The Tropical Fruit Forum

Meiwa is the best by far.  It can be picked while still half ripe an have a sweet peel with a somewhat sour flesh.  You can leave it on the tree until orange for a sweet interior.  The Nagami, Fukushu, Nippon, and Indio need to stay on the plant till fully ripe to have a goo tasting peel. 

Root stock choice will make a big difference within same varieties.

After dozens of tries I have been unable to do any graft of Meiwa kumquat.  If my record keeping is correct I have finally got a Meiwa/ FD graft to take.  I have a couple of FD seedlings I plan to plant next to my in ground Meiwa trees to do rootstock transplants with them.  I have 2 of my 4 seed grown in ground Meiwa trees die quickly.

I skinned the bark off the 2 trees touching surface and wrapped them together.  It took 1.5 years for the graft to seal.  I then cut the bark of the Kuharske below the graft and waited a 1/2 year before removing the trunk of the Kuharske.  It was the easiest graft to make.

Thanks;

It is now outside for the summer.

I also have a Meiwa on Flying dragon after its rootstock transplant to replace its incompatible Kuharske citrange.



I have found FD to be very dwarfing for my Meiwa.

I use 1.5 Tsp per gallon 2 times a week in summer.  In fall I use 0. In winter I use 1 Tsp 2 time monthly and in spring 1 Tbsp. weekly.  25-5-15 jacks.

It is a PT.  I am growing the 2 PT trees to do an approach graft to my 2, 8 year old, seedling Meiwa kumquat trees.  I photographed the correct seedling but I was thinking Meiwa kumquats when I wrote this post.  That seedling PT is growing about 4 times faster than my seedling Meiwa seedlings grew.

This were the Meiwa seedlings that was meant to be in the original picture.

If your soil is PH 7 you should do fine.  You can also plant it in a raised bed.

update on my Fukushu on flying dragon

Your trees look nice.  I have a seed grown Meiwa that finaly fruited.
  I got about 1 quart of fruit from it.  I hope you'll be picking in quantity soon.

My Meiwa grafted to kuharski nearly died till I did a rootstock swap to flying dragon.

August 23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2KJEZa536g
March 4

Sterilize the pot

I don't know as I am using  a PT inter stock between Sour orange and Fukushu kumquat to join 2 incompatible root to scion varieties.