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Old 03-03-2008, 01:58 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bencelest View Post
This is also a reminder on how not to remove the watersports your plants send out.
You see they become another plant without waiting to fruit for a number of years. Most of my graft to those watersports flowered the same year. And you can graft to any branches one after another.So for one branch you can have 2 or 3 different fruit.
On a healthy citrus, if you head back waterspouts by 1/3 they will usually harden off into useful growth, flowering the next season. Otherwise they should be removed at their point of origin. As a kid, this was one of my tasks at my uncle's groves in Mentone CA.
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