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I have 3 seedling 8 year old Meiwa kumquat trees.  2 are outside and in ground and 1 is inside in a pot.

https://youtu.be/yg1ZVyVNXYY
I also have a Meiwa kumquat grafted to PT outside and inground.

My Meyer lemons are close to picking Ripeness.  We will pick them when they are needed as they are too sour to eat out of hand.

I usually takes time before you find out its dead

I have given the fukusu photoed above away and am down to 1 fukushu tree grafted to sour orange with a Poncirus trifoliata middle stock

Fukushu is to the left has 1 quat.  NZL is to the right has fruit ripening up.

I have 3 seed grown Meiwa trees and 1 grafted to flying dragon all produce fruit and my NZL just ripening up
I have had a total of 6 Fukushu kumquats.  I let 2 die outside winter and gave 3 away.  they all dropped all to maybe just 3 flowers.  My largest was 5 foot diameter by 9+ feet tall healthy well branched.

Yes it is.  I suspect the wound will closeup by the end of this year.

My tree has put on another growth spirt

what about New Zealand lemonade

I used an approach graft to replace my incompatible Kuharske rootstock with a Flying dragon roots for my Meiwa kumquat.

My Fukushu on Flying dragon.

Thanks for your tips, I'll be adding horse manure in a few weeks. I'm currently discussing this with a friend, his family owns a few horses in their farm.
As for my soil I haven't done a test, but in my area most of the soil is above 7 pH, so that's why I assumed it is alkaline. I haven't had too much trouble growing blueberries, as long as I give them a good source of iron (old rusty pieces of metal buried at the base of the plant seems to work). Maybe it would help citrus too?

Quote from: poncirsguy on January 31, 2025, 10:24:54 AM

I have a large non producing Fukushu kumquat low grafted to Flying dragon that I did some cold testing on outside.  I covered the pot as
 well as the first 12 inches of trunk with leaves.  My goal is to get a strong single growth trunk that might produce fruit.

Thanks for the pictures! How much cold has it seen so far? That's an interesting strategy, it reminds me of the figs and pomegranates that fruit despite freezing to the ground in winter. Was that your inspiration?

The whole tree died including the flying dragon  rootstock.

Cincinnati Oh has not gone below 0 in 20+ years, US-852's limit.  It is  the desiccating LONG winter that kills them

I left 3 trees outside in the cold.  None of the citrus trees were hurt despite a lot of very new growth.

I agree that Cincinnati's are all very domestic