I know it’s getting a little late in the year, but I’m looking for seeds out of good, early satsumas. Such as Xie Shan, Milo & Okitsu Wase, Brown Select, or others. Other high quality citrus are also of interest, but they must ripen by November at the latest, and the more seedless they are, the better. Cold hardier varieties are good, but not essential.
I don’t have anything to trade, but can pay for the seeds and postage. Information on where to get these seeds is also welcome.
Eddie,
I’m pretty sure that Petals From The Past garden center, at Jemison AL, has Brown’s Select, Ft.Natchez, Armstrong Early, and BC2 Satsumas, among others.
Whether or not they will ship fruit or seeds, IDK.
IDK if you are in CA, as your moniker suggests(?), but if so, I’m pretty sure that they won’t violate CA import regulations.
Sorry for the late reply to you both, I was busy traveling and largely without internet, but I am back now.
@Lucky_P Thank you for the lead, but yes, I am in California.
While getting a source like that would be massively helpful, just gathering whatever early satsuma seeds that forumites happen to aquire would help too.
@dannytoro1 As for why I need satsuma seeds, it is not exactly for growing an own root tree, but for making a synthetic perclinial chimera. Hopefully, I end up with something smilar to Prague Citsuma, but done in a more controlled manner by selecting more advantageous starting genetics. My idea is that would hold a better chance at making a chimera that’s earlier, and more vigorous than Prague Citsuma. After doing a bit of research, I found a paper where this was done successfully, but it was in the case of creating a satsuma-fruiting chimera with greater disease resistance, not cold hardiness. In the experiment, they had the most success with micrografting seedlings together that only had their cotyledons, so I hope to do the same. (Their success rates were something like in 7 and 1 in 21 if I remember right)