[LarryLied]

This is a new canker. It still can be eradicated. If it is not, then everyone in Florida will face it forever. And the cost of keeping trees canker free will not be cheap for homeowners or the industry. Much better to lose a tree or 100,000 trees today than have this canker established in Florida. There may not be a citrus industry here as other states and foreign countries might refuse to allow our fruit in. I check my trees. If canker shows up, I'll call the state that day. I'm grateful they'll take them down for me for free.

[browardchad]

For those who may not be familiar with canker, it's harmless to humans; in fact, the fruit is still edible -- it just looks bad.

I have had these incredibly dumb, sometimes non-English speaking state agricultural workers ring my doorbell so many times that now I simply refuse to answer the door when they come. It seems the first "inspector" wrote down that I had a fruit tree (I've never had one; I know better), and in spite of repeated inspections, back they come, month after month. Yessir, our tax dollars in action -- saving the world from the dreaded canker.

[summer]

bttt to your post #11.

[I still care]

I have a small backyard, but I have the most wonderful old citrus trees. Everyone tells me my tangerines are the sweetest they have ever tasted, and I also have a blood orange, a lemon (sour orange), a navel and some sort of late juice orange. There is not a drop of acid flavor in the juice. I think they are what gives my house its value, everyone in the neighborhood likes the fruit from my trees, and every year people never forget to ask me for fruit. I can see not getting this new canker established but man, would I be upset if I lose my trees. 1900 feet seems such a long way too - that means if a tree 7 or 8 blocks over has a problem, my trees have to go. That frankly scares me a little bit.