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I never heard of milam lemon but according to ucr it has about as much cold tolerance as a regular lemon:

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Sensitivity to cold about like that of true lemons.

https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/milam.html

I am zone 8b here and it would have been toast to the roots two winters or more ago--at most the 2017/2018 winter here along the northern gulf coast.  Volkamer has more cold tolerance and is used as a rootstock in our area for sour fruited citrus due to its cold tolerance.

I'm pretty much in zone 8b as well. Yes about 3 winters ago it was an abhorrently cold year. We had nights in the teens here in the FL panhandle. However contrary to what one would think I don't believe any of the local citrus trees really even took more than minor leaf damage. Granted many of the trees are old well established big trees. Some of my young trees got burnt to the ground but otherwise survived it. Fortunately not grafted trees so no major loss.

Thanks for the offer! I have managed to get the Chinese toon leaf already though.

Got my very beautiful scions of mulberry and loquat from this great seller here. Highly recommended.

Feel the same way personally. Will get a pic of the seeds too. Look lemon like too.

Anyone else out there with low chill varieties?

I will get pics of the tree before long. Don't believe the area would have been a grove. It's the front part of a friend's property. He's an older man and his parents owned this particular land before him. It backs onto the Chipola river basin swamp. Part of the Tate's Hell Appalatchacola swamp area. There's a variety of random seed grown citrus trees on the back half this property. It's a huge property. I'd guess no less than 50 acres. Old Duncan white grapefruit trees galore, Valencia orange, navel oranges, lemons, and kumquats scattered around all over. Several generations of trees all self grown from new seedlings to dying trees. Funny thing is than every last single tree except one has excellent to acceptable fruit quality. Hundreds of trees on several properties of theirs. All from the same lineage just planted and started on each property. He really is proud of his trees. Famous guy in the area for tupelo honey. Lots of cool stuff from loquats, chinquapin, citrus, grapes, figs, to pecans. All just growing mostly unattended yet doing pretty well.

Anyone know if apricot or cherry grafts onto Chickasaw plum or plum in general?

Might wanna try pawpaw scions too.

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Hi Derek, I can send you a bunch of cuttings in a few weeks. I need to train my apples. I have the usual suspects, anna, ein shemer etc. Do you have plums? I need to cut them back as well. D

I do have Chickasaw plum but not any great improved types. The Chickasaw on my property is a better one than most you find wild. Fair sized fruits and not bad flavor. On the property next to mine the guy has a huge Chickasaw plum too but the fruits are small and tart.

Figure if I'm gonna try grafting I need to get things moving. Warmer than usual here already and things are thinking about waking up.

I have Fuji.

I think I remember seeing Fuji was under 5-6 hundred chill hours which should be OK. Is that correct?

Anyone have those seeds mentioned above?

Looking to attempt grafting the following:

Mulberries
Apples
Pear
Plums
Nectarine
Peach
Persimmons
Loquat
Think I got white sapote covered already

Looking for lower chill varieties for the zone 8b-ish environment.

Thanks!

I might be interested in some scions too if anyone out there has any. Have a few seed grown trees that I could attempt grafting. Would like to see how the actual fruits turn out on their own but have lots of extra branches going.