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| About the Author Can1 Perth Australia 1st September 2009 5:23pm #UserID: 2741 Posts: 2 View All Can1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Brendan says... Hi Can1, Give it some Epsom Salts. I'd add some composted cow manure and mulch heavily out to (or past) the drip-line. Keep the mulch away from the trunk to prevent root-rot. If there's fruit on already, you can mix up 30g epsom salts, 4.5 litres of water with a good wetting agent and spray the fruit and tree. Spray weekly for 4 weeks and it should sweeten the current crop. | About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q. 2nd September 2009 7:45am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Hi Can1 - this link has some of the best info that I have come across re: citrus (and fruit quality) http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/horticulture/citrus/management/nutrition/nutrition It could also be the variety of orange that u have - or a seedling tree? I don't know if u can do much about it - in that case. I lucked out on an Emporer mandarin - I think it's awful IMO! I can't change it - so it's going to get pulled up - very sad after nuturing it for 3yrs :( It worth giving Brendans tip a go too. | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. WA 2nd September 2009 11:24am #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Wayne Mackay QLD 2nd September 2009 4:56pm #UserID: 338 Posts: 908 View All Wayne's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author Can1 Perth Australia 10th September 2009 9:56pm #UserID: 2741 Posts: 2 View All Can1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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amanda says... Hi all - I am beginning to realise that the variety is all important when it comes to fruit quality/characteristics. But...citrus are actually a naturally acidic fruit - they are normally a winter fruit? (There is a formal "scale" apparently - of sweet to acid ratio in fruit...?) Personally I think it's serendipity that mother nature provides us with with such a good source of Vit C just when we need it! (Flu' season) If u eat pineapple etc from a tropical asian climate - it is vastly superior in sweetness to anything we can grow in Aust (except FNQ) - thus I am starting to think that warmth/heat may be critical factors in sugar production? Any other thoughts out there? (ps - i didn't give my slightly sour and abnormal (out of season) winter passionfruit anything to "sweeten" them - they have done it all by themselves - maybe due to the warmer spring weather?..) | About the Author amanda19 Geraldton. WA 10th September 2009 10:26pm #UserID: 2309 Posts: 4607 View All amanda19's Edible Fruit Trees |