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[Hector Black <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>]

I've been messing with several for some years.  Meyer lemon, Ponderosa
lemon, calamondin, kumquat, and we've had good crops of limequat, a hybrid,
that has wonderful juice and fruit almost the size of an small orange.  skin
worthless, and tree is thorny.  Most of mine are grafted either onto
trifoliate orange or the cultivar "flying dragon" but I've heard that
trifoliate does about as good a job as flying dragon and is much easier to
come by.  It seems as though putting them outdoors in the summer exposes
them to predators that take care of most of the insect pests, scale, spide
mite, whitefly, although I suspect we may have thrips.  I recommend them as
houseplants - very beautiful and sometimes with extraoardinary fragrance -
the lemons are best at that in my experience.  I put them out (and bring
them in if hard frost threatens) in late March, early April.  Cover with
Reemay otherwise.  Same in the fall, as much good sun as possible.  Then
they're croded into a sunroom - but have done well in any sunny window.
Gets down to about 32 deg. in the sunroom.
    I've had some wonderful grapefruit, hirado buntan by name, but it's a
little fussier about regular watering to get good size in the fruit.
    Hector Black zone 6, middle TN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Meadows" <pat@containerseeds.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] indoor citrus


> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:38:10 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >There are dwarfing rootstocks that can control plant size.  Citrus are
> >commonly grown and sold in containers in Southern California, but the
> >long term growing of citrus in even a 15 gallon container will involve
> >root pruning and repotting and a sun room or greenhouse.
> >
>
> I'm not sure you'd need an actual sun room or greenhouse.
>
> I've grown citrus trees indoors (in the north) fairly long
> term (five years or so), and they bore fruit.  They were in
> front of a large bay window.  But you wouldn't have called
> it a sun room.
>
> Pat
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