The Tropical Fruit Forum

Orange Sherbet has a bunch of leaves that look like this top side and underside. I only sprayed copper once months before this happened. Is this anthracnose or Bacterial black spot? It's also affecting some of the new buds. Florida 9B interior

I have found that the Meiwa kumquat taste very  good on own  rooted seedling trees.  They are also quite tasty on Flying dragon rootstock

Resurrecting this thread to see if anyone can definitively answer a question I have regarding growing Lilly Pilly from seed. I have circa 20 plus seeds I collected from a random tree I saw. The fruit were a magenta colour so I'm not sure exactly the type of Lilly Pilly. Tasted pretty good so figured I'd try to grow them. Anyhow, the germination rate was incredible with almost all seeds germinating within two weeks.

Even more surprising was the number of stems that came up per seed. Polyembryonic on another level. Some seeds sent up 8 stems!

Here is where I am a bit at a loss. There's very little information I can find on what to do with these stems. Should I/can I divide them into separate pots? Or should I cut away all but one stem? If latterly so, is there a hard fast rule or do I take the strongest looking stem? My last concern is if taking one stem, am I taking a tree of one sex or are all trees self fertile?

To reiterate, I never really expected such a successful germination rate, considering my forays into other fruit seed growing.

Yangmei seedlings, with trunks only a few millimetres wide, don't even blink in 27-30f here, even being 100% under snow. I would suggest that they'll be winners out there.

For yangmei...
Now, not all can make it in 7b. I have selected a variety that does well with no leaf or branch dieback.
Other varieties will do branch dieback or even die.
They can take cold temps like i mentioned, but long periods of cold are not fun.
Will be a while before I can propagate it. And I'm sure there's other ones that will do just as good.
Just I don't know which ones.
I've only tried the common ones.


Jabowise, the nearest jabo to me that's in ground with no protection is around a 7 hour drive south.  :'(
Unless you count my big sabara in ground in the greenhouse

For the yangmei, it was exactly what you are trying to do in this situation. I didn't want to put them in my greenhouse so I trialed them outside.
Although yangmei has more cold tolerance with them getting snow sometimes.