Citrus Growers Forum

flapmeister · Posted: Wed 21 Feb, 2007 7:42 pm

i have 8 citrus planted from seed. these are all from the supermarket. i know it will take a long time for them to bloom ( if ever)
but to my surprise one of my one year old seedling is having a small flower. is this normal???

Millet · Posted: Wed 21 Feb, 2007 8:35 pm

Hard to answer as you do not say what the variety is. Generally no, it is not normal for a young seedling to bloom, but it does happen more often than one would expect. The chances that your tree's bloom will produce a fruit is very slim.

Millet
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Junglekeeper · Posted: Thu 22 Feb, 2007 12:42 am

Have a look at this related thread in an external forum. Note the quote from The Biology of Citrus several posts down.

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flapmeister · Posted: Thu 22 Feb, 2007 6:07 am

I still hope it wil produce fruit. I am not sure, but I think it is a grapefruit..

I have seedlings grapefruit, lemon, tangerine, orange, flying dragons, djeruk purut (isn't that key lime?)

thanks for your replies

laurens · Posted: Sat 24 Feb, 2007 9:31 pm

I also have a grapefruit grown from seed and last year it also had a flower but no fruit.

Greets

citrange · Posted: Sun 25 Feb, 2007 9:32 am

Grapefruits and pummelos are the most likely to produce a flower in their first or second year. This is always a single terminal bud, and it can produce fruit. I had a pummelo which produced one fruit which had to be supported on netting to prevent the plant collapsing.
After this initial single flower, the plants return to their juvenile state and will take the usual years to produce sgain.

flapmeister · Posted: Tue 27 Feb, 2007 6:02 am

Thanks all for your comments!

Oke so it is possible that there will be one fruit...Is it "a mistake" of the plant?

laurens · Posted: Tue 27 Feb, 2007 9:06 am

citrange wrote:

Grapefruits and pummelos are the most likely to produce a flower in their first or second year. This is always a single terminal bud, and it can produce fruit. I had a pummelo which produced one fruit which had to be supported on netting to prevent the plant collapsing.
After this initial single flower, the plants return to their juvenile state and will take the usual years to produce sgain.

Like you said, the plant didn't produced any other blooms after that one. Pretty weird Surprised

Greets laurens

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flapmeister · Posted: Tue 27 Feb, 2007 11:56 am

weird it is... I wonder what the meaning of that single flower is?

jjp · Citruholic Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 55 Location: Corsica

citrange wrote :

Quote:

Grapefruits and pummelos are the most likely to produce a flower in their first or second year. This is always a single terminal bud, and it can produce fruit. I had a pummelo which produced one fruit which had to be supported on netting to prevent the plant collapsing.
After this initial single flower, the plants return to their juvenile state and will take the usual years to produce sgain.

I have approximately 600 one year old seedlings, of various citrus fruits species, and only one flowered, a single terminal bud, and it's a......Grapefruit

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