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With all of this jellies and jams, all this reminds me of the Tom Jones song that goes - " Ohhhh, sugar, sugar, ohhh, honey, honey. . . . ." Just hope, nobody's on a diet!

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WOW Benny!! Those look great!!!

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i use the low sugar recipe. lol!

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Thanks Mskitty for a very informative cooking instructions. I'll try to get them as soon as I can.
And thanks Lynn for your nice compliment.

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I was looking at my pictures in the past and I saw this.


I grew this at one point in time.
Satsuma mandarin

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Looks alot like your avatar. Are you not growing them now?

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Yes. But it was not as prolific as that one. Also I planted both to the ground a year ago.
My Avatar was a Washington Navel which is over 6 feet now and I harvest fruits every year. Since planted on the ground both don't fruit as many.

Here's my avatar picture:

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Satsuma plum as mother host and green gage plum as grafted tree

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Wow, I didn't think a tree could have that much fruit.

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By the way good job with the grafts.

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Me too but here they are. They are different fruits in different branches of one tree.
I will also show you different grafts of different citrus in my matured Eureka lemon.

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Great looking plums, Benny.

:woohoonaner:

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they look so yummy benny.....i know i put my shovel somewhere.....

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Thanks foor the compliment Dean, Richard and Mskitty. Shovel?

Benny

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yes so i can dig up the tree.

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Dream Navel grafted to Eureka lemon

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Clemenule from Spain grafted to Eureka lemon center pic. Upper right corner is a Page mandarin grafted to the same tree.

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guess ill have to bring 2 shovels and very big bags.....ha ha ha

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Oh,I see now what you mean when you mentioned shovel. But we have this clay soil. Hard to dig.

Calamondin grafted to Eureka lemon.

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I like seeing the pics. You wrapped them up in plastic? Or is that tape?

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Dean:
They are grafting tape that you can buy through the internet for about $2.00 a roll. I choose that because it is biodegradable. Once the graft takes about 3 to 5 weeks it disintegrates itself.
But you can use any tape you want even electrical tape but I believe the take will decrease.

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Success! I was able to graft a seedless Kishu mandarin to a Chandler pomello.
This mandarin is one of my favorites for its sweetness and juicyness. The other favorite of mine is the Clemenule from Spain. Another out of this world taste.

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Here are various grafts of clemenule mandarin from Spain to a Chandler pomello. At least 7 branches were grafted at various different time frame.

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Congratulations! Does the Chandler would boost production in the Mandarins?

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I really don't know Richard.
I am all doing it for fun. Just trial and error method. I found out that Chandler pomello is the most compatible variety to graft with mandarins. Boosting production is a different matter.
I noticed though that the clemenules flowered early. It flowered on the next year's graft but they all aborted once the fruit were the size of BB's. Hopefully next year some will grow to maturity. But I enjoyed the flower's fragrance.

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Here's my Fuji apple about ready to harvest the fruit. The fruit can stay on the tree for a very long time. Pic taken 9 16 08

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and here's also another Fuji apple tree grafted to it are a green almost yellow apples (variety unknown that I got from my sister's yard, large, very sweet and juicy Japanese . .origin). Its first year fruit.

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fuyo persimmons 10 1 08

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pergola plat 10 1 08

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follow up:

I have about 3 clemenule fruits that I think it will grow to maturity the way they look.
Somehow there is no telling that the clemenules are flowering constantly. Not many but 3 or 4 flowers at a time so you can see the different sizes of fruit on the tree.

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Update on my persimmon tree. Almost ready for the picking.

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awesome
----------- im green with envy
ursula

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Thanks Ursula for your compliment. Have you seen my Fuji apple tree? I am so proud of it year after year.

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Just harvest some of my Fuji apples



On the right is a granny apple graft. Notice the white grafting tape? It fruited the first year with large grannys but I plucked them all out thinking that it may be too much for the branch to take. That's what happened to my Cherry. I grafted another a Prince Ranier unto a branch of my Bing and flowered profusely and harvested the fruit when ripped but died thereafter. It never did gave out any leaves but only flowers.

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Here are some f the grafts that I made to my matured Eureka lemon. Those were only experiments but I found out that this lemon can take many varieties of oranges, pomellos, tangerines and other lemons. here are some samples:



Fokomoko orange grafted to Eureka lemon

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Silverhill grafted to Eureka lemon

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Dream navel grafted to Eureka lemon

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The Chandler is one with flowers

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Daisy, Honey, Dancy, Mayagawa Satsuma, Meyer lemon and W. Murcott tangerines grafted to Eureka lemon

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Benny - after looking at your pictures - I want to shoot myself!!! Your stuff (technical term) is gorgeous!!

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Thank you so much Island Cassie. You made my day.
I have more pictures to post but I still have not check them for identification.

Here's one more pic but an unknown variety. I just got a small branch from my sister in laws house but they don't know what kind of lemon it is.

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Joe Real calamondin graftted to Eureka lemon

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Clemenulle on the left, joe real calamondin on the right grafted to Eureka lemon

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Richard's Babaco 11 4 08

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viente Cohol
11 4 08

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While on vacation in the Philippines, I took these pictures of fruits being sold alongside the highway



from left to right
oranges, guiabano, and at the bottom of the table are saba bananas

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More fruits on sale

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and a senorita bananas I bought for about 10 cents

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Benny, My best friend in Jersey just came back from the Philippines within the last few days. Such a small world, you guys may have been on the same flight at some point.
Everything looks great over there! I have been inspired to do some grafting too. I have a Moro orange and a lot of Citrange It's just a matter of the doing. My Moro is putting on some flower buds though and I really want to try the fruit so I may wait a while.