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What citrus am I growing?
Yearly I'm re-evaluating what I'm growing and topworking to something better.
I had some severe freeze damage to small trees even though I banked with dirt
All the rootstock have sprouted though:
Pong koa
Ponkan
Golden grapefruit
Honey mandarin
Still evaluating:
yuzu
Bloomsweet(branch)
Sulcata sweet lemon(branch)
Pomona acidless lemon, an insipid loser
Giant key lime, I'm getting some fruit this year in a pot
Norman seedless kumquat, I've tasted the fruit from my potted plant
Tavares limequat, makes a large very sour fruit that tastes neither like lime or kumquat
Topworked
I cut the top out of my mature kumquat tree and bark grafted several mandarins. You can only eat just so many kumquats!
I re-bark grafted my large swingle stump as all three limbs froze back below the graft to lee x orlando 15-150 and cocktail grapefruit hybrid.
I bark grafted a sour orange stump with lee x nova 88-2
I bark grafted three limbs of my red grapefruit to white marsh grapefruit.
In ground:
| Small growing trees: | |
| meiwa kumquat(branch) | Nova mandarin |
| Bell mandarin | Seedless lemon |
| moro blood orange | Satsuma, miyagawa |
| Minneola tangelo | Duncan Grapefruit |
| Lee x Nova | Orlando tangelo |
| Satsuma, Xia shan | Satsuma, little sweetie |
| tarroco blood orange | |
| cocktail grapefruit hybrid | |
| Large bearing trees: | |
| Sanguinelli blood orange(branch) | Tarroco blood orange(branch) |
| Midnight valencia orange(branch) | Golden grapefruit |
| Satsuma, seto | |
| Satsuma, dobashi bene | Satsuma, miho |
| Satsuma, Early St Anne | Page Mandarin |
| Satsuma, frost owari | Flying dragon trifoliate |
| Algerian clementine mandarin | Changshou kumquat |
| Cara cara red navel | Rio Red Grapefruit |
| Marsh grapefruit |
In pots:
| Dr Brown seedless kumquat | Indio mandarinquat |
| Valentine hybrid | Ruby blood orange |
I got the following from the
California Clonal Protection Program
In 2011
I topworked a Valencia orange to 88-2
I've also budded high in a mature tree so I can taste the fruit next year
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USDA 88-2 Lee x Nova |
USDA 15-150 Mandarin |
| New Zealand Lemonade | Sudachi hybrid |
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A variegated bud sport on an orange I was new to growing citrus when this happened a few years ago. I planted the tree in the ground, fertilized it and the sport promptly died! So much for the "MrTexas varigated orange!" |
Multi graft and very lopsided tree The seedling sunquat rootstock had a few dozen fruit the 2nd year from seed. I grafted changshou kumquat and fairchild mandarin to two branches. Each citrus has their own growth pattern. In this case the kumquat is more vigorous. To the left is the kumquat with fairchild mandarin on the right. I have now cut off the fairchild mandarin and grafted meiwa kumquat on one side.
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