Where about a are you in Washington? I’m near the narrows bridge in Gig Harbor and I have a few in ground now doing well and a bunch of seedlings in the greenhouse. Have you dealt w scale at all on your citrus and if so, what’d you rid them with. Just subscribed, Jon
Cool! I'm in the greater Seattle area. Let me know if you would like to trade any ! Genetic diversity is key. Scale is easy and there is two approaches that I have success with. Monterrey Horticultural oil and root drenches with azamax. Apply at their interval rate 3 times and then scout for them. Azamax is systemic while horticultural oil is contact. Horticultural oil is best applied in warm temps so it evaporates quickly while azamax is best applied in the evening so it has time to absorb into the leaf and plant tissue. The other issue that winter causes is that the low sunlight causes the plants to transpire less so they do not have the levels of calcium and micronutrients they need so they become magnets for insects looking to take advantage of an easy meal. Simply giving them a strong growlight and making sure that they are well supplemented with calcium, magnesium and micronutrients going into the winter will go a long way to making them more resistant.
I have both Azamax and horticultural oil, do you do either or? I can hit them w a watering with some cal/mag and spray them next week when we have a few days of decent weather. Before getting them into my greenhouse. I don’t really have the ability to supplement them w a grow light during winter. Only ones I have extras to trade are Dunstan, Sacaton and swingle citrumelons that are 15-24” and a few smaller Troyer and US852’s. I think I saw you have a few of those already.
If you have fruits I would use azamax and if you don't I would use horticultural oil just my opinion. Both work just in different ways and over different time scales.
Good looking seedlings and collection. Good luck with them all
Very nice video 👍🛎️❤️🤝🙏
Nice i have like 40 citrus trees get a heat Matt instead of Heater and the yellow come from Temps being below 50
Also one last thing before fertilizing make sure soil is at least 55 so u don't get a nutrients lock out
Awesome. This is why I love putting this stuff out on RUclips, we can share experiences and tips and we can all become more successful
Last thing if the leaf is spots of yellow look under leaf and see if there like a fungal growing if so spray with neem oil
@@mrgreenthumb91 thanks for the tip. I have a different approach to disease so stay tuned if you are interested in seeing how that works out for me.
What is the lowest temperature that gets in the greenhouse? Great video, good luck with your trees!
It's unheated so it will rarely go below freezing in our PNW climate. I may put a small heater inside to keep it from going below 32f
@Spencer_Plant_Projects Okay, thanks for the response, i have a orange that i will try to keep in unheated windowed space.
Where about a are you in Washington? I’m near the narrows bridge in Gig Harbor and I have a few in ground now doing well and a bunch of seedlings in the greenhouse.
Have you dealt w scale at all on your citrus and if so, what’d you rid them with.
Just subscribed,
Jon
Cool! I'm in the greater Seattle area. Let me know if you would like to trade any ! Genetic diversity is key. Scale is easy and there is two approaches that I have success with. Monterrey Horticultural oil and root drenches with azamax. Apply at their interval rate 3 times and then scout for them. Azamax is systemic while horticultural oil is contact. Horticultural oil is best applied in warm temps so it evaporates quickly while azamax is best applied in the evening so it has time to absorb into the leaf and plant tissue.
The other issue that winter causes is that the low sunlight causes the plants to transpire less so they do not have the levels of calcium and micronutrients they need so they become magnets for insects looking to take advantage of an easy meal. Simply giving them a strong growlight and making sure that they are well supplemented with calcium, magnesium and micronutrients going into the winter will go a long way to making them more resistant.
I have both Azamax and horticultural oil, do you do either or? I can hit them w a watering with some cal/mag and spray them next week when we have a few days of decent weather. Before getting them into my greenhouse. I don’t really have the ability to supplement them w a grow light during winter.
Only ones I have extras to trade are Dunstan, Sacaton and swingle citrumelons that are 15-24” and a few smaller Troyer and US852’s. I think I saw you have a few of those already.
If you have fruits I would use azamax and if you don't I would use horticultural oil just my opinion. Both work just in different ways and over different time scales.