Changshou kumquat tastes good on it's own. It is sweet but has more sour juice than meiwa. It is up to 10x the size of a meiwa. You can munch on the thick skin and throw away the sour insides. If you like sour kumquats the nordman seedless nagami is a good choice. The meiwa x nagami seedless kumquat I don't recommend. It is very late and I've seen them green still in April.

Here is a link that might be useful: mrtexas

Keiffer lime is good only for the leaves and zest. IMHO the juice is horrible what little there is among the seeds.

So Changshou is sweeter than Nagami? Hmmm... I might have to pick that one and try your marmalade recipe. :)

I've decided I won't ask for a Keiffer Lime. I'll likely grow one from seed if I can ever find a fruit or a donor. I'm interested in the plant from a scientific, cultural, and collector's standpoint, but I'm reluctant to spend that much money (or let anyone else do so) purchasing a plant that I know won't be of much practical use as I don't cook Thai food.

Has anyone here grown a Pumello in a pot?

What about a finger lime?

How about a Pixie tangerine? I would stay away from Pomelos in pots and in general Pomelos are not well suited to dwarf rootstock. I have 3 Chandlers and 3 Oro Verde (aka Sweetie); but they are on Macrophylla and in the ground. Four Winds are great trees for pots; the rootstock they use is excellent. As for your Meyer, I have 7,000 in the ground here in Guatemala; but I have never had good success with them in pots... they need constant attention and too-often re-potting to avoid toxicity issues and adequate water without drainage problems.
Good luck.

I love Pixie tangerines, but I thought that they would be a poor container plant because they take several years (8 or 9) of consistent in-ground environmental conditions before they produce good fruit. I heard this from a Pixie grower, but I'd be more than happy to be wrong.

Meiwas are the sweetest kumquats I've ever had, and really the only ones I like to eat fresh out of hand. I love Pummelos, too, but they are BIG trees, not as suited to container life as some of the other citrus options out there. I would suggest you consider a Variegated Pink Eureka (Pink Lemonade) lemon or, if you're wanting that delicious pummelo flavor, either a Melogold grapefruit (which I like better than Oro Blanco a bit) or the wonderful Cocktail grapefruit (not really a grapefruit, but a cross between a pummelo and a mandarin and is to die for). All should do well in containers, especially on Flying Dragon and the Pink Lemonade Eureka lemon has really attractive foliage as well. Probably leaning towards the Cocktail, since you don't have anything from the pummelo/grapefruit family, yet. So that might give you another citrus option.

Patty S.

I hadn't thought about Melogold or Cocktail... as long as they don't have the typical Grapefruit aftertaste they could make a very good choice. A few questions, though: why can't Pummelos be trimmed to keep them a manageable size? Aren't Grapefruit large trees as well?

Well, you can, but remember when you prune citrus, you prune away the fruiting part of the branch. Citrus produce flowers at branch tips. So, pruning them then prunes away most of your crop :-) I would pose this question to the Four Winds folks. They do so much with container-grown citrus and would be able to give you the skinny on trying to grow a pummelo in a container successfully (meaning you get fruit). I can tell you that in the ground, pummelos get very large. Large fruit, large leaves, large tree. The Cocktail is super sweet, but has a nice grapefruit taste. The Melogold is is a little less sweet, more "grapefruity", but still very, very sweet. I love the taste of grapefruit, but HATE that bitter aftertaste. I can't eat a grapefruit without putting either Splenda or brown sugar on it. I can eat both the Melogold and especially the Cocktail without any added sweetener. Love them. And for me, you get much more fruit and way less rind with these, than you're going to get with a pummelo.

Patty S.

stephen90

How is that seed grown Nagami you have as a gift. Is it doing well. I currently have a 55 week old Meiwa from seed and am wondering if any one has had any success with kumquats from seed.
steve

I love the Fukushu and have several of them. Beautiful foliage / tree. My Meiwa has struggled and not been productive, but to be fair, its in a very cold area of the yard. The Meiwa is very slow growing and small.

Fukushu gets my potted kumquat vote.