For years I am trying to plant any seed from my citragequat Thomasville, strangely enough many are slowly growing dwarfs. I read that Thomasville should be mainly polyembryonic, so theoretically most of the seedlings should be exact copies of mother plant.

For the moment I have two dwarfs slowly growing in the open ground, and two normal size plants that are already flowering for two years. One plant is in my Paris region garden, it is indistinguishable from my initial Thomasville, abundantly flowering end of May and going into the December frosts with fruits that are still green:



Second seedling is in my another garden in the South of France, zone 9, it is the same size, but only few flowers, fruits are yellow by the end of October and are much larger with the strange shape toward peduncle.




This pattern is the same for three years, initially I thought it could be due to the lack of plant maturity. I wonder if some of the members growing Thomasville in zone 9 climate have the same observations?

Very cool. Do all of the fruit on the second tree have a neck like that ?

Yes, they all are like this already for three seasons.
This year I harvested 6 of them, but the plant is not completely mature, having many thorns and flowers are restricted to certain branches.

So what do they taste like ?

Do not feel much difference from my regular Thomasville. Very juicy, sour.
The rind is bitter, so you can not eat it like kumquat, but juice has rather pleasant taste that for me is unique. I use them instead of lemons for seafood and fish.