The Tropical Fruit Forum

Poncirusguy, nice well balanced tree.  Good job.

Malhar, an amazing fruit set on your tree.

The graft show is identical of how one grafts walnuts. I call in a patch graft.

Limeberry is closely related to citrus.  I don't know if it is close enough to cross propagate.  Does sound interesting.

Contact Robert below and you might be able to get one, or information where you should look.

Robert Krueger
curator/Research Leader
Microbiology & Plant Pathology
Rrobert.krueger@ucr.edu | (951) 827-6980

Short URL: https://profiles.ucr.edu/robert.kruege

You can prune the branch, it is not a problem.  As fruit grows on new growth, it might not fruit for a year.

The actual reason that commercial growers never grow citrus from seed, is not because the seed will produce fruit different from the mother tree, or poor quality fruit..  The reason is because a seed grown citrus tree takes much, much, much longer to come into fruit then a grafted tree, .Purely economic.

pagnr, good information.  I appreciate your information.  Thanks

Citrus seedlings DO NOT revert back to the wild forms.  Most all citrus seed produce true to the mother tree.  Some might be a little less or a little  better than the mother tree, but most will be the same quality as fruit produced on the mother tree.
 

The first 3 photos show an iron deficiency. The symptoms of an iron deficiency in citrus are leaves with dark green veins on otherwise a yellowish leaf.  The deficiency is caused by a lack of the mineral iron, or also the plant growing in a high pH medium.  Picture #4 shows a manganese deficiency.  Manganese deficiencies are rather common on newer growth, and the plant should correct the situation on it own. The last picture I am not sure what the problem is.  Did you recently spray the plant with something?

Good luck.

Relatively low temperatures (night 50F to 65F) promote citrus flowering.  Increasing the chilling temperatures from 2 to 8 weeks increases both the number of floral shoots and flowers per shoot. In semitropical and tropical citrus growing areas, winter water deficit stress is imposed on citrus trees of all cultivars to compensate for inadequate exposure to low temperature during mild winters.  Winter water stress to induce flowering is commonly practiced  by Florida growers and other warms growing locations to promote flowering.

Poncirusguy, nice looking container tree.  Well balanced.