Have any of you used/processed fruit from flying dragon? Is it worthwhile? It seems like the most cold hearty of the bunch (zone 6).
http://www.crfg.org/fg/icrfsn.html <- Indoor Citrus & Rare fruit Society Newsletters
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1881527700/californirarefru <- Movable Harvests
Patrick O'Connor
Oakland, CA
http://delicious.com/phoconnor
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:38:59 -0600
From: Kevin Topek <ktopek@att.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Citrus and cold
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Lawrence,
The Kumquats are naturally short. I do not usually plant dwarfing
varieties. You can probably grow most citrus in a greenhouse as long
as you keep it pruned away from the roof and it gets sufficient air
flow in the summer. I am currently trying out some new lemon
varieties. We'll see if they made it after this bout of cold recedes.
Kevin Topek
On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
Kevin Topek wrote:
citrus' grafted onto Trifoliata and Flying Dragon rootstock. Citrus
varieties that do well here are: Improved Meyer Lemon, Satsumas,
Honey
Mandarin, Kumquats, Grapefruits, Pomelo, Hand of the Buddha, some
Oranges (esp Republic of Texas), Calamondin (Phillppine Orange) and
Mexican Thornless Lime.
These sound like wonderful citrus varieties, ones I would like to grow
here in NC, maybe in a greenhouse. Are any of these you've listed
dwarf
or full sized trees, Kevin? Calmondin, Ponderosa Lemon and Meyer Lemon
do fine here, with winter protection. I have a dwarf Meyer in huge
pot,
indors now; my Grandfather grew a ponderosa lemon in a tub in
Pittsboro
(one of these huge lemons were enough for a whole pie) and my Mother
grew calmondins in her ground floor laundry room for years; they were
delicious (skins are sweet, rest is sour, what a lemonade that would
make).
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