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Originally Posted by Kat2
Wish I lived where receiving "home made" citrus plants or even seeds was legal and that I had a spare pot or 2 to dedicate to experiments which, I'm not convinced, won't eventually yield decent tasting fruits.
I'm drooling over pmurphy's "striped" kumquat because I'm a sucker for variegated plants and I absolutely adore kumquats. I have a legal pink lemon which I would love to share; she has 1 little gnarly fruit on her very coddled self just now which makes me very happy. (Fortunately, if that drops, she'll bloom again so I won't miss an entire season.)
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I've never had a variegated before so it should be interesting to see if there is any difference in the taste.....I'll let you know
FYI, My collection currently includes:
"quats" - Fortunella Japonica Thunberg
key lime
finger lime
Satsuma mandarin
Satang mandarin
honey tangerine
ugli
tangelo
kumquat fukushu
variegated kumquat
marsh white grapefruit
citron
Seville orange
Meyer's lemon
Citrus junos
'flying dragon' - Poncirus trifoliate (these last 2 are extremely cold hardy and have flown through the last 4 winters without issue outside in the gardens)
....and a couple of seedlings from either mandarin or clementine (store bought at Christmas that I shoved into a pot, and they sprouted)
I also have some Sudachi ichandrin seeds that I'm currently trying to germinate