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there are more varieties in CA. FL has green, red, giant, and maybe champagne.My green is about 5 feet tall and pretty bushy. It is flowering but yet to set fruit. unsure how old it is.
My green one fruits regularly but the fruit is very tiny, not sure why.
There are some good ones here and propagation by cutting is possible. My red champagne lived fast, fruited well and tragically passed away at an early age. It took about 2 years to fruit from a small cutting and was loaded when only 3 feet high. There are some real brumbies out there that are shy bearers that get too big so look at pics and select carefully. Reds with red inside seem to be best all around.
Seedlings are really slow and variable in when they start fruiting. Cutting grown plants are much more reliable.
My fingerlimes flower and set fruit even now in cold. They are understory plants direct UV light from sun will make the fruit to drop.This year I made a cross of faustrime x amoa 8, I expect the result to be a deep red faustrime. Seedlings will take 3 years to bloom if they are grafted and grown in ideal conditions, that means grow lights during the winter, warm temperatures and good balanced nutrition.
For those in FL, JustFruits... just listed red finger lime trees for sale. They have green as well. Green keeps flowering for me, no fruit set yet. 4-5 feet tall.
Thanks Pandan! Going to use Meiwa kumquat pollen with green finger lime.