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Post by sanguinho on Jun 20, 2020 18:08:45 GMT -5
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Post by poncirusguy on Jun 21, 2020 7:53:01 GMT -5
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What kind if fruit is that as your personal picture. Nice articles. I have a fruit trench for my Fukushu kumquat tree and I have a south wall cold retaining fruit trench for my black berries so they come out 3 weeks later for an extended crop.
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Post by sanguinho on Jun 21, 2020 18:18:20 GMT -5
 It's just a navel orange, fell out of the tree and got lost in the weeds. All kinds of bugs tried to eat it, and when I found it I put it on the stone to throw it away the next day. When I went to throw it away I saw that the ants were drilling it and they even had a small mountain of orange shavings, and I thought it was curious that they were interested in a fruit that I didn't think they would be interested in. Ditches against the cold can be good, but very expensive to make, however the walls do seem more affordable to me. It's really something intuitive, we always try to protect the trees from the cold in the north by planting them behind an existing protection, but the idea goes beyond that and is to create walls with that specific use and with specific properties. With another objective, in the Canary Islands there are also walls with the unique function of protecting the vines. www.alamy.com/mediacomp/imagedetails.aspx?ref=M7FGYE |
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Post by ash on Jun 23, 2020 19:01:47 GMT -5
Wow that's extremely interesting.
I've been thinking about the one with walls for a few days and I don't think it would work where I live. You need sun to heat the wall to start with. It's mid summer here and I haven't seen the sun in weeks. It's about 15 degrees max and raining hard. I'm really hoping for some sun soon. And it never gets too cold.
But some of the methods of the soviets used might really help me grow other fruit trees on a windy hillside I have. I'm really interested in the idea of growing a fruit tree only a few cm of the ground. I think I will try it with apple or plum on my windy hillside.
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Post by ash on Jun 23, 2020 19:04:37 GMT -5
I'm really pleased with this information but I have to ask why you are so interested in growing citrus in cold climates when you live in Spain where you have orange trees growing in the streets your local town.
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Post by sanguinho on Jun 24, 2020 3:37:28 GMT -5
I'm really pleased with this information but I have to ask why you are so interested in growing citrus in cold climates when you live in Spain where you have orange trees growing in the streets your local town. Galicia and the Cantabrian regions have a different climate from the rest of Spain, with moderate temperatures and rain. This is due to the proximity of the sea, in addition my city exceptionally has a wonderful climate almost subtropical, in winter the minimum temperatures are about 2°C, for more than 30 years it does not snow. When you move away from the coast, although it is still rainy, the temperatures are more extreme. My parent's village is 100km away from the coast, and my uncle has a lemon tree in a pot, which he puts in the garage every night in winter, but there is always some day that he can't or forgets, and the frost burns all the leaves. His lemon tree is grafted onto poncirus trifoliata, which should provide resistance to the cold, but it's not enough. In my town I can't have any more trees, so I'll start putting them in my parent's village, as it's so far away and the weather is colder in winter, I look for trees that can resist those temperatures and the fruit can last long on the tree. |
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