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Old 12-25-2013, 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Happinow View Post
If anyone would like to share their fruit from their trees I would love some oranges and/or grapefruits. We have both trees in our yard, however last year something, we think birds, ate all of the little buds off and this year they didn't produce anything. So this January we will net them so the little creatures can't eat all of our buds!! By the way, they were the tastiest pieces of fruit I've ever had!
This coming season, I would suggest you fertilize the trees with citrus fruit fertilizer. Chances are that you had "bud drop" and that the birds did not eat buds from your tree.

I had a bumper crop of lemons and key limes from my trees and got lots of juice for cheesecakes and pies - and gave quite a bit of juice away to TOTV members.