I Realized I cant post more than one picture per post. HAHA. These are the trees now.
(L-R) Mexican Lime, Meyer Lemon, Calamondin

These trees are probably rooted cuttings. Don't trim anything, they look great. They will develop fruit and should grow very nice. One important thing to do is feed feed feed and the Meyer lemon need 1.5 times as much. When you take the trees out side, put them on the north side of your house so that the get sunlight in the morning then fall into the house's shadow until evening. for a week. Each day I moved my tree 1 foot away from the house. In 7 day my tree was getting 8 hours of sun a day. In one more week I moved them into full sun. My trees are doing very well. I use miracle grow miracid 30-10-10 mixed at half strength. I water them with this one a week. I used the miracid at 70% strength for the Meyer lemon. Grafted means that a different species of root is used than the trees own roots. I get my calcium from powdered egg shells mixed with vinegar. Wait till the egg shell is dissolved. Don't let mthe trees dry out.

Thanks poncirus!!!!

Does it matter if I took them outside last year? Do I have to 'harden' them off each summer????

They have to be hardened of each spring when they go outside and have to be winter prepped in fall to come inside. The Meyer lemon takes the most prepping the other 2 can be done in the first 7 days and then put in full light. in the fall just leave them out until frost danger. The days are so short and the sun so low it can be done just taking the tree in when in threat of frost and back out when it is safe. The Meyer lemon should be put in part shade for a week then treat as the others.

I have 1 Meiwa kumquat, 2 nagami kumquat, 3 sweetlee tangerine, and 3 poncirus trifoliata all grown from seed. I have had no problem bringing them in for fall. Taking them out in spring is no problem for all but the kumquat trees. The kumquat tree are a horenduss problem each year. I inheriter 2 Meyer lemon trees from cuttings. I spent the 7 days moving away from the house and an extra week at half light. No leaves dropped.

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Good luck with your trees

Here is a link that might be useful: https://plus.google.com/photos/111099372377958308731/albums/5961857381151877457?banner=pwa

Hi!

It's not actually letting me see the pictures. Sorry.

Also, another question. How long will it take for my trees to get a good trunk? They look like they wont support one good sized lime or lemon or orange. LOL.

I'm assuming that trunk size increase after branches get stronger. Right?

your right. Give them about 3 to 4 years to gain strength. The calamondin and Mexican lime will produce fruit about the size of a large grape. The Meyer lemon however gets much larger.

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3 sweetlee tangerine trees from seed now one year old at picture time.
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Your meyer lemon might grow this much. The other 2 trees are slower growing.

I asked others how many bushel you get from your potted citrus trees. This is that link.

Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/citrus/msg081305578468.html

Thanks Steve on the link of how much fruit I'll get (if I do good by these trees). How fast do the trees react to fertilizer? I replanted into bigger pots with new soil and fert about 3 days ago.

And how does Calamondin oranges taste? I read from a couple of threads that they're a little sour. maybe marmalade?

It take a little while and it is still to cold for our zone 6 citrus to take off. My trees started doing well by mid June. I foliage fed my trees with half strength Miracid 30-10-10 In the morning and afternoon each day. I had my three sweetlee tangerine trees in bottomless containers on top of very hi grade compost. I watered every other day all summer. With no bottom in the pot the excess water past through with out stagnating in the bottom. Check out my You-tube video on transplanting bottomless trees.

I have never tasted a calamondin. If you squeeze the juice out, and use it to make calamondin meringue pie or key-less lime-less pie.The juice should go good on fish and mixed drinks. The skin is sweet and the solids will be tangy.

Steve

Here is a link that might be useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AkMFbhlgB0

In the Philippines, calamondin is mixed with soy as a dipping sauce for fish. It is also used to squeeze onto pangsit(noodle dish) or sodas like cola or sprite.

That Calamondim actually looks as if you've got two in there, but it's a bit hard to tell. The fruit (when I get it) actually can be quite sweet it'll never be as sweet as a satsuma but quite palatable.

They're all nice looking plants, you might want to make sure they're in a suitable soil mix and gets some non glazed ceramic pots that are as wide as the ones you have but taller to save 'trouble' later on. I'm not sure what other more qualified people think?

Regards
Nick

Welcome on board masterpenguin

Thanks MasterPenguin, MadFerret and Poncirusguy!

It's not two Calamondins. It's actually a stick I used to prop the oranges because I thought they would be full sized fruits and not a tiny quarter-sized orange. LOL.

Now about that orange, should I remove it? will the tree not grow and produce foliage or flowers because the fruit is there? I know it's not going to grow anymore because the ones I tasted before had a full sized seeds... Also this one tiny orange has been on there for about 3/4 months. I doubt it will grow larger. LOL