00:23:24 Chris Homanics: You are welcome to post your questions and comments here to be shared
00:29:50 Jay: Is bitter orange Citrus × aurantium? Seville…
00:31:03 lee: Poncirus has now been placed in the citrus genus. It’s now Citrus trifoliata.
00:32:36 Jay: How does it relate to Curaçao or Seville?
00:34:22 Leslie Wade, Programs Chair: If you have a question or comment, please put it here in the chat until we open the floor for discussion and Q&A after Sam’s presentation. We’ll save the chat and upload it to our website along with the session recording.
00:38:12 Ellen Rubenstein Chelmis: Cold tolerance for the Sudachi?
00:39:36 Leslie Wade, Programs Chair: Gulshan asked: Is Ponicrus same as Savilla Orange?
00:39:52 Jay: Growing Rangpur lime?
00:42:31 lee: Cold tolerance is one thing. How about ripening fruit within the growing season? Or ripening fruit even following very cold weather?
00:46:10 Gulshan Garg: what are all these other varieties mentioned on Hardy Satsuma slide, are these sub-varieties?
00:53:03 Ellen Rubenstein Chelmis: My dad grew an egg-shaped, orange citrus that he called a citriquat north of Tampa, FL that I loved,- is that a specific fruit, and if so, what is the species name?
00:58:46 Eric Bina: I’ve been told kumquat on Poncirus doesn’t taste as good. Have you compared kumquat on their own roots to on Poncirus?
01:03:29 Eric Bina: By encouraging people to grow citrus from Georgia all the way north to southern Indiana aren’t we creating a corridor to move greening and other citrus diseases up out of Florida and spread them top the rest of the U.S.?
01:08:26 Dan Lefever: how cold hardy is calamondin orange?
01:09:18 Tim Lussier: Eric asks good question. What is your perspective on amateur or professional goals at scaling small or big operations in citrus and potential to spread citrus disease more.
01:09:22 Leslie Wade, Programs Chair: Sharen Zo shares: There is mandarinquat that are bigger and sweeter than kumquat.
01:10:51 Juan Carlos Arango: Can you talk about pests or other challenges they can have? also do you prune them? We are on zone 6a and as hardy figs fruits might won’t have enough time to ripen?
01:14:12 Jay: Just got back on… was Rangpur lime what I know as (Citrus limonia) mentioned?
01:14:51 Jay: I really love calamondin
01:15:07 Jay: Great in South Florida
01:15:44 Jay: Ty
01:17:16 Eric Bina: What have you tried on its own roots?
01:17:58 Tim Lussier: Do’s and Dont’s ? Best practices for amateur or professionals growers?
01:18:02 Dan Lefever: what do you know about the 3 types of citrus that were showcased at the 2018 Tifton GA NAFEX / NNGA meeting? they were hoping to be starting a new commercial citrus industry in GA, and hopefully avoid citrus greening by distance. If I recall there was a grapefruit, satsuma and lemon. one was found in backyard, one was developed by xray gene modification. they would not allow them to be shipped out of the state.
01:23:33 Juan Carlos Arango: Can you share how you deal with the scale?
01:24:58 Strangers Hill: What ph/nutrient profile do you recommend?
01:27:58 Dan Lefever: citrus greening can be managed by quitting bare ground, glyphosate orchard floor management the major cause of making trees susceptible to HLB. By reintroducing constant cover crops, restoring soil biology, and supporting trees with foliar micros, HLB can be reversed in a year or two and be getting good production; even the trees still harbor HLB
01:28:20 Leslie Wade, Programs Chair: Someone notes: There is mandarinquat that are bigger and sweeter than kumquat.
01:31:45 Dan Lefever: .deal with scale by oil, and predator insects, lady bugs, cryptalamus beetles, lacewings,, etc. and very good nutrition and biology. Beauvaria bassiana fungus is also helpful to attack it
01:34:04 Dan Lefever: predator insects available from Rinco Vitovia Insectoary in CA
01:39:48 Dan Lefever: the Georgia citrus was more hardy than standard commercial cultivars, not HLB resistant. and they were full size trees growing at the meeting site and I was eating fruit from the grapefruit in August, end of the season fruit
01:43:43 Lisa Wright- IE: Thank you!
01:44:44 Juan Carlos Arango: Thank you!
01:45:17 Chris Homanics, Moderator: Thank you for joining us this evening!
01:45:30 Kristy Webb: Thank you!
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