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There is an other option, that genes moved from one plant to the other. Happens at the callus region as well.
Time will tell witch one it is, either way, congratulations
https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13291
Hot, dry Springs in Florida are not uncommon. I investigated having an irrigation well installed in my back yard but the $3,500+ cost just to irrigate a few fruit trees nullified that option. So I setup a rain barrel next to my shed with a guttering system attached to the shed to catch the runoff from the roof and through the downspout into the barrel. I'll likely add an additional barrel later on.Very smart. We should be doing more of that.
Im actually doing the same.
Some of my plants cant handle the city water at all.
My city water has chloramine added to it which does not dissipate with time, so filling a barrel with the hose and letting it sit for a week to evaporate (like chlorine does) won't work. This stuff kills beneficial microbes in the soil in addition to the fact that it is just not good for the health of the plants. But yeah it's been dry lately - we need some rain!!!
Okra on Kenaf.I'll be doing okra on hibiscus sabdariffa (roselle) this spring. Good resources:
I rely on Copper fungicides instead of phosphoric for those very reasons. I also use a 50:50 mixture of Captan powder+indoor latex paint on diseased trees. There is a lot of leucostoma/cytospora in the soil here, and this is the most effective remedy I've found besides aggressive pruning. Really helps prevent borers from entering, too. Happy to send a copy of the study that suggested it, if you like!
Thats interesting, both are Microcitrus X Microcitrus hybrids.
Also UF Red is possibly the only type of Red Fingerlime, australasica var sanguinea resulting from crossing and selection.
I think all the Fingerlime cultivars in Australia are straight selections from the wild.
I would love to see some pics of the Erem x shikawasa plant and fruit if it has fruited.
Hi Piss P,
I find the Kabosu fruit to be quite good. They're very round (hence the Sphaerocarpa in the Latin name), larger than a yuzu and have a complex flavor I enjoy, somewhat like Meyer lemons with a touch of grapefruit. They have far fewer seeds than the Yuzu, and most years even fewer seeds than the Sudachi.
They're just sweet enough you can eat them out of hand if your taste tends to the sour end. Unlike the Yuzu, the peel is not aromatic and less flavorful, but it still has a nice lemony flavor.
I use them mainly for the juice, and to make marmalade during years, like this one, when my Yuzu has very few fruit.
I haven't had a chance to test the hardiness yet but, given that it is closely related to Yuzu and Sudachi, it could well be hoped to be as hardy as those two.
Jim
Of the varieties I grow, because you normally harvest them green, as limes, my earliest harvested citrus is Sudachi in mid-October, followed by Thomasville Citrangequat a couple weeks later. My earliest harvested ripe fruit is the Flying dragon (If you count that as a citrus) starting in mid-October, followed by Changsha tangerine in late October, then Kabosu and Yuzu in mid-November. There are probably many other varieties that ripen as early (or earlier), which I don't grow.
Jim
Is this something I could do myself through grafting?
There have been constructed graft hybrids between Tomato and Solanum nigrum.
If I remember correctly one technique was to split a bud eye in half, and match in another half from the other plant.
When the healed bud shoots out, it grows as a chimera shoot.
Accidental graft chimeras probably grow from callus shoots at the graft union.
