Ripe kumquat from second fruiting.
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Fresh picked Fukushu kumquat
with less acid and tasty skin when picked orange. No new fruits for awhile
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Comments (3)Hi Rick, Are you looking for kumquats for the seeds? I picked a bunch of kumquats from a tree in Disney yesterday and can send some along with the amaryllis. I'll be back home tonight....See MoreNew Jersey Fig trees,will produce ripe fruits,only if ....
Comments (56)I live near Haddonfield, in Camden county, NJ and am trying my hand at growing figs for the first time this year. I got one tree (variety unknown - maybe Celeste?) at a local farmer's market last September. Per instructions I left it outside 'til the leaves fell and then wintered it over in the basement - but it started growing! Anxious to get it in the ground I made the mistake of planting it in the side yard (western exposure) in early April. We'd had some quite warm weather that fooled me into thinking spring had come early. It had not. The tree suffered terribly in a windstorm with sustained winds over 40 mph and the snow that hit a week later. losing all its leaves and killing the growing tips of all the shoots. The good news is that the tree sprouted new shoots from four of the five "trunks". It is now doing just fine and enjoying a bit of a growth spurt, although I'll be surprised if it yields any fruit this season. Today I purchased a second fig tree. This one is a Hardy Chicago from Lowe's. I put it into a 12" plastic pot where it will stay for at least the first year or so. I plan on bringing this one into my enclosed but unheated porch next winter. A friend and neighbor also has a fig tree of unknown variety that has survived one winter outdoors. I'll try and get a cutting or two from her to plant next year. I look forward to seeing which one performs best for me....See MoreIs satsuma fruit ripe?
Comments (8)I agree with Silica, we have an old tree near the 25 year mark and its much better than anything else. It is the same with my grandfathers 30 year old meyer lemon trees, they just have more juice and a better overall flavor. I do agree though bounty that rootstock, soil, microclimate, fertilizer, and growing zone all come into play. Often times what our families grow has been fertilized organically with horse manure, crab shells, shrimp shells, etc and that does make a pretty big difference as well but fruit still tastes better and is slightly larger on the bigger older trees. It may be different in the citrus areas in mid Florida though but those guys change things so fast constantly they can't even keep up with themselves and are so commercial its like talking apples to oranges or kumquats to limes. Just this past year I got some amazing navels off a citrus tree on an old abandoned farm just north of New Orleans on a tree that was probably 50 years old on my father in laws fathers old farm. You read that right 50 years and unfertilized for a long time because nobody has lived on it for the past 40 years. The fruits was past peak season by about a month and still was blow your socks off good "and very large in size", better than fruit at peak season on a 5-10 year old tree thats been fertilized. Fact is I think you both could be right and UF, LSU, and AU ag centers haven't done enough research to really know, I even know a guy with a PHD in citrus and he doesn't know. Heck I may even try sargassum seaweed in the next year or so as an added fertilizer after natural rain for micro nutrients. I personally think the citrus industry needs to quit thinking so commercial and be a little more practical but demand drives supply....See MoreAnyone gotten ripe fruit from tree on US897 roots yet
Comments (7)My inside trees will be on US897 because I think it is better than PT or FD. It tolerates salt better. It picks up zinc and iron better. It handles higher PH. For my in ground trees I will be seed grown Meiwa kumquats and I will try Seville sour orange with a fukushu kumquat and one with an NZL scion. I would not want a flying dragon around here except under a Marumi kumquat. If I ever learn to graft better than 1.5% success Ill get a 4 winds Marumi and take buds from it to graft my Seville sour orange to a Fliying dragon. If you really want a superior rootstock that has everything going for it you need either a US942 Sunkist X Flying dragon, or Seville sour orange....See Moreponcirusguy6b452xx
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