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Summer Limes for year around harvest?

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jbirdfunk:
I am in San Diego, California and I have a Mexican lime and a bearss lime. The season seems to be over and now I'm without limes unless I go to the store which is cramping my style. Lime is my wife's favorite citrus. Both of my trees hit their peak about 2 months ago with yellow fruit dropping off. I tried saving this in zip lock bags in the fridge but they've all gone soft and mushy. I'll try picking next year while green and removing air from the bags.

So my question is, are there any other varieties I can add that flower at different times to get a summer harvest? Or is there a way to manage the flowering via pruning to offset some parts of the tree to induce a different flower cycle? UCR descriptions do not say much about harvest times, and I am guessing because the assumption is they are all on the same season.

We do have another bearss lime at a rental property nearby that seems to have large dark green limes on it. Not sure if it's a different variety.

caladri:
Looking at UCR (all of the limes seem to have Season of Ripeness listed?), the only one that's mentioned as everbearing is Tahiti Lime (CRC 391), which is not available through CCPP, unfortunately. :/ You might look at hybrids which can be used like limes, but that's a bigger list of things to mull, and depends on individual tastes a lot.

Galatians522:
I had a friend with an everbearing lime. It was a persian type. I'm not sure what specific cultivar it was (probably the Tahitian mentioned above). Our's was not everbearing. We froze the juice in ice cube trays and then bagged them in gallon freezer bags. Each cube is about a tablespoon of juice. Most of the time when you need lime, it is the juice that you want anyway. You can also freeze grated lime peel for zest. The juice stores fine for about a year in the freezer.

kulasa:
Calamondin

brian:
Limequats make an acceptable lime substitute, much closer to the true lime taste than calomondonin, and limquats seem to have a different season than true limes so while not everbearing they can extend the lime season for you.

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