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Old November 17, 2015   #1
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Default Poncirus trifoliata/ wild citrus

Hi. Does anyone grow this or have this growing on their property? I would like to try growing this on mine. I have been reading that they can be used in cooking...
Any info or background would help as well. Thanks
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Hi. Does anyone grow this or have this growing on their property? I would like to try growing this on mine. I have been reading that they can be used in cooking...
Any info or background would help as well. Thanks
It is used as root stock for a lot of your other citrus.
It may be what is growing from my trees now.


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Hi Worth!
Thanks for replying. I was thinking of trying to locate seeds or small trees to plant in my zone 8 area. I've heard they may be invasive( the original plant)?
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Hi Worth!
Thanks for replying. I was thinking of trying to locate seeds or small trees to plant in my zone 8 area. I've heard they may be invasive( the original plant)?

This thing I have growing from the root stock hasn't made fruit yet.
The deer kept eating the leaves of the orange that was grafted to it.
They grow wild on the coast.
It has stopped raining let me go see what I have.
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Okay I'm back with pictures.
Definitely what we are talking about.
The first picture is the root stock from what the Hamlin orange, it stil has a Hamlin sprout on it.
The second is what is left of a mandarins orange that the deer ate to the ground.
Two different varieties of the trifoliata for sure.
One has scalloped leaves the last one doesn't and they are smaller.
The kumquat still has huge leaves even though it was ate back too no picture of it.
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Nice! I hope it fruits. I'd like to see that.
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Hi ChristinaJo, in a few years you might!

I'd be glad to send you some seed from fresh Poncirus trifoliata fruit I have here in PA. Just PM me your address.

I would not call it great eating (small, seedy fruit, very sour) but it is the only orange I can grow outside here in the midAtlantic :>) As Worth said, it is used as a hardy rootstock for grafting.
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I figured I would just graft on to the things one of these days.
Why get rid of a healthy established root system.

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Bigger problem is what to do about the deer!
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Bigger problem is what to do about the deer!
They dont seem to like the root stock but they gobbled up the graft.

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Thanks philagardner
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