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Finally ripe fruit of C. grandis x C. paradisi called “Piriforme”. Plant I bought from Tintori nursery years ago.
This pomelo hybrid belongs to the Medici citrus collection that was started by Cosimo I between 1554 and 1568 and reached its height under Cosimo III.
The fruit has thick rind that turns yellow when fully ripe. The thick pith is not edible and the flesh tastes like mix of pomelo and grapefruit, its a bit sour, but edible. Mostly for ornamental purpose.

This year showed me, how tricky the right time to harvest is. Right now, I collected my one and only fruit from my annona in living room and this time I collected it while still partly hard on touch.
And it was a mistake, pulp is not as tender as ussual, slightly sour and the taste is full of that bleach chlorine odour typical for muricata flowers.
But it looks like taste is improving while I let the harvested fruit rest in room for 24 hours.

It used to be rollinia herzogii, I think that no rollinia except deliciosa is worthy to grow for fruit.

My experiences from more than 15 years of growing citruses in pots.

1- I had the worst experiences with special soils for citrus, never use special citrus soil for citrus.
2- Its much harder to kill citrus plant with drought than by overwatering.
3- Citruses from supermerkets usually come alredy infected by phytophtora, in that case it does not matter how good your care is.
4- Size of pot does not matter.

The Primofiore is not a name of cultivar, it means fruits from first flowering.
The primofiore (literally, "first flower") matures from October 1st, has an elliptical shape, skin and flesh which varies from light green to lemon-yellow, and lemon-yellow juice; the bianchetto ripens from April 15th, is ovoid-elliptical, with light yellow skin, yellow flesh and lemon-yellow juice; the verdello matures from July 1st, is an spheroid elliptical shape, light green skin, and lemon-yellow flesh and juice.
The cultivar name is  femminello Siracusano aka Limone di Siracusa IGP.

Quote from: lebmung on April 08, 2021, 05:43:21 PM

Tested this winter yes down to -8C it can survive although autumn growth dies.
Almost all the nurseries in Europe sell Shikuawasha on Alemow rootstock. The rootstock will die at -2C to 0C or before most likely because of root rot. I usually toss to compost or give to someone those plants with Alemow, they all get root problems after few years.
I have my plants on PT.
This year I will graft few plants on Shikuwasha seedlings and test it for hardiness as well. Although on its own it is not resistant to root rot.

I don't think oscar tintori uses alemow, they mainly use Poncius trifoliate and so far mine has survived longer than any alemow plants i bought from local sellers. (well you already know my background)

I ordered a second one from them, though I hope this one will have greener foliage because as you can see on the picture mine has yellowish leaves, some turned much greener already but the rest remains.
Otherwise plant is in good health,  I left it outside at 0°C in februari and nothing died, though it did not have new growth, only new flowers but they did not fall off.
I do would like to know how you got the leaves of yours to be so very large and dark green though, I already give nutrients with enough N in it but maybe you do / give something extra ?

I visited tintori in the past and also bought many plants from them. They never used poncirus as rootstock. All plants were grafted on macrophylla or volkameriana.

The flagship of this class is Mohrabi.
http://idtools.org/id/citrus/citrusid/factsheet.php?name=Moghrabi
Grown in many areas under local names. In Crete they call it Sikeri.

First crop of Early Sicily® /clementine Oroval 2x × Tarocco 4x/

Weight  of fruits 144-150g.
Easy to peel.
Seedless.
Tastes like sweet navel orange.
According to this article needs several weeks in 5°C to form red pigmentation.
https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1206147/Early-Sicily-C1867-mandarin.pdf

We discussed it several times in this forum.
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=11807.msg261361#msg261361
I witnessed it on all of my llama seedlings.
It looks like it is specific for annona diversifolia, after few years of observation, it looks like it has something to do with full spectrum of sunlight. Outdoor, this defect is strongly supressed or missing, indoor glass or macrolon have some uv filters. Its really hard to keep ilama seedling alive indoor.

Looking for fresh passiflora edulis Maracuja seeds.

Oscar Tintori sells kulu lemon from Corse INRA collection.  Limon Kulu SRA 1061.

Could it possibly be the Japanese variety Aomikan?
It's only a guess, but I can easily imagine Aomikan being hand-written and then incorrectly read or copied as Honikan.
The variety is normally picked  in Japan while still green, but eventually turns orange.

My idea is too, that it is most likely a misspelled name.
Btw.: Aomikan is  cultivar, or it is just name for unripe mandarin?

Diferences between  citrus oto, citrus keraji var. kabuchi, citrus tarogayo and citrus tarogayo Unju in peel thicknes, shape of fruit and shape of seed.
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/nekogatame/e/18b6a197cc327d09b5088b6d9425bf94