The Tropical Fruit Forum

Ok, thanks. I may still have some persimmon cuttings to take at that time.
Also, should have some mulberry cuttings to take.

It the scion exchange happening at the OC Fair grounds?

No, I did not taste any lemon flavor in the rind of the fruits.

I have one fruit of each hanging on the tree now so I will take some photos and do a taste test again and give you my 2cents feedback. I like both fruits, Sanbokan is much better (eat out of hand) than any lemons or limes I have tasted, except for the New Zealand lemon.

I have both Sanbokan and New Zealand lemon trees (grafted branches). The New Zealand lemon is much sweeter than Sanbokan. I also like Sanbokan but they do not taste the same.

As for comparing the tree growth/vigor, the Sanbokan is much stronger than the New Zealand lemon. My grafts of the New Zealand lemon grows slowly, Sanbokan probably grows 2x or 3x faster. Fruit production is about the same, Sanbokan fruits are much larger so you don't need as many fruits.

kumin, what does it mean to say the seeds of pomelo will be zygotic?

I grew the seeds from my pomelo fruit and they have a few leaves now, can you tell by looking for the largest seedlings to identify the nuclear/clones ?

Well I have a seedling pomelo that I planted and it fruits now, and that fruit is also bell shaped. It is a pure pomelo, not a hybrid.

yes, very unusual looking, thought it might be interesting to show.

It looks like black sooty mold fungus. If you wipe it with a paper towel it should wipe off. The tree is getting infected with pest infestations that causes this. I have seen it on some trees where it usually is on both the leaves and fruits. Lucky for me none of my citrus trees had this issue, but I have seen it on other people's citrus trees.

You can look up sooty mold fungus online and there are many ways to get rid of the problem. I would not eat those fruits with the mold.

Ted, I don't use the Kabosu, just growing it since some people (family) like to use Yuzu and I read Kabosu is similar to Yuzu. The fruit seems to be larger so if the juice can be used for something then it will have more. My Yuzu grafted branches do not seem to get large fruits, maybe 1/2" smaller in diameter than the Kabosu. Also my grafts are not growing well on Flying Dragon so I'm planning to graft more budwood from UCR on another rootstock (alemow). The alemow rootstock I'm growing is super vigorous and it had 3 dozen large fruits this year. Now I have many seeds that I'm growing out.

I was growing Sudachi but the fruits were very small so I got rid of that one. I also have the Oni Yuzu which should get larger fruits than the normal Yuzu but I hear it doesn't have a lot of juice so it might be good for looks like the Buddha's Hand fruit.

Here's my procedure that seems to work good for me. I don't use heat pad, jut the baggie method.

1) I use coco coir, works the same for my citrus seeds. I soak seeds in water for a few days until the seeds are very clean (rinse/wash each day).

2) Before putting seeds in baggie, spray with diluted peroxide, clean, then put in baggie with coco coir.

3) Watch the bag with seeds, if you notice any mold/fungus, remove all seeds and wash/clean, put back in baggie with new coco coir.

4) Once I see the seeds growing (roots/leaves) then I move it to larger container/pot, put it outside and put screen over the pot so birds/bugs don't eat the fresh leaves/roots.

Pummelo seeds seems to grow much faster than other citrus seeds. I will need to try Ilya11's method with perlite.

My largest citrus fruit is the Thong Dee, it was 5 lbs last year. This year I have two large fruits on the same grafted branch and they look about the same size (3-5lbs). I will wait until end of January to pick the fruits again.