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carluva wrote:Les Bain wrote:WTK: My dad gave me a hybrid King Orange plant and it's been planted in my back yard about 3 or 4 years now. The only thing it bearing is picker.
It's been on bearing salts like 4 months now and it still yet to bear. Is it a fail or am I doing something wrong?
If it is grafted, usually a lemon branch is used as the start for the graft. So as the plant grows, you have the lemon growing as well as the orange. You need to keep cutting back the lemon stems to allow the graft to grow otherwise the lemon will take over. Were you doing this regularly? If not, you literally got a lemon on your hands there.
On a funny note, i had a few citrus in my yard, some not bearing after 6 years. A few years ago, i hit up the tree with a cutlass and talk to it real rough and threaten to cut it down. Next season, fruit start to bear. A small grap tho. Season after that, every day i picking 2 buckets of citrus... try that with the tree... old wifes tale that appears to work.
adnj wrote:I have seen avocado, citrus and mangoes bearing fruit while in pots in California.
They weren't special varieties. They were kept pruned.
timelapse wrote:*KRONIK* wrote:Hammer in a rusty nails on the trunk....carluva wrote:Les Bain wrote:WTK: My dad gave me a hybrid King Orange plant and it's been planted in my back yard about 3 or 4 years now. The only thing it bearing is picker.
It's been on bearing salts like 4 months now and it still yet to bear. Is it a fail or am I doing something wrong?
If it is grafted, usually a lemon branch is used as the start for the graft. So as the plant grows, you have the lemon growing as well as the orange. You need to keep cutting back the lemon stems to allow the graft to grow otherwise the lemon will take over. Were you doing this regularly? If not, you literally got a lemon on your hands there.
On a funny note, i had a few citrus in my yard, some not bearing after 6 years. A few years ago, i hit up the tree with a cutlass and talk to it real rough and threaten to cut it down. Next season, fruit start to bear. A small grap tho. Season after that, every day i picking 2 buckets of citrus... try that with the tree... old wifes tale that appears to work.
Might work , if pH is too high.
Soil pH for citrus supposed to be between 5.5 and 6.5
Proper test kits can be bought online, but I cheap so.....
DIY test: Collect 2 teaspoons of soil and put them into a plastic cup.
Add a half cup of vinegar to 1. if it fizzes, your soil is alkaline.
If not you have some other kind of problem
d.d.s. wrote:Soil test for pH etc can be done at
Research Division
Central Experiment Station
Caroni North Bank Road
Centeno
Trinidad, West Indies
Tel. (868) 646-4335/6
I too have experienced plants bearing fruit after hammering in a nail or chopping it. I was thinking maybe it works because you 'stress' the plant (damage it's life span) and so it's 'forced' it flowering etc to propagate it onwards ???
carluva wrote:[
On a funny note, i had a few citrus in my yard, some not bearing after 6 years. A few years ago, i hit up the tree with a cutlass and talk to it real rough and threaten to cut it down. Next season, fruit start to bear. A small grap tho. Season after that, every day i picking 2 buckets of citrus... try that with the tree... old wifes tale that appears to work.
Les Bain wrote:Thanks for all those responses. I'll look into it. The decorative plants thrive really well in the back yard. The King Orange and the lime tree just dey, not action for years.
Phone Surgeon wrote:Joshua Joshua?
Not sure nah, just remembered seeing the photos. Cleared out some space and was thinking might be something worth looking into to put there.Phone Surgeon wrote:Joshua Joshua?
Sounds like it may not be legit?pugboy wrote:Lolll
Nice pics of plants bearing in pots but doesn’t answer any questionsPhone Surgeon wrote:Joshua Joshua?
aidan wrote:Sounds like it may not be legit?pugboy wrote:Lolll
Nice pics of plants bearing in pots but doesn’t answer any questionsPhone Surgeon wrote:Joshua Joshua?
axe wrote:Jus putting this out for those who cares to know.
I have done hundreds of grafting and budding.
There is a disease called tristeza which can curtail a citrus plant to 5 years or less.
That's why for decades we used cleopatra mandarin as rootstock because it is resistant and passes on this triat to the budded tree.
Downside of this the tree is less prolific, even bears less when compared to other rootstocks such as sour orange.
Many people use the sour orange today. The plants look more full, the bearing will be better... But friend 5 years later it dies.
People like how these plants look, the ones on cleopatra stock always seemed stunted. Unscrupulous people today know that the buyer wouldn't know....
Anyways hope this helps someone
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