The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hi Wahl, I follow you on youtube (raregrowsNJ). All of your seedlings are interesting, you def have some trifoliate crosses in there my uneducated guess was probably from some of the Prague flowers producing trifoliate pollen but I'm not sure if that is the process. Only way to find out what the satsuma or mandarin is, would be to grow out the pure seedlings to get a better idea of what it is but without some genetic testing you probably won't know the exact plant.

My zone used to be 6b but at some point it was updated to "7a" even before the new zoning map, it didn't go up from that most recent update. The coldest so far has been 1f, Prague and Taitri (taiwanica x trifoliate) sailed through just some sun scald on the Prague, the Taitri was not harmed.

Just anecdotal, I've used that exact miraclegro citrus potting mix and have had root rot on:

Varius short barrel/squat cactus, mango, various citrus including seedlings. So it would depend on climate. The soil mix doesn't dry fast enough for me. All it takes is one day of heavy rain followed by cool weather and the plants rot.

On the other hand, I use miraclegro potting mixes (not the citrus but the general purpose) on several other plants: passion fruit, feijoas, dragon fruit, guava and a few others without root rotting. These plants are more vigorous so the roots quickly use up the water.

Doesn't seem to mind the heat, next to it is the banana passion vine

Replace the incense/maypop/incarnata with an edulis the fruit is way better and sets easily. I grow in pots and get plenty of fruit!

I would also suggest a kumquat, any, but citrus has a learning curve (considering the various mix options) otherwise root rot will eventually kill it

Feijoa fruits for me in containers and I like the fruit better than any guava

Here is that graft, the fabric pot is ~3 gallons

Blooms the last few days with fruit setting!



Very thirsty, watering pretty much every day

Nick anything happen with the flower bud? Fruit?

In this bed is where I usually discard seeds and see what pops up.

This 4 year old Wonderful pomegranate from seed just made a bud.

It's had severe dieback from very cold winters and no hope of getting a fruit to maturity this late if it even sets.

Not sure, I only have sugar apple which is annona squamosa. There is a chart somewhere on the forum showing compatibility between the annonas

I have way too many cherimoya plants so figure I would try to graft a seedling sugar apple onto one of the cherimoya.
I attempted to graft atemoya over the summer but I believe the scions were stored too long, there were brown spots in the cambium. I cut to what looked like the greenest tissue but still failed.

Has anyone attempted an approach graft? I'm in New Jersey so have warm weather for another ~50 days give or take and then I'll move the plants indoors under grow lights where they continue to grow. (The idea being that the sugar apple will stay in the container for insurance purposes since it's tiny and I only have 1)

It sounds like the Meyer x PT citremons would be pretty hardy. Ichang lemon x PT might also produce a hardy lemon-like fruit.

I've seen that same ebay listing, I thought it said the citremon was meyer x pt but I might be misremembering

good job on the grafts. did the tai-tri cuttings strike any roots?

my bigger prague on the taitri rootstock is making summer blooms 7/28/2024:

Doing well, survived the winter. This spot is very dry, hard clay. I burned the glochids off the lower humifusa because I cannot stick my hand here to pull weeds without getting pricked!

ellisiana grafted to humifusa