Great video… 
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I had never heard of a finger lime before! That’s one stonkin’ cool fruit.
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For anyone interested in Learning more of these Species
http://citruspages.free.fr/australian.php
(I did a search didn’t see)
Really like All your Personal Photos
I can see this being used a April Fools day prank (1st)
Someone angry about their expensive Caviar being spilled on floor
(accusation of a family member guest)
(Nice citrus Caviar Pretty sure I heard it called that)
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Is there a link where I can buy this? I cant find anything online.
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Yes in ebay… it was where i buyed mine. But i don’t know if you live in a country that don’t let you buy it.
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sadly im in the US, and the seller will not ship there. How is your plant doing, did it produce any fruit?
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She is doing great… on first winter she almost die but then she recovered when i plant her on ground.
And yes i think she will produce…
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Grapefruit rootstock.
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we got ours from one green world, Australian Finger Lime Tree - available at One Green World
they also offer the red one which is great but currentlhy out-of-stock
it has been quite an eventful past couple of years with regards to domestics that we forgot checking on our irrigation the middle of summer and found out too late our finger lime was no more 
it managed to fruit for at least 2 growing seasons but a total laggard in growth and production, probably why we didn’t even bother follwoing up on it. Am sure the species will be less iffy and way more productive in so cal conditions. Vegas is sadly just too hot, too dry, as well as too cold for most citrus.
correction, the red finger lime is also available apparently and quite tempting
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I’ve a red finger lime off Ebay that is roughly 4’ tall. I’m looking forward to seeing what it does. Looks nice and healthy. Upsized it’s pot a little, so I know the roots look good, too.
I’ve some sort of vaguely identified hardy pomelo hyrid I think I’ll be able to plant out this year, and a flying dragon I’ll plant out next. This new guy will need to stay in a pot and come in for at least a couple months every year.
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i see you’re in 6B. Over here it survived several cold spells of below freezing temps-- quite certain it was the dry, scorching summer that killed ours. Good luck and keep everyone here posted 
I think the variegated finger lime species will eventually be very popular, similar to the pink eureka.
I was able to talk to the one guy in thailand propagating them, and looks like hes now shipping to the US!
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careful about that…
He may be willing to ship, but customs and the USDA will not likely be happy…
I had a contact with the USDA a couple years back and they were ready to inspect my garden and confiscate anything that I could not prove its providence…
It sure is pretty, though…
Scott
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importing from asia/australasia sure is tempting and exciting. I do have mixed feelings about it, even those that were cleared by usda as certain pathogens can still filter through usda.
jujube is one example of a species that has been imported into usa free of pathogens( at least as far as i know) .
cultivars taken from asia without the deadly witches’ broom pathogen(which the species co-evolved with for millennia), and translocated to a sterile region as usa confer a higher degree of ‘bullet-proof’ existence compared to those being grown in their native old world. The species can easily live a thousand years, even in its native asia, but can succumb almost instantly once infected.
while it would be hypocritical of a joe-schmoe like me to wish a ban on importation(considering i have accumulated lots of imported stuff the past decade and likely more in the near or distant future-- including possibly illegally trafficked varieties), i do get worried about the implications of continuing to import, since growing from seed seems not as tedious and not exactly a totally painstaking crap-shoot that it seems to be(well maybe just a little bit of a crap shoot, LOL 
) The endeavor seems to offer a relatively ok amount of desirable and phenotypically novel varieties in just 3 to 5 yrs.
juju stems from above the equator can easily be trafficked into this country as there will be no issues with dormancy. A tiny stem with a few nodes could pass through customs unnoticed
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Microcitrus seed can be imported, with phytosanitary certificate and statement about being free from citrus diseases, from countries that aren’t struggling with HLB. Fingerlimes may have been placed under citrus but I’m not sure how that works.
A variety of these plants have made it to the EU and I believe Australia’s top notch biosecurity itself has kept HLB out the country.
look up: page 131 and Table 3-16 Rutaceae Family Seeds 3-71 on the Plants for Planting Manual by the USDA
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The fingerlimes I imported from Thailand to France had all of the phytosanitary paperwork along with other papers. I received grafted bushes.
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nice! keep us posted here
