I have a Meiwa Kumquat. This is the second year it fruited a bit for me. I noticed that this year the fruits are more spherical where as last year I remember them more elliptical. Also this year they don’t taste as sweet as I remember, more sour, which may be my fault related to lack of care.
Does anyone else experience change of shape and flavor of the fruit?
As far as taste maybe you picked them too soon? From what I understand they can be fully orange and not ripe. I would think a Meiwa picked too soon would still be decently sweet. For the shape spherical is what you are looking for with Meiwa, but I have also seen slight variation.
Do you know what it is grafted to.
Like some of you, I am growing Meiwa kumquats. I just like them so much better than Nagami, which is the most common variety around here. I think they have a better balance of sweet and sour. We have to bring them in for a week or two each winter. I put a plastic cover over them each winter, because our winters are so wet that they get diseases and die when cold and wet. We don’t get heat all night like back East so they grow more slowly out here. Most of the citrus related plants that you can grow here just taste like limes, which are fine, but I don’t really need to grow them. Meiwa kumquats are spectacular, I think. Since you can eat the peel, I think they are much more nutritious. I’ve seen studies that talked about how the peel is very nutritious. Since I grow them myself, I can grow them organically, and not worry about eating pesticides, which I don’t want to eat. They are very expensive to buy in the store. I tried to grow them from seed, but I will be 160 years old before they fruit.
JohN S
PDX OR
I think your right. I think I picked that one too soon.
I don’t. I bought it grafted, it was in a small 4 inch pot.
Here is my Changshou kumquat. Love the taste. Mostly seedless. Good to have some fruit in the greenhouse considering the weather
Beautiful plant, and unimaginable cold for me! 
nice job with those citrus. its no small feat to grow them where your at. weve seen some of your temps this winter. you can have it back. 
Great looking tree. I was going to ask you if those temperatures were in F or C but a -40 it doesn’t mater. Could you send your tree over to teach my Changshou how to produce fruit. Mine is fruitless still at 5 years old.
Hey… I’m in Willamette Valley. Where do you get your citrus trees?
@poncirusguy , you are treating your tree way too many goodies, give it just 0-15-20, or numbers like that. Now is a good time.
Someone asked for pics of kumquats a while back, here is a poor pic of part of the collection that I built a makeshift greenhouse over. I moved the rest of the potted trees in with them . All off them are really too young to be allowed to fruit , I picked off all of the fruit repeatedly, but kumquats are quite determined . I got busy with other issues, then noticed they had reloaded with fruit that had sized up a lot and just gave up and left them on.20211114_093608|690x920
Here is one of the rooted cutting Centennial kumquats; beautiful , very productive plant, I just wish someone liked them.
One Green World is a good place. I think Portland Nursery has some too.
John S
PDX OR
I didn’t expect the bees to like citrus flowers so much, gives yet another thing I love about these little trees!
Yes, the bees do love the flowers!
This year the Japanese Beetles decided to love them too. 
I’ve been pulling JBs off of my Fukushu flowers this year and even after several flushes of blooms it hasn’t held many fruits. Fortunately, the beetles are done for the year now and the Fukushu is blooming again. If it holds a lot of fruit from this flush I’ll be more certain that the beetles were the cause.
If this late bloom successfully brings a bounty of fruit I’ll have a mostly later harvest than last year, which I believe began in early December or late November. The prior year the harvest didn’t begin until January. Has anyone else noticed this type of variable harvest timing? It makes perfect sense, but I hadn’t thought about it until now.
Another (off topic) question. Do other citrus have multiple flower flushes each season like the kumquats? My Kishu mandarin seems to flower only once a season, which I suspect is the norm.
I’ve noticed the flowers flushes too. That seems to be the norm. I really like that about them it’s very similar to meyer lemons in that respect.
There are a ton of beetles here, but I’ve never noticed them bothering any of my citrus. I guess It’s not something they prefer.
My Meiwa tree is putting out lots of flowers, it’s prolific last year, but this year it’s even better. I gave 2 of my Nagami kumquat trees to my brother, the fruit was so sour, I didn’t know what to do with it.
Yeah I tried some from the store and it was unbearably sour. My Nagami is now mainly just for ornamental purposes.
