Your TS is bigger than mine after two seasons in the ground... I'll bet you'll do fine with it if you don't plant it too deep like I think I did mine. Darn thing should grow better than the all yellow Maui Buttercups - but it sounds like I'm not the only one finding it slow... I'm betting all those yellow sports are going to end up looking like Maui Buttercups. I've grown a number of MB from tc and like TS and Rainforest Sunrise, their childish and adolescent leaves and structures don't look much like the mature plants. So I'm going to just pull them off and plant them nearby... I think we'll end up with lots of MB-lookalikes...

Thanks for all of the advice. I just need to not go near the clearance sales and just get in and out of the store as quickly as I can. I do intend to use the new toaster. One of the ones I have at home is over 45 years old and was my mother's when I was a teenager. It still works but not real well. The other one I bought about 40 years ago. It works but sometimes the toast is either not brown or burned. I do plan to start using the new one. I like toast but just didn't want to hassel with the 2 older toasters that don't toast very well. I must admit that I do have some things at home, still in their boxes, that I bought beause it was such a "good deal." I just have not really had the time to used any of these things and I do plan to use them if I ever get to retire. By the way, I have never, ever used my credit cards to make any of these purchases. I have had problems in the past with high credit card debt but thoses were from high dental bills, high auto repairs, big plumbing repair bills, and other unexpected and necessary bills, none were frivilous purchases. I just found out this week that my car needs over $1,500 worth of work done on it to keep it running. I had them do $635 in work yesterday and will have the rest done over this month and next month. I had to put this on my credit card as much as I hated to, but I really didn't have a choice since I need my car to drive the 30+ miles each way to work every day. I do need to stop buying things I don't really need and I need all the helpful advice I can get. Thanks. Judith

The bloom is 3.5 inches across right now. It looks like it will be about 4 inches when it finishes opening. The color in the picture is accurate. It's a very pale apricot/buff. I'm loving it whatever it is.

Denise - LOL LOL !!!!!! Fair is fair!!!! :-D Laura - I think a couple people here on GW have ponkans. I remember the thread last year where kvetch asked about the difference (good info) - https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5229538/flavor-taste-of-shiranui-vs-ponkan#n=4 and eventually got one from Stan per this - https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/5336222/trees-from-stan-mckenzie-arrived#n=21 ETA - there are also a couple posts about it in one of your older Kishu threads - https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/4850719/my-first-kishu?n=27%C2%A0 Since your tree is mature, I bet pruning it and getting it to fill back in quickly will not be as stressful as doing that on the young trees.