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  1. Labour of Love

    Dwarf Trees

    South-facing window, indoors year around - far too much aggro shifting outside, then back inside and having to quarantine 'em (I have 2) until I'm sure the bugs are gone. They always seem to acquire some sort of whitefly when they go outdoors. Same problem with Rosemary - it prefers being...
  2. Labour of Love

    Dwarf Trees

    Over the years, I've had a few different sorts of citrus fruit growing indoors. The Meyer lemon never produced much, although the variegated leaf one is quite lovely. The most reliable for me has been the Calamondin - looks like a miniature orange, is very tart and has huge seeds...
  3. Labour of Love

    Dwarf Trees

    June drop is the tree's own, natural attempt (usually sometime in June) to drop away a large portion of the fruit that it knows it will be unable to mature. Somehow, the tree knows what it's capabilities are for growing/ripening a certain amount of fruit and tries to rid itself of what it...
  4. Labour of Love

    Dwarf Trees

    My understanding regarding fruit trees that the most important decider of whether it's a dwarf or semi-dwarf is the rootstock (Malling 1-4) I have a couple that were sold to me as maturing the smallest possible size and they have FAR exceeded this representation. I have had no trouble keeping...
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