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Q: We have an 8-foot lemon tree loaded with blooms planted next to a tangerine. Will the lemons taste like tangerines and tangerines taste like lemons? Should we move the tangerine? — M.K., Houston A: ...

Q: The fruit on my Nagami kumquat this year is variable and somewhat bland. Larger fruit have little to no acidity and can even be mealy, while smaller fruit are closer in tartness to previous years.

Q: My Tangerine tree is quite large and has “suckers” growing up from ground. Can I dig these up with a root ball? Will these produce fruit if grown? Folks and common sense tells me that coming from ...

In a recent column, I solicited readers’ citrus stories. Some of your responses follow below: “I do not know the name of the variety of this wonderful citrus tree that bears seedless tangerines. It ...

Back when the winds of May and June were blowing, they knocked tiny green tangerines off my tree, gust after gust, day after day. The fruit I’d been carefully cultivating was blowing to the ground ...

Q: We have a tangerine tree with green, golf ball-size fruit that are splitting in half. What is causing this? — L.R. in Houston A:Citrus ripen at various times, depending on variety. Tangerines and ...

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Pops writes: My dwarf tangerine is having a difficult time. It is in a small-sized wine barrel and it sits directly on top of the soil. The exposure is a south facing and the house protects it. I ...