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Darkman · 07-16-2015, 07:06 AM

Hi Richard,

As always your place is a source of inspiration. I have a question. How much and how often do you irrigate your trees? You seem to have pretty much full sun on all your plantings. I think I may be overwatering my trees. I use low flow MP Rotators set at ten feet tall to emulate a light rain. They come on at 0400 for ten minutes and then three additional cycles at three hours apart. They grow great but do not produce like they should. It may be that they are still young 4 -5 years old and we had a horrible ice storm in 2014 that severely set them back but they should have recovered since then. So what are your watering recommendations?

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