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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Poncirus+ x kumquat
« on: November 03, 2022, 02:53:24 PM »
Taitriquat is a great idea. It could produce a lemonquat type of fruit depending on if x nagami or x meiwa. Would need to be early ripening. Thomasville doesn't ripen in zone 7 before hard freezing from what I've seen online but can be used as a lime while green. Taitri is probably hardier than whatever citrange was used to make Thomasville, it has survived in my zone 7 as of now including 6f freezing rain. Will have to see how it does at 0f.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Feijoa in NJ zone 7a
« on: November 01, 2022, 09:30:16 PM »
Not yet, have not been frosted either. Hoping they ripen this coming week there will be warm weather.

A picture of one the fruits last week, its actually gotten a little bigger since then. Between both potted plants I have a total of 15 fruit. If you look up "raregrowsNJ" on youtube I have a video showing how the fruit and the plants look right now.




same fruit, swelling up now:



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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Poncirus+ x kumquat
« on: October 31, 2022, 03:23:27 PM »
I pollinated a meiwa, nagami, and a hindsii kumquat, after removing the anthers on the flowers, with  dried poncirus+ pollen. I also pollinated a yuzu with the pollen. I have a fruit holding on each kumquat except hindsii, it dropped all the fruit. The yuzu is also holding some fruit which is now starting to ripen. Unless those flowers were wind or insect pollinated I might have hybrids. I would love a zone 7 kumquat even if the taste isn't great it can be used for further breeding.

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thanks, I think I'm going to add a few more bricks and then put some frost cloth over the whole thing. Some light will still get through the frost cloth

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Here is an update from the inground seeds planted in May.
Very slow growth, the stem doesn't look woody yet, hope it does soon before frosts.


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: My Ichang lemon pics 10/24/22
« on: October 24, 2022, 08:06:20 PM »
Very nice fruit. How long do these take to ripen, are they from spring flowers?

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Poncirus X C. Unshiu sounds a lot like Prague Citsuma / Prague Chimera especially with that hardiness

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I grow edulis in 3 gallon pots, after fruiting I cut them back my oldest plant is 3 years old, very root bound, will need an up-pot or I can just get rid of it and grow a new plant via cutting which I did already. I grow them with a tomato cage so I can wrap the vines around when it's time to bring the plants in. I also grew a banana passion fruit for 3 years but that one never flowered. I pruned it too hard this year and it died to the base but has since resprouted. Maypop is in the ground and comes back every year. Fruit is ok, I defintely like edulis better.

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Welcome to the forum :)

I grow some subtropicals and tropicals in containers as well in zone 7, just remember that dips into 25f in the ground is not the same as dips to 25f while the plant is containerized since the roots are exposed to cold air temperature vs in the ground which would be warmer. I will start bringing those plants in within the next week or so.

As for getting citrus specifically on that rootstock, some nurseries have a special order option (Madison Citrus comes to mind https://madisoncitrusnursery.com/). None of my grafted plants that I've ordered online from other sources have come in on flying dragon or trifoliate, I've had them come on carizzo, srs mandarin, and us-1284, or as cuttings on own roots.


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: My trifolate orange has red vein down the middle
« on: September 28, 2022, 07:06:07 PM »
Graft of fast flowering trifoliate on tai-tri also showing red on single leaf, graft acting independantly of root stock?




Can anyone chime in on I am wondering if the grafted scion of a deciduous citrus will go dormant even if the root stock doesn't? The inverse, in a colder climate how does this work say on a loquat (evergreen) grafted to a quince (deciduos)? I also have a Prague Chimera graft on this tai-tri.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passiflora tripartita (var. molissima?)
« on: September 28, 2022, 01:36:18 PM »
I don't know if this helps but I've just remembered was able to root a molissima cutting, in water with rooting hormone.  I don't remember the specifics but I am sure I did not remove the leaves as I don't do this with my other passion vines and it was a green vine not a woody vine. I sent that cutting to a friend back in 2020 who lives in Florida and the vine ended up dying from the heat. I did the rooting in my grow tent under LED 12 hours on and 12 off, it's humid in the tent so they don't dry out. I bet if you leave it in water it will eventually root. I will look through my photos to see if I have anything saved, I did send the friend some pictures before I shipped some random rooted cuttings to her which included the molissima. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passiflora tripartita (var. molissima?)
« on: September 26, 2022, 08:38:48 PM »
How long did it take for yours to flower? My seeds were labeled molissima but can't know for sure what came up after 3 years and never flowered, just made small leaves. This year I pruned it to 3 vines out of the huge tangled mess it became, too agressively I suppose, and it died back all the way to the down to the surface of the pot. It resprouted from the roots: sorry for crappy picture it's from a video




I've rooted maypop and edulis vines in water, just cut the stem at an angle, scratch a little off the sides dipped in rooting hormone, and put in the shade. They root in water just fine, then transplant into soil after a month or so. I should have made a backup of the molissima.

