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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: "Passiflora-quadrangularis Challenge"
« on: March 24, 2024, 07:42:39 PM »
I have to repot once it warms up outdoors. We are still dipping into the upper 30s and don't want to risk freezing it. It's going in a 7 gallon pot. Hopefully it can flower in that size of container. My edulis have flowered and made 25-30 fruits in a 3 gallon.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Trifoliate flower scent?
« on: March 22, 2024, 01:58:53 PM »
Like Till mentioned, there are probably some seed grown poncirus varieties that do have scented flowers. Someone must have described it in some literature and then that was picked up by plant resellers/nurseries as a fact for describing their offerings even though they most likely do not sell the varieties with scented flowers.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: March 21, 2024, 05:14:46 PM »
Right, Meiwa on citrumelo is not compatible over the long term (dead after 5 years according to a rootstock trial I read) 

So it had a poncirus interstock citrumelo -> poncirus -> meiwa

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: March 21, 2024, 09:34:06 AM »
Well my meiwa is completely dead. Rootstock is even growing back lol

The poncirus interstem is healthy green. The bit of stick with parafilm is another poncirus graft so I'll let that grow and graft something to it






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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Yuzu citrus
« on: March 15, 2024, 10:38:29 AM »
what poncirus guy said. is the plant acclimated to the sun? if not it will get sun burn so you will need to shade it and gradually expose it to the sun

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: SunDragon
« on: March 14, 2024, 08:28:26 PM »
Looks good Nick, hope you get to try a fruit.

https://www.growingproduce.com/citrus/new-orange-like-citrus-hybrids-to-the-rescue/

Still nothing on Sherman, the deciduous nature of the tree is really interesting for cold tolerance. Even a backcross to trifoliate/poncirus+ might make a very hardy early citrange that is deciduous.

Is anyone in Florida that knows a commercial grower? Their budwood program is not for home growers. I don't even see Sherman listed in their budwood variety pdf unless it's going by a different name? 

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Fast flowering trifoliate flower buds?
« on: March 14, 2024, 12:26:42 PM »
nice! i got blooms in the summer last year, but they were green and malformed. so i will look out for these red buds from now on. finally will have some fresh poncirus pollen

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Thanks for the link, that sounds about the temperature in May here. So that is probably best for grafting. We get warm days nows through April but nights can be upper 30s with possibility of frost.   

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Hello all. Thinking about grafting at least one if not both of my pawpaw trees.

I'm in zone 7a north NJ. Some research mentioned doing it in May. Does this sound correct?

My two seed trees make small fruit, I don't mind the small fruit flavor wise but I'd rather have larger fruit, it's too hard to process such small fruit.

Varieties I'm interested in are Susquehanna or Overleese (spelling)?
Those are said to be sweet and the other mild (forget which is which).

I also like tropical flavors, more mango or pineapple than banana. Are there any varieties like this? Cherimoya flavors? What is "tropical delight" like?

If anyone has anything to offer let me know. I can trade as well, check my profile to see if there is anything interesting you'd like to trade for.

Thanks



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Cold Hardy Citrus / Fast flowering trifoliate flower buds?
« on: March 12, 2024, 05:25:21 PM »
Are these flower buds? I have 3 small plants one of which is grafted to taitri.
















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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Need Help with ID of citrus rootstock
« on: March 12, 2024, 05:00:09 PM »
I root poncirus outside in the shade/ late dappled light. Coco-coir and in an upside down fish tank as the humidity dome. Very high success rate, I've done this in the summer though so heat might be a factor. 

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: March 03, 2024, 10:52:49 PM »
My meiwa continues to decline. Now I realize this exact process happened to my nagami kumquat months ago. Except that the nagami was on own root and I chalked it up to root rot without really looking at it and tossed it.

There must be some sort of fungal or bacterial pathogen that only affects the grafted kumquat scion because the the rootstock (citrumelo) and interstock (poncirus) are unaffected.

I found this post on the Houzz forum which describes the same process. Hmmm

As a last resort, I put the meiwa in my greenhouse where it recieves full sun, day temps already get into the 90s.

Does anyone know how often I should water now that it's in the greenhouse? It's in 5-1-1. I will check it tomorrow for moisture, but since it has no leaves I don't want to drown the rootstock.

