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interesting. in SoCal there are a lot of urban citrus trees growing amongst the houses and apartments, including Valencia oranges. most of the time, the oranges
by HillaryBriss 8y ago
interesting. in SoCal there are a lot of urban citrus trees growing amongst the houses and apartments, including Valencia oranges. most of the time, the oranges are a bit on the tart side, but there are some sweet ones here and there. IDK what makes the difference. maybe sun exposure on the tree, or more cold weather in a given year. in any case, i'm surprised at how many go to waste.
... which leads to my question: what happened with all the citrus greening disease in Florida? i heard it had destroyed a lot of trees. have they found a good way to combat that?
- 01100011 8y agoSweet citrus needs heat. You can grow sweeter fruit farther from the coast. If you're near the coast, plant it in an area that collects heat. Citrus needs a lot of fertilizer. I finally did the calculations one year and I was astounded at how much nitrogen I needed to apply. Once I did, I got amazing yields. Micronutrients are important too, but man, that nitrogen. In socal, stick to an acidifying source like ammonium sulfate or cottonseed hulls.
- pvaldes 8y agoSome Citrus are much hardier than another. Tangerines, the fruit that gave its sweetness to oranges are much hardier (orange is an hybrid, it does not exist in nature). Grapefruits suffer even more with cold than oranges
- pvaldes 8y ago> what happened with all the citrus greening disease in Florida? Globalisation happened. People basically does not care about it, but new plant diseases are a big problem for the economy of a country.
- pvaldes 8y ago> most of the time, the oranges are a bit on the tart side, but there are some sweet ones here and there. IDK what makes the difference. Oranges are a type of fruit created twice, so can be split in two big groups: Sweet oranges, the fruit that we eat normally, and sour oranges, often used in landscaping and bitter (being bitter they do not attract vandalism). Sweet oranges include several subgroups also. Some are more tart than other.
- oska 8y agoInteresting use of the word vandalism.
- pvaldes 8y agoWell... Trees in the streets have an economic value attached, as any other public property. Damaged trees have to be replaced again and again. People picking oranges carelessly lead easily to crashed stems, ugly patches of dry foliage and damaged trunks. Fruit in the streets works great for some locations, not so for other ¯\_(ツ)_/¯