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Cold Hardy Citrus / Air layered potted citradia finally fruited this year.
« on: October 06, 2025, 07:18:23 PM »
The few citradia fruit I’ve cut open are seedless and juicy with a nice citrus flavor with almost no Poncirus bitterness. They are so small it would take a lot to juice them or make marmelade. My eight foot tall one grafted on flying dragon in ground has not produced more than a few fruit that fell off while green and tiny. Hopefully it will bloom next year after the extra fertilizer it got this year with more phosphate.


















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Cold Hardy Citrus / My first swamp lemon vs flying dragon taste test
« on: October 05, 2025, 10:16:25 PM »
My swamp lemon trees finally produced fruit this year after making the largest orange blossoms I’ve ever seen on any citrus. I noticed that the swamp lemons have a more pronounced petal outline at stem than the Poncirus or flying dragon and the pulp is lighter color, almost whiter, and definitely doesn’t have as bitter turpentine-like taste as the flying dragon/ Poncirus. The first pic with the denser clusters of blooms is the regular Poncirus and the larger blooms are swamp lemon. Neither have fragrance that I can detect but my sense of smell is weak.










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Cold Hardy Citrus / My Prague Citsumas
« on: August 30, 2025, 06:13:21 PM »
I’m trying to post pics of my Prague that I planted in ground this spring and a few that I grafted this spring on Trifoliata. Weird citrus. It made a few tiny flowers that didn’t make fruit this year while it was still in pot. Got it from McKenzie Farms several years ago grafted on trifoliata.
















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Cold Hardy Citrus / Huge swap lemon flowers!
« on: April 13, 2025, 12:42:05 PM »
My swap lemon tree from seed finally bloomed after 6 years or more. The non-fragrant flowers are huge compared to my regular Poncirus. I’m posting a pic of each. First pic is Poncirus and other three are swamp lemon.








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Cold Hardy Citrus / Flying dragon on standard PT
« on: March 23, 2025, 10:20:44 AM »
I haven’t been on here in a long time, but I remember posting a question about grafting FD to PT. I did it, and it looks pretty good. The rootstock hasn’t overgrown the scion over the past several years, so I guess it’s ok.




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Cold Hardy Citrus / Viability of seeds from frozen fruit
« on: January 15, 2023, 05:34:04 PM »
All the fruit on my Seville froze in December. Is it possible that the seeds inside the ruined fruit could be viable ?  The fruit was not fully ripe, still green when frozen to death.


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Cold Hardy Citrus / Fall harvest sour orange ?
« on: January 02, 2023, 09:12:13 PM »
Is there a sour orange / citrus aurantium that will have mature fruit for fall harvest? My Seville fruits from last year never fully colored up even into the next summer, and this year’s crop was lost still fully green with last week’s severe prolonged freeze. Bad variety for me.

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Citrus General Discussion / My first Santa Teresa lemon fruit
« on: October 24, 2022, 08:11:14 PM »
I cut open my first Santa Teresa fruit today. It was very good. Put some juice in my tea. Maybe one day I’ll have enough for lemon curd or a pie.








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Cold Hardy Citrus / My Ichang lemon pics 10/24/22
« on: October 24, 2022, 07:53:54 PM »
Ichang lemon on flying dragon.








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Cold Hardy Citrus / My oddly shaped poncirus fruit
« on: October 24, 2022, 07:50:37 PM »
I picked up this weird poncirus and two small flying dragon fruit today, and a big bucket of regular shaped poncirus.








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Cold Hardy Citrus / My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
« on: October 08, 2022, 07:27:29 AM »







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Cold Hardy Citrus / Seville fruit staying half green after a year and a half on tree
« on: May 20, 2022, 07:15:25 PM »
Why would my 5 ft tall Seville sour orange tree have fruit that won’t ripen after a year and a half? Grew great last year and blooming great this spring.




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Citrus General Discussion / Pollen collection and storage
« on: April 18, 2022, 10:08:16 AM »
I’m collecting pollen from poncirus and put it in a paper envelope. I need it to pollinate an orange tree with flowers with white unopened buds that may open in a few days. I’ve read about drying out pollen and then freezing it to use months later. Can my pollen stay viable in an envelope for a week or two without having to freeze it? How do I know when to strip petals off of unopened blossoms to access a mature pistil?

