[conspire] Risks of automation

[Paul Zander]

>From fruit growers email:

If you can find a citrus already grafted by a nursery at an acceptable price, then buy it.  

That said, I am hoping to graft some less common varieties that a recommended by home growers.  If all goes to plan, around the time of the next CABAL, I should have some buds of mandarins and pommelos.  If you want an "experiment" leave the newly purchased calamansi in its pot.  We can attempt grafting to the established root stock. If the graft takes, you can look for a different spot for the calamansi, maybe somewhere with more sun?

      From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
 To: conspire at linuxmafia.com 
 Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 9:53 PM
 Subject: Re: [conspire] Risks of automation
   
Update:

> The losses: 
> 
> o  We're pretty sure the calamansi tree's a goner -- the worst of this
>    calamity.

Today, I went out there (it's just north of the greenhouse, near the
rear corner of the garage), and saw something astonishing:  There's a
brand-new shoot from the main trunk, branching sideways and then
straight up.  It's already about 3/8" thick, about two feet long (tall),
and has over a dozen leaves on it(!).  I can swear it wasn't there at
all a few days ago, but in any event it must be growing like
gangbusters.

Also, on the probably-dead main canopy, the part that's probably not
coming back, after I separated off the shriveled dead leaves, I spotted
another astonishing thing:  an unripe calamansi fruit, about the size of
a large marble.

I should explain that calamansi is sometimes called Philippine lime,
being a citrus native there, but adapted to other warm climates.  Parts
of Southern California qualify; Northen California is so if-ey that
trees are at considerable risk of death from hard freezes, and said to
be borderline for ever fruiting.  _After_ we planted the tree, I saw
cautions that, if you don't live in a semi-tropical or tropical climate,
you should make sure the tree has a southern exposure to sunlight at
least.  And we, like dumbasses, put it just outside the _north_ side of
the greenhouse.  Shaded.

Yet, hey, it tried to give us fruit, anyway -- right on schedule, as
it's said that maturing trees take a couple of years to start producing
fruit.

Filipino groceries offer calamansi concentrate (with honey or sugar),
which I've been buying for years and makes a delightful cold drink.

Local vendors in Sunnyvale:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/western-pacific-filipino-grocery-sunnyvale
https://www.yelp.com/biz/new-wing-yuan-market-sunnyvale


I have yet to do anything about the damned rain sensor.


(In other news, Ruben Safir flounced off this mailing list, again.)


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