The Tropical Fruit Forum

 there is no significant new growth on my in ground citruses either. It seems that only redblush grapefruit likes these temperatures, because it is growing very fast. However star ruby, which should be happy on this weather stopped its growth. I guess most citrus trees are waiting for lower temperatures to start new growth. Dalmatian city of Split has experienced over 50 hot days in the row  (max daily over 30C).

that is why i am so beautiful.

Pankrazio, natzumikan is japanese sort of white grapefuit, some say it is shadock which is, as i understand, some kind of grapefruit.
It is not cross with poncirus, but usually is grafted on to poncirus.   

thanks, it is really big, like an oak.

This does not surprise me. April was the fourth warmest april in history in west Balkans, and month may seems to go in the same direction.

no surprise to me. One can often find citrus from SA in local markets, especcialy out of european citrus season.

Most amazing for me was citrus collection in palace carnoles garden. Kumquat trees reach 6 meters in height. I thougt they can grow only 2 meters high.

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how hardy is volkamer lemon as rootstock? My star ruby is grafted onto volkamer. Can it survive without defoliating -2 which has lasted for at least 10 hours ? 

I had to cut my tree down as it is a magnet for fruit fly here. I had to plant real lemons as the flies won't attack a true lemon, but will happily live off Meyers all winter. 😞 I heard the variegated version doesn't grt attacked though, but it isn't very vigorous or productive. Has anyone tried it?

Strange. Fruit flies do not usually attack meyers. Here, they attack only tangerines. Last september flies infected and destroyed whole crop of my 2 tangerines, but they did not touch meyers, which were present in much bigger numbers.

Yes. I closed the balcony in december, so i don,t need to move them inside like i did last years. They used to loose all leaves inside during winter.

This october we picked  over 100 kg on our 2 trees.  I squized most of them into ice cube bags and put it in deep freezer.

It seems to me that freezes like one from 1984 are no longer possible, because of global warming. At least i hope so.