The Tropical Fruit Forum

Someone posted recently about putting poncirus juice overnight in a glass ( I presume in refrigerator) to let the resin or poncyrus nastiness to separate from the juice, and then you’re left with good juice. How do you separate the nasty layer from the good? Is the nastiness floating on top? Do you scoop it out with a spoon? I can’t find the post about it.

I called the arboretum and all they could tell me was that the trees were obtained from Woodlanders (I’ve bought citradia from them before) and that they were planted in 2009. I’ve called Woodlanders and left a message inquiring where they obtained the seeds. To be continued. Maybe.

Sorry for the delay. Here is my recent poncirus find compared to flying dragon:

I wish they had it here. I bet your market carries locally grown produce, SoCal2warm.

They’re larger than the few that I got off my tree two years ago. The coin is a USA quarter. I was in a hurry last night to go on a road trip and didn’t take time to hunt down a ruler. Sorry for the lousy post. I was just excited about what I feel is the most impressive citrus I’ve seen growing outside unprotected here where even poncirus is mostly unknown. I just wanted to share with folks I thought might care. Thanks for the criticism. Here is one of two poncirus fruit I’ve been able to grow on top of this mountain in the past 6 years. I don’t get fruit most years due to late spring freezes.

The leaves on my trifoliata trees don’t turn yellow nor do my citrumelo or citrange trees. They stay green mostly until they succumb to severe cold, low teens or single digits. Some leaves on trifoliata turn red and yellow/ orange eventually in winter with some still green at top of tree over winter. Citrange leaves freeze and wilt while green and fall off. Similar to peach and apricot, leaves drop green. My meiwa and satsumas on dragon stay green all winter although protected while they stop growing due to dormancy. My flying dragons don’t turn fall colors either unfortunately, leaves just drop green. 39 degrees here this morning, been in 40s all week, and my trifoliata and dragons are green as grass while sugar maple is colored up.

I bet the kumquat is to light of a framework to support the heavier metabolic needs of most other citrus. The leaves and branches on my meiwa are dainty compared to my satsumas branches.

Millet, you can details on the hotel from the expo page on Facebook.

My meiwa bloomed about a month ago but it hadn’t bloomed earlier this year which I attributed to it needing the heat of summer that I don’t have much of as far as citrus is concerned. I also noticed that one of my red bud trees started blooming a few weeks ago. The southeastern US has had a lot of rain this summer with hurricanes and other random rain storms. Maybe our trees are stressed from all the rain and are blooming out of season as a result.

Sounds wonderful. More pulp to seed ratio than poncyrus means potentially more useful. I have some ichangensis seedlings with some trifoliate leaves ; I hope they grow to make nice fruit like yours.

Trilogy’s tracker, it may depend on what constitutes “wet feet” for paw paw. They naturally thrive in flood planes. Also, once established, they do well with n full sun. Mine thrive well in a climate similar to yours but on top of a mountain on a sandy slope with high winds often. Maybe it’s not a burn on the leaf but a fungus or other disease. Either way, I wouldn’t worry much since paw paw is native and I’ve found need little to no care. Nice green leaves. Must get plenty nitrogen.

Sorry to hear of Stan’s loss. I still have one of his Kimbrough satsumas with fruit on it; maybe I’ll bring some to the expo. Laaz, did his Ichang lemon and citrumelos survive?

Do you have well water? Looks like calcium deposits to me. Try wetting a cloth and wipe the deposits off just to clarify that's what it is.  Could be spray residue from whatever you may have sprayed on plant. Leaves look healthy.