The Tropical Fruit Forum

Last year I graftet Satsuma miagawa on my ols lemon tree only to try what happens and for colourmix yellow orange. This year the graft showed some flowers and four fruitlets.
Up to now the fruitlets on the lemon are bigger than the fruitlets on mother satsuma miagawa.
Comparison of taste only will be possible in October/November. Optical it seems the mandarins on the lemon are ripening earlier  , the plant behind the lemon is the satsuma mother plant with smaller and greener fruitlets.

Now without any restriction from my side, 3 nice fruitlets left

very interesting, I also like meyer lemon as a good often flowering and fruiting plant. Curios to the winterhardiness of poncirusmeyer 

No other menbers growing clemyuz 2-2 ??   

Thank you for your informations SoCal and Peep, though overall they seem not so encouraging for planting in zone 7.
My question was based while fetting some scions next weekand in one blog it was mentioned that possibly it is hardy down to 5° F. So I will graft it, then make a copy and test one in the ground - after the german saying " practical trying goes over theoretical studying".

Don' t know if you are also interested in autumn ripening satsumas, but I can recommend for example satsuma myagawa, it is ripe in southern Germany in October and is really good. Tasty and good balance sugar and acid.

Chimera Prague, first flower after 2  years in ground 

thank yo guys for your informations, I'm really curious to taste the fruits, already souch heard about the tasty fruits.
@ Hardyvermont, sounds good your advice, will wait still a month and then thin out   
regards Frank

today 14 months after grafting my Dunstan was left free in ground. Second chance for Dunstan. But now on Poncirus, the one I lost in winter 20/21 was on Citrumelo Broza (no worthful rootstock, because it died also after the winter).

I suppose you are right. But the rootstock FA5 was a recommendation for earth with higher ph and it was assured that FA5 is nearly as hardy as Poncirus, so I thought to try it. And I even was not disappointed in Winter 2020/2021 when the young plant supported -15 ° C with passive protection. Meanwhile I also have Morton grafted on a Poncirus in ground and a flying dragon in ground, so I can compare the next winters and seasons. Perhaps the effevt of deep dormancy is perhaps an additional advantage of poncirus.

chimera Prag is slow and confuse growing but now it presents the first flower bud of all my in ground citrus 😅.





Morton Citrange on FA5 is good growing and further recovering of winter damage 2020/2021. This winter no damage.

Thanks Brian and Millet, good to know not to get a dry fruit by hanging too long, so I still let the sun do their work. Nevertheless it s hard to let it hang, but I' m really curious to fully ripe flavour ? I will report then 😅

Hello Daniel, i think it is a good thing to collect citrus. But as tge others said at the moment it will be difficult to share varieties. I also strictly deny this barbaric war where a lot of ukrainian people and also russian soldiers have to die for nothing and the ukrainian cities get destroyed for nothing.
But for your problem perhaps you could try to get citrus varieties from Crimea ? Best regards Frank