Good looking plant!
So you found some star ruby budwood!

Yes! I wanted that grapefruit so much...

Nice grafts! I hope they will take

@Lemandarangequatelo - Thanks Milto, I hope so, too!

May, 2nd: Mandared flower finally opens up... For those of you who aren't familiar, this is a follow up to my previous post...



The flower itself, has four relatively thick petals with distinctive oilglands on the outside...


Let's hope it develops into fruit.

Best,
Igor

Flowers are tiny compared to the rest of the plant. On my plant the fruitlets are still present, but they haven't really grown yet...

Marc, I don't know what you consider small... it's an average sized orange blossom, a bit larger than that of a clementine, though.
It's 4cm (cca. 1.6") in diameter, roughly, since the ruler is a bit closer to the lens...

Ok, they are large!
Mine were underdeveloped and tiny...

Both of my kumquats seems to be putting out flower buds already. Although one of them somewhat less intensively, it seems they've been jump-started by the constant warm weather we've had these last couple of weeks. Last year both flowered at about the same time, near the end of June, start of July. They even bloomed and set fruit several (2-3) times until the end of September. Which is kind of normal for kumquats... Flowerbuds from today's photo and the ones I posted at the end of June, last year, are at more or less the same stage of development. I linked them for comparison.

June, 26th 2012

May, 03rd 2013:









Should I be looking forward to an extra early crop of kumquats?
They seem to be almost two months ahead of the last year?

Best,
Igor

Kumquat in its full bloom, the fragrance is simply amazing... I've still got my hopes up for an early kumquat crop.







Best,
Igor

P.S. I've decided to keep them sheltered from the strong winds which are quite common to the region where I live. Last year I lost an entire crop of my "Sanguineum Pernambuco" blood orange to the wind gusts. So I don't want to risk a chance of losing the developing fruitlets anymore.

I've just spotted a doubled flower on my lunario and it looks pretty nice. Obviously some of the stamens got replaced by an extra set of petals. I saw this type of mutation on sour orange, C. aurantium varieties like e.g. Bouquetier de Nice earlier. But never on a lemon tree, at least not on this one, neither on couple of the other ones I have. It would be really interesting to see whether the developing fruit will have a secondary fruit inside or any other major difference, like it's the case with the mentioned Bouquetier de Nice. It'd be interesting, although it's less likely to happen...

That is a beautiful flower!

What are these little plants in the upper left of the image?
http://imageshack.us/a/img507/6153/img6134ug.jpg

Thanks Marc, I've noticed a few more doubled flowers on the same tree!
Referring to the kumquat picture, those are lunario lemon and tavares limequat, from left to right respectively.
I grafted them onto a year old lemon seedling rootstocks, back in October last year.

Here's the close up.
http://imageshack.us/a/img716/8360/img6193i.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img607/4474/img6190x.jpg

Best,
Igor

Very nice!

About that double flower... maybe it will turn into a "navel lemon"!

Yeah, that would be fun! The first thing that popped into my mind was this.