I have a mystery bud on my lisbon lemon-- I thought it was a grapefruit because the tag that was nearest was Ruby Red. I often put 2 buds of the same variety nearby with one tag, but in this case I must have forgot to add the tag or lost the tag.

I clearly have a grapefruit sprout coming from a bud nearby, but the second bud that has sprouted is clearly not a grapefruit-- it has no wings at all on the petiole.

Could that be a calamondin?

Calamondin does well on Lisbon lemon. My calamondins have no wings. But IIRC when I was a kid, Calamondins that I know of have tiny winglets in them that are hard to see, but perhaps that was another Philippine cultivar.

Benny, do you remember if the Philippine Calamondin from the Bicol province have winglets, even just a miniscule ones?

Joe:
Here’s a picture of your Bicol calamondin. You can judge it by yourself.



And it has grown but there’s no flowers yet.

Here’s the full view

Yes, indeed it has very small winglet. The one here in California have none at all. So we may have a sport here in California that is cold hardier... Or it could be one of those fortunella hybrids from a different recombination of the same parents. I am hoping to get budwoods from your Bicol Calamondin as I lost the tags on mine and I can't distinguish which is which from the various seedlings that I grow experimentally. Anyway I will graft it to my mature Calamondin to hasten its fruiting. I would be excited to test how big are those fruits are in the California environment.

Thanks for the pics Benny!

Of course I will gladly send you some but can you graft a tooth pick size budwood? As you can see from the picture they are that size and pretty tender and succullent still. The main trunk is only pencil size and then tapered to half that size 6 inches from the base.
Somehow this plant were growing lateral and I have to put a long stick to stand up vertical. It was only last year I thought of it so that's how it looks.
OK let me know what you decide and I'll do it.

We will have to wait then Benny..

As for Skeeter, it might be Calamondin of the US kind.

That would be good-- I thought my other calamondin bud (the one I actually tagged) was breaking, but it seems to have stalled. If that is calamondin, I now have calamondin, Ruby Red, Star Ruby, Royal grapefruit, Hamlin, Honey Tangerine limbs on my Lisbon lemon.

I still have Meyer, Valencia, Sunburst and another calamondin bud that have not broken on the lemon, however, I have everything but the calamondin on other trees.