The Tropical Fruit Forum

I have grown several lemons from seed.  The few that I grew never reached fruiting stage.  When I got rid of them they were approximately 3 feet high.  A seedling lemon has an almost straight up growth pattern.  What you read on FB was a fairy tale.

I've taken Colchicine for gout, the strength of the pill is 0.6 mg.   I do not know the strength needed for triplorid use, but one could dissolve enough pills.  As mentioned a lot of caution would be required when working with colchicine.

I wonder if the Prague Citsuma that has incomplete flowers can be "pollinated" with gibbereillic acid the same way clementines are pollinated using gibberellic acid.

patchofpentaphyllum in Florida you can purchase Dekopon (aka shiranuhi) from Harris citrus.  Just type in Harris Citrus into the Internet and you will easily find them.

laidbackdood, always nice seeing you.  Just because the air is at 14C does not mean the soil at the root zone level  is at 14C.

Citradia, a good rule of thumb is--------The more hardy a citrus tree is the slower it is to leaf out in the spring.

Most citrus varieties are not pruned, but let to grow into their common round shape.  Dekopon is different.  In Japan Dekopon are trimed almost exactly as a peach tree is pruned.

luak, I see you have the tree growing in a RootMaker air root pruning container.

Once kumquats are turned into a jam or a sauce, they go exceptionally well with vanilla ice cream or as a filling in vanilla cake. The flavor comes from the essential oils in the rind, and it’s very healthy – I recommend you pop two in your mouth after breakfast each morning. It also goes really well with gin, although perhaps not straight after breakfast!”

A lemon surviving -30 F unprotected, that is very difficult for me to believe.

The trees should fruit rather quickly, as the scions that I sent you all from  mature fruiting wood.

SoCal2warm,  pummelos are monoembryonic and do not come true from seed.  Pummelos are not polyembryonic.  Some other common citrus varieties that are monoembryonic are Meyer Lemon, Nagami Kumquat, Marumi Kumquat, Temple Tangor, and Clementine Mandarin.  A pummelo seed will not give a fruit the same as the mother tree.

A highly contagious bacterial disease that seriously threatens the U.S. citrus industry has been found for the first time in Alabama.

http://www.freshplaza.com/article/177607/Citrus-greening-spreads-to-Alabama,-US