More blooms, buds, and such!
The Thomasville Citrangequat (a cross of a kumquat with a citrange; a citrange is a cross of a sweet orange and trifoliate orange; TF are golf ball sized, fuzzy-skinned, sour, bitter, piney, floral, lemony, sticky-with-resin citrus relatives that can survive to like -20F and are mostly considered inedible and make some people sick) is flowering! They're known to be very precocious and this one seems determined not to disappoint. My Yuzu grafted on trifoliate orange survived the Winter and is leafing out again! We had single digit nights several times and were in the 20s for about a week. I covered it with a trash bag and stuck like 15 gallons of water near it, but didn't have huge 50 gallon drums of water or incandescent Christmas lights wrapping the tree or anything exotic. The Asian pear I started from seed two years ago has leafed out and is looking very pretty. I may Summer prune it in August or September to try and encourage the formation of fruit buds. I think it's ...