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bklyn citrus (zone 7B)
4 years agoSince I'll be on vacation I'm going now from pics I took today
baby navel orange
baby morton on its own roots
baby calamondin
grafted keraji manadrin
Kishu mandarin ate all fruits but it has new fruit sets
Accident cant delete a pic when setting up a post great system
In ground Citrangequat on own roots coming back - need to grow up and try again with more bark and thickness
miho Wase brought back from death, has some blooms now might pluck them and wait a year more for size
miho wase
mama in ground fig of unknown northern italian origin ( a bocce club on 15th ave)
Fig cutting I made about 6 weeks ago from mama
grafted citrangequat just got 2 weeks ago
grafted morton also got about 2 weeks ago from stan mckenzie
herbert blackberries
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What was your 1st houseplant? What got you started? How about now
Comments (27)Hi all, My first plant was an African violet. My grandmother was at fault. It was 1979 and I was about 23 years old and in college. I decided I would like to have a house plant and went over to her place to get some pothos cuttings. She grew wonderful looking pothos like nobody I've ever seen since. Anyway she was really thrilled that I was interested in having of houseplant and cut me several good lengths of pothos stems. When we were done with that she took me over to the window and showed me an African violet. She told me that I could take one of those leaves, put it in a glass of water, and that it would grow new plants from the base of the stem. I thought to myself, "no way", but I took a couple of those leaves home, stuck them in a glass of water as she instructed and indeed after couple months little plantlets started to grow from the bottom of the stems. I then planted them in African violet soil and had two plants. I soon took more leaves and started even more African violets. I thought it was such a coup how I was able to produce these "free" plants. Although by the time I bought the pots and soil those plants were not free. lol I then started propagating other plants. I even grew a lemon tree from a lemon seed I had harvested when making lemonade one time. My surprise was that the thing had thorns. Even though I liked my plants I can say that I was really in love with them. That would come later. I graduated from college and married a girl who was in ROTC and went into the army six months later. She was immediately sent to different schools and we traveled around the country to three different places in less than a year. Keeping plants going under those conditions was not very good and I lost a lot of plants, but not my African violets. I wound up in Washington, DC and worked for what was pretty much a white collar "sweat shop". It wasn't uncommon for me to work 60 to 70 hours a week. I needed somewhat of a diversion occasionally though and I found that diversion to be houseplants. I was very lucky to share a corner office with a couple of other people. The sunlight was incredible, and the windows were tinted so that the sun was not too harsh. I bought several starter plants and had them around my desk. To make a long story short I had a spider plant that was just magnificent and I had a Swedish Ivy that was to die for. The Swedish Ivy hung from a 9 foot ceiling and was basically a pillar all the way to the floor. I could not get my arms around the circumference of the plant. Anyway that's when my love of plants really blossomed. I continued to purchase and propagate African violets and had several to give away. My wife, who would eventually become my ex wife, and I moved to Denver. I then became acquainted with other gesneriad cousins of African violets. I went to African violet and gesneriad shows annually and met several people who grew these plants. I love all of my plants but my first love is African violets and their gesneriad cousins. Larry...See MorePlease share recents pic of your potted citrus with us.
Comments (157)just a little update. brought mine out of the greenhouse and into some filtered shade. They overwintered pretty good. A little yellowing on a couple and just a touch of leaf drop. Not a big fruit set but thats ok because I plan to push these with more N this year to really get bigger. Fukushu, key and washington left to right meyer, bearrs lime, armstrong satsuma, seedling grapefruit and seedling lemon, left to right up close of fukushu kumquat, probably my favorite right now. Prolific bloomer, great fruit set, and always healthy. Its regulary flowers every other month or so. Steve these are for you the lemon seedling on the right is one of 2 of the very first citrus I grew. the other I gave to my mother. Both were germinated in the Fall of 2009 making them just over 6 years old. Ive neglected them a little and thats why they arent so big. One did flower last spring but just one or 2 flowers. Grapefruit is about 3 years old. and again neglected a little. mike...See MoreHave you started your own cuttings? Please, let's see them)
Comments (35)I've done a few citrus cuttings over the years, a few have died due to neglect. But this is my 'best one' you can see another plastic bottle method one next to it. My method is plastic bottle cut in half, peat, perlite, fresh cutting. Plonk cutting in moist soil put lid on leave until it fills with roots. :) This post was edited by madferret on Thu, Oct 16, 14 at 3:42...See MoreNew OT thread started 8/28
Comments (70)I was rolling with the comment from you, EG, about the women's club that you and Sinfonian will be honorary members of! hahahaha I think it'd be hard for me to go with that one, too, if I were male. Although, I think it's wonderful how our women are so macho and all. hahahahaha It's good to know that the bunnies like yours can be social ones and how long that they usually live, too. I am getting more and more interested in getting one. I think, if at all possible, I'll get a baby one that we can expose to lots of cuddling and love right away. I agree with Medo, that bunny poo is gonna be great for the garden! I'll have two kinds of poo if I play my cards right. I'm hoping for bunny and worm poo. I think that'll be enough for my garden. I was all upset earlier thinking my Kentucky Wonder green beans were dying or something. They've had leaves that curled up black on the ends just since I moved them here, but today they perked right back up and are looking great. I guess they just had shock from being moved back here from my mom's house. My lettuce got a bunch of rain, and they're still babies, of course. They're all stumped over and matted into the soil now. Poor things just look terrible. The rain has stopped so hopefully they will spring right back up. They just look so weak and sad right now. I hope they will be okay. It sure is amazing how much I have to learn with gardening being that I've never had the opportunity to take part in it much at all. It's like I know nothing. I have no idea what any plant will look like or anything. It's just blowing me away to see how beautiful each plant is, etc. My squash are by far the biggest and healthiest looking plants out of everything so far. Maybe the "accident" cantaloupes could make a close second, though. I wish I knew what these squash tasted like that I planted. LOL It was so late in the season when I got seeds, that all I could get at first were green hubbard, buttercup (not butternut), and acorn squash. Just recently I found zucchini, so I went ahead and tried planting a couple of those but they aren't up yet. ~Angela...See Moreponcirusguy6b452xx
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoCamera has no wide angle position, maybe you get the idea how much you accumulate. It is easy to overdo. Just half showing.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoWhat happens to the big guns here? I know big vacations, no time for nuisance trees.
