Hutch68

That's what you get for messing with big guns!

One of the funniest things I've seen in a while.

On 9/24/2017 at 7:08 PM, Rc2702 said:

Hi Hutch, 

 

We purchased these lemon tree cuttings 7 months ago from a guy with a lovely farm near somdet. We paid 400 baht for 29 cuttings and we then purchased 30 concrete rings which were 120 baht each. Diameter aproximately 60cm and height say 30cm.

 

They look healthy but cannot see any lemons or spec of anything lemon yet.

 

The guy had a lovely little farm though and had a fair bit going on.

 

I have nothing to do with the farm I leave that to her dad but I have the contact info for the Thai farmer we got the cuttings off. He advertises his cuttings on kaidee. Speaks no English but will be very pleased to have a picture with you on his farm I'm sure.

Thanks Rc, can you send me the contact details I will go take a look.

On 5/20/2017 at 8:03 PM, fruitman said:

I've tried all citrus i could find...lemon, lime, tahiti lime, finger lime, oranges, mandarin, pomelo, navel, seedless lime and what not. Only thing left now is fingerlime grafted on pomelo rootstock, it was a citrus cocktailtree for some years with many different citrus on 1 tree.

 

If you want an oddity make something like that and learn how to graft/bud. I have more tree's like that but not with citrus.

 

Grafted pomelo in a big pot, full sun and plenty water/food can fruit within a year easy. Same did my navel. Tahiti lime fruit in 6 weeks, the others never.

 

Full sun all day is important for citrus.

 

The butterfly larvae eating the leaves is common, the larvae come from tiny green eggs the butterflies put on the leaves EVERY DAY. It's easy to spray those eggs off though. Weaverants can also keep them at bay.

 

There are many different pomelo's, i had a red fleshed one which costs the most on markets, i prefer them above grapefruit.

 

Yuzu or Sumo or Dekapon is a japanese quality orange, very nice. I've seen grafted tree's once for 1500 baht.

 

If you're in for a project make a cocktail citrus tree starting with a nice pomelo on which you graft all the other ones. It's easyier than you might think and great to see limes growing on your pomelotree.

 

Fruitman, how's your finger lime tree coming on on the pomelo rootstock? How many did you graft? What graft did you use? You say you have orange and lemon trees, would you be willing to sell me some budwood cuttings from your trees? Any photos of the Finger lime?

Just give the bones to a dog then put some ash from a fire into the jar to fill it up, the relatives will never know.

And I think that is illegal world wide.

9 hours ago, shamimoto said:

As a hobby I planted seeds from local oranges (mandarin) in pots. 6 of them growing very healthy. No fruit yet. Lemons plenty.

From seed? I mean the lemons?