The Tropical Fruit Forum

My first impression of what a fig would taste like, was from my familiarity with fig newtons, which I loved.  I was disappointed when I got my first chance to taste a fresh fig.  Quite different. 

I usually experience a lot of the late growth spurts winter killing on my citrus (even on P.t.), here in north-central Virginia.  I'm am theorizing that if I pinch out the actively growing tips at some time before cold weather, that the remaining tender shoot might harden up to a greater degree than if it were just allowed to keep lengthening.  Does anyone have experience or knowledge whether this would save some of the later growth flushes?  What about timing?

I've seen that lack of petiole, but only on a couple leaves of a new seedling, never after they have that many leaves.

"It's a numbers game" - - Underline that !!!

Did the clementine parent you started with have thorns?  I've wondered just how the totally thornless is inherited.  I once planted the seeds from some store bought clementine fruit, and got two plants that have always been totally thornless from the start.  Also planted seeds from a store bought Meyer lemon fruit and got a totally thornless plant.

Kumin:  I've heard that as well.   I think it applies differently to different species, with some species the source position is quite critical.  Other species are affected much less, or not at all.  When I am making clonal copies of one of my trees, I usually just cut one twig to get multiple buds or pieces for grafting.  Yet that one twig can produce both a weeping clone and an upright clone.

Thank you, BorisR.  That will make a big difference.  Otherwise I would find it easier to use the Flying Dragon as the pollen parent.  I'll try to make a point of using it both ways.

Poncirus has been used both for dwarfing and for imparting some hardiness.  I gather that the Flying Dragon variation of Poncirus will do both of these to an additional degree.  Does anyone know if this additional degree of hardiness/dwarfing is directly, and only, related to the presence of the contorted condition?  When a heterozygous strain of Flying Dragon throws a few non-contorted seedlings, will those (when used as rootstocks) impart no more hardiness/dwarfing to the scion than will a regular Poncirus?  Is a homozygous Flying Dragon any more dwarfing than a heterozygous one? 

Shoot colorization ?  Are you meaning the reddish/purplish color of very new small tender leaves when a shoot is just starting to grow, but later at full size are changed to a normal green?  Are you saying that that trait is mutually exclusive to the trait of reddish fruit flesh (never both traits on the same plant)?

Mulberry0126:  Will you have the Eremomandarin and Eremorange for sale?  Or any other Eremo relative?

How did you manage to get one?  For several months I've been on the notify list for when they become available, and I've heard nothing.  Another question: what rootstock is it grafted onto?  (their site says that they are grafted)  It would seem that the soil mix should be chosen according to the needs of the rootstock, rather than according to the scion.

I've also had grafts (budding) that sat dormant, even a couple years.  I've 90% given up on some, and made a new graft onto a secondary leader of the rootstock, only to have the first (old) graft also start growing.

For me, some graft/buds start growing in just a couple weeks, while others take months.  I've even had a few that I had given up on after a year (or two), so I did another graft elsewhere without harming the first one, then both started growing.