Can You Grow Citrus From Seed? | Is It Even Worth It?
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- Common Monoembryonic citrus:
Meyer Lemon
Nagami Kumquat
Marumi Kumquat
Pummelos
Temple Tangor
Clementine Mandarin
Common Polyembryonic Citrus:
Calamondin
Most Tangelos
Most Lemons
Most Mandarins
Most Oranges
Fukushu Kumquat
Most Limes
Grapefruits
Meiwa Kumquat (mostly polyembryonic)
Most Satsumas and Tangerines
If your citrus is not on this list, simply germinate the seed. If you get several sprouts from a single seed, yours is polyembryonic.
Some citrus will fall under intermediate embryonic and will produce either poly or mono seeds based on local ambient temperatures and cross pollination so not always 100% one or the other.
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I learned from this video. I have lemon trees from seed, from grocery bought lemon. all 3 years old. I hope it will fruit next year.
Good job man, citrus was doing just fine way before man learned to graft. I remember a few years ago I planted a key lime seed and to my surprise it fruited after 2 years.
Im on this journey rn
Yes, Key Lime is true to seed
I have a lemon seedling that’s about 18 inches tall. I thought it died through the winter but it’s back and full of leaves. Will this seedling become a tree that will fruit?
There are many beneficial things that make grafting a good idea
Great video, now i understand why some valencia orange seeds sprout several plants..
My seedling citrus are the strongest and best tasting. I'm starting to hate grafted trees. Great video brother.
me too
Wonder if there is a list of citrus that you are able to grow from seed? I think you started something great. Thanks Alan. Tangelos are at the top of the list because of this video. Will Meyer Lemons grow true from seed?
Alan do you have a patreon channel? Thanks
Sometimes the reason trees are grafted to a rootstock is to reduce their size so they will be half or 3/4 the size of a full size tree for people who don't have a lot of space to grow a lot of trees or maybe so they can grow a few more trees to give them a larger variety.
I have a bunch of key limes started from seed. Thanks, I looked to see about them and according to google they will grow true from seed.
And they fruit faster from what I remember. Instead of waiting 5 years you just wait 1 or 2? Is that correct?
@@DestinyA83 The people I have bought grafted citrus trees from suggest waiting for 2 to 3 years before you let them fruit so they can grow roots and a canopy and Tom on the Sleepy Lizard channel says that he has a avocado tree that quit growing because he let it fruit without waiting and supposedly it can cause them not to fruit or fruit properly.
One of the reasons to graft is to get the benefit of a strong root stock on scion that has less desirable roots - either for disease or pest resistance, cold or heat tolerance, or to dwarf the tree, and make the tree bear fruit earlier than it otherwise would. Other reasons is it's faster and easier to make a lot of the same plant for the nursery.
Great knowledge. Thank you.
YES!! Two plants came out of one seed, I remember noticing that. 🤞🤞 it was a suuuper sweet orange!
Cool 😎 video great trees 🌳
That's so cool. As always appreciate your content!
Great examples and explanation of the principles involved in regards to polyembryony and monoembryony. Other terminology is Nucellar seedlings for true-to-type seedlings, and Zygotic seedlings for genetically variable seedlings. Seedlings from the seed frequently root-graft to one another, even if they're from different seeds, but touching one another. beautiful fruit.
Excellent video. I currently have two polyembryonic Clementine seedlings growing.
One thing that I have noticed from growing citrus from seed is that when they sprout up some of them have the trifoliet leaves and some of them have the 1 solid leaf and I'm pretty sure if it has the solid leaf it's probably close to the type
This is great info. Yhanx fo sharing
As a nursery owner/grower..can you share if this is true...
Are citrus trees griwn outside hardier/stronger than citrus grown in a gteenhouse?
Or..is this a way for nurseries to sell smaller plants at the same price as larger, more mature looking trees? Can you do a video on this myth? Thanx. Debra
Also, can you make list of poly citrus trees for us to grow besides Tangelis? Thanx. Debra
@@debragray1631 Funny enough I'm running a little experiment using water bottles with the bottoms cut off and the caps removed as make shift mini green house for 2 citrus seedlings and not for the other 2. The 2 seedlings with the water bottles have lighter green leaves but seem to be producing new leaves faster, the 2 seedlings without the water bottles have dark green leaves and are also making new leaves but slower. It's a bit early to say the results but so far I'd say the green house effect makes them grow faster but not as hardy so some of the time saved in the tree growing faster will be have to be re-payed in hardening off the tree and acclimating it to the out doors slowly. Also different citrus trees have different types of leaves and not all can be grown from seed but you can easily look up the leaf shape of the seed you are trying to grow and compare as the newly formed hybrids will always be different.
@@debragray1631 Dancy tangerine has 100% Nucellar embryos (polyembryonic).
No matter what I say, my sister, who only watches TV and cannot use the most simple internet device and has no cell phone, will ALWAYS blurt out, "You believe everything you see on the internet!" The NEWS told her this! Her son never believes me either. "Did you see that on the internet?"
lol
Im so glad. Great info
Thanks so much for this video!! Super informative
I have started seeds from a supermarket grapefruit and a blood orange. Both are supposedly polyembryonic - however, I got only one sprout of each seed. We'll see what happens.
nothing to lose and everything to gain
Have you grown any Meiwa kumquats from seed, if so how long did it take to fruit? Thanks
This sounds great
Great information. Thanks for your research
Thanks!
