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Amalfitan Rangpur?

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alexmed95:
Back in February when I found my first small Amalfi lemon at the specialty market,  I also got my hands on a beautiful Citron from Amalfi (variety unknown, but let me know if you know it). The scent was magnificent, close to Amalfi lemons.

Anyway, fast forward to now, I grew some of its seeds. They are quite slow growers compared to the small Amalfi lemons, and the big Sfusato Amalfitano I grew (see updates in my other posts). The seedling also has a weird way of growing where a bunch of buds grew in packs on the tip after the first two leaves appeared, but they stagnated for a couple of months.

After the real pair of leaves grew, I discovered that this Citron was possibly cross-pollinated by a Mandarin (see the leaves' shape of the seedlings). Two of them have very similar leaves' shape to Mandarin. I crushed the leaves of all of them but wasn't able to distinguish a particular scent. I guess the seedlings need to grow bigger to get the reel scent.

Knowing that the Rangpur Lime is a cross between a Citron and a Mandarin, we might get a new Rangpur variety from Italian parents! TBD


The original fruit







All seedlings


One of the seedlings with mandarin-like leaves

pagnr:
The seedlings look pretty good. The odd one looks pretty interesting. Also looks bit lime like to me. It could depend on if the Amalfi Citron is a 'pure Citron' or a Hybrid. It is possible to get unusual seedlings from genetic re shuffles, without X pollination. ( recombination ). Citrons do not normally produce foliage variants, but I did get slight fruit shape + size variants from seedlings. Lemons seedlings are often slight foliage variants. Can't quite see, but does the odd seedling have red growth tips like other Citrons. ?

alexmed95:
Hey,

None of the seedlings have reddish/purple growth. All new growth is green (as seen in the latest pictures). I've attached the picture of the Mandarin-like seedling I'm growing separately. You can also see that other seedlings have quite interesting leaf' shape.

Hopefully, they will survive till maturity. I've read that Citrons are quite fast to fruit (<4 years). I hope some of them will get that genetic.

The most Mandarin-like seedling



The other seedlings

pagnr:
I am wondering if there are other hybrids in there too ? Pic 1 has a small leaf type in the bottom rh corner ? I am not seeing exact Citron seedlings in the pics, a lot look slightly different. How do they compare to this ?

sc4001992:
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