"Chicken Heart" Wampee

[canito 17]

All wampee taste like grapefruit skin to me. Some where in my farm I still have a tree. Other trees die from citrus greening .

[ScottR]

fruits4me, what time of year did you graft wampee onto citrus? I have sucessfully grafted citrus here on Central Coast of Ca. Arroyo Grande in Summer time.

[fruit4me]

According to my old messages, scions were mailed to me on 2/22/22 .
WOW! I Just realized my tree grew fast!

[fruit4me]

Some of the Chicken heart wampee is ready. It averages 2 to 3 seeds per fruit. Not bad. Taste just like all the seedlings I've tried but with less seeds.

[CarolinaZone]

I have killed every wampee I have had. I am still willing to try though.

[pinkturtle]

Hi fruit4me

They are not fully ripe yet, you should wait until they turn dark yellow will taste better.

[fruit4me]

Just sharing an updated on my grafted Chicken heart wampee tree. I added the Seedless variety onto it on Feb 7, 2023. The Scion took forever to push. It has about 6 inches of growth so far. Really looking forward to try the seedless. 

[ScottR]

fruit4me, nice graft thanks for keeping us updated on your Wampee grafts, are your older grafts to citrus r.s. still alive??

[fruit4me]

ScottR
I had 2 wampee grafted onto citrus tree in February 2022. One died on its own and the other one broke off after I removed the electrical tape. Luckily I was able to take budwood from it and graft it onto a seedling.

I have another graft maybe about 4 years old that's grafted  onto citrus. I've fruited from that graft once. The union does not look healthy.  I'm currently airlayering it because I have a feeling it might die. I'll post a picture of it later.  Just like lychee on longan, it's only temporary. 

[fruit4me]

Graft union on a 4 years old wampee grafted on citrus

Airlayering it off the citrus tree

[ScottR]

Nice roots developing on scion for sure what time of year did you do air-layer, thanks for pic's and update.

[fruit4me]

Nice roots developing on scion for sure what time of year did you do air-layer, thanks for pic's and update.

Airlayer was done early July this year