08-03-2010, 04:33 AM
Glen, Those are the two criteria we have instituted. Since we have a smaller lot, we added one more requirement: it has to produce within limits, and the best are plants that produce more evenly throughout the year
Trees like our older tangerine and Bilimbi are nice, but our trees produce hundreds of fruit a week for a few weeks, when everyone else's is also producing like crazy & we are left with fruit that is hard to give the away.... but must be picked up or you have a pest problem.... we usually end up driving into Hilo & slepping around the fruit... the senior housing facilities around town do appreciate, but can only take a part of the harvest of one tree at a time.... we have even overloaded the food basket with fruit at times...
And we normally cut back 1/4 -1/3 of the growing wood of our fruit trees every year, just to try to control the growth..... FEED ME!!!!
Trees like our older tangerine and Bilimbi are nice, but our trees produce hundreds of fruit a week for a few weeks, when everyone else's is also producing like crazy & we are left with fruit that is hard to give the away.... but must be picked up or you have a pest problem.... we usually end up driving into Hilo & slepping around the fruit... the senior housing facilities around town do appreciate, but can only take a part of the harvest of one tree at a time.... we have even overloaded the food basket with fruit at times...
And we normally cut back 1/4 -1/3 of the growing wood of our fruit trees every year, just to try to control the growth..... FEED ME!!!!