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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Tips for grafting kumquats?
« on: June 12, 2025, 01:33:22 PM »
I used an approach graft to replace my incompatible Kuharske rootstock with a Flying dragon roots for my Meiwa kumquat.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa scion died to graft point
« on: May 14, 2025, 05:16:48 PM »
I had a Meiwa kumquat that was grafted to Kuharske citrange. The graft was slowly pulling apart so I planted a Flying dragon seedling along side. I used an approach graft to fuse the 2, then remove the kuharske citrange. It took 1.5 hears before the graft fully took and the tree is now doing very well.
The old trunk where the original rootstock connected. It is mostly healed
The old trunk where the original rootstock connected. It is mostly healed
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Show us your potted citrus
« on: May 08, 2025, 11:03:14 AM »
My Fukushu on Flying dragon.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: New Zealand Lemonade EU?
« on: May 08, 2025, 10:53:49 AM »
New Zealand lemonade trees grow well on their own roots till the cool season, when root rot sets in. My personal experience.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Low protection Citrus experiment in zone 7b France
« on: April 23, 2025, 06:17:47 PM »Thanks for your tips, I'll be adding horse manure in a few weeks. I'm currently discussing this with a friend, his family owns a few horses in their farm.The whole tree died including the flying dragon rootstock.
As for my soil I haven't done a test, but in my area most of the soil is above 7 pH, so that's why I assumed it is alkaline. I haven't had too much trouble growing blueberries, as long as I give them a good source of iron (old rusty pieces of metal buried at the base of the plant seems to work). Maybe it would help citrus too?I have a large non producing Fukushu kumquat low grafted to Flying dragon that I did some cold testing on outside. I covered the pot asThanks for the pictures! How much cold has it seen so far? That's an interesting strategy, it reminds me of the figs and pomegranates that fruit despite freezing to the ground in winter. Was that your inspiration?
well as the first 12 inches of trunk with leaves. My goal is to get a strong single growth trunk that might produce fruit.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: growing citrus in an apartment
« on: April 23, 2025, 06:06:44 PM »
Pure trifoliata is very difficult to root
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: little US-852 seedlings surviving outside
« on: April 23, 2025, 01:35:01 PM »
Cincinnati Oh has not gone below 0 in 20+ years, US-852's limit. It is the desiccating LONG winter that kills them
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Anybody grow Citremon (Lemon x trifoliate)
« on: April 17, 2025, 01:30:01 PM »
Harvey lemon goes down to 10F.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: big freeze for kumquat tree
« on: April 09, 2025, 04:47:20 PM »
I left 3 trees outside in the cold. None of the citrus trees were hurt despite a lot of very new growth.
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Citrus General Discussion / big freeze for kumquat tree
« on: April 06, 2025, 10:38:14 PM »
Going down to 25F Monday night-Tuesday morning so I brought my Meiwa kumquat on Flying dragon inside Sunday even though it is only going down to 35F A close up of the graft.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: The Elusive Michigan Citrus: A Lifetime Experiment
« on: April 05, 2025, 06:35:25 PM »
I agree that Cincinnati's are all very domestic
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: The Elusive Michigan Citrus: A Lifetime Experiment
« on: April 04, 2025, 10:50:31 PM »
There are quite a few big FD & PT in Cincinnati, Oh
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Effect of tree size/maturity on cold hardiness
« on: April 04, 2025, 10:33:27 PM »
I have a greenhouse that goes up in fall and taken down in spring. It is impossible to winterize the trees in fall so they get treated as summer plants year around.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Is this 9 pound lime real?
« on: March 28, 2025, 10:16:41 AM »
Buy a grafted tree from a reputable nursery,
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Can you increase vigor and yield with an interstem? ( Prague Chimera )
« on: March 24, 2025, 09:34:55 AM »
My Fukushu on Flying dragon grows faster than My New Zealand lemonade grafted to sour orange bya 2 to 1 rate. I am going to graft a New Zealand to FD.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Zone 6b/7a cold winter
« on: March 18, 2025, 12:40:16 PM »
-2F. everyrhing was behind or under glass but a Fukushu on Flying dragon. Fukushu is dead
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: How to select rootstock seedlings
« on: March 15, 2025, 12:10:50 AM »
I had a Fukushu kumquat seedling that ha a root with 420 degree loop that grew great. It got to 10 feet tall with a heavily branched 5 foot diameter. It was killed when a cold front dropped the temperatures down to -2F with highs of 7F
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Frost Protection
« on: March 12, 2025, 10:46:58 PM »
I remove mine in a way that I can setup in a few minutes if a hard freeze come. The whole thing comes down after last chance of frost.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Meiwa Kumquat
« on: March 11, 2025, 10:03:38 AM »
Meiwa kumquats arw very good from half to fully ripe.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: What’s missing from this citrus collection?
« on: March 10, 2025, 11:34:33 AM »
Your collection looks close to complete. What I have that you don't: spider mites, aphids, scale, ACP, bird-shit-caterpillars, Leaf miners, Citrus gall wasps, roof-rats, greasy spot, cancers, gummosis, Phytophthora,
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: Cold Hardy Pomegranate
« on: February 14, 2025, 06:44:18 PM »In will need to keep it in a containerMy 6b pom.
Do you plan on plating it out or keeping it in a pot?
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Too early to graft citrus???
« on: February 08, 2025, 11:04:25 PM »
I thought citrus needed 85F+ temperatures for the cambium to grow and seal the bud
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: China's Crisp Honey Kumquats
« on: February 08, 2025, 11:00:27 PM »
I'll stick with my Meiwa kumquats on Flying dragon.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Citrus In ground Zone 8a
« on: February 05, 2025, 01:52:10 PM »
Some of those varieties will not survive zone 8a even with light protection.
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