A year ago I imported 4 varieties from CCPP and 3 of them froze when my refrigerator malfunctioned. Pomona sweet lemon survived though. I topworked a large galgal lemon I had in a 10 gallon pot. This spring all the branches are covered in very small fruit. I hope I like it. I didn't like an acidless blood orange I grew. Pomona is an acidless eureka lemon. I've got my fingers crossed!

Last fall I imported 4 varieties thru the Texas budwood program from CCPP($40 per 2 budsticks each!). I thought ALL the Bream Tarocco(a supposed better selection of tarocco) blood orange buds failed but I found a lone tree with 4 inches of growth on it. When I got the budwood, the bark wasn't slipping too good. On the other hand, tarocco hasn't been a very successful performer in my yard. I ordered the Bream variety before my first tarocco fruit were ready to eat. The tarocco fruit had not a trace of red before the big freeze here this winter although they were sweet. Sanguinelli did much better. Tarocco must be a little late for SE Texas.

One other varieties I got were replacements for the 3 frozen budsticks from a year ago. One was cocktail grapefruit which a couple years ago I had several tree of in pots large enough to fruit. Budwood for those came from a Texas seedling tree that took 17 years to fruit. I liked the fruit but for some reason I sold all of them. This spring I topworked 1/3 of a mature tree to it.

Another variety is Norman seedless nagami kumquat. I budded a bunch but notices several must have been mislabeled by me as the leaves don't look like kumquat! I love the kumquat marmalaide I make from the mature seedy changshou kumquat tree I have. The seedless kumquat will make quicker work of my jam making.

The last is giant key lime. The budwood and my trees are very thorny. I've already sold several small trees I forced the bud on this spring to fruit adventurers. I'll see fruit in two years.