Got my replacement grafted Yangmei dongkui variety arriving today. I’ll keep it in a pot until springtime, hopefully this one survives; I’ll update this post with a photo. I always forget. Well I guess due to the holiday it will be tomorrow. Initial delivery date was Friday, then Saturday now Tuesday. Precious time lost for a bare root stressed tree
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I’m rootin’ for you!
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I have some seeds so with any luck they all survive then we are really talking.
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Gotta let us know on those seeds. I had no luck with them.
Good luck on the plant. It looks pretty good, at least you know it traveled dormant.
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I’d say about 6” of snow here so far. Everything seems happy enough after I checked the collapsed tunnel, which I left it covered was just concerned about it breaking the Meiwa as it was flattened haha
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We got a little more than three inches.
It won’t go above freezing today. Now they’re saying 13 F tonight, so I think I’ll pick up something to cover the ten degree tangerine and Ichang lemon as I don’t think they’ll handle that temperate well.
One of the citrus rows.
Dunstan looking ok. Will probably defoliate.
Ten Degree Tangerine looks rough, I don’t want to leave it like this.
Ichang lemon is bigger and will probably also defoliate. I think it would survive uncovered, but I don’t want to risk die-back.
Eucalyptus neglecta has so far shown itself to be very hardy, perhaps as much or more hardy than Eucalyptus camphora. Weirdly, the “alpine gums” I have that are supposed to be much hardier are actually doing worse.
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Arctic frost satsuma
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26 was our low and it won’t go below that tonight. About a foot of snow around them with plenty of lemons under the snow, we will see how they do
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I think this one is E. perriniana. Doesn’t look great. The E. pulverilenta looks a bit better but I didn’t get a picture of it. I’m also not sure I got the species right on the alpine gums, might be reversed.
Dang. It was 21 F yesterday evening and it stayed there all night long, dipping to 20 F or 19 F from time to time.
I’ll be leaving everything covered and the christmas lights on today. They’ll probably stay covered until Sunday and I’ll just toggle the lights on and off during the day.
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I had to unplug the Ponkan, okitsu, Fukushu and brown select because the breaker kept tripping. Just wanted to make sure the avocados lights stayed on so went with the ones I hope will be fine. Seemed to be the issue with one of those light strings, didn’t trip again since
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Yeah, sounds like a short. I guess you’ll have to shell out some $ and buy a few new Christmas lights. Time to call up the bank I suspect 
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Yeah I typically toss out a few strings annually. The issue is the incandescent ones aren’t available year-round. Well at a good price. Lowes typically has them for like 3$ each string in December but they don’t have them currently
On Amazon they are much more expensive, I think about $10 which doesn’t sound like much; but I use about 15 strings of lights.
Yeah, I’ve been meaning to buy a bunch of them in the pre-Christmas season and just have a stock of them I can pull from when I need.
I always plan to do that and only ever grab 2-3 new strings. I’m perpetually dumb in my annual decision. There’s always 2025
How is your plant different than the wild annual wild weedy plant that has grown in South for hundred years?
To be very honest not a ton; however the fruit tastes a bit better. The flowers on my pinkpop aren’t that pink but still slightly different color and larger flowers. Now the tetraploid seedlings are a vastly different plant all together. Super large flowers, very very low fruit set. But so showy I’ll keep it around for the bees.
Those two are the tetraploid seedling and tetraploid marjorie sherwin
Ms had over 100 blooms its first season and zero fruit, the unnamed seedling set about 6 fruit on about 8 blooms.
Pink pop unlimited fruit set
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Passiflora edulis is a different species than the native passiflora incarnata. P. edulis is the fruit you find in grocery stores (or as a juice) and is significently less cold tolerent. It does have very pretty blooms that are similar to maypops, especially the “Purple Possum” variety.
Our weediest passionvine here is p. suberosa. Not an edible fruit, but it is great fodder for the caterpillars.
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The native passion fruits are actually herbaceous perennials, but regardless, these hybrid vines are fairly similar to Passiflora incarnata aka maypop. The fruit are rounder, have a bit more pith, generally have yellow flesh, and while they have a similar flavor there’s a bit of difference in how they taste, they’re also sweeter and more pulpy than the typical wild maypop, but not significantly different.
The vines themselves are much larger, especially once established, though I wouldn’t say more vigorous. The flower are large and fragrant, unlike the native one. They’re less weedy than maypop, but still end up a few suckers. The vines die back to the ground in the winter just like maypop and unlike P. edulis and other commercial passion fruit. I’m not sur yet how hardy they are, but likely to zone 7b at least.
Fertility is hit and miss. Some seedlings have good fertility, others don’t. I’m in the process of selecting out the infertile and low fertility ones, but I’m only one generation in on that so it’ll be a while still. From what I can tell, the more fertile ones can set fruit much earlier than wild Maypop, but fruit set is also more weather dependent than wild Maypop.
Genetically, these plants range from about 50/50 to majority maypop. They’ve got genetics from P. edulis and P. cincinnata. In the coming years I’m planning to increase the P. edulis percentage and hopefully work in some P. tucumensis. They’re also tetraploid, which makes them different from most Passiflora species and varieties.
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