What citrus am I growing? Yearly I'm re-evaluating what I'm growing and topworking to something better. Sweet lemonsUjukitsu Looks like a minneola but is yellow. Early. Good but not great. I like minneola better Sulcata or Samboken This is more like a grapefruit than anything. It is later than ujukitsu like after Christmas New Zealand Lemonade I have this growing in a pot and fruit is very nice In ground at my old house in Beaumont: Small trees:Tavares limequat(branch) makes a large very sour fruit that tastes neither like lime or kumquat meiwa kumquat(branch) ujukitsu sweet lemon Duncan Grapefruit USDA 88-2 Lee x Nova Satsuma, Xia shan Large trees: Sanguinelli blood orange moro blood orange Tarroco blood orange Midnight valencia orange(branch) Golden grapefruit Satsuma, seto Satsuma, miho Page Mandarin Satsuma, frost owari Flying dragon trifoliate Algerian clementine mandarin Cara cara red navel In pots: Valentine hybrid Giant key lime USDA 15-150 Lee x Orlando USDA 88-3 Lee x Robinson Losers IMHO and have gotten rid of them sometimes after spending$40 for budwood Pomona acidless lemon. Tasteless like all acidless citrus fruit, insipid and tasteless Dr Brown seedless kumquat. This one never gets orange, nordman is much better Marsh grapefruit. Never got sweet for me. Yuzu. Full of seeds and I don't get it about the zest being so good. Pulled up a large tree. Ujukitsu sweet lemon. Will leave a smallish tree at my old house. I didn't intend to grow it but got on the wrong branch of a multi-tree trying to get Nova budwood Rio Red Grapefruit. Or any of the red grapefruits. Never got really sweet for me even waiting until April. A variegated bud sport on an orange tree I was new to growing citrus when this happened a few years ago. I planted the tree in the ground, fertilized it and the sport promptly died! So much for the "MrTexas varigated orange!"  Multi graft and very lopsided tree The seedling sunquat rootstock had a few dozen fruit the 2nd year from seed. I grafted changshou kumquat and fairchild mandarin to two branches. Each citrus has their own growth pattern. In this case the kumquat is more vigorous. To the left is the kumquat with fairchild mandarin on the right. I have now cut off the fairchild mandarin and grafted meiwa kumquat on one side.  |