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I have a Dunstan citrumelo that's been in ground from seed 5 years old, some 80-5 citrumelo seedlings planted last fall, some Ichangensis seedlings planted from seed last fall. Thomasville citrangquat coming back fro the roots for the third time in 7 years, and a 13 ft tall Changsha mandarin that was from seed. Done of these have bloomed. I have PT and dragon trees from seed. At least one of my Ichangensis seedlings has trifoliate leaves.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Pictures from middle Georgia
« on: July 22, 2018, 09:35:17 AM »
Luckycloud, you may need to use more protection in 7b NC than someone in central GA. I'm in western NCand have been experimenting with "cold hardy citrus " for the past 7 years or so. I've learned the hard way that no citrus or citrus hybrid is hardy here without the protection of a heated greenhouse, except poncyrus trifoliata. Even though my recorded low last winter was 7 degrees, I still lost all of my unprotected citrumelo and other citranges and nansho dai dai, etc, except for one 4 ft tall citrumelo planted out by the road and driveway. The problem here is that it can and does freeze and stay below freezing for days to weeks, and one winter didn't get above freezing for a month. My Owari, Kimbrough, Croxton, Changsha, Meiwa live and produce well each year by being grafted on PT and covering them with 4 mil plastic sheeting over pvc or wooden frames, and heated with small electric space heaters that are controlled by thermocubes that only come on at 35 degrees and turn off at 45 degrees. The trees have to be uncovered or vented/ partially uncovered if possible when temperatures outside get into the fifties so trees don't break dormancy. This past year, my 35 gallon black plastic garbage cans full of water that were next to citranges but uncovered by plastic tents and without heaters froze through and exploded. So, if you are below freezing for days, your satsumas will croak without extra heating.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Snails
« on: July 06, 2018, 09:41:48 PM »
I found small slugs on my grapefruit tree yesterday and noticed small holes in leaves.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Pruning in ground citrus?
« on: June 19, 2018, 09:36:05 PM »
I live where if the tree doesn't get covered and have heater inside green house/ tent the tree will definitely die in winter. I've had to prune back select limbs to get frame and cover over a tree, and I've had a huge frame blown off a tree, breaking some limbs in early winter. I've lost limbs when a high tunnel collapsed under weight of snow and ice. I think it's about perspective; if you have to prune some to save life of tree in winter, you loose some potential fruit. Or, you don't prune, and when the big ol' cold monster comes in winter, you're gonna run around in a panic trying to build bigger frames or wack back the tree to save it. I'd do selective pruning in late fall, trying to avoid cutting off maturing fruit if possible, to make sure the tree will fit in your frame so your ready when weather man says the freak mega drop in temperature that wasn't expected is coming tomorrow night.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citrumelo seedlings
« on: June 12, 2018, 08:12:44 PM »
That top pic on far right looks like Ichangensis leaves to me.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Potomac Valley Hardy Mandarin
« on: June 05, 2018, 07:45:41 PM »
I bet it was a hardy citrus, just not hardy enough to live in Washington DC, which is way out of citrus territory.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: HLB & Brazil
« on: May 19, 2018, 09:26:00 PM »
Maybe guava or banana or some other tropical fruit will move in to fill the demand for fruit where citrus will be falling short.

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Fabulous! May it be blessed.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Poncirus Seedlings
« on: May 18, 2018, 05:59:46 PM »
My poncyrus are 15 feet tall and in ground from seedling for past six years, good sun. Don't bloom well. Only started blooming the past three years. Most blossoms killed by freezing every spring. My dragon bloomed first time  this year, 6 years from seed and three feet tall. I had to fertilize them more with miracle grow the past few years to get bloom at all.

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Florian, I bet you can grow and fruit different varieties of rowan ( European mountain ash), or sorbus aucuparia. I make jelly out of mine. They may even grow wild where you live. I'm growing the Native American rowan and a Chinese pink-fruited variety, and a white fruit variety. I'm sure you already know rowan is the ultimate fruit tree for cold long winters and short cool summers.

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Simply Citrus in Columbia, SC; Ben Salley, on Facebook; 1-803-466-0200.

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How about eating kumquats? I bet you'd get lots of benefits from eating all that peel!

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Are medica and Ichangensis really the same?  I thought medica was the citron which was famous in the Middle East and not cold hardy. Ichangensis is cold hardy. What's up?

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To answer previous question, I don't think any citrus where I live is very cold hardy after loosing almost all my trifoliate and Ichang hybrids this year. This Grapefruit and my satsumas and meiwa and Croxton survive winter here only because they are covered in 4 mil plastic and have space heaters controlled by thermo cubes inside their enclosures. The coldest temperature I know this Rio Red survived without space heater ( I forgot to plug it in) was a 19 degree night under it's plastic dome. It mostly defoliated that year, several years ago, and didn't bloom that spring. Another reason I'm surprised it's blooming so well now. The lowest temp I recorded this winter was 8 degrees F on 1/2/18, and it didn't get above freezing the first 7 days of January.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Rio Red blooming after winter defoliation.
« on: April 30, 2018, 08:20:23 PM »




The light green foliage is new growth from defoliated branches.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Rio Red blooming after winter defoliation.
« on: April 30, 2018, 08:14:32 PM »
My big Rio Red grapefruit is blooming like mad even on wood that lost leaves after hard freeze in greenhouse this winter. The small space heater in it's greenhouse didn't prevent the water barrel inside from freezing the week of January it didn't get above freezing. The tree partially defoliated. Branches that lost leaves but not wood are covered in small flower buds. Parts of tree that didn't defoliate have older more developed flowers.






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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Report on winter 2017/18
« on: April 25, 2018, 08:25:28 PM »
I lost all my hardy citrus that was unprotected except one Dunstan citrumelo and a citradia. We had one week in January that didn't get above freezing. I lost five Dunstan citrumelo, a citradia, Ichang lemons, nansho dai dai, Thomasville citrangquat, and a Morton citrange, and a Rusk citrange. My lowest temp this year was 10 degrees. The trunk on my 10 ft tall Dunstan exploded all around 360 degrees. Dunstans that barely lost leaves that few years unprotected died this winter. They can't handle a week below freezing.

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Or message me if you ever coming near Asheville.

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I'm tired of Ichang lemons freezing to death here, so anyone who wants to drive to NC and pick them up, come on. I have in 1 to 10 gallon pots:
Ichang lemon
Sanguinelli
Mandarin seedlings
Just sprouted "seedless" Ichang lemon seedlings from Dr Hanna project

I'm not mailing any of these. I grew all from seed. Some of the sanguinelli have dropped leaves from freezing in greenhouse this winter but most still have green stems and will probably leaf out like other stuff in greenhouse.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Flowers of Poncirus
« on: March 07, 2018, 08:10:23 PM »
All the poncyrus I've smelled have no fragrance.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meyer Lemon leaf drop
« on: March 04, 2018, 05:38:10 PM »
Give it time. Different varieties will wake up at different times.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: How To Find Love In China
« on: March 02, 2018, 09:20:28 PM »
Neat tradition!

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How does someone move one of those large boxes without damaging it? Some kind of dolly cart? I tried moving my old whisky barrel with dolly cart and the wooden bottom fell out.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus Growers Forum
« on: February 21, 2018, 07:56:56 PM »
That's wonderful, Sylvain! So nice to see our old posts again. I saved the link to my home screen.

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