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Native crabapple as rootstock
« on: November 15, 2021, 09:11:51 AM »
Does anyone know if native crabapple such as malas coronaria or angustifolia can make good rootstocks for modern apple cultivars such as McIntosh or red delicious? I’m good with cleft graft citrus but haven’t tried apples yet.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Citramot?
« on: September 13, 2021, 09:39:54 PM »
I was just researching bergamot and noticed that according to the ucr citrus variety collection site that it is mostly monoembryonic. I think that means if it makes seeds they should be single and from sexual reproduction and therefore seedlings should not be true to type, rather be hybrids. I can’t find reference to a poncirus and bergamot hybrid, that I presume could be called a “citramot.”  My bergamot tree has bloomed repeatedly this year, so I am tempted to try pollination with PT next spring and see what happens. I look forward to everyone’s comments.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Meiwa seedlings are slow growing
« on: July 29, 2021, 09:28:38 PM »
I’ve had no trouble getting citrus seeds to grow rapidly into trees until I planted Meiwa last spring of 2020. They get to about 6 to 8 inches tall and stop. I’ve switched from my traditional miracle grow potting mix that everything else has thrived in, to the 50:50 Turface/miracle grow garden soil mix that Laaz recommends. I’ve seen a little more growth since the switch but still not as much as with my citranges. Also, my Meiwa cuttings from last year have failed or underperformed in comparison to my other varieties cuttings. Also, my meiwa graft onto PT is having trouble pushing growth compared to everything else. I read in several places that Meiwa doesn’t do well on its own roots; what’s the deal with finicky Miss Meiwa?

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Citrus General Discussion / Poncirus branches as squirrel deterrent
« on: July 27, 2021, 09:44:14 PM »
Has anyone else used a thick mat/pile of poncirus branches as a barricade around other fruit trees to fend off squirrels? I know it will keep larger vermin away, but squirrels are wiley critters. I lost all my Bartlett pears to squirrels this past week and now they are hitting my keiffer pear tree. I put a thick pile of poncirus and native hawthorn branches around the pear tree from trunk out about five feet from the drip line. I thought about investing in those cat away mats on Amazon but that would be some pricey square footage. And no, trapping or shooting the squirrels isn’t an option in my No-hunting-allowed deep woods gated neighborhood.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Grafting poncirus and flying dragon
« on: July 26, 2021, 09:54:10 PM »
I know plenty will think I’m nuts for asking, but here goes: I’m considering grafting mature poncirus and flying dragon wood onto poncirus or flying dragon rootstock to get small potted specimens that will bloom and fruit when still small. These will be easier to sell than one year old seedlings. I’m assuming grafting PT on FD would work and have a dwarfing affect like any other citrus on FD. But, what would happen if I put FD on PT rootstock? Would the FD scion have a benching effect and die off or what? 

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Ichang papeda seedlings for sale
« on: June 14, 2021, 07:30:05 AM »
I have two Ichang papeda seedlings for sale in five-gallon pots. They are about four years old from seed. Asking $20 each. These are the size of large bushy shrubs, so they are best picked up here in person rather than shipped. I’m located in Western NC. Message me for details on pick up.




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Cold Hardy Citrus / Citrus blossoms
« on: April 30, 2021, 07:54:14 PM »
I have uncovered my citrus for spring and the blossoms are popping!
Meiwa, Owari, Rio Red Grapefruit, Croxton, Kimbrough.










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Cold Hardy Citrus / “Winter is Coming!”
« on: November 01, 2020, 05:40:15 PM »
Winter is coming to the Blue Ridge mountains and as usual, l am supposed to have my first freeze tonight, 11/1/2020. Halloween is my deadline to get ready here. Supposed to drop to 27 degrees F and stay below freezing up to five hours tonight into tomorrow morning. I know my cold hardy trees can withstand 27 degrees but I want some tender growth to harden off more and of course I don’t want my fruit to freeze ( Meiwa, satsumas, grapefruit). Yes, when it’s above freezing tomorrow morning I will uncover my pvc huts and open greenhouse doors. I have 15 covered trees now. I gotta stop planting citrus!


















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Citrus General Discussion / Moving potted plants
« on: October 21, 2020, 06:55:41 PM »
Has anyone tried using the Worx Aerocart for moving potted plants up stairs onto a porch? I’m contemplating getting one but videos only show folks moving plants across level ground. I want something that will move large potted citrus up a few steps to the porch.

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Citrus General Discussion / Orange goop hand cleaner
« on: October 18, 2020, 07:59:07 AM »
I noticed that Orange Goop hand cleaner washes poncirus sticky resin off hands and kitchen utensils easily.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Big poncirus fruit
« on: October 06, 2020, 06:37:08 PM »
Bumper crop of poncirus this year. Here’s a big one!




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Citrus General Discussion / Name that rootstock!
« on: October 05, 2020, 06:18:17 PM »
What’s this rootstock that Four Winds put my St Teresa lemon on?








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