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I hear you can eat them green as a slaw, but don't know how for sure. Might have to look it up if this don't get ripe in time.

I had the same problem last year the fruit did not get ripe. I might have to try the slaw thing if they don't ripen in time.

Thanks!

Thanks for watching. I saw someone in CO I think doing that and he was growing citrus and bananas with no heat but the compost hay. I hope I don't have as cold of a winter this year. I'm going to protect the bananas again and see if I can get them to bloom next year.

Thanks for watching! I'll have show some of cold temps this winter.

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Thank you! I just watched your Madison nursery video last night, it was great. How is your Trifoliate Satsuma you got from them doing? Also I sent you a email last month and never got anything back is the is the toughcitrus email working ?

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 it’s doing good 👍 oh geez. It should be working. I didn’t see it if you sent it because I try to respond pretty quick. But yeah the website and email is still up and running 💪🍊 thanks for tuning in also. Will scroll through and see if I missed it from a month ago. Take care brother 👍🍋🍊

Just sent another email let me know if you got it?

Yes got one a few months ago. I hear it is one of the more cold hardy hybrids.

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 should work well for you!

I would think you should be able to do alot better then me in zone 8A or did they just move you there like me? I'm going to try yuzu too, but will have to put it in the hoop house.

chicken manure but only in the spring.

Yes only 15F is warm for zone 7. Most years here I'll get down in to the single digits and the last 2 years down to 0f. That is what killed most of my trees. I might have to try a Yuzu out.

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 if you get a yuzu make sure its mature and keep it small so you can cover it. but it will die to the ground below 10f in my experience. if you can heat it even better. i like the fruit for cooking, the yuzu flavor and scent is really unique

Trifoliate Thomasville? Do you mean that it is a seedling Thomasville with trifoliate leaves? That is very common with seedling Thomasville citrangequat. As they mature, the leaves usually become unifoliate.

I don't know as it ages if it will change since you can see alot of this crosses change over time.

These are seedlings I sprouted from seeds. The one looks different then the rest, but as it grows could change. I know the crosses can change as they get older.

PVC is pretty tough to hold up, so I hope they hold up.

I got both of those this spring. My brother had some before and they died back to the ground ever year but I'm hoping I can do better with them. Do you have them?

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 I’ve got sirenevyi, Afganski, and Salavatski. No fruit yet!

Thanks.

I think about 8 years old.

I think you should be able to grow it fine. It never comes up to early for me.

Yes they are coming along nice for how cold we got. I thought the same thing about the last plant, I have a small US-852 about the same size and the leaves are a lot bigger on it so I don't know for sure what is going on but will be interesting to find out what the fruit are like. Thanks for the offer on the the 5 star citrumelo and Bishop citrandarin but I already got some this spring, but I'll keep that in mind if they don't make it through the winter. Have you ever grown carolina lime or dragon lime?

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 you're welcome! Yes I have one specimen of each, I'm keeping the carolina lime in a pot in an unheated greenhouse and the dragon lime is in our test orchard. Both are growing very nicely for their first season, I'll show them off in a video soon.

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 I have yet to try carolina lime yet though, but we did get to sample dragon lime when unripe (green) and ripe (orange) and found it tasted like a more bitter lime when green, and had a bitter lime/mandarin flavor when orange. We'll see how it tastes grown here in NC however, those fruit were taken from Stan's tree in SC which is not in the best of health.

I have tried to root that with no luck so far. I have heard of some people doing it though. Stan the citrus man sells Prague, he is a great guy, just give him a call.

@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 yeah I've tried for more rhan a year lol. He is out of them whenever I contact him. How old is ur prague?

Some branches are better then others. I thought the fruit set was not that good for how many flowers it had but I know it has trouble setting fruit.

Got down to 0F this last winter.

I have not. I might should try it though, have you? I have thomasville seedlings I sprouted and did not need more thomasville yet.(:

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 I have not. I am currently 3 weeks into trying to air layer my brown select. I have 1 little Thomasville that I just bought that I wanted to try it with.

sorry, but I don't have any extras.

About 5 weeks.

The taste on the one I have are not that good, pretty puckering like a green persimmons. It is just a wild one I bought though and i hear some of the name kinds are better.

I had 3 trees and this is the only one that made it. it seems to like it here pretty well. For the next week everyday is over 100F here.

I know what you mean, the pot is already heavy and I'm going to have to get it in to the house come winter.

@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 Hopefully you get a harvest before too long.

Bring them in the house.(: Would love to get a big full heated greenhouse some day but for no this will have to work.

@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 Ok, I'm thinking about getting one

Thanks.

Thank you.

I have a lot more already, I'll show them in a later video. Most of them have trouble living here because of cold.

Is it absolute cold, or do they tend to break dormancy early and then get damaged?

@@CitrusPalmsWithTom Some of both. All my citrange died a few years ago when we went down to 0f. Alot of them try to come out to early in the spring which can set them back.

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 that is a problem, particularly with citranges. Citrumelos are better.

Each one of my trees are different in taste and berry size, but all came from one mother tree.

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 nice, how long did it take for them to fruit? there's so many trees growing wild around town, might just clip a branch and go from there but if I can plant seeds might try that too

Thanks for watching!