Crispy Honey Kumquat - Lunar New Year

[martweb]

I looked more into this, and found an article stating that the oil pores on honey crisp are smaller than other kumquats.

Can you share this article?

[Seanny]

I ate a fruit before.
It was crispy through out, with little bit of sweetness.
Taste wise, it was mediocre like Gold Nugget from a supermarket.

I’m interested in grafting it to a branch on my tree but scions have been elusive.

[sc4001992]

I hope to taste the fruit this week. I got some from a person who just had a bag full from his customer. He didn't know what it was but when I saw the fruits,  I knew immediately it wasn't the Meiwa. He gave me 3 fruits to take home so I have it and when I get the real Crispy Honey fruit, will do a side by side comparison this week and take brix readings. Isn't this variety true to type if you germinate any seeds? I ate one fruit and it had a seed so I'm saving it.

[BorisR]

It seems that in these thick-skinned kumquats, the classic hesperidium becomes like a rosaceae fruit, which has a seed box in the middle and an edible pulp around it.

[nofspeppers]

I hope to taste the fruit this week. I got some from a person who just had a bag full from his customer. He didn't know what it was but when I saw the fruits,  I knew immediately it wasn't the Meiwa. He gave me 3 fruits to take home so I have it and when I get the real Crispy Honey fruit, will do a side by side comparison this week and take brix readings. Isn't this variety true to type if you germinate any seeds? I ate one fruit and it had a seed so I'm saving it.

When I removed the seed casing on the two seeds I found, one had nothing inside while the other only had tiny bits with no viable seed. Hope you get lucky with yours!

[sc4001992]

Ok, I got my Crispy Honey kumquat fruits from Pau (SF) and also another fruit collector (Aaron) who helped me find them.

When I have time this week, I will take some photos and detail of the brix reading from all three sources for this Crispy Honey.

I ate a few and they were very good, worth the $18 a bag. Maybe I'll find a seed in one the fruits. I see what Pau was saying about the skin, it does seem thin, and slightly harder skin with less oil than a Nagami or Meiwa skin. Otherwise it is so much sweeter than the Nagami or Meiwa.

1. Crispy Honey in the clear plastic bag as shown above.
2. Crispy Honey wrapped in gold foil.
3. Crispy Honey from one of my contacts who got it from his customer, no wrapping.

[sheaper]

If someone could get a cutting and send it to Hershel we would ALL get to try it soon.  I bet its never been cleaned up and Hershel will do it.

[sc4001992]

Does anyone know if the seeds from this fruit will be true to parent fruit?

I have a lot of fruits now so I may just eat/cut open all of them and hope to find a seed to plant.

[grant5185]

I’ll check the Asian markets here

[sc4001992]

This is a place holder for some neat photos I will post here later tonight, just took them.

I have taken some comparison photos of the following so you can see the size, shape, and in some cases the brix readings I did.
- Crispy Honey, my last 2 fruits
- Nagami kumquat
- Nagami kumquat seedling, has larger fruits
- Nagami kumquat, weird one with mini size fruits
- Seedless Nordmann Nagami kumquat

Could not show the Meiwa, very low fruit productions on my trees and they ripen much earlier. I tried to ask anyone else who grows kumquat but no one had fruits now.

[martweb]

This is a place holder for some neat photos I will post here later tonight, just took them.

I have taken some comparison photos of the following so you can see the size, shape, and in some cases the brix readings I did.
- Crispy Honey, my last 2 fruits
- Nagami kumquat
- Nagami kumquat seedling, has larger fruits
- Nagami kumquat, weird one with mini size fruits
- Seedless Nordmann Nagami kumquat

Could not show the Meiwa, very low fruit productions on my trees and they ripen much earlier. I tried to ask anyone else who grows kumquat but no one had fruits now.

I would also be very interested in comparing yield, storageability and ease of growing.

[sc4001992]

These are all grafted branches so too early to see how much they produce, etc. It would need to be 2-3 years after grafting.

[dytandme]

I'm still hoping to get my hands on a crispy honey kumquat tree to cross as a pollen donor. I checked every rabbit hole last year but couldn't find a legit vendor of plants or scion, only folks selling fruit. Anyone know if that's changed?

[Seanny]

Still can’t get.

[sheaper]

I just took a chance and bought the most reputable looking one online so ill keep yall posted.  Crossing my fingers its not a very expensive Meiwa

[dytandme]

I just took a chance and bought the most reputable looking one online so ill keep yall posted.  Crossing my fingers its not a very expensive Meiwa

Cool, let us know how it goes! I see some were relisted on etsy, but the only size available is in Chinese. The larger trees appear to be sold out.

[Mysta]

I just took a chance and bought the most reputable looking one online so ill keep yall posted.  Crossing my fingers its not a very expensive Meiwa

Cool, let us know how it goes! I see some were relisted on etsy, but the only size available is in Chinese. The larger trees appear to be sold out.

I believe it says 3 year old seedlings.

[dytandme]

I just took a chance and bought the most reputable looking one online so ill keep yall posted.  Crossing my fingers its not a very expensive Meiwa

Cool, let us know how it goes! I see some were relisted on etsy, but the only size available is in Chinese. The larger trees appear to be sold out.

I believe it says 3 year old seedlings.

Cool, thanks. I'm only able to translate Chinese when I can copy and paste it into a web translator!

I ended up pulling the trigger on a 2 year old tree when they became available from that particuler seller. I've hesitated every other time I had an opportunity to buy one. It still seems possible I just paid too much for a meiwa. Time will tell!

[sc4001992]

I did notice the leaves of the Crispy Honey are different that Meiwa or Nagami so you can just compare the shape of the leaves even before you get any fruits. I have seen a few trees and the Crispy Honey has the same shaped leaves.Take a photo of your leaves and I can tell you if it the correct leaves at least.

[fishie]

I bought a box of these fruits at a place called LA Fruit Kingdom in the City of Industry a little while back. Kaz had let me try one of his on the yang mei distribution day and his was much better than the box I bought, although they were still quite good.

He recommended I grow out the seeds and so far 3 seem to have sprouted! One has 2 taproots so hopefully its polyembryonic and close to the original. Will keep everyone updated.

[sc4001992]

You fruit shape looks very similar to the Crispy Honey. Someone gave me a few fruits from a local guy who has a tree and it looked like yours.

Good to hear you got some seeds and it's growing, that will be interesting to see how it turns out.

[BorisR]

He recommended I grow out the seeds and so far 3 seem to have sprouted! One has 2 taproots so hopefully its polyembryonic and close to the original. Will keep everyone updated.

I advise you to graft the top of the seedling onto some older rootstock. It is better if it is P. trifoliata, or other recommended rootstocks for kumquats. This way it will be less likely that the seedling will die, and it will reach fruiting faster.

[Rottypixie]

wait… did we DM on IG before?? This post just unlocked a kumquat core memory haha
Pretty sure we talked about crispy honey or something juicy like that!

[nofspeppers]

wait… did we DM on IG before?? This post just unlocked a kumquat core memory haha
Pretty sure we talked about crispy honey or something juicy like that!

Yep that was me. Welcome to the forum!

[brian]

He recommended I grow out the seeds and so far 3 seem to have sprouted! One has 2 taproots so hopefully its polyembryonic and close to the original. Will keep everyone updated.

Excellent!  I figured the seeds on these wouldn't be viable.  I now intend to go back and buy a bunch more of these if I can still find them, hoping to get some seeds.