I wish you luck, please keep us posted on results.
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I have 2, seed grown in ground, Meiwa kumquat trees and 1 inground grafted to flying dragon Meiwa tree here in Cincinnati, Ohio zone 6B.
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Yeah, here’s hoping it is cold hardy. Bought it because it sounds like a good “lime” and possibly decent out of hand when ripe too. While I of course can’t find it now, I think I remember reading someone had one fruiting up in Vancouver WA. That and it likely being a kumquat-rangpur cross gives me hope it’ll survive. Nurseries list it as being hardy to 15°F when mature, but who really trusts a used car salesman?
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I recently came across this nursery in Georgia that sells rootstock and a good variety of citrus ,including scion wood. Here is a link to varieties they consider good for colder places. Cold Hardy Citrus – Madison Citrus Nursery
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I’ve ordered many trees for them and seen lots of posts and videos from either them, people who work with them, or people who toured their facility. They are hands down the best major nursery I know of. They are well on the way to having the widest selection of citrus on the planet, and yet still have great plants and reasonable prices. I’m looking forward to them branching out into pawpaw and persimmons next year.
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At Christmas,I’m most likely going to visit my sister in Myrtle Beach,SC.While there,one of the things on my to do list,is to visit Stan"the citrus man"McKenzie at his farm,which is about 70 miles away.
There is one called the Ten Degree Tangerine,that looks interesting and Brown Select,that I’ve wanted for awhile.
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Hi Bradybb, I have a very good crop of fruit on the 10 degree tree this year. You should be able to taste test it for yourself and see if you like it. It should be renamed 8 degree tangerine since we hit 8F in the freeze of 2018!
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I’ve known the owner from the old citrus growers board days, and I’m super impressed at how he’s grown this business. Best Citrus Nursery on the East coast IMO and The best scionwood source outside of California. For those of us either in Georgia (quarantined) or outside of Louisiana, Texas, California, he’s a godsend!
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Thanks to you and a_Vivaldi for recommending them. I haven’t ordered anything yet, so now I can be confident. Certainly all that I’ve seen on their website looks great, and I’m also really looking forward to the plants they’re soon adding.
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Yeah, they’re very good nursery. I managed to order my excalibur red lime, xie shan, and kabosu from Madison (perks of being on the oregon border.) After seeing their quality, I wished all the citrus I’d ordered came from them. I will note that it seemed they grow their citrus in a fairly low light environment because they all had large, tender leaves when they arrived. Perhaps mistakenly, I planted my trees as soon as I got them, and those tender leaves had a hard time in the heat. They seem to have finally grown out of it, but I had to wait in suspense for a little while before they put on some new, healthier looking growth.
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I like fast growing trees for citrus…
I don’t know how but my coupons always end up with the citrus trees being around 75$ each time.
Considering buying about 4-5 trees cause I did a stupid thing and grew an orange as well the other year so… hard to eat grocery store since and it seems like everyone everywhere is picking them super early so they don’t taste right.
Also i think i found some psyllid on my trees. I squished a bunch and am going to start a systemic next watering cycle.
Google says there not in Washington state but I’ve only started seeing them since i got here. Never saw them in Colorado and i gave my plants a systemic before i came over
If possible,maybe capture some or get photos of the insects.That could be an important find.
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They’re inside now so will do
Zone 6b Cincinnati, Ohio Meiwa kumquat in enclosure 4 layers of glass thick.
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2 seedling Meiwa kumquat trees in enclosure with walls 2 layers of glass thick and 4 layers of glass thick on roof
Fukushu kumquat on Flying dragon in mostly shade preparing
to come inside.
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Yes, Madison grows their trees for sale in a special greenhouse to keep pests and disease out. Their trees are inspected regularly for disease as well.
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Beautiful fruit… but a little expensive! LOL
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They convinced me to buy to tree 
. I had bought a pink lemon from alder and oak about 2 years ago and it’s been so neglected until now. Also the constant hail last year and weekly this year in Colorado plus the Colorado cold couldn’t kill it. I’ve decided after this fruit, that I’m going to take better of my surviving pink lemon.
I just bought the lime tree last night cause my last one died.
The new bitterness I’ve been tasting with some grocery store citrus along with the fact that citrus greening is taking out Florida… makes me want to buy every highly rated citrus tree i can get my hands on right now. It’s like everything great that we grew up with is disappearing…
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Last year in 2023, we had hail from March - Late August every day between 3pm and 7pm in Colorado Springs. They would be ping pong to softball sized and would go on for a few minutes to half an hour at most. It stripped a ton of my plants, broke branches, and destroyed not only leaves but fruit as well.
This year we had hail 2-3 times a week in Colorado Springs until i moved away. Not sure about the hail after i left in July but we got hit right before we left when some of my plants were sitting, waiting to get loaded.
Been here in Washington state for 3.5 months now and this pink 
lemon was just a stick and branches. Almost threw it out but it looked alive for the most part. This is it’s second/third flush of growth so far and it’s even pushed fruit as soon as we got here. At this point, it’s almost everbearing because of the stress from the hail for the last 2 years.
Some of my other trees got stripped down to a stick and almost down to the graft due to the hail.
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