The Tropical Fruit Forum

TonyinCC that is long process to root!
Nowadays it can take 3 weeks to 3 months to root any citrus with the right hormones and and controlled enviorment.
Rootstocks are selected for a good reason, soil problems.

Murcott mandarin and its hydrids, Meyer lemon, Kaffir limes mostly with FD, Tahiti lime and others

Those from UK should hurry up to buy citrus trees from the rest of Europe as beginning from 2021 it would be very hard and expensive to get any plants from EU.

Exporting plants and plant products
From 1 January 2021, EU exports of plants, fruit and vegetables to Great Britain must comply with new Phytosanitary requirements, including phytosanitary certificates. If you export plants, fruit and vegetables to Great Britain, you should:

*check whether a phytosanitary certificate (PC) is required by contacting the plant health authority in your country or your local plant health inspector
*check if your plants require laboratory testing of samples to ensure they are free from pests and diseases or inspections during the growing season
*apply for a PC from the relevant National Plant Protection Organisation before export

Quote from: mbmango on November 12, 2020, 12:01:46 PM

Similar experience.  Planted this spring from germination last August.  Requires hand pollination.  First fruit in October.  Takes about 3 months from pollination to fruit drop.  I haven't tried pollinating any since September though, since I'm not expecting them to hold any through winter.  Some of the last pollinated fruits have started aborting, but that could also be due to massive caterpillar attacks also.

for me the purple edulis types also take around 3-4 months to ripen , I also always hand pollinate, thought have had fruit from flowers I did not pollinate. My fruits always ripen inside the house when I take my plants in for the winter, but I also quit hand pollinating them around middle of august ,since inside the house is too dark to have any fruit thats not very close to maturity ,be able to make it.

I also have flavicarpa's which are seedlings whom started flowering too late this year ,so i'll have any reviews regarding fruiting next summer.

Quite interesting. I didn't have much success with them, summer here it's too hot and the purple doesn't grow well. In spring/autumn the do well. I had few grafted and planted them in ground, now they are 5m long, too bad they need to die soon.

The greenhouse has a mortar base, which is isolated and is deep into the soil, the soil in the greenhouse is isolated from the outside soil. I am thinking if making hols in the soil for the pots, burry the whole pot into the soil to regulate its temp, and just open the greenhouse while sunny , to not get so hot inside.

I have not watered them for around a month, the soil in their pots is moist, I will keep them on the dryer side.


What's the lowest temp they could handle, I know the rootstocks give some hardiness to, and that the lemons might be more cold sensitive. In the nursery I bought the grafted  pomello and kumquat from, one of the employees said they keep them in the greenhouse without additional warmth, and that the citruses were handling temps around minus 6-7 C.

Aerating the greenhouse daily will reduce the humidity and mold issues. There are many citruses so it depends on each how much cold they can get. Just keep the greenhouse over freezing level. Plants are not dormant like in outside. Over the years plants will adapt to cold. However if you get a citrus from southern Italy or Greece it will not survive like a tree grown from seed and grafted when young in a cold climate.

If you have a severe infestation a biological control seems to be more logical especially in a greenhouse.
Yellow traps are good for identification and after use of the predatory parasitic wasp
'Diglyphus isaea', they will eat everything.

I have serious doubts that insecticidal soap will kill the larvae and eradicate everything.

This is my choc-anoc in a 4 gal container from last winter,  8 fruits in total. Good fruit it has a different aroma compared to other mangoes.

the tree is a little bit prone to diseases

https://www.facebook.com/1043190099036816/videos/2899643993391806 

My fingerlimes flower and set fruit even now in cold. They are understory plants direct UV light from sun will make the fruit to drop.
This year I made a cross of faustrime x amoa 8, I expect the result to be a deep red faustrime.
Seedlings will take 3 years to bloom if they are grafted and grown in ideal conditions, that means grow lights during the winter, warm temperatures and good balanced nutrition.

i grow many vascobcellea. I water them once week, they grow very good at this time of year.
Mountain papayas stay outside at 5-20c they like this temperature.
Paladensis is more tricky likes humid 15-20 C no more or less. Babaco it's the easiest to grow.

In winter with low levels of light the lose leaves.
What species do you have. In the pictures it's only paladensis, which is fuzzy and not easy to grow.

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