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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Cold hardy lemons
« on: March 02, 2022, 02:19:31 PM »
Thomasville citrangequat would also be a good substitute for a lemon.
Very juicy, tasty and when fully ripe sweet with eatable rind almost like a kumquat.
And very frost hardy as too.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for cold hardy avocado scions
« on: January 26, 2022, 01:52:52 PM »
Here is a good source of hardy avocados.
The owner is very friendly and may have what you are looking for.

https://fruitwoodnursery.com/avocado-scionwood

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citrumelo Nr. 82
« on: January 24, 2022, 03:52:04 PM »
My Dunstan comes from Eisenhut and gives me lots of fruits. But I'm not sure if it's the same as the Dunstan you are talking about, since I belive there are two different typs.
The fruits are not eatable out of hands, but the juice with some sugar and diluted with water is enjoyable.

A few years ago I pollinated it with pollen of my I x S. Now I want to cut down a good amount of the tree and graft some scions of the hybrid seedling on. It may still take some years until ist first bloom, but I guess it will take longer for the seedling itself.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Yuzu seedling growing in Washington state
« on: January 11, 2022, 12:08:44 PM »
Hi,
here is my Yuzu one month ago with the last fruits still hanging on the tree. Also at 47 degrees latitude north, but in Europe/Switzerland.  ;D

Since last summer I have a small seedling planted out as well at the back of my yard in a similar age as yours that I leave unprotected on its own. This tree on the pictures is maybe 7-8 feet tall and grafted on poncirus, and planted out on the very protected southern side of my house. My experience is that anything colder than -8 degrees celsius can damage the tree. Starting with leaf damage and if the freeze is lasting longer than a day and maybe going down to -10 or -12 you have to expect damage on the bark if unprotected.





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Loquat grafing on quince
« on: April 24, 2021, 05:09:04 PM »
That is interesting! I'd never thought that could work.
How is the blooming behavior of the loquat when the tree goes into dormacy in October?
And are the fruits growing on a quince rootstock going to ripe out in summer?

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: cold hardy citrus in full soil in greenhouse
« on: February 21, 2021, 01:49:23 PM »
Why don't you plant them outside and just cover them for the occasionally cold nights you can get?

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: January 26, 2020, 04:20:42 AM »
Yes my dunstan is growing in ground. It is hardy to at least -15°c.
I still have some fruits left which contain usually between 5 to 10 seeds. You can have some if you want.
I live near Sursee, so if you want to come over and see my citrus in ground, you are welcome.
I still have some keraji and thomasville citrangequat fruits hanging on the trees as well.

Here you also can find lots of infornation about my trees and many others.
http://www.exotenundpalmen.de/t1228f5-quot-winterharte-quot-essbare-citrus.html

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: January 25, 2020, 09:32:49 AM »
Hi and grüessti Tetrao

Welcome to the club!

I dont have any poncirus seeds, but what I have are dunstan citrumelo seeds/fruits. Dunstan is a hybrid between poncirus and pomelo.
Otherwise, the best place to buy any citrus in Switzerland is the nursery Eisenhut in ticino.

Marcel

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: How to tell a fruit is frost damaged
« on: January 22, 2020, 07:01:44 AM »
Some of my exposed yuzu fruits had a few small brownish spots after -2 degrees.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Yuzu x Poncirus
« on: December 11, 2019, 03:21:42 PM »
Till, welcome to the forum.
Have you tasted the leaves? When you bite a leaf, you may taste a bit of the poncirus flavor.
If its pure yuzu, you will only taste the typically pleasant flavor of yuzu.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: October 26, 2019, 05:31:45 PM »
@usirius
Thanks for explaination. I have always wondered.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: October 25, 2019, 03:11:31 PM »
Btw, what is Bernard Voss doing today?
Has he lost his interest in citrus? There is not that much coming from him anymore.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: October 24, 2019, 01:41:13 PM »
I can not tell you for sure. They so far always matured before it went down to -5 degrees celsius.
If there is such a temperature forcast, I would either protect the tree or harvest the fruits. Anyway, the spot where the tree is growing is very sheltered and therefore a short freeze should not be a problem.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: September 30, 2019, 03:27:47 PM »
Quote from: Millet on September 29, 2019, 02:53:54 PM
Maesy, the side walls being white also greatly helps increase the tree's photosynthesis. Looks like you have taken good care of the two trees.
Thank you Millet. They have a very previleged spot at the south-west side of the house where there is not too much sun in winter. That may also help and give them a good rest.

Lots of things are possible if you give enough effort.   ;D

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: September 29, 2019, 01:20:44 PM »
Here my keraji and thomasville with the sidewalls for winterprotection that I have put up yesterday.


Keraji fruits



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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hardy citrus growing in Switzerland
« on: September 29, 2019, 01:09:09 PM »
My yuzu tree today


Some of the fruits


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citrumelo 5star in full bloom
« on: May 11, 2019, 02:16:51 PM »
Its behavior with new shoots in spring is interesting. Now and also last year it made mostly trofoliate leves, bud two years ago it made mostly only unifoliate leaves!

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citrumelo 5star in full bloom
« on: May 11, 2019, 02:06:59 PM »
In very cold nights, below -10 I sometimes threw a fleeze over it, but not so last winter. It looses some of its leaves or some upper twigs as you said, but that doesn't have effect on the bloom.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citrumelo 5star in full bloom
« on: May 11, 2019, 01:45:09 PM »
This is my dunstan today.


I would not say it is inedible, unless you want to eat it out of hand.
To avoid the poncirus off flavor I squeezed the fruit, added some sugar and mixed the juice with a good amount of water. This way it was a refreshing drink. The fruit may become tastier and may loose some of its off-flavor in a climate where it can fully ripen under warmer condition.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citrumelo 5star in full bloom
« on: May 10, 2019, 02:58:31 AM »
Yes, excelent plant, but how are the fruits?

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Some rare variety hardy seedlings
« on: May 07, 2019, 11:41:02 AM »
Yes I also was missing the wide petioles, but  if I look very closely at the plant, there are a few leaves with slightly bigger petioles.
Becouse of that reason and becouse of the flavor of the leaves and the good tasting fruits I also was in doubt if it is true.
On the other hand I found this article about a somatic hybrid of ichang pepeda with valencia orange which suits very good to our i x s.

www.researchgate.net/publication/15000585_Interspecific_somatic_hybrid_of_Ichang_papeda_with_Valencia_orange
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Some rare variety hardy seedlings
« on: May 07, 2019, 09:01:09 AM »
Yes I also expecting more or less good fruit quality.

But the ichangensis x sinensis is the pollen donor. The mother plant is the dunstan citrumelo.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Some rare variety hardy seedlings
« on: May 07, 2019, 05:04:13 AM »
Only the seedlings of this fruit that was cross pollinated are different from eachother. All the other dunstan seedllings from two other fruits look the same.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Some rare variety hardy seedlings
« on: May 07, 2019, 03:08:48 AM »
Ichangensis x sinensis

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Some rare variety hardy seedlings
« on: May 06, 2019, 02:01:34 PM »
Here is an update on my dunstan citrumelo x ixs seedlings. Each one start to look different. This might be normal for f2 hybrids.
What is the experts opinion?




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