Question from Nelson: I have a dwarf grapefruit tree and it has lots of flowers this year and now has clusters of tiny grapefruit. I know I need to separate them to have a healthy crop but don’t know how many to leave on each cluster…? Can you help me…? Answer from Pat: Due to […]
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Citrus & Fruit Trees – Page 9
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Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Gardening Question from Julie: I just planted a Dorsett Apple tree a few weeks ago. I live in Florida & I am very excited to have this tree. However I just found out I need 2 Apple trees to pollinate. I am on limited space & really only have room for one tree. How far […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees, Gardening Tip
Question from Debbie: 8 years ago we planted a Santa Rosa plum (Sunset 23, Pacific Palisades). for the first few years it had 3 or 4 plums – delicious! The tree kept growing(like crazy), but my gardener has pruned it hard in Dec or Jan for the past 3 years, and now we have plenty […]
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Question from Monty: Please help me to get me pomegranates set fruit. I have large bushes flowering for a long time already. But all the little pomes or baby fruits fall soon after the flowers drop the petals. One bush fruited fine in the past. But this year, nothing set. I even tried spraying some […]
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Question from Robin: Quick question: I have almost zero fruit on my all my fruit trees this year. There were loads of blossoms in March and then the hail and cold snap seemed to strip the trees. What can be done to encourage re-bloom on the apples. And is there anyway to intensify the sweetness […]
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Question from Y: What is the cambian layer? Is that the outer bark? And, there is also growing on most olive trees, suckers around the base, does that mean that that tree has been compromised as in your teaching dialogue? Answer from Pat: The Cambium layer on a tree is not the outer bark. The […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees, Trees
Able to grow grapefruit on coast in Encinitas
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Wednesday,
December
12th,
2012
at 03:49 AM
Question from Karen: Hello. I was wondering if you could tell me if it is possible to grow a grapefruit tree that will produce sweet, palatable fruit near the coast in Encinitas? I live within 1/2 mile from the coast so I definitely have the fog to contend with. Answer from Pat: Grapefruit trees will […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Question from Ron: I just bought a peach tree at home depot and planted it in my west Texas home. I noticed after a week the leaves are falling off and ants were all over it. This is my first tree so I don’t what is going on Answer from Pat: Home Depot is not […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees, Trees
Question from Bryan: I’m new to fruit trees but eager to learn. I just bought a bunch of different type. My citrus are doing great, but my necterines, one tree imparticular, are loosing leaves. I’m wondering if they are sick or I’m doing something wrong. can you help? Answer from Pat: Citrus are evergreen subtropical […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees, Trees
Question from Louise: I have an apricot tree that hardly bears any fruit I feed it but only 6 maybe on the tree, the nectarine and peach next to it give fruit but that one hardly why? and when should I feed them all, February or wait till march? what do you suggest I feed […]
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