Citrumelo 5star in full bloom

[maesy]

This is my dunstan today.


I would not say it is inedible, unless you want to eat it out of hand.
To avoid the poncirus off flavor I squeezed the fruit, added some sugar and mixed the juice with a good amount of water. This way it was a refreshing drink. The fruit may become tastier and may loose some of its off-flavor in a climate where it can fully ripen under warmer condition.

[Ilya11]

Nice bush, are you protecting it in winter?
My Dunstan is less hardy than 5star, some upper twig damage was observed at -9C

[maesy]

In very cold nights, below -10 I sometimes threw a fleeze over it, but not so last winter. It looses some of its leaves or some upper twigs as you said, but that doesn't have effect on the bloom.

[maesy]

Its behavior with new shoots in spring is interesting. Now and also last year it made mostly trofoliate leves, bud two years ago it made mostly only unifoliate leaves!

[Ilya11]

5star has also mostly unifoliate upper twigs, but I never have seen any damage to its wood. At the winter with -16C it lost half of leaves but was flowering in the spring.