The Tropical Fruit Forum

Ilya, does your Citrumelo 5* drop leaves in late autumn? Mine keeps ist leaves over winter. Some of cause die but about 50% survive in a merely mild winter. Trifolis, which is said to be F2 and less hardy, changes colour and drops some leaves. Most hardy PT hybrids seem to drop leaves but also keeps some. Also leaves on my yuzu turn yellow and drop off. Not sure how many of them will get lost.

Usirius, do you know which one of all those 899-cultivars you have. They are very differnt. I have 4 of them, but non has fruits resembling Poncirus. All fruits are smooth and shiny.

Ilya, you said Keraji ist growing slowly, but mine, high crafted on Poncirus, are the fastest growing plants of all my citri.
I am talking about the in-ground plants in the green house. It is their second year and they have a dense crown of 60cm. Of cause they have been cropped for  round shape. There are four of them -all the same.

And we do have the right Keraji? Hope so!

 
for me this story is a little bit confusing: citrus leaves that smell from cabbage to basil and mint? Are you in a sommelier-class and just practizing?

300 years of good practice.
For potting soil horse manure is composted for two years. And I suppose USA nurseries don't use composted Beech-foliage either. Old Europeans have been growing Citrus for at least 2000 years. But you Americans do everything better, know everythig better and you decide what's good taste and which is not. This sometimes is a little bit annoying.

Manure is pretty strong stuff and full of various salts. Well composted manure is good for seed beds but I would not use for soil or fertilize. I have used well composted manure tea...water well if you use it.

horse manure has Always been used as Citrus fertilizer. For hundreds of years. And composted horse manure is one component of the Citrus-soil that is used for the Citrus-collection of Schönbrunn Castle in Vienna.

I might have asked it already... is your plant in open ground or in a pot?
Thank you!

Mine is in pot.

Millet, it is quite clear what this fruit is -exept of one striking point. Bernhard got some fruits from a Hybrid Poncirus X Changsha when he visited Riverside or another USDA-Citrus -site. The Citrandarin 899 obviously produces zygotic seeds. Back home Bernhard planted the seeds of his 899-fruits. As open pollinated, he did not know -and nobody knew- what the F2 parents could have been. He named the seedllings 899A to... R(?) and tested their cold hardiness. Some of them survived. I own 899A, 899F, 899K? and 899J. Allof them have already flowered and I got some fruits. J was the last. Fruit of A tasted nice and was sweet. It is strictly  monofoliate. the others have trifoliate leaves and taste nasty. That is the story.

use parafolm grafting tape. Since I have found this I am nearly 100% successful.

But Juanita is said to having survived 0°F (-18°C). Once… 

not available in Europe, I suppose