Here's a series of photos following the first spring growth flush of my St Ann Satsuma.
The winter protection came off last week, but I probably could have removed it a week or two earlier, the last freezing temps at my house were back on April, 7. However, we have not had much warmth... a very typical spring so far.
This is the time of year that I am jealous of everyone outside of New England. Coastal Massachusetts takes forever to warm up in the spring due to the cold ocean temps. It has been in the mid to upper 70's inland, but only in the low 60's near the coast, although those inland areas have had frosts/freezes much more recently.

Here are pics of the same bud over the past 5 weeks or so.
3-24-13


4-11-13


4-17-13


4-20-13


5-2-13


Looks like I may have at least one flower bud. This shoot further along than the others, hopefully I'll be able to spot a few more flower buds as the other shoots start growing larger.

Zoomed In

looks good Scott........did you get any fruit on this citrus last year?

It's 43 degrees at my house this AM and highs have only been in 60's if lucky since late April here in western NC. My citranges have flush of new growth as do PT's. Changsha had lost half of its upper growth from last year but is now putting out buds on lower trunk and limbs above graft line. Thomasville greened up but no real buds or growth yet. Meiwa not even thinking about breaking dormancy. I feel like I'm New England; my lilacs and mountain ash are in full bloom though!

Tim, I received the tree mail-order last spring. It arrived w/ ~20 fruit, but did not take shipping well, losing 50% or more of its leaves. I removed all fruit but one, which wound up being puffy and of poor quality.

I can now identify at least 4 flower buds (up from one on 5/2)...this must be one of the most heavily inspected citrus in the country It's right next to my back door and I walk by it several times per day.

Citradia, that sounds very much like New England weather! My low yesterday morning was 40F and highs have been generally in the upper 50's to low 60's. Soil temps are good, though, with 8-14 hours per day above 55F. I have a friend who lives ~40 miles inland who had major frost and a low of 32F yesterday morning, so it could be much worse! The last real frost at my house was back on April 7.

I felt humidity in the air today.......first day that felt like summer. I just checked the local schools weather page and the dew point is 53F.

My satsumas are progressing nicely. In fact, I was down in SC on vacation recently and was surprised to see that my satsumas are not that far behind Laaz's and the ones at Stan's orchard. Of course my tree will only see 6 or so more weeks of decent growing temps, whereas down south there's probably at least 2.5-3 months left. The majority of the fruit are ~2 inches or slightly larger in diameter now and there are probably 30-40 fruit on the tree.

Outstanding!

Are you going to keep the tree short so as to make protecting it easier?

Thanks,
I assume I will eventually need to do some pruning, but it should be a few years until I get to that point. It is currently ~3.5 ft tall, using simple modifications to my current winter protection, I should be able to accommodate trees up to ~5.5 ft.

Here's the tree in early August:

Great job Scott, congrats!

looks great Scott! Did you have any other Citrus in bloom.......are they hybrid seeds in there?