Well, If you like Grapefruit, try an Oro Blanco or Ruby Red! They are so easy to grow and hardy even indoors!! They get LOADED with flowers and fruit. If you like trees on the orange side, try the Clementine Tree. Great tasting fruit but not sure about amount of flowering. I haven't ordered mine yet. I have heard from others they were not disappointed growing this tree. Also there's the Washington Navel, my God, I have one and it grows fruit like you wouldn't believe, tasty too!!. Four winds nursery grows all of these and very inexpensive to order...:-) If you buy all at once,then your in sad shape:-( Not much room,as you said, but after all, who of us as self control when we are citrus fanatics!!LOLOL Mike

Hi Christy, First of all I want to offer my sincerest condolences on your friends passing:( I know how difficult that can be. I lost a good friend my first year out of high school. He jumped off a peer in Lake Erie. He was under the influence of alcohol and drugs and another close friend of mine tried t osave him but he ended up smashing his face into the break wall and losing my friend. That morning theyfound him floating in the harbour. Okay, about your tree. I have a nice lush dwarf keylime tree. Of all places, I bought it from Roberta's on QVC. It was a small little whip of a tree but has since grown to be over 3 ft tall. It has loaded up plenty of times with flowers. My first complaint was that this tree was advertised as having a great scent. Logees greenhouse also sells it this way and there is NO detectable scent whatsoever! Anyhow, my buds would open and then right about the time the petals would start to drop, the whole flower would fall off! I did have the tiny ovary at the base of the flower but it never developed. I have had a few here and there that did hold on but always fell before they ever got any size to them. Mike also told me that even though citrus are supposed to be self fertile, it may need to be pollinated. I also know that there are some citrus that need cross pollinators to set fruit well. One of them is a citrus that I have been considering buying, the minneola tangelo. I read up on it and read some posts here on it and found that they don't have to have the cross pollinator but you may only get a couple fruits without one. Hi Toni, I wanted to tell youy that I will email you some pics of my two mango trees. Sadly, one of them is going to die but it was my fault. This is the mango I brought back from Florida and I didn't pay attention to the trunk of the tree like I should have. When I got it home, I realized that the bark was split in one spot but I was home and it was too late to do anything about it. I have learned a ton about these trees and though I have lost 3 in the past, I am confident enough to buy more and get some of my own fresh mangoes. mango and cherimoya are my favorite fruits. I did want your opinion on these HPS lights. Now, I have read that they are brighter than bright. Fine with me, as long as they are bright enough to support strong healthy growth. This HidHut website has some killer deals. I am going to order the 600 watt HPS. I am going to need to of them. I went a little crazy on buying fruit trees this year. I bought a 'Day' avoacdo, two different varieties of cherimoya, one actually is a double grafted tree with an atemoya also on it, 3 citrus trees, a mango tree, tons of cherimoya, sugar apple, passion fruit and guava seedlings. I have around 14 large trees so I am hoping that if I buy two of these 600 watt set ups, I can suspend the light above the trees with three trees on one side and 3 on the otherside, that way I can have six trees under each light. My seedlingsa are still small enough to fit on my table but I also ordered 3 cacti from K and L cactus. I have a jackfruit that is growing pretty quickly and my problem is like Christy. I have hardly any good quality natural light. Well, I hope all is well with you and I will email you soon. Mike, I also need to email you. I got some good news about some of the stresses I was talking about with you. I will be sending your package out to you next week. Wether the angel trumpet is ready to be cut or not. Did I mention that the same plant that bloomed once has about 8 buds on it? It should be blooming by the end of this week or maybe next week. I will email you pics when it is blooming so you can see what you will be getting. Andrew

Yes you can always buy additional fixtures if you need to :) but it will be more expensive that way. For example the 4 bulb fixture/with bulbs costs $128 ea so if you end up needing two of them you'll pay $256 or you could just buy 1 eight bulb fixture for $201. However having two 4 bulb fixtures is better than having one 8 bulb fixture in my opinion because you can effectively cover more area by spacing the fixtures few inches from each other. Also you have the ability to adjust different heights on each of the lamp fixtures. When using fluorescents for mature plants which normally grow in full sun for best results you want to keep the plants close to them about 2 inches and adjust the height of you lamp every day. Now in your case you'll have to keep them a little further away because your foliage is 2 feet wide. Ideally you want all of the foliage to be directly under the lamp because you can be sure that all your leaves are getting enough light. Your foliage of 1 plant is 24 inches wide. Width of the fixtures are: 4 bulb - 12.6 " 6 bulb - 17.3 " 8 bulb - 22" So if you had only two plants that wouldn't be so bad because you could line them up under your 4 bulb fixture and have only 6" of foliage sticking out on the sides. These fixtures have reflectors which reflect the light from the top half of the bulb back down so your most effective grow area is directly underneath them. Sure you get light outside of the area but it's not as intense. Having said that, that's why I recommended a 6bulb fixture as minimum because you have 3 plants that are 2 ft wide. It will be difficult to arrange them under the 4 bulb fixture so too much foliage is not sticking out of the prime growing area. You can either put them in line and have 1 foot sticking out on the ends of the fixture or zigzag them to cut down that distance a bit by having all the plants stick out. The 6 bulb fixture gives you extra 5" in width so it would be easier. However if you can invest the money I would go with either to 4bulb or one 8 bulb. Either way you go if your plants are sticking out , it's a good idea to turn your plants 90 degrees in one direction each day so overall they could get even coverage. Also since more intense light is in the middle of the bulb than on the ends you could rotate their places every few days. With three plants it won't be too hard to do

Alanna, the cuttings are about 6-8” long. I remove all the leaves except the top 2 or 3. I use plastic pots which are 3” diameter by 5” tall, which gives me room to put about 2 - 3” of the stem down into the soil. I cut the end at 45 degrees and scrape the side of the stem about an inch up, then I dip the cutting into rooting powder (including the scraped bit). I wet regular potting soil and poke a 2-3” deep hole with a chopstick, then put the end of the cutting down into the hole and squish the soil around it. Then I cover with a zip lock bag partially taped to the pot leaving a gap so there can be a little air circulation. If the bag doesn’t support itself, I’ll use three bamboo skewers pushed into the edges of the soil before putting the bag over, so that the plastic bag doesn’t touch the leaves. I put them in a tray on my sunny windowsill and water the tray every few days to keep moist. I think it takes about two months before it roots.