it is the first time my faustrime fruits have well developed seeds!
I can offer you more as 25 seeds, they are up to 12mm x 5mm big!

So if you like to get some: pm!

Out of curiosity, how long does it typically take a faustrime seedling to start fruiting, and how do the fruits taste? Don't know too much about this cultivar.

TheKMan, my 4 year old Faustrime seedling flowers right now.
It's the first time and it has only 7 flowers.
With some luck I'll have something to taste and report later.
Uups, 2 flowers peeled off this morning by dogs tail waving...

Faustrime will flower and fruit all summer long. Mine is loaded with both right now. Taste is sour and goes very well with seafood.

You might get a seedling Faustrime to begin blooming in two years, if grown in a year around tropical greenhouse. - Millet (1,267-)

Lazz do you have seed of any microcitrus?

I will have Faustrime seed available soon.

I have red and green finger limes and the Faustrime. I can't say that any are GOOD eating as in out of hand. They go well with fish and shellfish, but are not very good eaten alone.

Actually, I don't know of any Microcitrus that are good to eat. Ask my wife !!!!! - Millet (1,261-)

So is there tremendous promise and rarity in their potential cross breeding and rootstock uses?

Which one of these would be the most coveted or useful.

Australian round lime
New Guinea wild lime
Australian desert lime

Microcitrus (now botanically classified as citrus) hybridizes quite easily with some citrus species. Other crosses are difficult or impossible. There is a research paper, partly Japanese & partly English, from Saga University which gives some information about this. See
http://rms1.agsearch.agropedia.affrc.go.jp/contents/JASI/pdf/academy/33-1048.pdf
Generally, the Australian native citrus varieties are very small and extremely acidic. These characteristics are the ones likely to be handed on to any off-spring. I suggest that hybrid experiments should begin with a species that has a very low acid and very large fruit. Such a fruit could be a low acid pummelo such as Siamese Sweet. See
http://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/siamesesweet.html
I have myself tried to make some interesting Microcitrus hybrids, but don't have the low acid Pummelo. I started with a Faustrimedin which is finger shaped but larger than a Finger Lime, and crossed it with my only seedy Pummelo. First fruits are now developing. I had no expectation of them being very edible, but hoped for an unusual shape like a fat cucumber! So far they are the size and shape of a large oval grape.
Citrus hybridization is not an easy process. I see many comments talking about crossing X-variety with Y-variety to produce a 'wonderful-variety'. Sadly the whole process takes so long that most people never see their own results come to fruition. And, as the saying goes, 'there's many a slip betwixt cup and lip'!
Mike aka Citrange

Hi Mike,

do you have some actual pics of fruits from your Microcitrus hybrids No. 7 and No.10?

Would be very interesting to see for me!

Thanks,

Bernhard

Bernhard,
I posted some pictures about a week ago in this forum, see 'Citrus Cultivars' topic 'My new hybrids', but anyway here they are again: