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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Yuzu
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:35:04 -0600

Betsy, Yuzu is pleasant, as described. It probably really won't take temps much below 10 F, as described. It will ripen it's fruit even at 42 degrees north in Japan, which is a lot cooler than NC. However, your big problem is that like us over in TN, you have fluctuating winter temps. In Japan the temp is likely to go down and stay down for the winter. If it goes up and down, the tree could be caught by a cold snap following weeks of warm weather. This is a problem for citrus in general in our continental climate. I suggest once you get your tree, you consider doing things to minimize this problem. For example, trim it to bush form so you can cover it if necessary. Definitely make some more grafts, using trifoliate orange for rootstock, and bud very low or do root grafts so that you can heap dirt over the graft union when cold weather threatens. If you can save the graft, you can have fruit again in a couple of years after a bad winter. This is standard practice for young citrus groves in Florida.
The one other thing you need to know about citrus in general, and Yuzu in particular, is that seed grown trees take forever to crop. Yuzu is one of the worst, taking about 15 years to start cropping from seed. Get a nice budded tree to start with. Surely Stan McKenzie, Stan the Citrus Man, has Yuzus. Donna






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