Hey Mike, My name is James, I'm from Texas, and I'm 24. don't worry. I'll keep it going : ) I'm growing my first hybrid seedlings as we speak.

A few more pictures of my hybrids now at
http://www.homecitrusgrowers.co.uk/hybridfruits2010.html

Mike/Citrange

Mike, the parentage of plant #1 is not particularly shown. Is it the same cross that is listed at the top of the page (Pummelo (Citrus grandis) with a Microcitrus hybrid (Faustrimedin)? I'm wondering due to the purple foliage and bloom. - Millet (640-)

Thanks for the update, very enjoyable! On plant #1, is the purple coloured growth and flowers a trait of the faustrimedin? Here's hoping it gives different fruit from the other plants.

How did the flowers #1 look like? I mean - more similar to the pomelo or the faustrimedin? Did the plant set any fruits?

Mike,
Love your facination for the unusual!! You have created and interesting mix!!
I do enjoy browsing your pages and looking at all the interesting plants and fruit!!! I'd imagine a Kumquat might be a good plant for one wanting fruit in your area? I know it has been a pain to manage trees here and I think I probably get a bit more sun. (no London fog here )
Hope you are safe in these troubled times!!!
Have been thinking and praying for my friends and all across the pond!!
Gina *BabyBlue*

So how are the hybrids doing today? Last thing we know is that the pigmented seedling was about to bloom, now more than a year ago. There should be fruits by now!

Citrange, we all are waiting for news about your hybrids...

Thanx!

Everything is very slow in citrus breeding - especially here in England.

This year we had a wonderful early spring. I took most of my plants out of the greenhouse in April before I was away for a week, so they wouldn't need watering every day. Immediately the weather changed and we had a night of -4C, followed by the wettest summer on record. Most of the blooms were lost until a second bloom on some plants in July. The fruits from these are now still tiny as I am moving the pots back into the greenhouse for winter.

Last year the flowers on the purple-leaved hybrid dropped without forming any fruit. This year it has had no blooms but is looking very healthy and will surely produce fruit next spring - given reasonably normal weather!

So as not to completely disappoint you, here are some pictures of this years Microcitrus successes. The first two you may have already seen on another post - a seedling from a Riverside black finger lime which produces dark purple fruit ripening to red:



Next a seedling from a Sydney Hybrid, again from Riverside, producing initially dark egg-shaped fruits. Currently about 1cm long and not mature.


Finally, from the same batch of Sydney Hybrid seeds, a plant producing round green fruits currently about 2cms diameter and I think approaching final size.

Mike/Citrange

Thanx for the informations.
Nice pics.

Sad to hear about the hybrid flowers, but these pictures more than make up for that!

Mike, to bad about the purple-leaved hybrids. A 10 PPM spray of GA3 on the purple leaved hybrid flowers last year, very likely would have "pollinated" them and they would have set fruit. - Millet

So GREAT !!!


At all the Sydney hibrids who do not look at all like the standard fruits.

I guess, the fruit shows who polinated them :
First a fingerlime or hybrid and second a round lime ...

What you think about ?

You are right. The seedlings from the Riverside xSydney produces a range of fruit shapes. At first I thought I must have been sent the wrong seeds, because the first two fruiting plants produced just round, green fruits. However, other seedlings have now produced egg-shaped fruits and some round fruits which, at first, are quite dark coloured.