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- Subject: Re: Non-flowering citrus tree
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.084439.141@janus.arc.ab.ca>
- From: thacker@RHEA.ARC.AB.CA
- Date: 19 Nov 92 08:44:37 MDT
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- In article <BxwzAG.I05@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, jereese@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (jean reese) writes:
- >
- >My husband has a grapefruit tree he grew from a seed 12 years ago. It's
- >pretty tall now, and healthy, but does not flower and never has. (Therefore,
- >no fruit.) We've given it fertilizer and left it outside over the summers,
- >but no response. Where did we go wrong?
- >
- >Thanks for any information.
-
- My grandmother had the same problem. It's pretty hard to get a non-dwarf
- citrus tree to flower indoors. Get a dwarf tree if you want fruit, and
- just enjoy your grapefruit as a nice houseplant.
-
- >
- >Jean
- >--
- > "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its
- > purely physical effect on the human temperament would most
- > beneficially influence the lot of mankind." - Albert Einstein
- > ++++++++++++++++jereese@silver.ucs.indiana.edu+++++++++++++++
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