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Thanks for your offer of a tip. One thing you may help with is my citrus(think it is a grapefruit) tree.
Had a lot of bugs and 'lumps' in the smaller  branches. The long & short is that I cut off all the foliage and other branches leaving only the (healthy) mature stem and branches. Some new buds are now sprouting. Should I feed them anything? The soil is poor. More like a clay. Does not get too much sun in the winter.

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sounds like you had paper wasp, you have done the right thing, just give it a good feed of liquid fertilizer, Citrus trees loike to be infull sun

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I want to know what to do about stink bugs on my orange tree.  The tree has gone (since we moved in and don't spray it) from a happy fruit producing being to totally fruitless!

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spray them with 25% vinegar and 75% water with a dash of liquid soap and give the poor tree a good feed of animal manure liquid fertilizer, just poor it around the drip line

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