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Cold Hardy Citrus / 3 seedling meiwa trees, 1 grafted
« on: December 04, 2025, 09:59:35 AM »
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.


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Citrus General Discussion / Re: meyer lemons from tree
« on: November 18, 2025, 09:06:21 PM »
My trees just came in less that 2 weeks ago.  I will find out how finicky mine is.

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Citrus General Discussion / meyer lemons from tree
« on: November 17, 2025, 11:10:37 PM »
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.




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Citrus General Discussion / Seedling Meiwa tree
« on: November 16, 2025, 01:35:25 PM »
Seedling Meiwa tree from 5 months till now about 8.7 yeas. https://youtu.be/sgRDu_sHErk






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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Fukushu dropping all flowers
« on: November 13, 2025, 02:37:16 PM »
I usually takes time before you find out its dead

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Fukushu dropping all flowers
« on: November 13, 2025, 12:26:52 PM »
They started looking beaten up if not dead by 15F

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Fukushu dropping all flowers
« on: November 13, 2025, 10:58:15 AM »
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.

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Citrus General Discussion / Fukushu dropping all flowers
« on: October 28, 2025, 04:23:56 PM »
My Fukushu on Flying dragon drops all flowers.  There is a huge dimple in it on the graft line.  Could this be affecting fruit set.




The date on the picture is from an unbiosed camera.  real picture date is 10-28-25

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa kumquat on flying dragon
« on: August 11, 2025, 07:55:53 AM »
Yes it is.  I suspect the wound will closeup by the end of this year.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa kumquat on flying dragon
« on: August 10, 2025, 10:17:21 PM »
Thank you

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Citrus General Discussion / Meiwa kumquat on flying dragon
« on: August 10, 2025, 01:36:14 PM »
My tree has put on another growth spirt




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They look like they are in ground.  Do you put up the greenhouse in fall and remove it in spring?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: citrus and heat requirement
« on: July 31, 2025, 05:35:08 PM »
what about New Zealand lemonade

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: What causes leaf drop on citrus?
« on: July 09, 2025, 06:20:47 PM »
Frequently ones finger to test for moisture can cause problems.  The top inch of soil frequently is dry, while the deeper soil still fully wet.  A better method of testing is by lifting the container.
Right on.  It is the method I use.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Tips for grafting kumquats?
« on: June 12, 2025, 01:33:22 PM »
I used an approach graft to replace my incompatible Kuharske rootstock with a Flying dragon roots for my Meiwa kumquat.







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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa scion died to graft point
« on: May 14, 2025, 05:16:48 PM »
I had a Meiwa kumquat that was grafted to Kuharske citrange.  The graft was slowly pulling apart so I planted a Flying dragon seedling along side.  I used an approach graft to fuse the 2, then remove the kuharske citrange.  It took 1.5 hears before the graft fully took and the tree is now doing very well.


The old trunk where the original rootstock connected.  It is mostly healed



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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Show us your potted citrus
« on: May 08, 2025, 11:03:14 AM »
My Fukushu on Flying dragon.


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Citrus General Discussion / Re: New Zealand Lemonade EU?
« on: May 08, 2025, 10:53:49 AM »
New Zealand lemonade trees grow well on their own roots till the cool season, when root rot sets in. My personal experience.

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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?

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.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: growing citrus in an apartment
« on: April 23, 2025, 06:06:44 PM »
Pure trifoliata is very difficult to root

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: little US-852 seedlings surviving outside
« on: April 23, 2025, 01:35:01 PM »
Cincinnati Oh has not gone below 0 in 20+ years, US-852's limit.  It is  the desiccating LONG winter that kills them

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Harvey lemon goes down to 10F.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: big freeze for kumquat tree
« on: April 09, 2025, 04:47:20 PM »
I left 3 trees outside in the cold.  None of the citrus trees were hurt despite a lot of very new growth.

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Citrus General Discussion / big freeze for kumquat tree
« on: April 06, 2025, 10:38:14 PM »
Going down to 25F Monday night-Tuesday morning so I brought my Meiwa kumquat on Flying dragon inside Sunday even though it is only going down to 35F  A close up of the graft.




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I agree that Cincinnati's are all very domestic

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