2007-01-10 04:21:17 · 14 answers · asked by tennistoo1 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Picking fruit before it's ripe means you lose about 95% of their value as food. Most of the nutrients are synthesized after veraison and transported from the leaves to the fruit. So, if you want a bunch of sugar, pick them now.
Otherwise, cover the tree root area with hay and set up burlap around the trees so that you create an insulating air layer around the leaves. Some of the fruit will drop regardless, but it's not really healthiest anyway. The remaining fruit will get more of the nutrients since the tree knows how much it needs and will allocate it evenly among the remaining oranges.
2007-01-10 04:27:15 · answer #1 · answered by Fergi the Great 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What i have heard of, sounds rather radical, but it works. What you would do is, go out to the trees and hose down the oranges with water. What happens is, the water freezes around the oranges and creates a type of insulation, which will actually protect the fruit. Imagine it as a type of igloo, thats how the eskimos live in the ice. It really works, try it!
2007-01-10 04:30:39 · answer #2 · answered by Charles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - pick the oranges - or as many do in Arizona - cover the tree or put Christmas lights on it. The heat from the lights keeps the fruit from freezing.
2007-01-10 04:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by lifesajoy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you should, if you ever plan on consuming theese oranges, the freeze will kill them and they will no longer be edible
do it now
2007-01-10 04:27:50 · answer #4 · answered by Roofio 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah...i don't do fences. whether, i could stand interior the backyard next-door, activate a super vacuum-purifier, and suck the money off of your tree 'til each branch and limb is bone-dry! that's what I call a $one thousand.00 bl0w-j0b!
2016-10-30 13:09:24 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many trees do you have? If only a few, cover them in burlap and they should be fine.
2007-01-10 04:24:51 · answer #6 · answered by kja63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, knit little sweaters for all of them and advise them all to huddle to keep warm.
2007-01-10 04:27:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-01-10 04:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by kayanbean24 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want them to consume, yes.
2007-01-10 04:25:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they are not ripe I would cover them with something.
2007-01-10 04:24:43 · answer #10 · answered by Chris M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