Do you hold any value to the new hybrid variety fruit you created though? Can it do the job of a lemon or an orange or is it just a bad combination of the two that isn't worth using in the kitchen? I did the same research and I'm glad to find a video with some evidence, I have a Tangelo seedling growing and some Meyer lemon seedlings growing one of which put out a hybrid. I separated them already as I didn't know they would fuse trunks but I'm super curious on if the hybrid fruit will be any good or not.
I'll be honest with you, I just tasted it. I will squeeze some of those orange-lemon ones and see if they make a good lemonade lol.
@@qctropicals Ok it's also worth trying the zest of the skin for it's flavor there to.
Wow, thank you. Unfortunately, I'm 65 and think waiting 10 years for an orri mandeine to prodigy fruit is unrealistic. I've been searching hard for orri manderine trees, but no one sells them yet. Thank you again
Are you talking about owari satsuma? If so stan (the citrus man) at Mckenzie farms sells several varieties of citrus I just got 2 last week.
@jamesthestoryguy509 No, sir, I have one of those. ORRI is from Israel but has recently been grown in the US and the best eating I've ever had. It's much better tasting and sweeter than Owari Satsuma which is good but no Orri.
So you’re telling me that my mandarin seeds and lemon seeds which came from trees that were growing reasonably close to each other could have cross pollinated and my resulting plants from those seeds could be a mix lemon and mandarin ? That would be very interesting to see happen 😅 (if I got that correctly).
Fascinating.
I have germinated seeds from store bought Sunkist Organic Naval Orange, and Sunkist Tangerine. I did this on a whim really, because the seeds looked plump and healthy. I noticed when the seeds germinated, they had multiple sprouts from the one seed. The older Organic Sunkist Naval Orange is about a year and a half old, and is about 19" tall.
The younger Sunkist Tangerine plant is about one year old, and about 14" tall.
Both are total indoor houseplants, in pots.
Am not intending to plant them in my yard. The soil is poor quality, mostly from dredged material when the Marina was being built.
The backfill is from that dredging process.
Plus I live in Honolulu.
❤your videos, very informative, thank you!
But the hardest part is to determine which of the small seedlings is going to be the product of fertilization vs the clone. Who has the time to grow up a seedling until you see the fruit? 3 years is rather unusual. For those of us growing in pots, it can take many years longer.
From what I see people saying is that all the clone plants will be bigger while the runt is the sexually reproduced part
Great video!!! I have a ponderosa lemon seeding that's about a year old. After watching this video, i know it's mono and won't be true to type, but I'm down for a journey. the only issue with seedling over grafted is how big seedling get. Some grow huge, and a lot of people are going the dwarf route these days.
I ordered some key lime seeds off of eBay and one sprouted a week ago.
awesome did you get 1 sprout per seed or several?
@@qctropicals only one sprout per seed and only one seed sprouted
Very cool!
Lets plant some citrus boii
Where should I put my seeds? In a small pot or sprout in a paper towel in refrigerator?
Thank you
Bruh this is GREAT to know... so happy to know. Please let me know when you get the seedlings ret to sell... will def buy and support!
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Do you need two different varieties of tangelos to get fruit? Also how many varieties are there? Thanks
there are many varieties. Main ones I know personally are Minneola and Honeybell. Most other citrus will pollinate tangelo no problem.
Great video , where does one get seed from , would love to grow this and meiwa kumquat but finding seed is hard
How about a lima dulce/palestine sweet lime?
no different than any other citrus
Does the lemon taste like a lemon from the store? From the poly tree?
Promising info, I don't like growing grafted trees, didn't think I had much choice... (though I could say, I know some grafted trees of mine (citrus and mostly other) were root bound to begin with). I'm in 9a north, close to 8b line in central Florida. Okay, so hear this, the Anna apple can be grown from cuttings! The Dorsett and Anna are very heat tolerant and self fertile. The second try with both of these, grafted, one made it, and I lost the tag... it produces fruit in abundance but they don't ripen, but I've kinda ignored it. It's about 7 years old. SO HERE'S THE INFORMATION ua-cam.com/video/mp1DYN2qnCQ/v-deo.html
that's great! I haven't tried propagating apples yet but it's in the to do list. I'm sure It's a bunch of gardening myths with them too.
@@qctropicals Just to add to the conversation, I too think the world is full of myths and old wives tales although some have certain value it's not the only way. I tested growing meyer lemon cuttings and it works just fine, supposedly it won't have a strong root system but it's branches tell a different story.
Have calamonding from seen. I have it for 6 years and still no fruits lol
Why kumquat seed would not produce kumquats?
that is why the orchard plant type a and type B in their orchard so that you can never grow an avocado from seed and tasted like the one you bought.
Actually @thekiwigardener has an amazing video debunking this, where he grew an avocado tree from a pit and in 6.5 years it made over 100 delicious fruits. Dozens of comments under it describing similar results, including from someone who works in a seed grown avocado orchard in Fiji.
Big agribusiness WANTS us to think it can only be done the nursery way. It's often untrue.
Cool
Great info ! Thanks!
Can you send me a few of these seeds?
send me an email
@@qctropicals I tried responding but yahoo keeps deleting because of the email lol but i sent you a direct email to your queencreektropicals
Wow!!!
You are 100% correct I planted an orange seedlings and the tree gave me apples.
Can I grow a navel orange from seed
ofcourse
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