The Tropical Fruit Forum

No I didn' t have seedless ones.
Seems that without cross pollination they shall be seedless.

Too bad, could have given also a promissing cross concerning fruit quality
and more hardiness with early fruits.

From the crossings Yuzmelo x Bloomsweet  left side and Chandler x Bloomsweet right side,
the Yuzmelo x Bloomsweet with Terminalflower set small fruitlet.
Before dropping the fruitlet I decided to taste it against a
Oroblanco Grapefruit fruitlet.
The positive surprise was that the fruitlet of Yuzmelo x Bloomsweet was
with nearly no bitterness, while Oroblanco was still very bitter.
So taste of this cross seems promising, so only frosthardiness
is still to test.

I think every new crossing is interesting, the only problem with kumquat heritage could be the
late ripening time in zone7 and 8 with springfreezes which damage the fruit.

Do you know where tve fruit came from, country ?
I also can hardly imagine that poncirus or Citrumelos
flower in professional fruit orchards  .
But time will tell, if your seedlings keep this
trait it would have been a crossing
with trifoliate  .

One of my 3 resting Yuzmelo x Bloomsweet seedlings  shows a nice
terminalflower, also with nice decent smell.

I wasn' t aware of that, thanks Mikkel 

Today I started my crossings.
Had Pollen Yuzu N30 from Skandiberg (thanks again) and a nice
Flower of 5* Citrumelo.
Unfortunately after 90% of work getting pistil free one bad movement
of the knife broke the pistil .
O.K. lets wait for the next flowers  .
See pictures.

Hello Muberry0126 and a_Vivaldi,
I can confirm you, that Keraji has a realy very good
manarin/lemonade taste and is
eatible from end of November also in my colder
climate. Only small disadvantage is the
medium seediness but for crossing it s no disadvantage.

Help needed  ,
Below are my citrus with flowers and I would
ask you what would be your suggestions
for crossing, with the goal of good tasting
and as much as possible frosthardy under
respect of zygosity. Chandler x Bloomsweet
and Yuzmelo x Bloomsweet I made
already the last years.
I'm curious to your suggestions 

Flowers 2025
Clemyuz 22
Trifeola - Pollen (small plant)
5* Citrumelo
Bloomsweet
Oroblanco Grapefruit
Rio red Grapefruit
Sanford Curafora
Yuzu
Keraji
Newhall Orange 
Satsuma sotchi
Yuzu N30 - Pollen
Slava micurina orange
Dimicelli ?
YuzuxCitrumelo ?

Very interesting description Lauta_hibrid.
I don't have finger limes, but I heard from eating out of hand
they are not the best - what was the goal to cross them with pomelo ?
I would rather cross to get more tasty fruits or more
Cold hardyness or good combination of these two
Characteristics.

Sometimes its strange how some cultivars make it and others don't.
I planted seven  2,5 yr old seedlings Citrumelo N82 last early summer at the same place
within a m2 in ground and left them unprotected this winter, all
about the same size.
3 showed nearly no damage, 3 looks a bit stressed and one
 died with bark crack.
So I think a selection with citrus cultivars make sense and I assume
same cultivars sold in different locations may show different
Cold hardiness or fruit taste due to zygosity.
Picture with the 6 survivors, died one already removed.

Until end of february ( with coldest temps down to -10 ° C, from march to now,
after removing protection fleece some leave damage at Dimicelli by nightfrosts and early morning sun.
But overall a good result after winter  .