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[Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>]

On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Stephen Sadler wrote:
>  I don't know
> how many or what size trees you need to protect.  I've protected single
> trees from much colder weather with a light bulb hung in the branches 
> and a
> sheet.  Most citrus we grow here in northern CA should be able to 
> survive a
> few nights in the twenties just fine.  Some of the mandarin (and other
> citrus) orchards are up Highway 80 in Newcastle, where this is a more 
> common
> occurrence.

Thanks, Steven.  I've got young standard citrus trees that I was hoping 
to get good growth spurts out of - they were bought to be an edible 
privacy fence...eventually.  I have Washington Navel, Moro Blood 
Orange, Oro Blanco Grapefruit,  Dancy Tangerine, Meyer Lemon and Bearss 
Lime.  I have dwarf stuff as well including a variegated calamondin and 
a Tavares limequat.  Other trees in my yard are young loquats , young 
feijoa (also for the fence), young pear, apples, apricot, peaches, 
almond and nectarines.  And plums.  Established trees in the yard are a 
Mission fig and an avocado of unknown provenance.

Spidra Webster
http://www.spidra.com