heat lamps on my citrus trees on the coldest nights of the winter. With the record freeze this February even covering and heating them resulted in significant die-back (50% or more on some trees, and one I think may be dead)

Herman, curious is your Poncirus is the straight thorn or if you have a flying dragon with the curved thorns. I grow the dragon for the cool look and root stock. Can't do anything with the fruit otherwise. I watched a squirrel grab one a few years back and chew into it, drop it, and like try to clean its tongue. I almost felt sympathy for it.