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Re: Citrus

At 02.50 30/05/97 -0400,Alisdair Aird you wrote:
>Sean O'Hara mentioned a "balanced citrus fertilizer". Here in England we
>can't get 
>such a thing. (For my single Meyer's lemon here I make do alternating
>tomato 
>fertilizer with a seaweed-based general fertilizer.) Jerry Heverly's very
>helpful notes made clear that there's no such thing as an ideal NPK ratio
>for citrus with so much depending on planting position, but for us
>med-attempters in non-med places like England who try to keep citrus in
>pots, it would help to know what sort of NPK ratio is typical of a
>"balanced citrus fertiliser". Can anyone say?

Hi Alisdair,

for citrus lemon and in general for all citrus it is necessary to give in
spring and in autumn a good feeding with manure,and after each 15 days you
must give to your lemon a feeding NPK with higher level of K(from spring to
autumn).much important must be soil:clay 10-15%,mud 15-20%,sand 40-60%,
limestone 5-15% and gravel for drainage.Ph must be neutral between 6.5 and 7.5.
your plant needs ful sun and water and naturally temperature cannot go down
0°C or up 38°C(in England this does not be rule,i think).so-called vegetation
zero for citrus is at 12.8°C,i.e. temperature to which citrus begin to grow;
freezing for citrus begins:-6°C for wood,-4°C for leaves,-2.8 for buds and
flowers.

>Question 2: We're just starting a small garden in coastal southern Greece
>and once 
>we've got irrigation going plan a very few open-ground citrus. Lemons grow
>easily in 
>that part of Greece and shouldn't be a problem, but locals say oranges are
>more 
>difficult on our steep terraces (ex olive grove on rocky hillside, soil
>pretty thin), though 
>people do grow them well on the richer deeper bottom ground. Is it a lost
>cause to try 
>oranges on our dry hillside? Any recommendations of varieties for dry
>hungry 
>ground? Any mileage in grafting oranges on more thrifty lemon understocks?
>Any 
>hope whatsoever for limes? (It's warm enough, but maybe the atmosphere's
>too dry 
>in summer - three or four virtually rainless months, with relative humidity
>averaging 
>45 to 50% then.)

orange needs not calcareous soils and it is necessary to give it much
water,much manure,and even if it tolerates dry atmosphere,water is
essential,;sorry i don't
know orange cultivars for character of your soil and environment;where there
was olive trees,you can put nothing but olive.
hope this helps.
marco gaijin/ronin
favero@inrete.it
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5418/
Torino,Italy
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