Last year, I was at Lowes, and I found a tree in the clearance/distressed plants section for $6. I took him home, repotted him in an old pot that my fiance had killed a ficus in. He ended up dropping his flowers, but towards the end of the summer last year, he put on some new growth, so I think hes doing okay.

I have no idea what he is, so any ideas would be appreciated.
Unknown Tree:


This is the only tag on the tree. Its pretty much gobbledygook to me. If it means anything to anyone, I'm all ears:
Unknown tag:


He's starting to put off a little growth this spring, so I'm hoping he'll put on some size this year.
Unknown Growth:


Unknown Growth2:



I got these two trees off of ebay this spring. I think I paid $24 for the pair, including shipping. They came bare root, and looked like they'd just been removed from small tubes, so they're pretty small trees. The Kumquat came with some chlororis (I think thats what it is). He's showing some growth, but I'm not sure if the old leaves should get better color or not, or if only the new ones will.

Nagimi Kumquat:


Nagimi Kumquat starting to grow:


The meyer lemon really hasn't done anything, but its just been a couple of weeks. Both trees were potted into 3g nursery pots in gritty mix.

Meyer Lemon:



I was visiting my parents last week (in MA - no citrus states involved) and while I was at a nursery buying my mom some Easter flowers, I ran into these guys. They're both a bit upset right now, as they were in 1g pots and pretty rootbound, so I repotted them in 5g( or so) pots. They were only $20, so I had to buy them. Almost bought a persian lime, but the fiance was starting to give me the "you crazy" look.

Eureka Lemon:


I'm not too sure about the eureka, and where the graft line actually is? On the smaller trees, the grafts all look like point B, but I'm hoping point A is the actual graft, because otherwise, half the tree is rootstock. What do you guys think?

Eureka Base:


And my little key lime bush. He seems to have come through the repotting easier than the eureka.

Key Lime:

Welcome to the forum. Nice collection you have going.

The unknown tree looks like a Mandarin to me. Maybe Clementine.

I would also put that lemon in the shade for a while to help it recover. Probably has some root damage from transplanting.

I would like see the other side of the area you labled A and B, the flip side.
They placed the tag on that first branch, so I doubt it's rootstock. The tree is probably on Macrophylla. That is the usual Eureka rootstock for retail Eureka lemon trees in my experience.

The unknown could some sort of quat hybrid, maybe sunquat?

Finally got an email back from the nursery that I traced the trees to (Record Buck Farms) and they let me know the Key Lime and the Eureka are both rooted cuttings, so that mystery is solved.

Got a couple more pictures of the "Maybe Clementine". Maybe some flower shots would help.

Record Buck Farms is in FL and shouldn't be shipping citrus out of state.

A citrus tree (any size or age) will produce many more flowers than will ever produce fruit. After the fruit sets, all citrus trees begin to drop fruit, and will retain only the amount of fruit the tree is able to bring to maturity. It is estimated that of all the flowers a citrus tree produces only 1-3 percent will produce and keep the fruit to maturity.

The small fruitlets that your tree is dropping is normal. As your tree grows larger, it will retain more of the small fruits, in a ratio to the size of the tree.

Millet

Thanks for the response Millet.


I guess I understand that a tree will drop most of its fruitlets. I was more curious if there's a certain number that a grafted tree this size, properly taken care of, should retain. Or is it just kind of a "you get what you get."

It's pretty much what the tree decides it can handle.

The Maybe Mandarin has dropped all its fruit/buds.

On the other hand, the key lime is now flowering.

I didn't screen the mix properly for the eureka, so it was staying waterlogged, dropped almost all of its leaves, and has now been repotted properly.

The meyer has a new branch, and the kumquat is throwing branches everywhere.

So, some good, some bad.