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Oranges vs Fruit Fly and Parrots

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Scott G starts with ...
My Loquat crop was full of fruit fly and the King Parrots ate them all. So I am going to replace the tree with something that won’t suffer from either of these problems. Is this wishful thinking?

I am on The Gold Coast and considering getting an orange tree. I have a Pomelo and a Lisbon Lemon and neither have problems.

I had read that thin skinned citrus gets fruit fly, like Mandarins and the Meyer Lemon. So I am going to avoid them. But I had also read that grapefruit get fruit fly. I hope thick-skinned varieties of citrus may discourage parrots. Does anybody have any suggestions or experience with oranges?
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Scott G
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15th October 2007 12:48pm
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Scott G says...
I have just read that Washington Navel oranges ripen in Autumn and Winter and this is supposed to make them less susceptible to fruit fly. But they like a wet Autumn and Winter to ripen their fruit (which I don’t really have but I hope will be OK). Does anyone have any experience with them?
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18th October 2007 9:31am
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Julie says...
I get no fruit fly on Navel oranges, but Valencias, which ripen in early summer, do get attacked.

I still have trouble keeping parrots off my oranges, they get at least 50% of the fruit.
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aNON says...
Jools

He is in QLD and they have Qld fruit fly not mediteranean fruit fly like us.

Qld fruit fly attacks a lot more stuff.
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april07 says...
Hello Scott
I notice that you mention that you have pomelo.
Just wonder if I able to get some seed from you. I want to grow them not just for it fruit but for its leaf.
Hope you can help. Thanks
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