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Cold Hardy Citrus / Do satsuma seedlings have thorns?
« on: July 09, 2016, 10:07:16 PM »
In reference to a post on the topic of satsuma cuttings, do satsuma seedlings have thorns? According to Tom Mcclendon's book, Hardy Citrus for the Southeast, "Satsuma (citrus reticulata) is really a class of mandarins". We all know that mandarin seedlings are very thorny, like most citrus. I've only seen grafted satsumas, Kimbrough, owari, St Anne, etc, which of course is mature fruiting thornless wood grafted onto a rootstock. Has anyone grown a seed from one of these "seedless" sats and got a seedling satsuma tree with thorns? Maybe thornless seedlings is a difference between "satsuma" and its reticulata sister "mandarin".

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Plant maps.com
« on: June 17, 2016, 10:40:58 PM »
Oops! According to the map on plantmaps.com, my house is sitting in a small mountaintop island of zone 6b instead of 7a or 7b zones that are at the lower elevations only a few miles away. I was surprised to actually see my street in this gated community on the color-coded zone map on plant maps.com.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / First Crocston grapefruit not pink; why?
« on: January 04, 2016, 06:23:11 PM »




I got this grapefruit tree grafted on flying dragon from a reputable grower in SC who got his Crocston trees from the original grapefruit tree grown by his neighbor, Mr Crocston. He gave me a fruit off his tree back in March of 2013, and it was a light pink inside. I've seen Stan Mckenzie cut one of his Crocston fruits in November and it was light pink. I have a Rio Red grapefruit on flying dragon that gave me fruit last January but the inside was not red but barely a light peach color. My question is why? Do pink grapefruit need high summer heat to turn pink/red? I don't get a lot of summer heat in the mountains here. Or do my fruit need more time to fully ripen and turn from white to pink. I noted a slight pink blush on the albedo/ rind of this "Crocston ".

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Crocston grapefruits
« on: October 25, 2015, 02:05:23 PM »
My first Crocston crop; now just need to get ripe.






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Cold Hardy Citrus / Meiwa kumquat starting to ripen
« on: October 25, 2015, 02:00:19 PM »




The garbage can is full of water; getting ready for winter.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / Sats are still solid green.
« on: October 11, 2015, 08:02:44 PM »
My sats(Kimbrough and Owari) are still green as grass. Last year not ripe until Christmas.


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Cold Hardy Citrus / No posts?
« on: May 18, 2015, 09:34:08 PM »
Why is nobody posting anything to cold-hardy citrus forum? Did everybody's citrus die out the past two winters?

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Kimbrough, owari, and crocston going to bloom! Plastic, Thermo cube, space heaters, worked again.








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Cold Hardy Citrus / Another cold January for citrus!
« on: January 08, 2015, 11:49:40 AM »
1-degree F at my house this AM. Hope my winter protection holds out again this year.

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Cold Hardy Citrus / My first satsuma crop. Owari and Kimbrough.
« on: November 23, 2014, 07:16:45 PM »





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Cold Hardy Citrus / Ripening fruit on dormant citrus?
« on: October 09, 2014, 09:43:37 PM »
I protect my citrus from severe cold with plastic covers on/off and space heaters as needed in winter. If I'm trying to keep them dormant so they are cold hardy, how can the fruit continue to develope? I know there are early varieties, but my owari and Kimbrough fruit are still small and green as grass. My Star grapefruit did not ripen until late January last winter.






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Citrus General Discussion / Owari blooming in western NC!
« on: May 05, 2014, 08:13:13 AM »

My owari and star grapefruit survived the polar vortex and are now blooming alongside rhododendron and mountain ash. Sorry pic is sideways; site turned it for some reason.

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