The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yuzu makes a great tea, I drank lots of it while abroad in South Korea during the winter. It's equal parts sugar or honey and sliced up fruit peels into a jar, will last a few weeks in the fridge. I made some with meyer lemons but it's not the same. Really opens up the sinuses and the vitamin C is great. If you'd like to try it, Asian grocery stores such as Hmart, Mitsuwa, etc carry it. I've seen some at Costco once   

Thanks Citradia. Covering it at a smaller size on the rootstock would be a good idea. I ordered the plant two weeks ago, he might still have some in stock! I didn't take a picture when I took it out of the box but the last two weeks it put out a new side branch and new growth at the top so it's definitely growing. A blog I read had a report of survival at 1°F (-17°C) but not much else in regard to location and duration of the freeze. I will definitely try it on its own roots when it gets large enough to take some branches for that sort of experiment

You are probably better off ordering from a nursey online. I ordered a meiwa kumquat and a xie shan satusma from https://www.briteleaf.com/ in the early spring. They have Yuzu too, rooted cutting or grafted $15-25 for them, shipping is around $15 which is reasonable. You have to sign up for a back in stock notification because they are out of a lot of things right now.

Like you I risked my small hybrids outside. My lowest in zone 7a this winter was 12f/-11c. My Yuzu defoliated at the very end of winter but it's pushing out new leaves now. My citrumelo had some leaves curl and dry up and then drop but kept at least half of them and is otherwise fine. My tai-tri didn't lose but 1 or two leaves.

9GreenBox via Amazon has feijoas and they ship quickly

I just received two trees that I ordered in the winter for spring shipping from a nursey in Florida 

Has anyone heard of these rootstocks?






Some searching online I found that
The Meiwa is grafted on SCS = Sun Chu Sha mandarin
Are kumquats commonly grafted to mandarins or is the acronym for something else?
It isn't a hybrid with poncirus so I'm not really interested in propagating it. 

The Xie Shan is grafted to US-1284= Citrus reticulata Ninkat x P. trifoliata "Gotha Road" a vigorous poncirus type.

I am going to let a bud of the US-1284 grow out and either root it or graft it to my outdoors poncirus (or both!). It seems hardy to 5f /-15c from what I've been reading. 

Everything is potted up, so the experiment is more or less in progress

Two upside down pots on posts: Should I prune the side branches and train as a single long vine?






and one pot with vine growing up a newly installed tomato cage: Should I just leave the one plant, the pot is around 5 gallons? 




I also have a 4th pot where the branches are just hanging over the rim like Tommyng mentioned.

This gentleman in Australia grows his in a pot anchored to a stump, the vines don't seem too long but they are definitely flowering and holding fruit where they are hanging down

Oh that's very true I didn't consider the weight... perhaps training it as a single long vine versus letting it branch out in multiples to keep the weight down would help

The bags will be hanging on two posts which are anchored to my deck so I could always tie down the vine along the post for added support. I have nothing to lose really other than time and some effort haha 

Is the fruit turning brown and woody? If so it's going to drop off. Happened to my Fuyu the first time it fruited, slowly dropped all of the 6 or so fruit until I had none. Hoping this year it will keep them

Early spring update:

Taitri kept 90%+ of leaves through winter no damage otherwise



Citrumelo lost half of the leaves (desiccation?) they were crispy. Otherwise no damage on branches or trunk.



Yuzu dropped all leaves, no visible damage on the bark other than burn at the tips of young branches.



Poncirus+ suffered damage from the weight of the snow sheering off the grafted portion. I wrapped it and it looks alive.





Took a small cutting of the branch just in case I have to regraft it outside.



The rootstock is not ideal, it's orange or mandarin that I grew from a seed but it was all that I had available.


And here is a picture of the microclimate based around this brick wall where they are planted.

Take the cuttings from the bottom of the plant nearest to the base of the trunk. They will be small and still green/soft wood.  I didn't remove leaves except if I needed to expose a little more of the cutting at the bottom for rooting powder. Stick them in lightly moistened cococoir. Put a cover/dome over them and leave them in indirect light for 1-2 months. I rooted mine in the shade under a plastic dome outside and another batch under LEDs under the dome inside. They will root!