Date: 22/03/2014 17:41:38
From: Dinetta
ID: 507136
Subject: Growing citrus from seed

Can it still be done in this day and age of hybridisation? When I was a child, we had lovely mandarins from seeds planted straight into the ground…

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Date: 22/03/2014 23:02:47
From: roughbarked
ID: 507305
Subject: re: Growing citrus from seed

Dinetta said:


Can it still be done in this day and age of hybridisation? When I was a child, we had lovely mandarins from seeds planted straight into the ground…

Well, yes and no. :) See if this helps

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Date: 22/03/2014 23:54:27
From: roughbarked
ID: 507364
Subject: re: Growing citrus from seed

http://www.instructables.com/id/Seed-Starting-with-the-%22Baggie-Method.%22/

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Date: 23/03/2014 01:50:10
From: roughbarked
ID: 507416
Subject: re: Growing citrus from seed

roughbarked said:


Dinetta said:

Can it still be done in this day and age of hybridisation? When I was a child, we had lovely mandarins from seeds planted straight into the ground…

Well, yes and no. :) See if this helps

Basically; Most citrus have an unusual characteristic — they can produce trees that are genetically identical to the parent through a natural process in seed development called nucellar embryony.

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Date: 23/03/2014 16:03:04
From: Dinetta
ID: 507544
Subject: re: Growing citrus from seed

Thanks for all the tips, RoughBarked…I see where a planted seed might take up to 6 years to bear fruit as opposed to a grafted one that may fruit within a year or two…still planning my “orchard” down the back…and hopefully a (mostly) native, bird friendly yard to one part of the front – where I’m sick of mowing…

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Date: 23/03/2014 18:03:51
From: Dinetta
ID: 507603
Subject: re: Growing citrus from seed

I’m a bit concerned because some of the commercial citrus growers in Emerald only grow mandarins (I think it is) that are seedless…Rough are you saying that if there’s a seed in the fruit and it cuts up like the first link you gave me says, it should grow true?

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Date: 23/03/2014 22:48:02
From: roughbarked
ID: 507849
Subject: re: Growing citrus from seed

Dinetta said:


I’m a bit concerned because some of the commercial citrus growers in Emerald only grow mandarins (I think it is) that are seedless…Rough are you saying that if there’s a seed in the fruit and it cuts up like the first link you gave me says, it should grow true?

Yes.

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Date: 24/05/2014 06:39:34
From: Dinetta
ID: 535809
Subject: re: Growing citrus from seed

I thought I might start my own cumquat tree, but the cumquats are yuck and somebody said those cumquats have proven not to make nice marmalade…this is a tree belonging to J1….looking up the internet (in RoughBarked’s absence) I find that cumquats are best started from a cutting…also they have tender skin and not tough, and are not dried out inside…

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