From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
Organization: Lycos Mail (http://www.mail.lycos.com:80)
Reply-To: mrtejas@lycos.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 13:57:26 -0500
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] key limes, seedling citrus in general
I live 500 miles north of the commercial citrus area near Houston, TX but in a good area for satsumas. Enthusiasts like me "push" our zone(8b/9a)and ground oranges and grapefruit in the ground with winter protection. A neighbor had a mature key lime tree seedling in the ground 8 or 10 feet tall. I have a grafted 3 footer in a pot. My pot tree outproduced by several fold the much larger seedling without the wicked thorniness. A thornless selection is available for key lime and I have one in a pot.
Seedlings may do well in the ground for citrus though. I have had them bear fruit from 1-3 years old although 5 years is thought more likely. One limequat fruited the first year in a pot at about 3 feet tall.
Phil
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