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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Trees and Shrubs => Topic started by: MikeHardman on January 01, 2013, 04:37:53 PM
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Is it normal for a pomelo to be in good flower now?
I have one small tree (rescued 8 months ago, in poor condition but picking up), which has loads of fat flower buds; the photo shows the fiirst one open and with a bee visitor. My other pomelo has no flowers at this time (a young tree, its flowers from earlier in the year did not set fruit).
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Pomelos like grapefruit may flower at varying times of year - a mature plant may even carry two or three separate flushes of flower in the same year. Shows it's happy, Mike!
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Cool, good, thanks Alisdair.
Now I just need to ensure they don't get infected by Mediterranean fruit fly!
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Can you not get pheromone traps for Med fruit fly? They are very widely used here in the citrus and fruit growing areas along the River Murray. tn
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I saw some pheromone traps (I believe they were Italian) for sale in Halkidiki last year, and they were not that expensive. Luckily, I did not buy any, because there were no fruit flies last year, anyhow.
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Alisdair, I was interested by your observation regarding the flowering of grapefruit and pomelo. All my citrus produce just one crop a year except for the lemons, they have fruit virtually all year round. Actually I can't speak for the pomelo as it was only planted last year but it still produced 3 fruit that we picked last month.