The Tropical Fruit Forum
Citrus => Cold Hardy Citrus => Topic started by: sc4001992 on December 02, 2019, 12:48:08 AM
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Does anyone have experience with this Hiryu FD ?
It is suppose to be very similar to the Flying Dragon, but the fruit looks a little different and the branches are not as curved.
I grafted some to my FD and wanted to know if there was anything useful with using this one as a rootstock.
(https://i.postimg.cc/3y05ZYdG/Hiryu-FD-p1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/3y05ZYdG)
(https://i.postimg.cc/bd95jsng/Hiryu-FD-p2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/bd95jsng)
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I am amazed how many seeds are in all four accessions of UCR FD and how spread they are.
Mine is more tall than wide and has no more than 4-5 seeds per fruit.
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4-5 is very a low seed count. All of my poncirus both standard & FD will have 30+ seed in each fruit.
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Low, low seed count. I AVERAGE 30 seeds per fruit on Standard Poncirus and 25 on FD. I have not seen that low of a count. Could it be environment or nutrition dictating low seed count?
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The regular PT is giving more than 30 seeds per fruit and the flowering time is more or less the same, so it could be some varietal difference.
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Also my Poncirus FD contains more than 30 seeds per fruit - by the way, th size of the fruits is smaller than those of a standard PT
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This is a description of a Hiyu on the japanese genebank seems it hasn`t any specific traits..
(https://i.vgy.me/Jh94om.png)
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Thank you all for the additional information on this variety.
My FD had many fruits this year, but each fruit only had 5-10 seeds, and most were not fully formed. Previous years it had 10-25 seeds in each fruit, nice and plump seeds.