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Thread ID: 128670	2013-01-07 09:40:00	Garden question - fruit trees	Nomad (952)	PC World Chat

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1321789	2013-01-07 09:40:00	Hiya, does anyone know if the mandarin tree needs some of the fruits to be cut off to assist the fewer fruits? I just did that to the tomato plants. The mandarin tree when bought had many small green fruits about half the size of M&Ms and a few of them recently turned yellow ... (from green). Cheers :)	Nomad (952)
1321790	2013-01-07 09:58:00	If they're tiny and turned yellow, it probably means not enough water. It depends on the vigour of the particular variety of tree you have and how well watered and fertilised it is, but you shouldn't need to thin the fruit...	johcar (6283)
1321791	2013-01-07 10:20:00	Ok thanks, I have increased the watering recently I'll see what the others does. The vast majority of them are still green. How long does a mandarin tree take to have a eatable fruits? We just bought this maybe up to 2 months ago .....	Nomad (952)
1321792	2013-01-07 10:21:00	Don't know if it helps but we have a grapefruit tree.. we just leave it alone, it does its own thinning and always produces many good grapefruits.	Agent_24 (57)
1321793	2013-01-07 10:38:00	Own thinning - a few tiny fruits have dropped to the soil ... is this normal?	Nomad (952)
1321794	2013-01-07 17:59:00	Yes. Also don't forget to fertilize it with citrus fertilizer. :)	Trev (427)
1321795	2013-01-07 18:08:00	They are a winter fruit. Ready from March through to October. Yellow - ripening? Or yellow as in looking sick? Citrus are hungry things, get some citrus fertiliser, and give them long soaks with water, not short waterings. Many places will tell you to remove fruit in the first year but my orange tree grew a lot of flowers first year, most fell off, but it produced 6 oranges. Not bad for a tiny tree. I leave it alone to do what it can.	pctek (84)
1321796	2013-01-07 18:33:00	Google is your friend. (www.housegarden.co.nz) :)	Trev (427)
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