I went citrus plant shopping today. I found a nursery nearby that sells red clementine plants among a lot of other citrus varieties.

This is a picture of the red clementine plant:



My plant doesn't carry any fruits, I preferred a plant with a good number of flowers instead. But there were others that did carry some fruits. I took one of those fruits home out of curiosity. It was deep orange on the outside and a mix of orange and red on the inside. The taste was very sweet. No picture of the fruit unfortunately...

I also bought a flying dragon...



This is my citrumelo plant that I bought by mail order a couple of weeks ago:



Both the citrumelo and flying dragon will be placed in the garden permanently when the weather finally gets better here.

For those interested, this is the web site of the nursery from which I got the red clementine:

http://www.plantencentrumexotica.be/

The Red Clementine is amazingly well balanced for being in such a small container for the size of the canopy. Normally, after a tree's root system becomes crowded inside a container a tree grows like tooth paste when the tube is squeezed - the growth becomes narrow and straight up.
You have an excellent Clementine. Personally, I have never seen a Red Clementine for sale in the USA. - Millet (1,018-)

Yes the red clementines looked exceptionally well indeed. The other citrus plants they had didn't look half as good. The reason might be that the red clementines just arrived from a large nursery in Sicily?...

And of course I picked a plant that looked good enough for me too!

Slip your tree out of the container, and look at the root system to see if the roots have become over crowded, and are circling around and around the container's rim. Also examine the root structure on the bottom of the root ball. Then you will be able to tell what the needs of the tree are. - (1,018-)

Yes that is a beauty -- it looks like multiple trunks stem'ing from the graft point. Is that true?


"Red Clementine" is this the "Red Nules Clementine" new licensed/patented variety with all that controversy over the rights that won't ever be sold in the US for home gardens --- just the fruit?

This is a picture of the grafting point. There are 2 main branches. I'm not sure if this means there are 2 grafts or not...



Whether this is a "red nule" or not, I don't know. It appears that red nules are very well protected against "copying" but I suppose it must be possible for others to create a similar hybrid.
It is pictures like this one, and the fact that I love blood oranges, that "activated" my interest in red clementines:
(extracted from this web page: http://www.fruitiers.net/fiche.php?NumFiche=1823)



I don't know if my plant is the same as the one presented at that web site though...

I have another question regarding the size of the container. I measured the diameter of the root stock. It is almost 35mm in diameter at the base. (about 1 3/8"). What would be a good size for the container, as the current one may be too small...

It looks like it was cleft grafted with one scion stick on each side.

Hard to tell, but I would say a bud.

Here is my variegated blood orange. Budded to swingle.



This is a grapefruit I cleft grafted.

I think I'm in trouble here! My English vocabulary isn't large enough yet to understand all the words being used on this forum, especially regarding grafting. What, for instance, is a scion? My native language is Dutch (Flemish, to be more precise )

I can manage quite well in English but these words are all new to me. I would be grateful if anyone could help me enlarge my vocabulary!

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