The Tropical Fruit Forum

Tru, for me the annona seeds grow easily, just throw them in a community pot and wait. The citrus seeds take longer for me. Here's one of my citrus seeds (pomelo) that I just started growing. Since I have a lot of them, I'm going to decapitate 10 seedlings shown in the photo and we can see if any of them survive. My guess is 0% success.

Anyone else want to guess how many or if any will survive after cutting off the leaf section (1/3 from top end)?

i had many seeds of different fruit trees where the top end of the seedling was damaged, cut, bud eaten. Never seen any recover and grow. Maybe you will be in luck and have another small plant grown from the root area.

Florian, I know its been 3 yrs now, just wondering how your seedling Honey Pomelo are doing ?

I'm planning to grow out some seeds myself.

I just planted out my seeds from the Flying Dragon tree I have, here's a few photos of the seedlings. They look very similar to me. I have many other varieties grafted on the tree and another tree 10 feet from the FD.

I looked up some rootstock compatibility with Tahitian lime. It looks like the Meyer lemon is either a cross of citron x mandarin/pomelo (wikipedia) or lemon x orange (UCR). It says grafting lime onto citron, mandarin, lemon, poncirus trifoliata is not recommended because of poor performance.

But I have grafted lime varieties on lemon and mandarin with no problem, did not try it on Meyer lemon. I did graft sumo, valentine, mandarin on Meyer lemon with no problem or poor performance.

Al, good luck on the guava. I did buy a Crunchy Pink guava plant from ebay and the plant looks good so I hope it has fruits next year.

Here's the photo from the seller.

Yes, I heard from many people on our forums that albino branches will not continue to grow so I wanted to experiment with them. I have 3 different albino branches that I have grafted and they have been growing for more than a few years, and they all had fruits (albino-yellow skin). I messed up on some of the grafts because I let them fruit when the graft was still not strong and ended up killing the entire graft which was growing well before the fruit grew. The citrus varieties that had albino branch were all different lemons.

My next challenge/experiment is to see if any variegated citrus seedling (except sour orange) will grow without dying out. I'm trying to grow out 5 different variegated varieties of seeds.

I grafted a yellow/white citrus from my lemon tree to a normal (green) leaf citrus tree and it is still growing and even had a few fruits in 2 yrs. I do have to protect it from direct sun during summer or it will burn very easily.

fliptop, if you know how to graft, I can send you some Black Pakistan cuttings now to graft onto your tree you purchased.

Just pay for the shipping cost ($10), send me a message if you need some for grafting.

If it's a grafted tree, you should have fruits in 2yrs at least.

Your tree does have a lot of thorns, but as long as you get good tasting fruits it doesn't matter.
I've noticed a lot of seedling trees grow thorns more than the parent tree. My seedling pummelo which is a large tree now (18 ft tall) has great tasting fruits, much better tasting than the parent fruit, but it does have plenty of thorns. I cut the thorns off the branches where I will pick the fruits so I don't get stabbed doing it.

scamper, if you look at the UCR website (CCPP budwood) it mentions the Fukushu as being thornless. I just purchased some budwood from them and it was thornless.

https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3475

If you are not a member of the OC CRFG, they still would like you to bring any fruit tree cuttings to share with the others who bring cuttings for the exchange.

I did get more info in my mail about it. If you bring any cuttings, there's a way they want you to package it and label each bag (see attached). Also if you are dropping off the scionwood you should get there between 9:30-10am, event starts at 10am. Don't bring any cuttings from patented varieties.