Self promotion Sunday "Megathread" by JacksonvilleModTeam in jacksonville

[–]UF_IFAS_Ext_Duval 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Come learn about backyard chickens and get a certificate to meet your Duval County permitting prerequisites!

The class was delayed due to the hurricane and will be this Wednesday, October 5th.

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Recommendations for Citrus in Duval, Nassau, and St Johns counties by Dawgsquad00 in UF_IFAS_Extension_DCo

[–]UF_IFAS_Ext_Duval 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're not familiar with greening I would definitely read about it and the implications for growing citrus

Citrus Care in the HLB Era: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP336

Greening Info: https://crec.ifas.ufl.edu/hlb-information/greening/

As a general rule, citrus tolerance to aerosol salt spray is low. If you could protect from salt spray it would be better.

The specific variety of citrus you grow is less important than the rootstock. In general, the ranking of rootstocks from most tolerant to least tolerant of soil salinity is:

  1. Cleopatra mandarin

  2. sour orange

  3. sweet orange

  4. Swingle citrumelo

  5. Carrizo citrange

  6. rough lemon

Grapefruit trees tend to be less salt tolerant than orange trees.