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ilyaC
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Location: France, 40km South of Paris

Posted: Sun 27 Nov, 2011 1:31 pm

This year citrange Morton started to flower as usual, at the middle of April, but functional female flowers appeared only late, at the end of the May.
We had cool July and August, but by now fruits are starting to get a color.
I am hesitating to harvest them, they are so nice on the tree.



Fruits are very large this year:






Mature fruit:


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MGT
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Location: Denmark, Zone 7

Posted: Sun 27 Nov, 2011 4:48 pm

What a great looking three Smile How Large is it? Here in Denmark we also had a cool July and August, in fact the only real summer weather i experienced this year was during my vacation in Paris.

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Posted: Sun 27 Nov, 2011 5:18 pm

Indeed, very nice tree. Great job !

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ilyaC
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Posted: Sun 27 Nov, 2011 7:49 pm

The tree is roughly 2 meters high.

It was almost dead after great frost in January 2010 (-16C). Frostbites covered all the trunk, I was fighting for three months against fungal infection, but finally it recovered. I consider it was a lucky exception.
From my previous experience it is hardy up to -12C in my climate.

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ilyaC
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Posted: Sun 27 Nov, 2011 7:49 pm

Laaz wrote:
Indeed, very nice tree. Great job !

Thank you Laaz.

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Lemandarangequatelo
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Posted: Sun 27 Nov, 2011 9:56 pm

Very nice tree and fruit! How does the Morton fruit taste?
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ilyaC
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Posted: Mon 28 Nov, 2011 6:59 am

Lemandarangequatelo wrote:
Very nice tree and fruit! How does the Morton fruit taste?


As you understand, the taste is a very individual stuff.
For me the outside rind has awful strong smell, neither poncirus nor orange, difficult to describe, hint of leaves of carrot.
The pith is bitter, but juice is abundant and with sugar is drinkable. No oil droplets like in poncirus. My daughter liked it but my wife found it awful.

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Lemandarangequatelo
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Posted: Mon 28 Nov, 2011 9:48 am

Thank you for the description. 2 out of 3 likes for the juice plus cold hardiness, very nice Smile
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citrange
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Location: UK - 15 miles west of London

Posted: Tue 29 Nov, 2011 9:06 pm

I have two Morton citranges growing outside in England.
Both are around 2m tall and 15 years old from seed.
One was quite badly damaged by our lowest temperature ever recorded last year at -12C. However, I pruned away the dead branches and it has recovered well. Surprisingly the other plant was unaffected, apart from considerable leaf loss.
I am jealous of your fruits! Every year I hope to see flowers appear, but nothing happens. Perhaps 2012 will be the year.
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ivica
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Joined: 08 Jan 2007
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Location: Sisak, Croatia, zone 7b

Posted: Wed 30 Nov, 2011 2:47 am

ilyaC,
beautiful tree.
My Morton citrange (5 y old, grafted onto Poncirus, inground since 2010.) behaves like a decidious tree, leafs yellow in autumn and fall with frost.

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