Conestoga 010 citrange seedlings.
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Tell me more about the origin of this citrange. Is it regarded as edible? I assume you will eventually try it in-ground there to test hardiness.
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More edible than plain Trifoliate (supposedly reduced off flavors and slightly detectable sweetness), but resembles the trifoliate a lot more than the C-35.
It is the offspring of the C-35 citrange self pollinated. A guy just bought a bunch of rootstock seeds and mass planted them in Pennsylvania and had, I think, 12 seedlings? That could survived his first test winter of -12.5°f as 1 year seedlings without damage and 010 was just one of them. Each of the twelve had different things on each one that was an upgrade, like 010 had less/least off flavors, one had a sweet orange fragrance, and another was thornless.
Supposedly it already has been crossed with regular citrus and the results were a lot higher quality fruit than what is obtained using regular trifoliate to cross.
Yes, I do intend on testing in ground.
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The 3 rows here on the left are also Conestoga 10 and the 2 on the right are Conestoga 26
From the looks of things I needn’t have babied them indoors during infancy.
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Never heard of this before! The plant looks like a guava but its in the Jamun/Rose Apple genus. I guess its still a myrtle though. Gorgeous new growth!
The foliage does look really cool. I don’t know a lot about it. I tried it at fruit and spice park last summer and saved a few seeds. It seems very hardy to drought and poor soil. It has been in this tiny pot with cheap soil for a year and has dried out completely multiple times and has never looked like it was bothered.
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I planted about 40 grocery store plum seeds. 3 have survived my cold winters here in Montana. Working as intended I think
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How is your “Yellow jaboticaba” doing?
Do you have this man’s contact info?
No, I don’t. I bought the seeds from here which the seeds he sold were gotten from him.
Here’s the thread on the tropical fruit forum that documents his experiment-
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It turns out that I had the seedling mislabeled and its a Surinam Cherry. Or the yellow died and I didn’t notice and the pot I thought it was was the Surinam. But seeing those leaves, it looks like it was always a Surinam. Its about to get grafted over to Guaruji Red Surinam from Marta, or at least half of it is.
I do have some “yellows” that I have recently started, one that is Myrciaria Guaquiea that germinated a few months ago and 4 or 5 Myrciaria glazioviana that are just starting to germinate.
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@Ethancactus He was active on this forum in 2023 Citrus tolerant of 0 degrees - #166 by Kumin . He is also still active on the tropical fruit forum and posted extensively about his breeding project and ongoing efforts F2 citrange winter hardiness trial (F2 citrange winter hardiness trial). @KS_razerback and @chippytea that is really cool that you are growing out seeds of the two Conestoga!
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Thanks! I also got my Conestoga 10 & 26 seeds posted to the UK by Avery from the mulberries along with a handful each of c57, benton, bishop, taiwanica lemon and Yuzu.
From sampling the seed siblings I couldn’t prise apart without damaging, the c57 tasted noticeably less bitter.
I have a couple Conestoga outside also as I was getting 2-3 seedlings from most seeds.
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This is either a langsat or a mangosteen growing along with some Asian pear seedlings that I’ll transplant.
This is interesting and I don’t know where it will go, obviously not outside, here.
I’ve got a lot of sprouting Jackfruit seeds but unfortunately my Kiew Sa Wei mango seedling died (this is an extremely under popularized mango), I should probably just get a scion later when I’m ready.
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I think I had like 110% germination rate in jackfruit because it knows there’s no chance I have enough space for it. 
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Can you seriously grow jackfruit in a container???
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