The Tropical Fruit Forum

tangerine is another name for mandarin, which is the general name for these sort of flatten-shaped citrus.

Satsuma is a type(cultivar) of mandarin.
Clementine is a type of mandarin.

In my opinion, the best ones are pixie, gold nugget, seedless kishu. Satsuma has several types that are all good since the Japanese names them based on taste and not fixed genetic cultivars.

I don't like Clementine probably because of market fruit experiences. It's also really common and I want to feel special and grow the even better ones.

Millet,

What is your source for the Dekopon?  I have been looking out for it as well.  Thanks

My budwood order came in from the CCPP, i got 3 sticks of "Ugli Tangor- New Zealand" 2 sticks are thin and one is a bit thicker, there are more than 12 buds within this budwood order. they are healthy looking. and went into the fridge as i contacted the OC agricultural commissioner to do the "quarantine inspection"


Here i am with my supplies i got the budwood some pruning sheers and some new razor blades, i also could not find grafting tape so i found this flagging roll, should work fine.


here ive made what i would call is a hybrid t graft, my seedlings are rather thin and young so it was hard to get the bark to peel away from the cambium so i cut a notch out and peeled it and split it that way, again i think it will work fine although i dont know if i went deep enough on this graft.


here are the finished buds wrapped in the flagging roll the second bud graft i did i went much deeper than the first one to be ensured i was down to a layer that would fuse and heal with the bud.




here is the finished seedling with the 2 t bud grafts, now we will wait and see how it turns out


now to attempt to root the remaining budwood, my supplies are some rooting gel the razor blades and some soil plugs that will go into the propagator i cut the budwood into smaller sizes with 2 to 3 buds on a stick, i then shaved off some of the bark below the buds where i will be attempting to root and dipped them into the rooting hormone and into the soil plugs, and into the propagator, i waters the plugs with distilled water prior to inserting the budwood. after everything was said and done i took 1tspn of rooting hormone and mixed it into 8oz of distilled water and filled the bottom of the propagator with water to the bottom level of the plugs to keep them moist until hopefully they grow some roots of their own, i will keep the humidity high and the temperature increased over the next several weeks and see if i can root these cuttings. if everything works out i should have about 12 ugli tangors. i will post an update in a few weeks.

My lemon tree seems to be having a number of issues with its fruit. There are pock marks all over the fruit and they are dropping early and not ripening. Picture attached. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have purchased citrus trees from Phil  (Mr. Texas), all of them were excellent trees.  My Xie Shan tree came from Mr. Texas.  Lets hope he is allowed to sell out of state again. - Millet