It doesn't look like I'll be able to attend the Expo this year so I just wanted to share some recent pictures of some of my in ground 8a hardy citrus:

Early St Anne Satsuma:


Glen Citrangedin:


Keraji:


Kimbrough Satsuma:


Seedless Kishu Mandarin:


Nippon Orangequat:


Sinton and Thomasville citrangequat:


Tiachang:


Yuzuquat:


Changsha:


Dragon Lime aka Edible Flying Dragon:


Juanita and Yuzu:


Ventura Lemandarin fruit:


Lemandarin tree


Thanks to a bumper crop of my Lemandarin I am willing to ship a couple fruit to sample to a few people for shipping.

Man ... those are some very impressive citrus, some of which, I have much smaller examples of. Some day they may impress me the same.

Cheers, Barrie.

Amazing!

I do not know how they taste but they are very attractive plants

Gdbanks I'll send you out a few fruit to try. They taste like what some would consider a sweet lemon or an intermediate fruit between a satsuma and a lemon. Definitely better than most of the hardy fruit out there except for actual satsumas but share the same zipper peel quality. The added plus is that they ripen very early around Halloween so one could harvest them before any real freeze events come about.

Nice pictures G. Thanks for posting them. Sorry to hear you won't be able to make it to the CE.

Ned

Gaylord, sent me a couple fruit of his Ventura Lemandarin couple years back. I planted some seeds and my seedling bloomed in the first year, but the flower did not set fruit. Perhaps this spring. G you have some nice healthy looking trees - great job G. - Millet (1,155-)

what does "edible" mean? Does it have Poncirus off-flavors? And a second question: You live in zone 8a? Or is Your climate actually better?
Vienna/Austria is zone 7b (I suppose). But most of my Poncirus-hybrids freeze down without protection. C. ichangensis is second after Poncirus. All the others have severe problems. Last winter: min. -12°C. but three weeks with temperatures below 0°C. Most of my seedlings survived but there was damage i n most cases. Trifeola, Citsuma and PoncirusXsun ki are quite hard. Citrmelo had problems.
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Thanks Ned. I wish I could go but we are already going to Charleston for Thanksgiving. Millet thanks for the update on your seedlings. I hope all your plants are doing well.

Robert I live in zone 8a. I would imagine three weeks below 0 celsius is rough for any citrus hybrid. Fortunately we don't stay below freezing for that long around here. In reference to 'edible' the lemandarin doesn't have any poncirus bred into it. I just gave one to our surgical tech to eat and she said it was good and tasted like a tart tangerine. Thanks for letting us know about the Trifeola, Citsuma and Poncirus x Sunki being very hardy. I've never had any issues with freezing weather and my Citsuma but don't have the other two.

Eyeckr those are some beautiful specimens (I cannot believe how loaded that Lemandarin is!).

I know you said the Lemandarin is quite edible, but how about the Dragon Lime? Does it still have the off flavors of ponicirus or is it truly edible/pleasent?

Have you ever used Dragon Lime seedlings for grafting? Will it still produce a dwarfed tree? Do you know if it is compatible with many other citrus like Flying Dragon typically is?

Finally do you know if the Dragon Lime and Lemandarin seeds come true?

Sorry about the millions of questions! Thanks for the pics!

Joe

Eyeckr,
in fact low temperatures -even freezing for a longer time- ist noth that big a problem to cold hardy hybrids. The problem is low temperatures in combination with sun. Well shaded plants survive sun exposed plantsw do not...
/Roberto

Excellent looking trees and fruit, G!

We'll miss you at the expo!

Have fun Keith! I'm gonna do my best to go next year.

Brancato here is where I commented on the first Dragon Lime (with pics) I tasted which was actually seedless:

link

I couldn't be 100% sure if the Lemandarin seedlings would come true as I grew out the mother plant from a Tiawanica fruit seed that was pollinated with either Keraji mandarin or Owari satsuma. The tree is currently surrounded by other hardy and potted citrus so you could essentially have any broad number of combinations of what is nearby: Tiawanica x mandarin x (???)

Thanks for the link and the info Eyeckr! Are most of the Dragon Lime's you've sampled seedless?

Joe

eyeckr- your fruit looks great! What does the glen citrangedin taste like? Is it as sour as a calamondin? Keep the pics coming!