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Florian

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Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« on: November 30, 2019, 11:33:18 AM »
Just wanted to show you my seedlings of a Sacaton citrumelo. This one is know to have a very high percentage of zygotic seeds. In fact, only Nr. 2 looks like a nucellar plant to me, 3 and 4 are completely monofoliate.

Nr. 1


Nr. 2


Nr. 3


Nr. 4


Nr. 5


On one hand, this is excellent for breeding purposes but on the other hand, Sacaton Citrumelo is not a very good Citrumelo. It has a very strong Poncirus taste, much more so than others I have tried and it is rather small.

I picked the fruit in Eisenhut's nursery so the pollen donor could have been anything. There was a Yuzu nearby but also an Oronules, some sort of Changsha, a Thomasville and others.

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Re: Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2019, 12:23:16 PM »
Amazingly, but Sacaton of UCR collection is completely nucellar.
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/sacaton_3337.html
I wonder if Eisenhut plant could be something else?
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Re: Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2019, 12:24:38 PM »
Such a high percentage of monofoliates indeed suggests the pollen parent (s) was/were monofoliates. Best of luck with your hybrids.

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Re: Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2019, 01:43:28 PM »
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Re: Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2019, 01:44:04 PM »
I have  Xiang and Roose article cited there.
They used another Sacaton  ascension : CRC 3417,
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/sacaton_3417.html
but the description  is identical to  that of CRC 3337.
There is a story of mixing up between Sacaton and Yuma citrange, actually Yuma is giving nearly 50% of zygotic seedlings.

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Re: Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« Reply #6 on: November 30, 2019, 02:41:45 PM »
Funny enough, Eisenhut has a Citrumelo Yuma too and all seedlings I have appear to be nucellar. The fruit is twice as large as Eisenhut's Sacaton and much less awful.

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Re: Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« Reply #7 on: November 30, 2019, 03:46:30 PM »
It certainly appears that the true identity and description of Sacaton (and Yuma?) is not resolved, at least in the literature. A large scale cold hardy F2 seedling segregation test with 100% nucellar seeds would be disastrous! This reminds me a bit of the Carrizo/Troyer citrange question. Are the 2 the same clone, or 2 very similar cultivars?

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Re: Sacaton Citrumelo F2 seedlings
« Reply #8 on: November 30, 2019, 04:44:42 PM »
In fact I remember Yuma fruits from Eisenhut as better ones. I have about 10 fruits on a plant they are still green. I am curious if they are nucellar.
Florian you seedlings look like my seedlings which have Ichang Papeda as pollen parent. On my plants I know pollination for sure. Do you have an idea what yours came from?

On this table from Ilyas post Yuma and Sacaton have both some zygotic seeds
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=35577.msg372847#msg372847