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Laaz
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Joined: 12 Nov 2005
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 4:30 pm
These are looking excellent. These are the Femminello Siracusano Gene Lester sent me budwood for a while back.


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Millet
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
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Location: Colorado
Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 5:32 pm
If you use Google Earth, then select Syracuse, on the island of Sicily the citrus fields can be seen surrounding the city of Syracuse - Millet
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Laaz
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 5:44 pm
I also have the Limonero Messina, which is also a Sicilian variety.

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igor.fogarasi
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Joined: 11 Apr 2011
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Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 5:48 pm
Yay, looking forward to the first harvest! Smile
Their shape resembles my "Lunario" pretty much...
Aren't they supposed to be a little bit more globose... at least according to this article?

This is a Lunario at about the same stage of development...
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Laaz
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina
Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 5:56 pm
We shall see, he got the budwood from a friend of his that grows lemons. It is supposed to be http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/femminello_siracusano.html

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igor.fogarasi
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Location: Novi Sad, Serbia
Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 6:10 pm
Its description from UCR varieties site doesn't match the pics from Citrus ID.
They seem to be kind of contrary to one another... As you say, we'll see in a few months... Smile
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MarcV
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Location: Schoten (Antwerp), Belgium
Posted: Sun 02 Jun, 2013 6:41 pm
No matter what they are exactly, they definitely look great!

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Radoslav
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Joined: 03 May 2008
Posts: 453
Location: Slovak Republic
Posted: Mon 03 Jun, 2013 4:17 am
Laaz picture fits perfect to the FEMMINELLO SIRACUSANO 2KR.
http://www.vivaidinatalefilippo.com/images/DiNatalepng/prodotti/limone-femminello%20siracusano%202kr.png
Also nice pictures of another lemon varieties on this italian web page:

rocca imperiale clone "colfari1"
http://www.vivaidinatalefilippo.com/images/DiNatalepng/prodotti/limone-locale%20rocca%20imperiale%20colfari1.png

Lemox
http://www.vivaidinatalefilippo.com/images/DiNatalepng/prodotti/limone-lemox.png

rocca imperiale clone "Lauretta"
http://www.vivaidinatalefilippo.com/images/DiNatalepng/prodotti/limone-locale%20rocca%20imperiale%20lauretta.png

rocca imperiale clone "Favale"
http://www.vivaidinatalefilippo.com/images/DiNatalepng/prodotti/limone-locale%20rocca%20imperiale.png
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mksmth
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Joined: 16 Nov 2010
Posts: 108
Location: Tulsa Oklahoma
Posted: Mon 03 Jun, 2013 10:37 am
I have to say. You guys grow some cool stuff!

thanks for sharing your photos.

mike
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