Re: key limes in CA
What a wonderful idea. I live in Greece high enough above Athens to have
frost and sometimes several days of snow. I cover my lime tree with
plastic which is on the S. side of a cement wall but sometimes that is not
enough protection. I have tried all kinds of things such as heaters under
the tree and road flares when I know there will be a hard frost but your
Christmas tree lights sounds the best. I brought my lime tree from Fl and I
think it is a key lime. The tree gets very large making it hard to cover
with plastic and bears fruit in late Fall depending on how severe the frost
was the previous year. It has seedless fruit which turns yellow when ripe.
L. Schmiege
----- Original Message -----
From: Madelin Holtkamp <madelin@pacific.net>
To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 2:28 AM
Subject: Re: key limes in CA
> Hi Sarah--
>
> I live up in Ukiah and keep two varieties of citrus trees in pots on my
> patio. In cold weather, I put those little Christmas lights in them and
it
> seems to be all the frost protection they need. We have enough summer
heat
> to ripen fruit though the fruit actually is ripe in late fall/early
winter.
> I'm not sure about your climate--you probably have less frost and less
heat.
>
> There are several sources for Citrus trees on the Web, but a good place to
> start is the Rare Fruit Growers site. I don't have the URL here, but it
> should turn up easily in a search.
>
> Madelin
>
> At 03:05 PM 06/15/2000 EDT, you wrote:
> >Hello - I just got a request from a client to plant a key lime in a pot
in
> >North Berkeley/Kensington, California. This doesn't seem like a
reasonable
> >request to me, because our climate is so different from the Florida Keys.
> But
> >then someone told me that they have seen key limes being grown in this
area,
> >so maybe I am wrong. Does anyone out there have any words of widsom
> regarding
> >key limes in Northern California - Would they fruit? Do they need special
> >soil? Are there dwarf varieties? Are they hard to find?
> >
> >Thank you very much - I love this list! -- Sarah
> >
> >
> >
>
>
