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Citrus General Discussion / Re: How long does citrus budwood last?
« on: April 11, 2018, 11:53:36 AM »
I store in damp paper towels/zip lock and check for moldy towel every few weeks.
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I grafted varieties of mandarin 8 buds on single trunk on my planted tree, facing different direction and heights, 3 inches apart. what you think are chances of take? Do you do bud grafting? I want to hear more about bud grafting.
Someone else commented that they had been growing kumquats and a mandarinquat outside in the ground in Seattle for a 3 years.
"Hybridizing cold hardy citrus to grow in the Pacific Northwest", Matt Hedlund, permies.com forum, beginning of 2018
A question I have is what needs to mature for a citrus tree to produce good tasting fruit? is it the root system that needs to develop to the point it supplies the tree with all the necessary nutrients for good fruit or is it the scion growth that needs to mature?
For instance, could you graft on to an older existing tree with a new scion variety and get pretty good fruit in a couple of years?
I have an in ground Valentine pummelo. It is a great tree.you
How would you describe the taste of the Valentine? Is it acidic at all?
What would compliment my oroblanco better? Valentine or cocktail? Or should I plant those two and forget the oroblanco?
I have several remaining Flying Dragon rootstocks left, like to graft several varieties like Pomelo or mandarins onto them, will that work?
In the US, I don't think there's a seeded kishu. In China, I've eaten kishu-like mandarins with seeds. That's just the normal one they sell everywhere.
Mr. Texas I believe your south Texas location is to warm for the fruit to turn red.
My New Zealand Lemonade (NZL) tree has produce a nice crop of fruit. This year I let the fruit remain on the tree until they were fully mature and very yellow. The mature fruit was about the size of an Eureka lemon. Yesterday I picked a couple fruit for taste testing. Unfortunately the fruit did not taste like lemonade, but rather had a washed out lemon taste to it. I would not say they tasted unpleasant, but rather bland. The sour aspect was much less than that of a lemon. In the past, I remember eating the fruit while it was still green, much the way one eats a lime, but don't remember much about the exact taste, other than I liked it. The tree has a ton of flowers on it, so new fruit should be coming soon. I plan on tasting the new crop at various intervals trying to determine when the fruit should be picked. Anyone else with a NZL tree have comments concerning picking time?