Beautiful Bob! I think mine is Alexander the Great, my oldest Meyer lemon! I love his shape and the fruits are big and juicy.

Here is a pic.

Very nice Laura!! If i don't have so many deer and others to deal with, i would have better looking tree's. I love well manicured tree's as part of my landscaping afford.

I would love to have a persimmon to add to my other fruit. I tried one and it didn't take. I guess my favorite tree is a Satsuma orange. It's a sprawly tree but the fruit are great for eating right off the tree.

I also have three sweet kumquats and they come a close second in the citrus category. Kumquat pie is to die for!

A non-citrus I favor is a Japanese plum or loquat. I especially like it because it blooms in late fall/winter and I get fruit in the spring, well before the citrus ripen.

John if i was your neighbor i don,t have grow anything,just help myself after dark!!,Bob.

John, what is Kumquat pie? Is it like a key lime pie made with Kumquats?

Cory

I was thinking on the same wavelength as Cory. What is a kumquat pie? Do you have a recipe you can share?

I'm going to be inundated with them in 2-3 months...

Cory and Laura, the recipe for kumquat pie is on the kumquat grower's website under Kumquat Refrigerator Pie. It's a great recipe since it has two citrus ingredients! Be sure and use the sweet kumquats (editing this after reviewing the recipe...the photo shows sour kumquats so maybe just follow the recipe!) and be fore-warned that it takes a while to pick all the seeds out of the kumquats....some say you can pure' the seeds right along with the kumquats but I find the seed hulls distracting from an otherwise great pie...my favorite citrus pie in fact.

Thank you John....one more question...what do you mean by "sweet" kumquat...I will have Nagami kumquats coming out of my ears soon. Will those do? I would not exactly call them sweet...in fact, I worry that they will take the enamel off my daughter's teeth ;-). She loves them!

You have the sour kumquat, The Meiwa is much sweeter. The fruit is almost perfectly round. Your fruit is probably decidedly oblong. I bet you can still use the recipe but you might have to add a bit of sugar.

I found a couple of photos for the kumquat pie

The pure' is thick, orange, and really makes the pie a cool color!

Laura, I just went back to the Kumquat Grower's web page to see what the picture showed. The recipe doesn't say what kind of kumquat to use but the kumquats in the photo sure look like Nagamis.

Bob....I'm going to keep an eye out for you after the sun goes down but if you'll drop by in the daytime I'll share :>)

That's a difficult one...

seedless Satsuma and Kishu mandarins, Oroblanco grapefruit, Mysore 'Pisang Ceylon' banana (all growing outside btw), a lychee tree (fruit has the aroma of roses, have you ever tried one?)

Oh if I only had a Mangosteen tree...

Here is my favorite fruit tree.

HARDY CHICAGO KUMQUAT

I have picked over 600 fruits over th last 3 years

Steve, what species is your kumquat? Is it planted in ground? The leaves don't look like citrus to me. Looks more like a fig.

I'm guessing the wrong pic was uploaded.

Vladimir When I started my citrus trees I had so many problems. Over 300 seed grown Meiwa kumquat trees had died. My hardy Chicago fig trees did great and produced so I started calling my H.C. fig a kumquat when I showed off the tree on the citrus forum. I got a few people very angry with me. I pointed out to many just how hard it is to grow citrus and drew a lot of nasty remarks. Calling my HC fig a kumquat tree had been a running joke for me because it was so much easier to grow and is far more productive than a real kumquat.

6b Steve

John, what a delicious looking pie!!! Thank you! If I were in your neighborhood I'd be sneaking over the fence too ;-)

Reminder to self: check pricing for a higher fence....

My dearest tree is my Ponkan tangerine. Most delicious fruit ever! We're fighting citrus greening here in FL & so far, my trees seem to be hanging in there w/ organic fertilizing & copper sprays.

carolb...the copper spray is to discourage the leaf hopper that transmits citrus greening?

That "Hardy Chicago Cumquat" is a FIG.

LOL...yeah, leave it to Steve to sneak in a fig ;-).

Greg; How unfortunate for me that the hardy chico turned out to be a fig instead of a Meiwa kumquat. My HCF is very productive with great tasting fruit. That is why it is my favorite tree.

Copper spray wasn't for insects - it was recommended to me to counteract some sort of black spot that was destroying my ripe fruit - worked like a charm.

John, thanks for the offer, you are welcome in my yard too and if you hurry i got a bunch of persimmons for you waiting. While you here don't forget to take your pruner with you so you can haul a bunch of sionwood with you.

Don't forget to take Laura with you and others to thin-out some of my container tree's also.

My goodness...That pie looks awesome!!!

LOL! Thanks Bob. I would sure trade lemons for persimmons....if we were neighbors. I think the FDA would frown on us otherwise :>) I think South Texas has citrus greening but hopefully still not in my area.

Yes i hear you that what is the problem with the citrus forum, people are afraid to buy any new tree's from nurseries in Florida because of the greening problem.My expansion of citrus is on hold for now. Luckily i have a lot of others fruit varieties to fall-back on.

Lol Bob and John. I spent the last two hours hauling the trees inside with the help of my teenage son. What on earth got into me this summer???? I really went off the deep end ;-). I am waaaay over capacity! May have to put a few in bed with me...and there are still some outside - the hardier ones. Oh my...it's ugly. I'm afraid I'm going to have the police at my house thinking I'm growing something other than citrus. I'll post pics tomorrow!

Steve, do you bring your figs in for the winter?

LOL! Funny because I just finished surfing the greenhouse forum. I have some great materials for building a greenhouse but want to move some day so I don't thunk this is the place to build it. With a greenhouse, maybe I could add some other plants that might make the "dearest fruit tree" list that Persimmonbob originally started this forum with. Apologies to Bob for straying a bit afield! It's a great topic and really helpful for those of us who have limited space and want to get the most from what we plant!

This year I will have 5 fig tree in soil on top of my roof 3 stories up. I have 5 fig trees in ground at the South Cumminsville community garden and will plant 2 more this weekend. I have 4 figs in 30 gallon containers I will need to take in when the temperature drops below 15F. The origianal fig is on the south side of my houser shown above. all the others are from cuttings.

I bought mine at.

http://ediblelandscaping.com/products/shrubs/Figs/

http://ediblelandscaping.com/products/shrubs/Figs/HardyChicagoFig.php

6b Steve