The Tropical Fruit Forum

Eureka lemon is STRONGLY incompatible with Eureka Lemon.

That’s what I had read in some places and others didn’t say. Which makes me wonder why all the big box stores have them on C-35. I was so tempted to buy a pink eureka because it was so pretty.

The bigger tree is a Fukushu kumquat.  Only the small one is a grafted Meiwa on FD.  I have 2 other seed grown Meiwa trees.  I got a quart of fruit from my 1 seedling Meiwa.

Thank you

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.




Is the big tree also a Miewa?
I have found FD to be very dwarfing for my Meiwa.

Quote from: Desertcitrus on April 06, 2024, 07:52:20 PM

I am not a fan of sumo, I think there's alot more mandarin out there that are better. I prefer gold nugget and owari.

I have never had an owari or gold nugget but I planted an owari outside this year. I was so excited until I read they are not very good tasting in hot climates. We have about 3 months of over 100-106 degrees or higher. But I’m planning to use some shade cloth. Is this claim true?
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I live in a hot climate and my owari is good. same with my young seto, it's good.

Kulasa that’s encouraging.

That's about right, I fertilize weekly but not weakly.  I live in zone9a which requires me to water my trees more often. Trees are in 511 fir bark.

Do you use 1tsp of jacks per gallon? How many gallons do u usually give each tree?

I highly recommend sumo, it has a permanent place in my greenhouse

I couldn’t understand what the whole hype about them was until I bought some on sale a couple weeks ago. I wish I had bought all the store had they were so good so far it’s my favorite now.

A  pH of about 7.8 is the highest pH level that a Carrizo rootstock will grow.  Above that pH don't even try.

Millet what about if I decide to keep it in a pot. Will it be ok if I use hose water? Also a branch broke off while moving it so I’m trying to root it. Would a Meyer on its own roots do good in ground?

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

I will have to find out but I’m guessing it’s higher. Our water here has a GH of 22 and KH of 11. And we have really alkaline soil in this area. But I compost my garden and other beds every year to help things grow.

I found a Meyer lemon at Lowe’s on carrizo rootstock. I want to plant it in ground. Is this a good idea? I read that rootstock does not to well in high PH soils but if I amended the soil every year would it do ok?

Millet and Kulasa, I will probably start fertalizing mine more often. I just replanted my citrus into 5-2-1 because it gets so hot here and it’s so dry.

Christ is resin. Happy Easter.

Happy late Easter.

I can respond to your question about cutting the green branches to let the variegated branches grow more. Yes, you want to cut off any of the non-variegated branches if your tree is strong enough with just the variegated branches. If your tree is still too small, you may want to wait until the variegated branches have established.

I have a large, variegated Valencia orange tree which is over 30 years old, plenty of variegated branches, tons of variegated fruits each year. I deliberately leave a few green branches so that I can still get both types of fruits. There is a difference with the Valencia orange. The normal green branches have nice size fruits about the size of navel oranges. The variegated Valencia branches (95% of the tree) will have smaller stripped green/yellow fruits that turns yellow when ripe. These variegated fruits are 2/3 the size of the normal fruits and is not as sweet.

Thank you. That answers my question. I believe Madison citrus calls it mottled. My mottled branch actually has 2 fruit on it. I want to just try one this year. I think for now I will leave the branch and maybe trim it off next year.

Brain,  I read somewhere that variegated citrus eventually revert back to a regular tree. So I posted the question on a Facebook page that Hershell had started to find accurate info, and he responded saying that, that is not true. But what happens is a non-variegated branch will start and then eventually overtake. I wonder if the branches that are not the white/green were trimmed off if it would continue to be just Whit/green branches? Mine has one branch of light green dark green and I’m wondering if I should trim it off before it gets very big.
Brian, have you noticed if the branches that are the light green/dark green grow faster and more abundantly?