The Tropical Fruit Forum

My Prague chimera from Stan came on flying dragon. It grows very slowly, but I used it as stock and have copies of it on taitri and standard poncirus now.

Yes they are edulis, purple variety. I've never had flowers this early, if they survive the acclimation and don't get scorched within the coming weeks I should have fruit by July. The forecast here looks frost free for now.

Are you making hybrids with the caerulea and maypop? I have some what I think might be maypop x edulis seedlings in a big pot but won't be sure until they flower.

I did eventually get my order for scions atleast but they came extremely late (something like 2-3 months) after I placed the order which by then it was too late to graft. Waste of money

nice, I'm growing some meiwa seeds to graft to poncirus to replace my dead meiwa

I put the quad outside, is 36f dipping at night safe for the plant? It's been raining so I don't think it will freeze. Should I bring the pot back in? I'd rather leave it outside. The pots I've been using are almost 7 gallons so it's kinda heavy. 

Well just checked the forecast, the weekend will be too risky at 33f. I will have to drag both edulis, the quad, my guava, and a huge dragonfruit back inside as they don't fit in the greenhouse. One of my edulis vines is covered in flower buds the first time it's budded this early so I am trying to acclimate it to the sun before putting the vines back up on the trellis. Looks like that will be postponed.








My cat thinks its a good idea that I brought it in.

Does taitri (taiwanica x poncirus) ripen early? Mine hasn't fruited yet. Does it have sour orange qualities?

Like Till mentioned, there are probably some seed grown poncirus varieties that do have scented flowers. Someone must have described it in some literature and then that was picked up by plant resellers/nurseries as a fact for describing their offerings even though they most likely do not sell the varieties with scented flowers.

Well my meiwa is completely dead. Rootstock is even growing back lol

The poncirus interstem is healthy green. The bit of stick with parafilm is another poncirus graft so I'll let that grow and graft something to it

Looks good Nick, hope you get to try a fruit.

https://www.growingproduce.com/citrus/new-orange-like-citrus-hybrids-to-the-rescue/

Still nothing on Sherman, the deciduous nature of the tree is really interesting for cold tolerance. Even a backcross to trifoliate/poncirus+ might make a very hardy early citrange that is deciduous.

Is anyone in Florida that knows a commercial grower? Their budwood program is not for home growers. I don't even see Sherman listed in their budwood variety pdf unless it's going by a different name? 

Thanks for the link, that sounds about the temperature in May here. So that is probably best for grafting. We get warm days nows through April but nights can be upper 30s with possibility of frost.   

Are these flower buds? I have 3 small plants one of which is grafted to taitri.

My meiwa continues to decline. Now I realize this exact process happened to my nagami kumquat months ago. Except that the nagami was on own root and I chalked it up to root rot without really looking at it and tossed it.

There must be some sort of fungal or bacterial pathogen that only affects the grafted kumquat scion because the the rootstock (citrumelo) and interstock (poncirus) are unaffected.

I found this post on the Houzz forum which describes the same process. Hmmm

As a last resort, I put the meiwa in my greenhouse where it recieves full sun, day temps already get into the 90s.

Does anyone know how often I should water now that it's in the greenhouse? It's in 5-1-1. I will check it tomorrow for moisture, but since it has no leaves I don't want to drown the rootstock.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4704398/branch-dieback-on-my-other-kumquat