RE: Ripe oranges


Barry is the strange growth coming 
from the root stock below the graft?

The spines would seem to indicate that possibility.

rod

> ----------
> From: 	Barry_Garcia@monterey.edu
> Reply To: 	Barry_Garcia@monterey.edu
> Sent: 	Friday, 17 September 1999 8:51 AM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	Re: Ripe oranges
> 
> janetble@otenet.gr writes:
> >It would be interesting to know if similar varieties are grown in other
> >countries, or whether we all pretty much grow the same.
> 
> Well, I have a small potted Moro Blood orange that is finally growing
> back after i neglected it (i know, I know, for shame! :)). It seems to
> attract scale but i just rub them off. 
> 
> Hopefully, this year it will produce blossoms. An odd thing it did was
> it grew this weird shoot, where the leaves were three lobed (like a
> very large clover leaf), and grew some long and blunt spines. The top
> growth that came back is normal.
> 
> Anyway, hopefully i will finally see fruit from it next year.
> 
> 
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