My Citrumelo in 2024

[LBurford]

I have not posted on here in almost 5 years. I have been out commission beating a rare type of blood cancer. This is my large Cirtumelo in the fall of 2024. I live in Arkansas about a mile from Louisiana. The zone map says zone 8 but I would say 7b is more correct. I do not know anything about my tree other than it is a Grapefruit/Trifolate cross. The fruit actually taste pretty decent. I gave away dozens of them and several people said they loved them. My tree barely survived 2020 when we hit 3 below zero for one night and had several single digit nights and lots of low teens. It had a lot of die back in the top that year but recovered and had not been hurt much since then. That was the coldest I can ever remember it being here and I am 58. Our usual low is a few nights in the mid to low teens.

[Mulberry0126]

What a beautiful tree! The fruit look quite rounded and wow that trunk is massive.
Wishing you well in beating your cancer!!

[a_Vivaldi]

The clustering of the fruits is really cool, definitely looks like a grapefruit.

[LBurford]

The tree has thousands of blooms on it right now. If we don't get any more below freezing nights I should get fruit earlier this fall. I also noticed that two of my four Thomasville Citrangequat's have a lot of round white blooms that will be open in a week or so.

[Florian]

Oh to have your climate! We are also in 8a but my in-ground citrus will not bloom for another one or two months (Poncirus in April, everything else in May).

[Nick C]

Impressive! Wishing you lots of health

[LBurford]

I tried to get a picture of the buds and blooms, but you can't see them very well

[Wahl]

Wow that is amazing. I'm in your same zone type. 2020 I got down to 0F in North AL. I with you all the best on beating your cancer!! Did your Thomasville make it through -3F?

[LBurford]

The Thomasville was killed down to the level I had mulch piled around it. They came back and two trees had fruit last year, but they bloomed late and didn't have time for the fruit to mature. They were far along enough to get some seed that would sprout and to use the fruit as limes. It's blooming now so maybe I will get some ripe fruit by November.