Evan, I am always amazed by how beautiful your trees look with the painted trunks and also by the deep blue colour of the sky in the pictures you post!

Thanks Sunshine, here's one of a not so blue sky with my variegated pink eureka lemon in the fore ground...just for fun.

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:))) Double rainbow!

@evedesert White wash or white latex? You used both the words. I am confused.

White latex paint mixed 50/50 with water and you can call it white wash, when you coat the tree trunk with it :)

Exactly what sunshine said, once the paint is mixed with water we call it white wash.

Evan, just amazing buddy! Thanks for these beautiful pic as always! Love the white trunks, healthy looking green trees and that blue and yet rainbow sky)

Hey thanks Mike, I appreciate that.

just started, here is a couple more trunks in which I used the 50/50 paint mix (white wash).

Tango mandarin

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Meyer lemon

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Key lime

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Evan, my God!! That tree is perfect in every way AND shape!! You could reach the top to pick any fruit and the middle and bottom just standing! What a great job. Did you prune it that way? It's just fantastic...It's good to see you around and thanks again.

Thanks Mike, I just trim it back a couple times a year and this is the way it grows. It's out of hand right now, it needs a trim. I have some water sprouts growing from the top that are probably 6' above what you see in this pic. I'll try to remember to take a pic this afternoon and post it so you can see how aggressive this key lime tree grows. Oh and just to clarify that tree is approximately 10' tall so a little too tall to reach the top and pick fruit but the middle and lower branches are well within reach without a ladder.

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@evedesert In Tango mandarin pic what are those two white circular enclosures?

Deep root watering pipes. I have 4" perforated pvc pipes buried in the ground to about 18" depth wrapped in drainage sock to keep the surrounding dirt out of the pipe. I run 1/4" Drip lines into the 4" pipes and then I run my irrigation as needed and it fills up the perforated pipe and gets the water from the surface to the root zone at 18" deep. It's not necessary but my trees seem to respond well with this watering method. I also put fertilizer down inside the pvc pipes and it helps deliver nutrients directly to the root zone for immediate feeding results.

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Everyday I learn something new. Wish I had a bigger garden to try out all this stuff.

Just started be careful what you wish for lol. A bigger yard equals more work, my yard needs some serious attention right now. We are just finishing up our summer and this weekend will be the first weekend that it'll be under 100 degrees in the past 3 months. Cool enough to start my fall/ winter cleanup and prep, maybe I'll try and trim back my key lime tree that's growing gangbusters.

Mike, as promised here is a pic of the same tree above with major top growth water sprouts. The tree is way too tall, this corner of my yard is getting increasingly congested. I fear that pretty soon I will have nothing but tunnels trimmed between my trees that I will have to walk through to access all of my trees to harvest fruit.

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Evan, what do use the trimmed branches from your trees for? Turn it to mulch?

Sunshine when I trim my trees the branches go into the trash. My key lime is extremely thorny and I always end up with cuts all over my arms.

Evan, that's amazing! Hard to believe they were so little not too far back and now they are almost growing into each other! Your problem sounds like my back yard. I can barely walk through it now since everything is growing larger than expected! It means they are very happy with your care my friend. Great job and that blue sky is to die for...I can't believe it has not been under 100 for months! We never see 100 or at least not in the last few years. We can't even make 90..ha