The Native Plant that can save Florida’s State Flower from Citrus Greening

Citrus Greening (HLB) is devastating Florida's Orange Trees and therefore Florida's State Flower. Researchers and growers are looking for a solution but could it have been right here in Florida all along? Could a Native Plant be the solution?
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[@WildFloridian]

🍊🍊I hope you enjoyed this video. 😄 I’m always looking for ways to highlight Florida’s Environmental issues through discussions and storytelling. Trying to help Floridians minimize their foot print, increase native habitats, and bring awareness to how we can make change. ☀️ If you have a topic you would like to see Wild Florida cover, please let me know. 😄🍊🍊🍊

[@desertedenblooms]

gREAT VIDEO, great information but the sound .....hope you bought a dead cat for you mic...lol. Just fantastic that the hardy oak saves the day. Hope you do a follow up on this vital information! So Blessed that I found your channel. Be Blessed!

[@amberweston6926]

Wow so dramatic! 😊 Great history of oranges though thanks for sharing.

[@ggarcia3571]

Amazing video. Thank you for creating this type of content that is very much needed. As a citrus grower if find that the trees in the wilderness thrive better than trees in an open field.

[@redcherries93x2]

You soooo need to redo this video again! Not because of the sound but because the information in the video is amazing! Love this video just came back to watch it a second time. Think a redo with your skills now would be AMAZING

[@playininmyyard]

Thanks for sharing this info.

[@MistressOP]

honestly, I always thought to solution was changing it so they don't do endless rows of cities. Just mix in other trees, spray with black solider fly larve steep casting through it's lifetime. I hope they fix this issue but honestly bullet proof farming moment we hit a point where we gotta stop farming hyper monculture. There's the tech now that they could do cluser rows of 5 or something like that then pop in another type of tree of something.

[@johnliberty3647]

Great video, if the wind wasnt in the audio it would be worthy of an award.

[@krisperez619]

This was a very interesting video.

[@plumerialove1483]

Found you from your post on St. Petersburg Plant society. Thank you for this great video!

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you Harley! I love St. Pete plant society! I’ve learned about so many new plants from the group 😄

[@shelbyredfieldkilgore]

Love, love, love this video! I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this. I learned so much too. I think it’s so important to understand the history of the orange tree in Florida and what threats it faces today, and to know this is not just isolated to Florida. What you are doing is so important. Keep up the great work.

[@WildFloridian]

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[@karen-hillshomestead]

VERY informative! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this video with us!

[@WildFloridian]

You are so welcome!

[@grasssiass3016]

Fantastic! I really enjoyed this video and look forward to exploring the rest of your content now that I found and subscribed. I am located in Flagler county. Thank you.

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you for watching and subscribing! I hope you enjoy the other videos too!

[@patriciavarga4204]

That’s great and very interesting information. Love it!

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you!

[@permaculteur1347]

Great topic and well done!

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you! I spent a lot of time researching and writing a cohesive story. So the positive feedback is very much appreciated! 😊

[@marlenehaigh4200]

very interesting video and just the right length.

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you so much Marlene! I always appreciate feedback on the videos. My goal is to help spread awareness. Thank you for taking the time to write a positive comment 😄 Hope you have a wonderful weekend 🍊☀️🦋🌴

[@gulftoad]

Thanks for drawing attention to this issue. I lost 3 citrus trees 5 years ago. my neighbour's orange trees are under oak trees. Those trees are still alive, but not well. The oranges don't ripen and branches have died back. I've planted persimmon trees and mango trees to replace the citrus

[@WildFloridian]

Citrus Greening has done a lot of damage. I hope your persimmon and mango give you 3x the yield of your orange trees!

[@aloeisthestuff9622]

@@WildFloridian Now mango trees are under attack. Crops have Gone Bye Bye.

[@livingbeyondpermission]

A wind buffer on your mic would be very helpful in being able to hear what you are saying. So basically, spraying a tree with oak leaves ground in water is helping? How much is it helping, and how often do you have to spray?

[@WildFloridian]

Agree 😄 Lessons learned from that filming. For the everyday grower... just take oak leaves and mulch below your citrus. That is helping many gardeners. The university of florida study was doing an oak tea spray twice a day (if I remember correctly) but that was meant for agricultural purposes... not necessarily focused on home gardeners. Friends and neighbors who just use oak mulch have seen less mottling on their leaves reduced and better yields on oranges.

[@livingbeyondpermission]

@@WildFloridian Awesome! Thank you!

