I believe taste would be excellent if there was more sweetness. Kara mandarins have a long ripening time. It is probably way too early to expect ripe fruit but it was worth the try!

Many mandarin varieties become ripe (mature) before the peel becomes orange. - Millet

Hi marc

Your m. Austalasica looks good, is it of flowering size.

Had several seedlings but never managed to keep them through winter, indoors.

M. Australis seedling looks to cope better.

Eremocitrus hybrids continue to flush several weeks after being recieved from adavo as does m.papuana from baches.


If your australasica flowers is there any possibility of seed or of you hybridising to flying dragon.

I have to admit that there's not much left of my finger lime tree. Just like a couple of my other citrus plants it started to look bad this year. But the good thing is I did not eliminate it like I did with some others. But I did prune it, cutting away a large piece of it. I'm awaiting new growth now, but since winter is approaching that may still take a while...

Took out the seeds of the poncirus fruits today. Plenty of seeds out of just a couple of fruits!

I also found the courage to actually taste the poncirus fruit! And honestly, except for the nasty resin stuff, the taste wasn't actually all that bad! They had a sour lemony taste. There were a couple of fruits that didn't contain many seeds. Those were actually juicy! I didn't expect that...

Oh thanks for clearing it up. I now completely understand. Except for the nasty taste of poncirus, the taste is not bad. Gotcha .
Millet 3042

Haha it's not like I'm going out to pick some more for eating or juicing! I just didn't expect to find any fruity taste in them!

All plants are back inside for the winter now. I wanted to give up a couple of plants first, leaving them outside to die, but in the end I always feel sorry, so I decided to take them in also!

I really do need more room... and a bigger wallet to buy me that room! Every little spot is filled with citrus plants!



It really looks like spring is already here!

Etrog flowers...


Valencia Late...


Meyer lemon...


The remaining bergamot fruit is finally ripening...


Meyer lemons...

Flowers now? I wish my trees would flower so I could attempt some hybrids. Very nice trees you have!

Marc, looks like you have an excellent room to overwinter your trees!

FYI: I have a few trees flowering now too... Finger Lime, Ponderosa Lemon, Sunquat, and possibly my new Faustrime. It will be interesting to see if they set any fruit.

Yeah Marc, looks like a perfect room. You know, since your climate is a little cold they may do better in there all year. Ive found heat heat and more heat is what they love! Nice pictures, espically the meyer flowers.

The fish eye shots create the impression that it is a large room with lots of space available but that is a false impression!

It can get very hot in there, on hot summer days temperature can easily reach 40°C/104°F. Good for citrus probably, but in there they get much less light that outside. I'm not sure what is best.

I have considered keeping at least some plants inside all the time, but was advise against it because then the plants would suffer much more from pests like scales.

i think it is better for citrus to keep them outside as long as possible.
If you throw out fridge and washing machine, you would find more place for your citrus.