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Tom McClendon
Приєднався 3 чер 2013
Gardening, citrus, palms, fruit, fishing, subtropical plants.
2024 citrus plantings in the cold-hardy grove.
I planted a number of very hardy citrus in the cold-hardy grove. All of these are various hybrids with Trifoliate orange, including Citremon, US 1516, CiClem #10, US 942, and others.
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Early citrus taste-test: Keraji, Kishu, Carolina Lime, and Kabosu
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Citrus taste testing
Propagating Plants With Just Water
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A number of plants can be propagated by rooting cuttings in water. Some examples are oleander, hydrangea, gardenia, and aucuba.
Oro Blanco Grapefruit
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Highlighting one of my fruiting commercial-grade citrus. This will be protected in winter as needed in my zone 8 climate. More on that in a later video!
Inducing Figs to Produce Fruit
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A one-year old fig of unknown type, probably Celeste or Brown Turkey.
A Tale of Three Sabal Riverside
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Sabal sp. ‘Riverside’ is a mysterious palm that originated as a single specimen in California. It’s become a highly sought-after Palm, but what is it? How would you know if you have the real thing?
Versatile and Wonderful Thomasville citrangequat
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One of my Thomasville citrangequats, blooming for (at least) the third time this season. If you live in Zone 8, you should be growing this citrus!
Unknown citrus seedling blooming for the first time
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This video illustrates how seedling citrus typically will bloom for the first time.
How Late Do I Fertilize In-ground Citrus?
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The last application of granular fertilizer to citrus for the 2024 growing season.
Look at all of the Thomasville citrangequat!
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Madison Citrus owner Hershell Boyd with 1,500 Thomasville citrangequats, grafted in May to meet the incredible demand for this ornamental and edible hardy citrus.
How I Grow Citrus (Part 3): The Survivors
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The oldest and hardiest citrus I grow. Some are more than 25 years old.
How I Grow Citrus, Part 2: Growing citrus at the mini-farm
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My rental house is about 15 miles from my primary residence. I have access to unlimited water, but the tenant pays for electricity, so I try to use it only for essential things. Citrus planted here is either hardy or mostly so, and I plant to take advantage of passive protection.
How I Grow Citrus, Part 1: Why I plant SOME citrus close together
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How I Grow Citrus, Part 1: Why I plant SOME citrus close together
Growing sweet potatoes in the ground and in grow bags
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Growing sweet potatoes in the ground and in grow bags
Needle palms and Trachycarpus princeps
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Needle palms and Trachycarpus princeps
Very nice I need to get that Dunstan and Thomasville here in Columbus NC. And give them a try.
Wow, an incredible collection of cold-hardy citrus!
That’s about 10% of my total collection! 😅
@@CitrusPalmsWithTom oh wow! Lol 🤣
Looking great. Looks like you are several weeks ahead of me. I have some dunstan growing and hope they can handle my zone. is the Citremon the same one Stan has?
I think so.
Wow that Dunstan is a hoss! I have two seedlings right now. One is from woodlanders and the other is from Stan. No telling which is the better one. Also, looks like I need to check out Madison nursery and pick up a Citremon and US942. I’m pretty to running out of room though 😂.
impressive dunstan! the thomasville is loaded, hope to get fruit on mine someday
I have another with even more fruit than this one!
Awesome collection!
Thanks!
Great update on them, looking forward to try 942 fruit. That Dunstan is MASSIVE!!!
So juicy 🍊
Thanks for uploading this!!! I totally agree with some of the fruits being more ripe and juicy even when still a little green. Excellent 💪🍊
You're so welcome!
Thank you Tom! I always learn something from you. Ewa
My pleasure!
Thanks!
Thanks for the video! Do you know what the cross is on the kabosu? I never heard of it. How cold hardy has it been for you?
Probably Yuzu x Kunenbo, which is a very old Japanese mandarin and one parent of Satsuma, Keraji, and others. I’ve had Kabosu in the ground just one winter (17F) so I don’t have enough experience with it to say how hardy it might be.
Thank you!
Welcome!
Good video
Thanks great to see how they are early in the season.
leaf curl can be from overwatering too.
very nice! I can't grow in the ground, i'm in zone 5b next to the rockies. Have to do everything in containers.
Thank you for sharing my brother. You're passionate about growing.
Looking good on the citrus. I hope you get a lot of fruit! The mystery citrus looks like a Thomasville to me, did it come from a seeds you sprouted?
Yes, I’ve grown many over the years, but hadn’t in a while and I had put this one aside and lost the label, so I was wondering if it was something different.
Hi Tom, did you ever get any loquat fruit? Mine usually freeze in the winter. Your citrus trees look beautiful.
