Hi Ilya,

Fantastic trees you have. The Ichangquat is a must have for me but i cant find it and Bernhard Voss in Hamburg did not have it any more. If you ever start grafting please graft one for me

Ilya, wonderful! Great plants. I will post pictures of the citrumelo you have sent me. It is doing very well. Now it has to prove its hardyness...
/Robert

My congratulations!
The plants look very well!

Ilya, very nice pics your trees look excellent! Did you get a chance to cross breed ichangquat with swingle 5 star citrumelo?

Ha ha, that is exactly what I have done this spring. But of course the result we shall know only in a few months.
Actually, last year I tried with few flowers of Swingle 5* a cross with Morton and it produced very interesting progeny. I shall post some more pictures separately.

That is excellent! I look forward to the pics and details for both crosses

At the end of October I harvested fruits from the first flower wave ( beginning of June).








The fruits are moderately juicy, acid, the pith is sweet like quamquat but the rind has too much of pin taste with some strange flavor.
Overall, it is edible, but probably more suitable for the marmalade.

Latter on we a had very warm weather and yesterday I managed to harvest some fruits from the second wave of flowering ( middle of July).








There are still many semiripe fruits from latter flowerings, but the temperatures are returning to climatic norm.
Probably no chance for the third harvest.

Excellent photos and description, thanks!

I like the short maturity time of the ichangquat of only 5 months, and at least 1 harvest before winter.

Perhaps the ichangquat could be crossed with a kumquat again to solve the strange peel taste problem? ichangquatquat

I was trying to cross it to Tomasville cintrangequat this year.
In four resulting fruits I found 8 seeds, but they were abnormal with very small embryos. No germinations up to now.
In 30 fruits of open pollinated Ichangquat there was only one seed and it was fully developed and resulted in 2 seedlings, probably nucellar.
Next year I shall try a reverse cross.

That’s a great success! My congratulations! Probably the seedlings will become more hardy trees.

beautiful tree and fruit