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4704398/branch-dieback-on-my-other-kumquat



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this passion fruit unique or common?
« on: February 28, 2024, 09:58:11 AM »
Amazing, definitely worth propagating

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: February 27, 2024, 09:05:29 PM »
Yep that's the same article that convinced me to do the poncirus interstock on my meiwa that is on citrumelo since it mentions tree death after 5 years. Briteleaf emailed me about my first dead meiwa (the one with the brown line at the union) and offered to send one on X639 but I declined.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: February 27, 2024, 03:28:58 PM »
I appreciate the rootstock offer. The whole plant might die before I can even graft it. What does everyone think about using Thomasville as a rootstock?

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: February 26, 2024, 10:56:31 PM »
@poncirusguy

I planted a bunch of seeds so if I lose this meiwa at least it won't take too long to get it flowering and fruiting again. Faster if I use a vigorous rootstock.

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: February 26, 2024, 06:15:46 PM »







 :-\

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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa dying back
« on: February 26, 2024, 11:57:36 AM »
The first meiwa I owned came from Briteleaf that one died at the graft union... it was grafted to mandarin (SCS sun cha sha?) which I thought was a strange choice. There was a brown line at the union which looked fungal. Anyway I took budwood from that one which is the current meiwa that's dying again. So maybe there is some kind of pathogen? It grew for 2 seasons and had fruit without signs of anything though. I'll try spraying it with copper or agrifos if it continues declining.

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Citrus General Discussion / Meiwa dying back
« on: February 26, 2024, 12:47:40 AM »
My meiwa is dying back with brown branches.
First it drops the leaves then the branches turn brown and die back. I checked the roots and there is no sign of rot. The leaves fall while completely green. I simply touch one and it drops.

I repotted the whole plant into fresh 5-1-1 from the old potting mix it was in to see if it would help. It's been a few days and still dropping leaves and branches are dying back.

The rootstock is citrumelo with poncirus as an interstock. Absolutely 0 rotten roots. The root system is the healthiest of all of my potted citrus that I've seen so far.

Any ideas?

Nothing has changed, I always water with diluted water soluable fertilizer. The new mix shouldn't have any buildup either. 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: any kadsura coccinea successfully planted ?
« on: February 22, 2024, 05:25:05 PM »
Here's the original vine I've been posting about, took these today. This will be the 2nd winter it survives.
I painted the vine to minimize winter sun damage.

The other plant I didn't look at is probably fine as well, it's in a shaded spot behind a fence. 




Healthy buds



Tiny bit of damage on the young tip


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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Turunji - A Citrus You Eat Like An Apple
« on: February 20, 2024, 11:04:18 PM »
it know it doesnt help to say this now but you should consider grafting it. mine on sour orange is growing really well. it does not stop growing when its cooler like the previous years. no signs of rot

My second Turunji from Logie's just died. It, like the first one, was severely pot bound when I received it. Is there another vendor that sells them?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: any kadsura coccinea successfully planted ?
« on: February 17, 2024, 02:31:19 PM »
My 10 seeds came from Etsy. They were pretty dry but still had least 50% germinate. They take a while though. Lost 3 to a weed wacker despite clearly labeling and marking the plants.

I still have 2 vines planted outside that are alive after 2 winters (this will be the 2nd winter). So far no damage to stem coldest has been 15f.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Beware of scammers
« on: February 10, 2024, 05:40:32 PM »
Yes it's hard to authenticate what you are buying on eBay especially since lots of listing have stolen or stock pictures pulled off from the internet.

I've order makrut lime seeds from Sri Lanka, the seeds are legit but they are very dry (old). Some eventually sprouted but not many

Some annona seeds can still germinate 1-2 years later even if they are dry, so you might still get germination. Good idea to soak them before planting but like you said no way of knowing what you are getting until it germinates, and then have to wait for fruit to confirm

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Im lokking for passiflora
« on: February 09, 2024, 05:59:22 PM »
I have rooted mature edulis cuttings but it's too cold to ship. If you don't find any message me in the spring

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Seed grown cherimoya from Rincon Tropics
« on: February 09, 2024, 12:51:46 AM »
@nickc haha I get pawpaws that size with 1 or 2 seeds sometimes

@galatians thanks! i will graft it onto this tree since I dont have room for so many pots. i also planted seeds of a yellow skin sugar apple variety that I was told was imported from thailand that one will also go on this tree, the fruit was very sweet. seeds havent germinated yet unfortunately

@spaugh interesting will def try that

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