The Tropical Fruit Forum

Quote from: martweb on May 08, 2025, 10:59:54 AM

https://agrumilenzi.it/en/negozio/fingerlimesen/fingerlimesen/new-zealand-lemonade-citrus-limon-x-citrus-reticulata-2/

Thanks, I'm already keeping an eye on this one - sadly they don't have it available at the moment. I wonder when they will restock... Do you know if they update regularily? I've seen shops that claim to have certain species, but somehow they never seem to be available...

Sorry for my late reply. I was in contact with Agrumi Lenzi several times and I guess they already have some New Zealand Lemonades but still small. You could ask them to reserve one for you and maybe in 3 or 4 months you'll get a plant.

This is a place holder for some neat photos I will post here later tonight, just took them.

I have taken some comparison photos of the following so you can see the size, shape, and in some cases the brix readings I did.
- Crispy Honey, my last 2 fruits
- Nagami kumquat
- Nagami kumquat seedling, has larger fruits
- Nagami kumquat, weird one with mini size fruits
- Seedless Nordmann Nagami kumquat

Could not show the Meiwa, very low fruit productions on my trees and they ripen much earlier. I tried to ask anyone else who grows kumquat but no one had fruits now.

I would also be very interested in comparing yield, storageability and ease of growing.

I have heard NaMeiwa ist a shy bearer. Don't know whether that's the case with Callie.

Yes, but is it better tasting and more lemony flavor than NZL?

There are three seedless kumquat hybrids. Nameiwa, Nameiwa #1 and Puchimaru, that are derived from a cross between Nagami and Meiwa. How do those compare?

I always thought Calamondin and Calamandrin are synonyms, but they aren't:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM16poNa3v4

Kishu is female sterile, so can only be used as pollen donor for crosses.

So, might both varieties from France be the wrong ones?

Quissac has two kinds of Kishu in stock:
https://www.jardin-ecologique.fr/boutique/toutes-nos-plantes/comestibles/agrumes/mandarines-et-hybrides/citrus-kishu-kinokuni-fa5-mandarine-kinokuni/
https://www.jardin-ecologique.fr/boutique/toutes-nos-plantes/comestibles/agrumes/mandarines-et-hybrides/citrus-kishu-nooka-fa5-mandarine-chinois/
I asked for the difference and the seedlessness and got the following answer:
Kisho Nooka becomes bigger as a plant.
Both can be seedless if no other citrus nearby.
Now I am confused. I thought Kishu has a female sterility, thus it should not matter other citrus nearby..

I am looking for a Kishu mandarin in Europe.

Nippon as well as Indio has to hang a very long time on the tree. Then it becomes sweet.

I try to guess. Might it be a triploid hybrid of Fukushu and Meiwa?

But where could we get it from? I am also very interested in this variety. Is there any information how it was crossed?