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Better to purchase grafted plants, since seedlings can take 10 years or more to bear fruit.

I agree with Dave. If you don’t want to wait 10 years for fruit, buy a grafted plant or rooted cutting.

A rooted cutting will not solve the underlying issue.

It is the fact of being grafted onto a special different type of rootstock that reduces the waiting time for fruit. Certain varieties like kumquat already have a naturally dwarfed growing habit so being grafted doesn't help that much.

It depends on where the cutting came from. I have a rooted cutting from my mature lime tree, which is only a stick, that is blooming and has a few small limes (which I will remove). I have several trees that are rooted cuttings that produce wonderfully well.

That calamondin is a rooted cutting and I can't consume them fast enough ;) . That said, grafted trees are probably even better.

I took a chance and bought seeds on Ebay that also will probably not germinate, 10 Dancy and 10 Pixie. I know they have small chance of rooting and and that if they do have a small chance fruiting for many years. But thought they'd be fun to try to grow. Who knows they could be like Laura's? Going to plant my 5 and give the rest here. Message me and I'll send you some as soon as they arrive.

Good luck Nancy. The plant above though is not from seed. It is a rooted cutting. I am more than happy to send you calamondin seeds if you want them though. I can’t tell you how many I threw away tonight!

Thanks Laura. Have a calamondin that's actually gratfted. Appreciate your thought fulness.

If you can grow citrus in ground year round outside and don't mind waiting a few years for fruit, plant the seeds. Otherwise, you're wasting your time and energy, and it'll be hard work.

You'll have to do your own research as I have. You can probably get small citrus such as limes or Kumquats in 2-4 years from seed if grown properly. Lemons, oranges, grapefruits and so on will take many, many years.

Furthermore, you can graft a young seedling onto whatever you want, but it won't make it fruit "quicker". You'll still end up waiting several years before seeing fruit from that Grafted Seedling.

Your best option to get fruit fast and to grow in a pot is to buy a tree from a nursery. They'll have rooted cuttings and grafted trees, both made of mature budwood so you can get fruit quick and at a small size compared to a tree grown from seed in ground.

My Ponderosa Lemon tree is maybe 2.5' tall now and I've collected 1 lemon last year, another is starting to ripen this year and it flowers multiple times a year. That's all something a seedling will not be doing at such a small size and for several years until the tree matures.

Is there a reason why you want to purchase seeds from somebody? Do you not have access to fresh citrus fruits at your local produce store? You can easily get seeds from the fruit that you buy at the store unless they are a seedless variety which means there may be 1-2 if you are lucky to find one. If the fruit you purchase at the grocery store is a hybrid, then you will not know for sure what you are getting when the tree is mature which is at least 7-10 years in the future.

Edit: My questions were directed to Vlad, the OP.

Dave, I'm well aware of the trials of growing from seed. I have a grapefruit, lemon and mandarin in process for a few years now. I grow indoors under lights all yesr round. You don't know me but I already have 22 grafted healthy and productive citrus growing indoors under T5HO lights and purchased from nurseries. Growing these seeds and not grafting is a "just for fun" spree.

Laura LaRosa i want some seeds, where you are from?

No Denise I can't get Dancy and Pixie from the store. I'm just doing this for fun. I'm a little old 66 year old lady who will probably be long dead if they produce if ever. Buying from Ebay who knows if they are really Pixie and Dancy? It's still fun for me.

Really everybody. I'm doing this just for the heck of it. I like watching the little ones grow. Have lots of grafted trees. Really do know that these aren't going to produce if at all and is something I just like to do. I have 3 from seed already and it's fun to nurture them the same as I do my grafted trees. But my expectations are minimal for them to produce fruit before I'm in the ground myself. I doubt I'll be in 5-1-1 though.

vlad, I live in the USA. where are you from?

Laura LaRosa i am from Moldova, it will take around 15$ to ship with UPS, i can pay the shipping no worries. What seeds do you have?

In order for citrus seeds to germinate, they must be FRESH from the fruit.

They MUST NOT DRY out before they are planted.

I've noticed they usually only last up to 2 weeks after being removed from the fruit, and usually in that case they have to be placed inside a sealed plastic sandwich bag so they don't dry out. Sometimes they can last up to 4 weeks, but the viability rate seems to go down.

They germinate fastest if planted within the same day they were removed from the fresh fruit.

Thanks Dave :)

Jean and Socalnolympia. I queried the seller of the seeds and she said the seeds were still inside the mandarin fruits as she wrote. She said she would mail them in a plastic bag immediately after she extracted them. I was successful with my grapefruit and lemon after a week in a plastic bag.

So Jean they are FRESH and hopefully won't DRY OUT. Respectfully I ask you not to shout when simple words softly spoken will convey your meaning. I may be old but my hearing is excellent ;)

Just for fun. Here's a row of citrus from my basement citrus grove :)

And here is a Moro Blood orange and a Eureka Lemon grown from seeds among some plumeria.