[@benl3738]

Great information and very interesting! Hopefully the “oak tea” will help a lot. 🤞

[@WildFloridian]

I hope so too!

[@haphazardgardener8651]

Thanks for the video! I plan on planting some sort of sweet orange near an oak tree and my lemon tree I will try to make that oak tea.

[@WildFloridian]

Awesome! I hope it goes well! Happy Gardening!

[@jean-claudelol563]

It's hard to hear, too much background wind noise. We can barely hear her.

[@doreenaitken5308]

i just put down 3 trees this year😫 i have a lime and kefir lime dreading they will be infected to 😣

[@heatherreis7839]

Hows it working so far? I have a little citrus tree i started from seed that i planted under 2 big oaks. Should i maybe start spraying it with the oak tea?

[@WildFloridian]

I haven't seen a direct update from the research on progress. I know that overall that all the various methods that they are using are having a positive impact on the crop. In my garden and my neighbors garden, we have been mulching with the oak leaves and I'm not seeing the evidence on some of the newer plants (3 calomondin trees) and my orange tree looks healthier this year and is putting out more flowers. If your tree is below the oak... no you don't need to spray. I would just use the dropped leaves to mulch around the citrus and that is it. 🍊

[@dennisisabastardman2263]

Have you heard of the finger lime peptide for citrus greening? I’m thinking about doing a grafting experiment.

[@mflbikes1870]

Me too, I have been working on this too

[@hermandrawdy2721]

Breed toads and small lizards as well as ladybugs

[@rogerhammer5992]

One can argue that the Florida citrus industry has been an environmental disaster by clearing tens of thousands of acres of scrub and sandhill habitat, transforming the land from a biologically rich native habitat to a monoculture of a single tree species from Asia. Many of Florida's endemic scrub and sandhill species on the Lake Wales Ridge are now on the federal and state endangered species list, principally due to the citrus industry.

[@WildFloridian]

Thanks you Roger for providing that added perspective! :)

[@og-og8vf]

Is there a way to mix the leaves and water? Any articles or maybe you can do a video about how they are doing it? Would be very interested to find out, thank you for a great video.

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you for watching! That is a great idea to do a video on the oak tea! I know some growers are putting oak leaves at the base of their citrus trees and letting it naturally breakdown. Here is the article from University of Florida and points to the research innovate.research.ufl.edu/2020/01/29/oak-leaves-contain-potential-cure-for-citrus-greening-disease-researchers-say/

[@og-og8vf]

Wild Floridian thank you so much ❤️

[@DavesLosinIt]

I've only been following your channel (I hate calling it a "channel") for a few short weeks, but I've enjoyed it a lot. I saw a nine acre piece of land for sale near Ft Meyers. It has an orange grove on it. I know nothing about orange growing, so I did a tiny bit of research and came across the citrus greening problem. One of the videos I saw was from a fertilizer company that was doing trials using nutrients. Must have been about 8 products. But they seemed to have been working (grain of salt type of stuff). Saw another about citrus growing wild under live oaks and other types of trees. In my uneducated mind, my thought is that it could be nutrient deficiencies that are a main issue (as well as mono cropping). Something similar is happening to banana plants now, too.

[@WildFloridian]

I'm glad you like the channel! Growers are trying to compensate with citrus greening by over adding fertilizer. This only partially works. I know there were some new cocktails that were having some progress and there was some stem cell research using pig dna that was looking favorable... but the industry was really wary of consumers reaction and that stalled out. So in general it isn't a lack of nutrients that is causing it... but the disease blocking the nutrients getting into the plant. Hope that helps! :D

[@mariecurie8700]

Oak is known for its anticeptic qualities. The disease is spread by bacteria. Is it a solution for the problem? If it were, there would be an application protocol by now.

[@ogxs1433]

😢part of Big Sugar. Good riddance...

[@lisagreene78]

Good information, but way too long, and bad sound. If I wanted all that history, I would have looked for it. Just wanted to know about the cure, and it took you almost 10 minutes to get to the point.

[@WildFloridian]

Thank you for the feedback, Lisa. Most of my videos are quick to the point but I thought trying something different would be more interesting. 😉 I still appreciate you taking the time to watch 😄

[@EmbodiedMen]

Wild Florida outdoor Audio could be improved but the video edits were very clean! You’re definitely on track great work

[@linherz1028]

The purpose was educational. The "bad" sound was the wind. Even if you're watching TV if they're outside you hear the wind.

[@bcuriel2010]

What a Karen