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In Zone 7a Philly, paaaalllllleeeaasse give me a short outline on your care for the papaya, also I'm in the hood, so I'll be doing container gardening, I'll be sure to big up you if I can get this to workout for me, as well as you are currently.

It got down to 1 degree the other night and the temp keeps going up and down in east Tn I just got my hoop house and I am having a greenhouse made will be delivered in about 4 weeks

Do you know what's the name of these varieties ?

Wow, that's a lot of snow ! In your experience, does snow cover help your citrus survive cold nights or it really is better to remove it all the time ? I'm very curious about these Prague seedlings. They're probably pure satsuma, aren't they ? Or did you see anything indicating otherwise ?

In Texas Changsha is "on the edge" at 17°F. The older trees die at lower temperatures and the young, healthy ones will not fruit if it drops below 17. Interestingly, small seedlings will take lower than 17 without or with minimal damage. They will self-seed here between Houston and San Antonio if you allow the fruit to fall to the ground. The fruit is delicious; the peels indeed have a fragrance and taste similar to Key Limes. They are very seedy (about 40/fruit and the seedlings are maternals,, just like the mother tree. I swear they will set fruit directly from flower buds - no need to make silly, wasteful flowers! When it does make flowers, they are fragrant but small (less than 3/4 inch día.). Satsuma does not do well here (rainfall and minimum temperature related), but Changsha loves it here with no complaints about our less than 35"/year rainfall.

Nice, pallet smoke houses are neat. Hope you get many years of enjoying smoking with it.

In the Philippines we eat there with spicey vinigar and salt, with a dash of fish sauce in the mix😊 delicious 😊

Thank you for making this video! It's a rarity nowadays to see folks cover citrus trees in the snow. I own 82 acres in Nevada & live in California. So this means alot. Great job 👏🏼!

Very cool video! Thank you for posting this. I believe US1516 rootstock is a hybrid of African pomelo and trifoliate?

I love pomelos! They are traditionally eaten during Asian Lunar New Year’s celebrations. Pomelos can very well. I peel them, remove the membranes and process in light syrup. The peel is lovely candied.

In the Mile High Area and do someting similar. We use two trash cans and both have Fish tank heaters, one at 92f and the other at 72f, the plan is to get at least 3 to 5 more tubs(tops will be diy seed tray heatpads, and cans where i'll have the warmest one have a pump that has the tub run thru and around them and with that. im Guessing i wont have to get but one or two more heaters and have them set to run for timed intervels To save some power unless it drops to negatives where itll be full 94f and the other is constant 72f. then i just need to build a battery set up for the solar panals and i'll eliminate my issue with having power go out or too many things connected. we,re getting -30fwc and getting bubblewrap inside and removeable walls with foam and card board out side to help. b4 got to 20 and stayed 55-60 and just want to keep that so no more peppers or eggplant go dormant.... havlf did last week when power went out

was contemplating on pvc, but this setup is more expensive where im from, 2x4 or 4x4 good lumber plus wood screw did it for me

One of the best examples of Prague I have seen online. Tell us your secret. Well done.

4 bucks for c9, that's a great deal. I bought mine for 9$ on clearance on Amazon.

My calamondins were about this size too. Very sour. I use them just like lemons, in my tea.

my calamondin, on own roots, fruit the same size as these. maybe a different rootstock influences the size, i've seen bigger ones as well. too sour for eating fresh 🤐

They look good, I have never had them just mandarin

whats your favorite kumquat/mandarin cross? Nippon orangequat, Indio mandarinquat, Excalibur red lime? edited: to add Excaliber to the list

We are in zone 7b, Texas Panhandle. We got 12 inches of snow 3 days ago and its going to be single digit temps this coming weekend with -20F windchill and 4 days straight without getting above freezing. This is a much colder and more snowy winter than we have had the past couple years.

It's a great way to heat a greenhouse on a budget 🌝👍

Looks like your greenhouse is holding up well I have snow starting to sit on mine to in Polk county NC. And it keeps coming down. Time to go check mine and get some off thanks for showing hopefully it won’t get any worse. Keep us updated it’s cold too.

