The Tropical Fruit Forum

Tortuga, congratulations, nice flowers on the yellow DF. Make sure you hand pollinate the flowers just in case it needs it to set fruits. I hand pollinated my Palora and all the flowers (frist time) has set fruit and now just waiting for them to get larger and ripen.

I agree Brad, Sharwil is the best for nutty flavor and overall.

I have a large citrus tree which is multi-grafted in the front yard. That tree has some good size Ponkan branches that always has good tasting fruits. I think your green ponkan is the normal fruits and it will not turn color for another few months. My tree has many Ponkan fruits now similar to yours, but that is normal for my tree here. The fruits will turn color from November - January when my fruits are ripe here.

Here's my Ponkan fruits from previous years (ripen in December).

Nate, no problem.  Maybe next year.

Have you seen the yellow fruits on your tree ?

I do have a Lisa tree and it grows slow, not as vigorous as the Birula grafted trees.

There is also the Yellow Birula, has neat looking, yellow-colored fruits (outside color). I noticed this variety is a vigorous grower.

Jim, I'm in SoCal and I also don't get my grafted Xie Shan to fully ripen until December.

My other satsuma and ponkan starts to ripen from November-January. The earliest citrus fruit that turns color (except for my Valencia which seems to have ripe fruit for a longer time than others) is the Flying Dragon. Most of my FD fruits are all yellow and some fruits are dropping off now, so I need to collect them for the seeds to plant.

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Oh, got it, makes sense. You have some good, detailed photos of your work.

Yup, I like old school cars, even though I'm a retired electrical design engineer, I like not computers in my cars.

I would suspect it is easy to root since the two grafts I did grew vigorously and large real fast. Also, I didn't even know it has some green fruits starting since the branch was so tall, I just cut some back and only saw the fruits when I picked up the cut branches (5 ft). I also got my cuttings from Jan.

Wow, nice seedless fruits Brad. Is your tree large or still under 6 feet?