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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:38 pm |
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Now, I think, it's my time to show-off!
Following posts contain photos of different citrus varieties, along with their brief descriptions, which I grow in containers in my backyard.
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:39 pm |
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Citrus japonica 'Nagami' or Fortunella margarita, grafted onto Citrus aurantium rootstock.
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:39 pm |
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Citrus sinensis 'Sanguinello', grafted onto Citrus volkameriana rootstock.
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:40 pm |
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Citrus sinensis 'Navel', grafted onto Poncirus trifoliata rootstock.
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:40 pm |
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Citrus aurantifolia 'Key lime', grafted onto Citrus aurantium rootstock.
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:40 pm |
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Citrus sinensis 'Valencia', grafted onto Citrus aurantium rootstock.
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:41 pm |
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Citrus reticulata 'Clementine', grafted onto Citrus aurantium rootstock.
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:41 pm |
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Citrus limon 'Lunario', grafted onto Citrus aurantium rootstock.
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Laaz Site Owner
Joined: 12 Nov 2005 Posts: 5662 Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 5:57 pm |
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Excellent collection Igor. _________________ Wal-Mart a great place to buy cheap plastic crap ! http://walmartwatch.com/ ...
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ivica Moderator
Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 658 Location: Sisak, Croatia, zone 7b
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Posted: Mon 23 Apr, 2012 6:45 pm |
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Superb. How are you overwintering them ?
Those Nagami fruits looks extremely large. Well, if compared with fruits of my oval kumquat (Nagami?). _________________
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Tue 24 Apr, 2012 4:35 am |
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@Laaz - Thanks!
@ivica - Some of these trees are new to me, actually recently bought. So I'll still have to cope with overwintering those.
However, other ones are left intact in an unheated bright room all winter long. With no artificial light and very very little watering.
Since majority of them are growing on sour orange rootstock which is proven to be drought tolerant.
As for the kumquat tree, I'm pretty sure that those really are nagami, oval ones...
The tree was labeled by the Italian nursery, and they actually do taste like nagami. Sweet rind with a tart pulp, which makes it easier to distinguish from other kumquat varieties. And yes, I was surprised too, they are bigger than those we usually get from our local grocery stores. |
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adriano Citruholic
Joined: 24 Feb 2012 Posts: 357 Location: Zagreb, Croatia
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Posted: Tue 24 Apr, 2012 5:03 am |
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BEAUTIFUL, those kumquats are huge compared to those my mother bought in a store last week. _________________ i am in love with lemon |
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Sven_limoen Citruholic
Joined: 08 Apr 2011 Posts: 305 Location: Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium, Zone 8
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Posted: Tue 24 Apr, 2012 6:32 am |
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That is a very nice collection!
I see you have used trifoliata rootstock but why not on all of them? They are winterhard and pretty water resistant so I was wondering why you opted not to use trifoliate rootstock on all of the plants? _________________ growing (at least trying): C. sinensis, C. latifolia, C. limon, C. mitis |
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MarcV Moderator
Joined: 03 Mar 2010 Posts: 1479 Location: Schoten (Antwerp), Belgium
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Posted: Tue 24 Apr, 2012 6:36 am |
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Very nice collection! I especially like that Valencia tree! _________________ - Marc |
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igor.fogarasi Moderator
Joined: 11 Apr 2011 Posts: 556 Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
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Posted: Tue 24 Apr, 2012 8:10 am |
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@adriano - Thank you! They are quite big indeed.
@Sven - Thanks! In this part of Europe, sour orange is almost traditionally used as a rootstock for establishing almost any citrus variety, due to absence of citrus tristeza virus... Sour orange is quite cold hardy too and has an outstanding crop quality.
@Marc - Thanks! Valencia is one of my favorites too, I love its fragrance spread all over my backyard! |
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