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except in my case I use almost no fertilizer at all, just a dilute 
solution of fish emulsion maybe 10 times in the whole growing season.

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 06:04 PM, kathryn stout wrote:

> I think of thick peel as a symptom of too much
> nitrogen, or too-fast growth or both--It seems that
> our next-door neighbors in (low-humidity) CA decided
> to take good care of their orange trees, limbed them
> up, watered them a lot, gave them some kind of
> chemical shot in the arm fertilizer (I thought,
> high-N). Their reward was oranges with thick peels.
> Ours, mulched with whatever debris accumulated, left
> unfertilized and mostly unwatered, produced the
> best-flavored, thinnest-peeled oranges.
> You can fuss too much, with citrus.