We've got down to 23 as well. My 10 by 10 plastic greenhouse, with a simple oil heater is doing a great job keeping my citrus above freezing.

Great job and nice engineering.

Nice build! I'll probably be making this kind this time. I need to figure out how to move my dragonfruit plants into new pots. I have 5 varieties that are in 2 10g pots. I need to separate them out. Also, the pot with the original trellis (wooden), the trellis got broken in our cross-country move.

Do you have to do any winter prep? Like do you wrap up your papaya tree?

Apples/bananas release ethylene gas. Papaya are climacteric fruit, meaning the fruit contains the chemical energy needed to finish ripening once the fruit has been harvested/removed from the mother plant so they can ripen on the kitchen counter like a banana or tomato. Super impressed by your papayas!

I've found the mandarinquat by the same brand paul.1337 mentioned at Whole Foods! I have a couple seedlings in my greenhouse in the ground. Used to have a bigger 2 year old seedling in a pot but lost it to root rot. The fruit is good when very orange.

I used to live down in Costa Rica and Nicaragua and a local there showed me when a green papaya would fall from the tree early that if you cut slits down the fruit and let it sit where it’s warm it will ripen it faster. Maybe this would work for you as well.

Great effort

In the colder climate do you water them and the ones you covered with peat moss did you leave them outside did you top with hay did you bring them inside

How durable is the plastic? My supposedly UV protective coated polycarbonate roof panels on my small gh are already brittle and falling apart after 2 years

I have a greenhouse and its harder to heat then my plants under agfabric im in north Mississippi just south of Memphis the stuff under agfabric just has c9 lights the greenhouse has c9 lights with a heater

Citrus is really easy to root with rooting hormone and a loose soil just keep it damp. I’ve done it.

Do you know how to root them or graph them

Maybe put a couple de govita 1000s in there you'll get heat and light, I'd also throw a fan in there to keep the Air moving.

Hi, new subscriber here! Great tour!

Do you sell any trees

I am very impressed. Have you ever checked out the more cold hardy Mountain Papaya? The fruit is very small.

Thank you for the tour. Where did you get your barrels from? I'm looking for a cheap source of large, black barrels. I got two smaller greenhouses. One is 10 by 10, the other 10 by 7. The bigger one has all the cold hardy trees, satsumas, kumquats, thomasville, etc. The smaller is for lemon, lime, pineapple, banana and passion vines. I have small electric heaters in both, but try to keep only the smaller one from freezing. The other one, I will turn the heater on only if it drops below 25 . You could possibly put all your frost sensitive plants in one end, and only protect these from freezing.

I agree!

Another trick is to get a 50-gallon aquarium heater and drop it into the barrels of water. The heater will easily keep the barrel at about 90F. Also, putting bricks or pavers on the floor will allow the ground to heat more in the sun.

I understand trying to do everything as cheaply as possible. But your hoop house is doomed if there's much of a storm. Those small tubes just don't have the strength needed to resist severe gusts. You can find various videos of people learning the hard way what happens to flimsy, rigged greenhouses in severe weather.

Yuzu should be fine. Cold hardy to 0*F. It becomes the 007 James Bond strategy of Live and Let Die. You try out different plants and Nature sorts out the ones that can adapt to your conditions. Don’t get discouraged. 😊

I tried the ceramic pot candle thing but with a massive crisco candle. I have a tiny, one cattle panel hoop house. It didn’t generate any extra heat. But I did heap up mushroom compost on either side of the greenhouse and that seems to keep it relatively warmer at night.

Thanks for the tour

Bury the greenhouse more!

You could string incandescent christmas lights inside the greenhouse to give off heat. Also could add frost cloths or sheets for more cold sensitive trees/plants. Maybe a second layer of 6 mil greenhouse plastic but you would need to make sure to vent during the day so it will not get too hot in there.

How do you protect it for the winter ?

Thanks for your review looking tasty.

Citremon will produce seeds on standard fruit, which appear to be highly polyembryonic. The original cross was very difficult to make and seedlings of Citremon are not nearly as vigorous as other trifoliate hybrids. The leaves on Citremon are the most beautiful of any trifoliate hybrid (to me). Very large and deep green.