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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Best mandarin recommendations?
« on: April 10, 2017, 12:40:42 AM »
Kishu is a great patio plant, seedless and tasty. For in the ground: Tango, Pixie, Clementine, Gold Nugget, and Jaffa-Suntina are super sweet. Honey is hit or miss and can be very seedy depending on the cultivar. Things like Shasta Gold, Yosemite Gold are similar to Gold Nugget.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Red (Blood) Clementine
« on: April 08, 2017, 07:10:21 PM »
Last January I planted the Red (Blood) Clementine seeds that I got from Lazz. Some of those seeds produced just one seedling, but many of the seeds produced multiple (nucellar) seedlings. Last week I was stunned to see three of the now 3" tall 80 day old seedlings have just sent up more   nucellar seedlings.  One of the original seedlings  produced one additional tree, and two of the original seedlings produced an additional two trees.
Awesome...what luck. Wish I could take the extra off your hands  8)

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Arctic Frost Satsuma experience
« on: April 07, 2017, 09:34:50 PM »
DFWCitrus, what did you cover the satsumas with? Plastic or frost cloth?  I've been covering my grapefruit and owari and Changsha and Meiwa with 4mil plastic and put small desk-top size space heaters inside the pvc pipe -frame enclosure for the past several years, and these trees survived zero degrees for several nights. I've also lost citranges that I tried to protect with frost cloth. Maybe your trees were not very dormant when the temps in the teens hit. I have a citradia citrange that did good with a low of 7 degrees this winter, but after a warm February, it started budding out, and when I got two nights of 14 degrees, the new growth died and it lost entire branches. We have to protect more when trees not dormant.
I had purchased frost cloth but it was terrible. The problem was I did not adequately cover them. This year I will either buy or make a framed plastic covering for each in the ground citrus until they are more mature. Planting late in the season didn't help. I was hoping for another mild winter ;)

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Satsuma cuttings
« on: April 07, 2017, 09:31:39 PM »
DWF Citrus: What is a germinator?
One of these set-ups. Works better than anything else I have used.


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Arctic Frost Satsuma experience
« on: April 06, 2017, 10:43:45 PM »
Thanks. I have not seen Kimbrough for sale in my area of Texas, but I will watch for them. I pulled the Arctic Frosts out and put back into containers as they are damaged almost to the stump and the new growth wilted and died. Hoping my Seto Satsumas will make it through as they are more mature. I just need temps to stay above 18oF this next winter.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Satsuma cuttings
« on: April 06, 2017, 01:12:57 PM »
Sorry for the late reply, I just joined the forum here, great place and lucky find!

Regarding Satsuma, I took 2 Arctic Frost Satsuma cuttings this past November 2016 and putting them in my germinator after dipping in root hormone. It was a slow process due to the colder ambient temps and lower amount of daylight, but they rooted at 6-8 weeks. Both are outside now and starting to really take off. I had never done this before and was a total rookie. I also did a Kaffir lime at the same time and it also took. So it is definitely responsive with cuttings. Note Arctic Frost Satsuma seem very touchy and not vigorous, so it was a good test.
My Arctic Frost Satsuma cutting as of today 4/6/17


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Arctic Frost Satsuma experience
« on: April 06, 2017, 01:10:49 PM »
3 year old Arctic Frost Satsuma. This cultivar thought to be the most cold hardy sweet edible citrus.


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Arctic Frost Satsuma experience
« on: April 06, 2017, 10:36:37 AM »
Hello, I just joined the forum here, great place and lucky find!

I live in the DFW area and recently transplanted myself from San Diego. I am a citrus nut and just had to have my citrus. After some research I discovered a Texas Satsuma variety originating from Texas A&M called Arctic Frost. It has been shown to have good cold tolerance down to 9-10oF.  Hard to believe. After getting several and planting them end of August last year, they took a bad beating when we had high winds and 16oF. They were covered and had a halogen uplight. Anyway I got complete die back of foliage and limbs, as did my Seto Satsuma I put in the ground. I guess they were still too young to take it?

I have found the Arctic Frost not to be vigorous and very touchy to transplanting. It is not a grafted plant but originally grown from seed and now propagated by cuttings.

Anyone else have experience with an Arctic Frost Satsuma?  I'll later attach a photo of the one Arctic Frost I kept in greenhouse protection this winter.

Larry

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Satsuma cuttings
« on: April 06, 2017, 10:27:46 AM »
Sorry for the late reply, I just joined the forum here, great place and lucky find!

Regarding Satsuma, I took 2 Arctic Frost Satsuma cuttings this past November 2016 and putting them in my germinator after dipping in root hormone. It was a slow process due to the colder ambient temps and lower amount of daylight, but they rooted at 6-8 weeks. Both are outside now and starting to really take off. I had never done this before and was a total rookie. I also did a Kaffir lime at the same time and it also took. So it is definitely responsive with cuttings. Note Arctic Frost Satsuma seem very touchy and not vigorous, so it was a good test.

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