Hey guys, I have been doing a lot of research about growing fruit trees and I decided to do two things, since most of the time when you plant from seed it is a roll of the dice as to whether or not you get a good fruit producing variety or not, I was thinking of growing a couple of each type of fruit tree and pick some grafted nursery varieties and also plant some from seeds..
However, I have bumped into a lot of research about certain fruits that hardly ever bear fruit if they are planted from seed (Like Avocado) for example and a lot of fruits that are bitter 99% of the time if planted from seed (IE citrus like oranges, etc).
I was wondering if this is true, and I collected many citrus seeds from local citrus trees and was wondering if it was even viable to try to grow them? I mean, I could also buy one nursery variety and graft them, but that would be a lot of trouble.
My wife planted an orange tree once from seed and the fruit is very delicious... so who knows?
Also lastly, there are a bunch of local citrus trees that have these tiny oranges on them, I wish I had a picture but they look exactly like an orange but about 1 inch (or less?) in diameter.
They are very interesting and funny, I split some open and the seeds are the same size as any orange, and so the inside of the fruit is almost composed of half fruit half seeds just from how large they are..
so funny XD
Well, I would appreciate you all's thoughts.. thanks!
well the only thing that confused me is that kumquats generally have a soft skin like an apple / pear / tomato but these oranges definitely have the skin of a regular orange, the thick peel off orange skin
So that's why I had no idea O_O
Also they're completely round unlike the usual flatter tangerine look, and ive seen so many its so weird lol
also, any thoughts on my idea about growing the trees?
So that's why I had no idea O_O
Also they're completely round unlike the usual flatter tangerine look, and ive seen so many its so weird lol
also, any thoughts on my idea about growing the trees?
- floridahillnursery
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Hello, that sound like Kumquats. Kumquats have the peel of an orange I think you may be confusing them with Loquat (Japenese Plum). About the fruit trees being grown from seed the time it takes for a plant to fruit from seed is generally speaking 5-10 years where as a tree that has been grafted or air layered will fruit that season. This is due to the cuttings being taken from a tree that is of fruit bearing age. It can be a junk shoot when growing fruit tres from seed. We have wild oranges here in Florida and thay are god awful. Hope this helps.
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