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Thanks franklazar26, highly recommended :)

top worked on trifoliate seedling


self rooted


t-bud on citrange, even made a flower


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: xie shan satsuma
« on: September 18, 2022, 04:13:32 PM »
I bought mine from Briteleaf. It developed gummosis, has not been a healthy plant. My meiwa from them is fine though. I don't like how tall and lanky the trees came in though, for container I prefer a shorter form.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Citsuma Prague
« on: September 16, 2022, 12:45:48 PM »
Mine is in the ground this year, it bushed out a little and grew a new central leader. Hoping it will be hardy, it's surrounded by an evergreen shrub in an L shape so area is pretty sheltered. House is right beside it. Plant in the back is maypop and there are strawberries in this bed. Don't know if I should remove the strawberry and maypop.




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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hybrids in zone 7a after a low of 12f (-11c)
« on: September 08, 2022, 06:53:17 PM »
looks good, might just protect the bottom of my trees since they are too big now.

my prague is about the same size as yours so hope mine will flower next season

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hybrids in zone 7a after a low of 12f (-11c)
« on: September 08, 2022, 03:23:12 PM »
I had bark splitting with Poncirus+ on own roots but not the one grafted to regular Poncirus, they are planted in different parts of the yard so not sure if the one is getting more southern exposure. Have you tried painting the stem/ trunks with white paint to reflect some of the sun? Thinking of doing this. My citrumelo did have some bark damage on the southern exposure but has already healed over

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Hybrids in zone 7a after a low of 12f (-11c)
« on: September 08, 2022, 08:39:53 AM »
I grafted them in the spring, so it will be interesting to see what will happen after winter especially to the Prague which grew about 25-30 cm on tai-tri compared to my one grafted to Poncirus that barely grew at all. The FFT on tai-tri put out a leaf and stopped growing. And the Morton only bud swelling on the scion. Will post pictures soon

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Confused with guava tree.
« on: September 05, 2022, 08:51:27 PM »
 I bought a Mexican cream guava from home depot as well and so far it's only made green fruit without any sweet flavor at all, never turned yellow. We'll see what happens next season lol

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: Brocks farms NJ citrus
« on: September 04, 2022, 08:04:03 PM »
Those are some sweet trees! I'm late to see this post but would have been worth the two hour round trip for something of that size at that price

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: The most hardy non trifolate citrus tree
« on: September 04, 2022, 07:39:53 PM »
Prague Citsuma, is a chimera of poncirus and some kind of mandarin. It produces mandarin like fruit without the poncirus flavors. I have one outside in 7a, will report on survival after this winter.

Changsha is very hardy although you still need to protect it in 7a.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: SunDragon
« on: September 04, 2022, 09:39:43 AM »
Haven't been able to find any other info on Sherman, even emailed the professor at the university that created it directly but did not get a reply. Figured since Sherman is deciduous it might be hardier than SunDragon. Florida does not have a budwood program for home growers only for commerical growers unfortunately

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Passiflora incarnata
« on: September 02, 2022, 03:58:35 PM »
I haven't tried growing maypop in a container, but my edulis vine did fine in a 3 gallon for 2 years and gave me 30+ fruits. Started another cutting from it and will probably toss the main plant since it's outgrown the pot and not producing, I don't want a bigger container to carry inside. The cutting I took has flowers on it now but the main plant does not, figure since it's root bound. Your maypop will be happier in the ground so definitely plant it when you can.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Passiflora incarnata
« on: September 01, 2022, 02:25:52 PM »
The vine with the smooth ovaries produces oblong fruit. Shape is more distinct while they are smaller and still growing, almost look like a banana passionfruit. The flavor is not as good as the round one on the right. But something very interesting about it is the smell, I get hints of pawpaw and banana.



side by side with the other vine





You will know very quickly if it has set, and to me it looks like it has! I noticed that your vine also produces fuzzy ovaries, my other genetically distinct incarnata vine has ovaries that are smooth:

original vine with fuzzy ovaries:








new vine: smooth ovary (before pollinated, and after)








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