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kaczercat
01-01-2014, 05:12 PM
Happy New Year! are these blooms on the tree?
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kubali
01-01-2014, 05:44 PM
Happy New Year! are these blooms on the tree?
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Yes they are, I have some navel oranges blooming as well.
Now I hope no bad freeze comes.
They aren't leaves so I suspect they're blooms! Yippee! It seems my variegated lemon has set fruits despite my very awkward "Oh dear I have do something!". I sacrificed a flower with "hairy" things that I moved to the others playing bee. I don't know if that or just massaging the flowers worked but I have 9 little nubs on my plant down from maybe 2 more blooms.
Years ago I grew a caladomin in MD; bees did the work every summer so this inside stuff is not something I know anything about. From what I read, citrus are really promiscuous thus very easily pollinated.
Funkthulhu
01-02-2014, 10:48 AM
Is this the time of year that citrus usually blooms? I'd really like to see this happen to my pomelo this year!
Is this the time of year that citrus usually blooms? I'd really like to see this happen to my pomelo this year!Lemons bloom year round; I don't believe that's normal for other citrus. Perhaps someone with experience will check in?
john_ny
01-02-2014, 04:26 PM
I have a variegated lemon that's starting to bloom. It's inside, under lights. Does this mean that I'll have to hand pollinate?
sunfish
01-02-2014, 04:32 PM
Does a Lemon Tree Need to Be Pollinated From Another Lemon Tree? | Home Guides | SF Gate (http://homeguides.sfgate.com/lemon-tree-need-pollinated-another-lemon-tree-60046.html)
I have a tomato growing outside; they are also self pollinators. (Indeed it's best when the wind does it alone if you want to save seeds; otherwise you need to bag blooms to ensure purity.) I have 2 little tomatoes forming now. Yeah!
My cousins gardened in Alaska which meant their veggies lived in a greenhouse; they used paintbrushes to ensure fruits. Tapping on tomatoes, peppers and beans will work; squash has both male and female blooms so you must get them to meet. They chose to use a brush on all.
If you have wind inside, then your lemons will not need assistance. I didn't so I played bee. Maybe what I did was overkill and tapping alone or blowing on the flowers would have done the trick but I like the results thus far; sure the blooms smell great but I grew this to yield fruit not just pretty leaves.
kaczercat
01-02-2014, 06:48 PM
ohh crap!will I have to pollinate grapefruit?
ohh crap!will I have to pollinate grapefruit?You don't have to, honey;), but, if you want fruits from inside plants, you should probably get ready to make like a worker bee. (If I can do it, anyone can--I still have 9 little nubs on my lemon.)
Dangermouse01
01-02-2014, 08:57 PM
Is this the time of year that citrus usually blooms? I'd really like to see this happen to my pomelo this year!
Here in coastal central Florida, this is the time of year (Jan) when I start harvesting the Ruby Red grapefruits off my tree, my Valencia oranges are later and my Sunburst tangerines are earlier. Blooms for me are usually Feb-Mar time frame, of course different varieties may be earlier or later. Don't have a pummelo so can't say when you should expect buds/blooms.
DM
kaczercat
01-10-2014, 03:24 PM
I'm really surprised it's blooming! I never fertilized it. I got it back in May or of 2013 and all I did was give it a bigger pot.
Here it is today Jan 10 2014
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Also found a few flower buds on my passion vine, never had flowers in Jan usually it's out in the greenhouse
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kaczercat
01-14-2014, 04:29 PM
can someone please tell me roughly how long the flowers lasts for? and when the fruit will show up? First flower opened today
Abnshrek
01-14-2014, 04:36 PM
I'm going to say that's all environment dependent. Winter blooms can take much longer to do anything, or can fall off, so the fact it's still there is a good thing.
kaczercat
03-02-2014, 04:16 PM
looks like I have one grapefruit that wanted to stay
March 2 2014
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I had 6 lemons out of I think 9 blooms but now only 2 fruits. However, she appears to be blooming again. Or sending out some really odd new leaves.
kaczercat
03-02-2014, 04:32 PM
Ughhh! hopefully you'll get more 2nd time round:) it seems- not sure about lemons but my GF tree doesn't send very many leaves up a year, maybe 2 sets. is this normal?
kaczercat
03-02-2014, 04:34 PM
New citrus plants from Florida last week
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Hey, you can't post a picture like that without listing what you got. What you paid is your business unless you want to make it ours. ;)
kaczercat
03-02-2014, 07:26 PM
fair enough from left to right
Lemon-not sure what kind just said lemon, calamondin orange, palm, lime- not sure what kind
Enjoy your plants! I had a calamondin for many years in MD; I used the fruit to make 1 cup of extraordinary marmalade annually that I guarded like a hawk. (It wasn't that watered down supermarket stuff; 1/2 teaspoon flavored an English muffin.)
Funkthulhu
03-11-2014, 04:05 PM
I think my Pomelo is teasing me, I swear it had buds for a day then they went away.
kaczercat
04-05-2014, 04:12 PM
Here it is April 4 2014
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Snookie
04-05-2014, 04:37 PM
Here it is April 4 2014
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GROOVY, thanks for the pic's
Hammocked Banana
04-05-2014, 05:45 PM
Lookin fantastic!
scottu
04-05-2014, 07:01 PM
Hey Matt, very cool, could you show a pic of the tree itself, the trunk and the pot? I have one passed on to me from my mother, supposed to have been from a seed from her breakfast some 25 years ago. never knew it to flower, didn't think it could in its pot.
I would just like to compare, Thanks
kaczercat
08-22-2014, 04:19 PM
Aug 2014
Winter blooms fell off due to nature and my own neglect. It flowered again in mid May. I now have 5 grapefruit
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kaczercat
03-03-2016, 11:18 AM
Hey everyone! so I haven't had any bananas yet, but I did grow a flame grapefruit. much better then store bought (very sweet) I have had this tree for 3 or 4 years now.
Heres a little timeline
May 2013 on the day I bought it
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Here it was March 2015
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end of May-June 2015 after the new set of leaves came out
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Aug it started to turn in color
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It was picked in the middle of sept. pretty damn good for zone 5b. it is now getting ready to flower again. I wonder what this year will bring!
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Mark Dragt
03-03-2016, 11:21 PM
That looks really good! Thanks for posting the great picts.
37.667910
03-04-2016, 03:56 PM
That's pretty amazing!
Well done.
Hammocked Banana
03-07-2016, 07:54 PM
Looking good Matt. Good to see you're still at it and having some good success!
kaczercat
12-23-2016, 11:58 AM
The larger fruit is changing color. They will be ready at different times. It still seems way to early for it to be ripening. The tree flowered in Early July of 2016 I know normally they do ripen in the winter. what do you think?
12 23 16
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We never really know with indoor plants...
Sadly, now that I live where I can grow tropicals, I long for my beloved Northern fruits. A true cherry, a non mealy apple, a peach that makes you cry with delight when it drips down your arms and a tomato that doesn't taste like a greenhouse reject. Good on you for getting your exotics to produce against all odds.
kaczercat
12-23-2016, 03:46 PM
I've had more success with grapes, lemons and grapefruit then apples cherries and so on.
Mark Dragt
12-23-2016, 05:33 PM
I've had more success with grapes, lemons and grapefruit then apples cherries and so on.
Is your lack of success with apples and cherries because the blossoms get froze off?
:nanadrink:
kaczercat
12-23-2016, 05:43 PM
Is your lack of success with apples and cherries because the blossoms get froze off?
:nanadrink:
Yes for the past 2 years
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