Always such relaxing and informative videos John thanks again.

Great work again mate 👍 🇦🇺

Hey John, I've found that traditional citrus varieties seem to like a weekly saturation when fruiting. I've got a drip setup on my orange and then on the weekend, I'll give it a seaweed feed followed by a proper saturation or the soil. Seems to like it!

Love these videos, thanks for the upload. My father has two orange trees here in Victoria. They're out of control with growing and how much fruit they produce. He rarely prunes them, the trees are so strong and healthy. Funnily enough he doesn't do anything for them, no fertilizer or anything. The oranges are sweet and very juicy, but also quite potent (great for fighting off colds this time of year). We routinely have fruit all year round, there's even still fruit on them from last season.

I have been wondering about those avocado for some time. Love your property…….

Hey John I have avocado trees and I’m in Melbourne. Hover flies are another good pollinator for Avocado. There are other insects that do the job. I have heard that sometimes in cold weather Avocado flowers open at night. Also to something to consider bees don’t like cold and rainy days.

You have some pretty challenging fruit trees for a cold climate there. Nice work on your success. I like your decision to cut down the cypress. I am sure your house will be much warmer on sunny winter days.

John commercial nurseries use a sugar water solution as a foliar spray on avocado, the sugar is absorbed and is directly related to sunlight as sunlight is turned into sugar, so spray the avocado every day from now until early summer, they will start growing, also they might have wet feet, try to lower soil level just behind them to drain water away. Also 1 kilo of gypsum on each tree will give them the ability to grow wood

Looking good.here in west Oz we are loosing our citrus trees to gall wasps.its very frustrating

I've got most varieties of mandarin trees and find the Emperor is slightly better than the Imperial Mandarin. For yellowing leaves mix urine in 10:1 ratio with a small amount of Epsom salts. For thick skins Google 'Uneven watering'. The tips of the roots are always directly under the edge of the plants canopy so water in that circle. People habitually water the stem of a plant and that's not where those tiny fibrous roots that absorb water and nutrients are located.

Well done. I don't have citrus myself but my neighbour has lemon and mandarins, at this time of year they are always small and thick skinned (I'm in South Hobart)

At a job site , we got the ice out of the hose it made a big pile, It's stayed there 2 days. 😄 nice video.

Consider grafting branches onto the avocado, rather then the entire plant. Potentially the grafted variety is less suited, based on the growth of the other 2 commercial grafted varieties

Excellent and gorgeous looking Mandarins and Citrus in general. The design with the constant manure from the hens and the corrugated iron walls is a perfect design for citrus. I'm curious if that Tangelo you showed after the Navel is actually the scion? It might be the rootstock that took over, just a thought. That cypress pine is gorgeous! sad to see it go down but sometimes it needs to happen as you mentioned. Look forward to your next video, I enjoy these updates. My friend does as well. 😊

Hi John you haven't got boron deficiency? I have had this before in citrus. Cheers Michael

I’d say prune all the lower branches on the sick trees, try to get them to grow a bit higher to get more sun. Second one looks like this could help, first one is really lacking sun because of shed I’d say and maybe not much you can do there.

John any recommendations on what citrus I could grow in Westerway? We get severe frosts here, we are about65 klms west of Hobart

Hi John what temps have you gotten down to in these run of cold nights? We were down to -4 here in tamar valley which we don't usually experience.

I have a Lemonade tree and I find it to have much less vigor than the Meyer lemons and tahitian limes that I have growing here (NZ). A spindly type that has taken many years to get going. Beautiful tasting fruit but quite a pitiful looking plant. Is this your experience of it too?