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My Citrumelo in 2024

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LBurford:
I have not posted on here in almost 5 years. I have been out commission beating a rare type of blood cancer. This is my large Cirtumelo in the fall of 2024. I live in Arkansas about a mile from Louisiana. The zone map says zone 8 but I would say 7b is more correct. I do not know anything about my tree other than it is a Grapefruit/Trifolate cross. The fruit actually taste pretty decent. I gave away dozens of them and several people said they loved them. My tree barely survived 2020 when we hit 3 below zero for one night and had several single digit nights and lots of low teens. It had a lot of die back in the top that year but recovered and had not been hurt much since then. That was the coldest I can ever remember it being here and I am 58. Our usual low is a few nights in the mid to low teens.

Mulberry0126:
What a beautiful tree! The fruit look quite rounded and wow that trunk is massive.
Wishing you well in beating your cancer!!

a_Vivaldi:
The clustering of the fruits is really cool, definitely looks like a grapefruit.

LBurford:
The tree has thousands of blooms on it right now. If we don't get any more below freezing nights I should get fruit earlier this fall. I also noticed that two of my four Thomasville Citrangequat's have a lot of round white blooms that will be open in a week or so.

Florian:
Oh to have your climate! We are also in 8a but my in-ground citrus will not bloom for another one or two months (Poncirus in April, everything else in May).

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