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Citrus => Cold Hardy Citrus => Topic started by: Citradia on October 08, 2022, 07:27:29 AM

Title: My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
Post by: Citradia on October 08, 2022, 07:27:29 AM

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Title: Re: My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
Post by: Ilya11 on October 08, 2022, 10:14:39 AM

Fruits PoncirusPlus grafted on FD are almost ripe, but  still attached to the branches.

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Title: Re: My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
Post by: kumin on October 08, 2022, 11:13:33 AM

Ilya how does Poncirus+ fruit size compare to other Poncirus fruits you have? Mine are markedly smaller. But, perhaps due to low seed count?

Title: Re: My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
Post by: Millet on October 08, 2022, 02:37:16 PM

Citradia, your poncirus tree is quite large to protect during your area's winters.

Title: Re: My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
Post by: Ilya11 on October 08, 2022, 05:57:35 PM

Quote from: kumin on October 08, 2022, 11:13:33 AM

Ilya how does Poncirus+ fruit size compare to other Poncirus fruits you have? Mine are markedly smaller. But, perhaps due to low seed count?

For me there is not much difference.

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Three fruits of PoncirusPlus and two of SwampLemon:


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Title: Re: My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
Post by: kumin on October 08, 2022, 06:13:27 PM

Thanks Ilya, I'll check the seed count on mine in a few weeks.

Title: Re: My first poncirus fruit to drop this year
Post by: Citradia on October 08, 2022, 11:22:55 PM

Millet, my poncirus and flying dragon trees don’t get any protection in winter. Neither do my Dunstan or 80-5. This past winter was mild and I didn’t protect citradia or Thomasville and citradia only lost a few feet of last year’s growth and Thomasville cut in half. I didn’t protect my 15 foot tall Changsha on own roots and it died down to three feet tall, but now growing back hard to five feet. They wouldn’t have been damaged at all if I didn’t get down to 14 degrees in mid March after a prolonged warming in February.