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Manfromyard, thank you. Great info video - very valuable. How about some information on the trees that you grow. I am aware that you grow citrus outside under tunnel cultivation.
Check out the Georgia Citrus Association and 1-Dog Ventures. They should have several varieties available
2 reasons. I used to live in Hampton, VA zone 8a and that was the best tasting citrus I could keep alivevanf my first big attempt at gardening. So, part of it is for sentimental reasons.Andrew, you should contact UGA to see if you can get the seedless changsha imported by Arizona agriculture . If you really like it that much.
Next reason would be that it has the third best to me of any citrus I have eaten, behind AZ sweet oranges and browns select mandarin.
I haven't had as many citrus fruits as you, obviously.
To be more serious, this is only about cultivated citrus!.True, indeed. In this article there is no mention of trifoliate citrus or kumquats. So the wild forms are not accounted for here.
The cultivated germplasms are very small part of the genetic resource compared to wild citrus.
This theory of four parents can only explain cultivated citrus not wild citrus.
We must be very cautious about all those 'trees'. No use to speak of Tanaka and swingle classifications...
The modern genetic classifications are breaking everything we were believing in. An example is the papeda family which was centered on Ichang papeda and has been proved completely wrong!
I'll enhance Socal's reposting above by adding that my Thomasville Citrangequat on FD rootstock also survived 8F (-13.3C)in Vancouver Wa. during the same winter. It, however, was 70% defoliated and showed more small twig damage than either the Yuzu or the Sudachi.
My Thomasville-obtained from Mackenzie farms- has a nice flavor with little or no bitterness. I add the juice to my apple-quince sauce.
Interesting, I guess citrangequat is not a stable line and might not grow true from seeds. The F2 and beyond offsprings could be more cold or less cold tolerant.
I will try to germinate many citrangequat seeds and at 1 year old I will put most of them outside to eliminate those with less cold tolerant. I think I better get rid of those who have dying potential due to freezing. I also plan to get rid of those which show more of trifilate leaves because I guess those with more trifoliate leaves tend to carry down the sourness and bitterness gene from Poncirus.
Lavender 87, I can send you seed from Thomasville, but I don't think it is that hard to find. And it will take up to 20 years for first flowers on a Kumquat-hybrid (not sure, but my Kumquat-seedling flowered this year for its first time ab afte twenty years on a PT rootstock)
So pretty much all my pomegranates succumbed to some disease that turns the fruit black. I am led to believe the vector for this disease is leaf footed bugs and stink bugs, which I have in profusion since I have numerous very large pecan trees on my property. Anyone have a secret to manage the bugs/disease? I am planning on a copper spray regimen next year after fruit set to see if that saves the fruit.