Have more somewhere else. A couple dozen pomelo fruits from a dozen trees don’t add up.
New ones I don’t need, if I managed to give away 10 or so, I”ll be in good shape come fall.
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angesradieux
4 years agoI got my kishu from four winds today!
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Here it is next to my meyer lemon that's been growing like crazy. I'm kind of hoping it'll flower again after this most recent flush of growth. It dropped one of the two lemons it had set, but it's still holding onto the other. Fingers crossed I get at least one fruit from each plant!
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It came with 13 little fruits on it. Not sure if they'll stay on the tree or if it will drop some. I guess time will tell, but I was excited to see all the little mandarins!
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I put it in a 16 inch pot
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And some of my not citrus plants
Pink lemonade blueberries
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Showing some new growth! This one was particularly sad looking when I got it. This and the right most one in the above photo came from fast growing trees, and while neither was especially robust, I was half convinced that the left most one was not long for this world when it arrived. But they seem to be doing alright. No blueberries from them this year, but maybe next summer! The middle one came from the local nursery. I was surprised to see pink lemonade bushes there and picked one up as a back-up in case one of the two I ordered died.
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And 2 peach sorbet blueberries and a jelly bean blueberry. The right and left most ones are the peach sorbets, which also came from fast growing trees. They arrived in much better shape than the pink lemonades. The middle is the jelly bean and was an impulse buy at the local nursery when I was buying pots and soil for my other blueberries.
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And little serissa cuttings I ordered from Etsy. They're supposed to have pink blooms, but no flowers yet, so I can't be 100% sure they're the pink variety and not white. I guess time will tell! About two years ago a friend of mine gave me a serissa as a gift. Unfortunately that one ended up dying, but I loved the flowers on it! I finally got around to purchasing a replacement.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years ago
The grafted meiwa and NZL have fruit and the 2 seed grown meiwa has flowers
Seed grown meiwa with fruit that held onto tree
Seed grown meiwa kumquat trees are 2 years 7 months oldSteve
socalnolympia
4 years agoIchangquat, in ground
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Amy (montreal, canada)
4 years agoWow! Beautiful trees everyone!
Here are mine:
Tahitian pummelo
Unknown grapefruit
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christine 5b
4 years agoGrapefruit grown from a pit, she's 5 years old now
Everyone has such gorgeous citrus !!!!
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Laura LaRosa (7b)
4 years agoBeautiful trees everyone! I took pics of a few of mine. I’ve been having a problem with splitting fruit of the dekopon and miho wase. I’m not sure if the intense heat followed by watering has caused it. The other trees don’t seem affected.
Alexander and a wekiwa tangelo.
massive ST loaded with lemons
dekopon in new container
another section of yard. Front row from left to right: NZ lemonade, nagami, variegated eureka
miho wase with splitting fruit. There are plenty left, but it’s annoying.
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4 years agolast modified: 4 years agoMyblood orange has grown about two feet since my last post. :)
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4 years agogoing out of town but here is a current report on my rooftop citrus
New Zealand lemonade on Seville sour orange
New Zealand lemonade on Seville sour orange
New Zealand lemonade on Seville sour orange
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Seed grown meiwa kumquats
Seed grown meiwa kumquats.
Seed grown meiwa kumquats.
Steve
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Kelley_GA8a
4 years agoEveryone’s trees look fantastic and healthy! I have tried uploading my photos 3 separate times without success, so here’s a picture of just a few of my various lemons:
Monyet
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seed grown 2 year 8 month old meiwa kumquat tree with fruits
seed grown 2 year 8 month old meiwa kumqut starting its first mass flower set.
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