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fruit growth suppression
Citrus fruit growth elimination / suppression / retardation.
In a backyard: 2 citrus trees, 1 Tangelo and 1 Lemon ~ 20 years old, each 30+ ft tall, no fertilizer applied ever, seldom watered, pruned every 2-3 years, but each one is yielding, year after year, approximately ten (10!) full 35 gallon barrels of huge, juicy tangelos and lemons. == Problem: Fruits are ready all at one time. Too many!! == Comments: (1) "Fruit Eliminator", (Cl-Et-PO2Na) does not mention any effectiveness on nor use for citrus trees and cautions about leave discoloration. Despite this info, does anyone have positive ex. with it (1) on citrus trees. (2) I hate to do annual, manual blossom plucking. == Request: What can be sprayed onto these blossoms that will eliminate or at lest diminish this unwanted bounty? hanson |
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fruit growth suppression
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:31:17 GMT, "hanson" wrote:
Citrus fruit growth elimination / suppression / retardation. In a backyard: 2 citrus trees, 1 Tangelo and 1 Lemon ~ 20 years old, each 30+ ft tall, no fertilizer applied ever, seldom watered, pruned every 2-3 years, but each one is yielding, year after year, approximately ten (10!) full 35 gallon barrels of huge, juicy tangelos and lemons. == Problem: Fruits are ready all at one time. Too many!! == Comments: (1) "Fruit Eliminator", (Cl-Et-PO2Na) does not mention any effectiveness on nor use for citrus trees and cautions about leave discoloration. Despite this info, does anyone have positive ex. with it (1) on citrus trees. (2) I hate to do annual, manual blossom plucking. == Request: What can be sprayed onto these blossoms that will eliminate or at lest diminish this unwanted bounty? hanson A few applications of glyphosate and you won't have any fruit, or leaves to rake either. Just a dead stick. Heck, man, spray nothing on them. Set up a fruit stand with your "organic" produce and let other people pay you to take them away! Steve Turner |
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fruit growth suppression
"hanson" wrote in message
news Citrus fruit growth elimination / suppression / retardation. In a backyard: 2 citrus trees, 1 Tangelo and 1 Lemon ~ 20 years old, each 30+ ft tall, no fertilizer applied ever, seldom watered, pruned every 2-3 years, but each one is yielding, year after year, approximately ten (10!) full 35 gallon barrels of huge, juicy tangelos and lemons. == Problem: Fruits are ready all at one time. Too many!! == Comments: (1) "Fruit Eliminator", (Cl-Et-PO2Na) does not mention any effectiveness on nor use for citrus trees and cautions about leave discoloration. Despite this info, does anyone have positive ex. with it (1) on citrus trees. (2) I hate to do annual, manual blossom plucking. == Request: What can be sprayed onto these blossoms that will eliminate or at lest diminish this unwanted bounty? Either chop down the trees or give away the fruit. There are any number of help the less fortunate groups wherever you live that will be more than happy to come get the ten 35 gallon barrels of fruit. You could sell it on weekends if you felt like it. But avoid poisoning the soil with chemicals. And spraying something in the air will most certainly affect lots of other trees and plants in the neighborhood. If you want to reduce the amount of fruit, why not reduce the amount of tree? Hard cut it to make it a smaller tree and you will get less fruit. |
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