Miewa Kumquat Keeps Blooming?
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Choosing a Kumquat.
Comments (30)Up date on my trees. My seed grown Meiwa tree died when high winds blew the cover off my greenhouse during a 3F wind storm. I now have 1 Meiwa kumquat on Kuharske Citrange.In ground with fruit. I had to pick the fruit while it was still on the green side. It was sweet with a little kick. I consider this the best citrus II have ever eaten. I planted the seeds from these fruits and now have another 9 Meiwa seedlings. I started the seeds last November+/- Meiwa are the hardest trees to grow from seed. I have 2 seed grown Fukushu kumquat trees. All my kumquat tree we gifts from Cory. 6b Steve...See More'Centennial' Kumquat
Comments (4)".... I'm thinking it's nearly ready to pick the fruit in say October? " I think something to keep in mind is that the same variety of citrus can be at different stages of ripeness depending where it is located. The amount of heat, water, fertilizer, etc. can effect ripening time. Also, the color of the fruit is a good, but not perfect indicator of ripeness. Cold evenings make for brighter colors of skin, but the inside of an orange fruit and a yellowish green fruit may be at a similar stage of ripeness. I have two Satsuma mandarin trees in my front yard in the North Georgia mountains. Last year I waited until the fruit was bright orange to taste it. It was watery and bland- TOO ripe! This year I have been eating one or two fruit a week to determine the rate of change, the level of acidity to sweetness,etc. As far as I am concerned, the yellowish / mottled green fruit on my trees right now have the perfect amount of acidity compared to the sweetness. The fruit have a rich full flavor and the flesh is a bright orange color. As far as I am concerned, they are ripe, however someone else might prefer a sweeter less acid fruit, and they would wait to harvest till later. A month or so ago I even used some of my green mandarins as "lemons" because of their acid bite....See MoreNeed help with my young Kumquat
Comments (19)Can't be sure but it sounds like a bad case of mites, you wouldn't be able to see them without magnification and the webs can be visible when there is a lot of them, since it got better after your soap and water bath I would think that's the case. Either continue with the soap/water baths or get some Horticultural oil and/or insecticidal soap and keep up the treatments. Mites are very common on indoor citrus, I know we are heading into fall/winter but if you can next spring/summer move the tree out side and spray it down every time you water and the mites shouldn't be a problem then. You also should consider re-potting into a soil-less mixture as the potting soil might be smothering the roots and coupled with the mites isn't letting your poor tree grow, I have a 0% success rate with citrus in potting soil and a 100% success rate with citrus in 5-1-1. Even with tree's that lost every leaf from the potting soil. I Amazon'ed everything I needed for the 5-1-1 and whipped it up in no time and my trees are the better for it. If you are interested I posted Al's recipe and links to the products I used. You can certainly get them elsewhere or different brands/amounts. 5-1-1 recipe: 5 parts pine bark 1/4'' https://www.amazon.com/Zoo-Med-Reptile-Bedding-Quarts/dp/B001F9AMW6/ref=sr_1_1?s=prime-day-secondary&ie=UTF8&qid=1505929463&sr=8-1&keywords=repti+bark 1 Part Spagnam Peat Moss https://www.amazon.com/Mosser-Lee-Fibered-Sphagnum-Cubic/dp/B000P73WLW/ref=sr_1_5?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1505929597&sr=1-5&keywords=sphagnum+peat+moss 1 Part perlite (course preferred but regular ok) https://www.amazon.com/Liters-Gallon-Perlite-Starting-Hydroponics/dp/B01N2SD0NM/ref=sr_1_4?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1505929666&sr=1-4&keywords=course+perlite 1 Tbsp Lime/Gal of mix https://www.amazon.com/Espoma-GL6-Garden-Amendment-6-75-Pound/dp/B0063ZDTI6/ref=sr_1_1?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1505929722&sr=1-1&keywords=garden+lime...See MoreLarge leaves on Kumquat from mishap-forced winter growth, remove?
Comments (4)Thanks for the input. My assumption up to this point is that pruning the damaged growth induced growing during a time when it wasn't actively growing due to the low light levels, hence the gigantic leaves. I've been back and forth on removing them now because the tree is covered in new growth and I wasn't sure if removing the large leaves closer to the top of the tree would encourage growth lower down. At the nursery someone pruned it back pretty severely, causing a rather large hole in the canopy on one side. I've been doing what I can to try to encourage growth in this area in the hopes that it will fill back out. (From the right angle it looks like something took a bite out of the tree). At the end of the day though I'm looking for health over appearance....See Moreponcirusguy6b452xx
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