is the node count of 80-ish similar for Nagami kumquats? I assume as it's about the same size as Meiwa it should be about the same? I know Calamondins and key limes are commonly cited as only taking 3 years, or basically staying as a very small tree when they flower and fruit. I'm really hoping I can get these kumquats to fruit soonbc kumquat trees are soooo expensive, I can get satsumas by getting (possibly contaminated so I quarantine it) budwood from Asian grocery stores, but kumquats are just hard to get :/

Poncirusguy, did you successfully grow the marumi kumquat on FD rootstock in Cincinnati city, South of Ohio? I believe it should fall in zone 5b or lower, isn't it? That was so amazing, as I live in Atlanta, GA (zone 7b/8a), but many members at tropical-fruit-forum claimed that it is nearly impossible to grow any citrus in my area including citrangequat which will be bearly survived. The only rootstocks that I have now is FD because there were a few 40 years old FD trees at the recreation center of my University that offered a lot of fruits every year.

The fruitless under the can light Meiwa has finished its growth spurt with a total of 44 linear inches of new twigs with fresh leaves. It is now tied for the second biggest of seed grown Meiwa kumquat trees I picked the fruit off the other Meiwa tree at half ripe and the skin was sweet and the flesh was very juicy but not much flavor in sweet or sour. I was afraid a mouse would get it and it was the only fruit from a seed grown tree. I also picked all the much ripper fruit from my grafted meiwa and the fruit was sweet skinned with semi sweet tart flesh. very much worth eating. This will actually be the last entry for this thread from Me and I will continue this discussion in "4 seed grown 2 year old Meiwa kumquat tree for year 2019". I will leave a link to the new thread when I start it. forget what I said above. I did not expect this much change in one of the trees. Steve

I have Meiwa, which I received as a free promo item a couple of years ago from our local insurance agent and will eat them though honestly there are a lot of citrus varieties that would be on my list ahead of it. To date I have only ever eaten them whole, sort of like eating a seeded grape, though a bit tougher, I have seen some interesting looking recipes that I want to try. Mine came from Saxon Becnel, I have bought a few other citrus trees from them, and this one by far has the poorest graft union, it was about 3 ft tall, in a 3 gallon growers pot and a bit thin, though I have to wonder if the insurance company made a deal with them to get seconds in a bulk buy (as I recall it was a choice between Owari Satsuma, Meyers Lemon or Meiwa kumquat, or some non citrus tree, since I had Owari and Meyers growing in ground already I opted for the Meiwa). Don't get me wrong, I do like them, it is just eating 1 or 2 at a time a couple of times per week and a pound of them would be about my yearly limit. By contrast something like a Cara Cara Orange might weigh a pound each, and I could eat one per day during prime season. This does not count the juicing potential of other citrus. Even Meyers lemon is higher on the list, as the perpetual year round supply of lemons is nice to have, even though 90% of them off my 5 year old Meyers tree go to waste.