@@doggiefamily908 I actually grew the tree in the video from seed, so yes, but it takes a mild winter. I only get fruit about once every four or five years.
Very nice collection!! Had a feeling your mystery citrus was Thomasville, my seedlings are strongly trifoliate at first. The SanCitChang seems very promising!!
We will see on the SCC. One book describes the trifoliate SCC foliage as “resembling Morton citrange,” which it very much does. The other one - which I have seedlings of - is unifoliate and has a large orange-yellow fruit.
@@CitrusPalmsWithTom Definitely one I’d like to graft out in 8A
Just order one today. I hope it grows as good as yours
Your Oro Blanco Grapefruit tree looks incredible!
Thanks!
Very exciting! It will be interesting to see how the fruit turns out!
Great video, thanks for sharing. How cold did you get last winter and the winter of 2022?
17F, no days that stayed below freezing.
I pinched mine maybe in May. Didn't know that induces fruiting, but they are covered in fruit now. Too bad other critters get them as soon as they start ripening, before we have a chance to enjoy them.
It works great! We pinched all of our figs that didn't start fruiting on their own already and they're all loaded with figs at every node.
Thanks for sharing this!
Did that on my Mt. Etna type and sure enough I’ll have figs this year!
Awesome!
I can't wait for mine to start producing. Right now I have four little fruits and some blooms. Yours is beautiful
Good luck!
I am growing one in mid Ga. It’s fantastic; very productive and while being very low maintenance. I can’t believe these aren’t everywhere by now.
Exactly. I hesitate to say it, but the big box stores should be carrying this instead of Meyer lemon and Key lime.
@@CitrusPalmsWithTom Couldn’t agree more, it’s such a productive, hardy tree!
This looks just like my Meyer lemon "bush" we just got this summer. It's putting out flowers right now that look white and purpleish on the outside.
Yes, the purple tinge is characteristic of lemon.
Can't wait to see got one that's about 3 yr old with my girlfriend it has really bushy growing guiding the branches it took off this month
Excited to see what it will be! Perhaps a seedling or your Augusta citrangequat? And honestly I wish more citrus did not come true from, would make for a much easier time to make new hybrids!
Thanks! Polyembryony is a two-edged sword: one one hand, it does make hybridization difficult except among the known monoembryonic types, but it also makes it possible for the average person to grow quality citrus from seed, something that you can’t to with apples, for example.
Looks good, I agree that it might be a kumquat. My limequat grown in a container, also from seed, is flowering now at ~2 years old! Thanks for clarifying the "citrus from seed will never bloom" myth, it's often repeated on forums and such not just for citrus but almost any other kind of fruit tree from seed. I say plant every seed if you have the space!
I think that myth has arisen somewhat from people’s experiences growing citrus in containers. I have a friend who grew a grapefruit from seed in a container and he would regularly prune it so he could get it in and out of his garage. The result was a tree that stayed in a state of arrested development. I told him that if he ever wanted it to bloom, he would have to let it grow. He did and it finally did, but by that point it was just unmanageable in a container - which is one reason why citrus are grafted!
@@CitrusPalmsWithTom I remember reading a story about a 50 or 60 year old potted grapefruit that never flowered. The owner mentioned pruning it to bring down the height every year so it would fit under their ceiling indoors, explains why it never flowered!
Tom does your area get a lot of cool days during winter which helps citrus go dormant?
Yes, our winter weather in January averages about 34/55F. Of course, it’s a rare day that is exactly average, but we don’t often hit 80F in January, and we only rarely (5 years or so) have a day that stays below freezing.
Tom how long did your citrus seedlings take to bear fruit
It varies. Thomasville and mandarins take 4-5 years. Trifoliate hybrids usually take 5-7 years. Ichang lemon seedlings take more than 10 years, which is why grafted trees are the better option.
Tom did you use frost blanket, christmas lights or micro sprinkler for freeze Protection?
Last year on my Meyer lemon, I used a barrel of water, mini lights, and a frost blanket. I’ll make a video on that one soon.
Tom Thanks upload more
Beautiful!
Thank you!
What a Beautiful specimen
Nice, Tom! Any interesting seedlings you’ve got growing! My Monticellos from you are growing pretty well!
Oh, I have more than I can manage. This year I focused on the really hardy stuff: Morton, Troyer citranges; citrmeon, citrumelo, yuzu, Keraji, and several others.
I once saw it rain!
Love that song too!
Your not kidding!
Nice truck!
Thanks 👍
It sure is!
Those princeps look great, they definitely are the real deal. Awesome palms, but they are just so painfully slow.
Agreed!
That is a nice collection of citrus you have there. Great content.
Thank you kindly
Awesome way to test an accurate cold hardiness on these trees! Nice video, Tom!
Thanks 👍
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Nice catch!
Some nice sabals!