Looking good Steve!!! My NZL has dropped a lot of leaves this winter. I'm not sure why. I may put it in another room next year.

cool! I'm really liking the growth habit of NZL, it has a nice form and mine just keeps putting on masses of new flowers. Just wish the flowers' smell had more intensity to it, it's just barely present at all

It's interesting to note that the NZL limbs are really long with very little side branching.

Both the Seville and the US897 are very aggressive rootstocks. The US897 is a dwarf and will top out with side branching at shorter intervals at a manageable hight. The tree on Seville will be a large tree and may be unmanageable for Cincinnati area. I have a couple of flying dragon seedlings. These grow much slower and would push shorter main shoots with ample branching. When this fruit ripens and I find out what it taste like I will decide what I put on the flying dragon seedlings.

Rooting 3 cuttings of my NZL in a special rooting chamber on right

Meiwa cuting to the left NZL to the right

I like how you setup the rooting chamber on top of the heat vent Steve that’s awesome.

I remember you mentioned the leaf drop and shoot breaks on the us897 root stock is this a common issue or just random. So far on my US897 CaraCara Navel Orange all the shoots are holding on and leves as well.

Julian

I hope it is just me and my tree. It may be a compatibility issue with NZL/US897. I did have problem with my valentine on US897. They both did well out side in summer.

steve

NZL on Seville sour.

earlier picture with out shoot.

Steve

Wow, beautiful! It is in good hands, Steve :)

New Zealand Lemonade with 1 fruit. Hope the picture posts.

Nice trees, Steve and Brian!

Jinny and Steve very nice . Hope the fruit are as good as everyone says they are.

Brian

11 days later 15 month +/- old from grafting. Rootstock was 6 months old +/-

Full tree with 2 of 3 sprouts visible. center sprout 2feet. Sprout to right 16 inches.

Tip of 2 footer

sprout to left is 3rd and 16 inches long.

Steve

Now that the tree is balanced out with its 3 new water sprout it went up on the roof top where it will get 4 more hours of light

OOOOPS That is my green striped cashew

Steve, here is my watermelon grown in a container on the balcony this year, it was very sweet and the size of a large orange, lol !

Steve my New Zealand is going absolutely crazy. I counted 35 lemons and the tree is putting out a major flush of blooms right now. This tree I've had two years now.

Sunshine yummy!!

Brian

Brian, I have 22 viable seeds from that watermelon, I am definitely going to grow them next year :)

My kids were so happy when they harvested that watermelon and were surprised that it was sweet and had a good flavor :)

Sunshine whats the variety of watermelon? Love the size. Looks delicious.

Brian

sunshine

nice watermellon. I did not grow any these last 5 years due to squirrels.

Brian

I am glad to see your NZL moving along so well..

Steve

Brian, it was one of those small watermelons from grocery store and I don't know the exact name of the variety, it was delicious though.

Thanks Sunshine I willed keep my eyes peeled in the grocery stores for them .

Brian

Steve!! I can’t believe that tree is only 15 months old! It looks fantastic! Great job. How many fruits is it growing?

It has 3 small fruits on it approaching golf ball size.

Steve

My 2.5 y.o. NZL looks very ugly. It has a narrow shape and not many branches. Hopefully, eventually, it will look like a beautiful citrus tree.

However, it produces a lot of fruits for a fairly small tree and they are large already and my son loves them.

Update on NZl on Seville. Under light at night and part sun at day.

Steve

Steve you have some beautiful trees! I just tried my hand at grafting hopefully one day they’ll grow robust just like yours :)

That's a great looking tree Steve. I hope the fruit ripen well for you. Mine has lots of small fruitlets so it will be a while before I have fruit again.

New Zealand Lemonade on Seville sour orange

One of my New Zealand lemonade fruits got knocked off while it was 2/3 ripe. It tasted great with just a touch more acid and sugar than the fully ripe NZL from my in ground NZL on C35 roots.

Steve

Nice going Steve, you got to use that Low Biuret, a la Millet, in the winter. If every bloom turn into a fruit, I might hit 100,000. this winter. No joking!!

Steve, what happens to all our friends, Jan, Amy, Brian, Sunshine, and a bunch more, moving to Face book horticulture Magazine. Houzz should rename Citrus to : “ everything/ citrus “

My NZ is coming along nicely as well (thanks laura!). The shape is a little ugly right now, but a good summer of growth and some fall pruning will fix that. There are several small fruit on it currently, cant wait to try one.

What are you guys doing with your ripe fruit?

Bob

I think that most people get to many varieties and burn out on the associate problems and end up quitting. I know of several past people who lost power to their green house and lost 30 to 40 trees. They looked for more trees with advice from us and then left. These trees are expensive. If I decide to quit citrus I will let you all know and why. When I first started I posted a lot with picture and a lot of other people got mad and they let me know in very rude ways. I am still here and Better than 15 of them are gone. It is too bad because they were a real asset to the group

Jay

We eat them like an orange or mandarin. Gave away 1 each to 4 closest friends. It is well worth growing. I have eaten 45 fruits total from 3 different trees.

Steve

Steve, I don’t have a solution with this forum. I think they use personal messaging and than leave. I don’t need to be on any forum. I can handle anything I grow. It is just very strange.

A good forum with some real knowledgeable people " Citrus Growers V 2.0 "

It however might get an average of 1 post a day Tropical fruits forum is worse in their citrus catagory. Face Book is very hard to use and is for popular people and the knowlege base is much less. Well get another groop of new people that will be around from 2-6 years and then move on.

Steve

continued for NZL on Seville

OK, will do but don’t have that in my collection.