04-19-2013, 06:14 PM
The wonderful thing about Rangpur, by next week, it will be full o fruit again.....their one tree has 3-4 fruitings a year, and each fruiting has hundreds of fruit ripening over 2-3 months- so not having fruit is usually not an option (but if you need one NOW, we do have a few from their harvest at the beginning of the week in the crisper...) This is why we usually include a cooler of "lemonade" at most any potluck....
As for obtaining one, they can be grafted, but are usually seed started (in fact they are a fairly common root stock for more "marketable" citrus, either way, I am sure I can get you seed or branch...link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050986
You may want to see if there are any available at next weeks BIAN plant sale at Edith Kanaka`ole Stadium in HIlo next Friday & Saturday Link:
http://www.hawaiiplants.org/PDF_Files/SA...NG2013.pdf
As for obtaining one, they can be grafted, but are usually seed started (in fact they are a fairly common root stock for more "marketable" citrus, either way, I am sure I can get you seed or branch...link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23050986
You may want to see if there are any available at next weeks BIAN plant sale at Edith Kanaka`ole Stadium in HIlo next Friday & Saturday Link:
http://www.hawaiiplants.org/PDF_Files/SA...NG2013.pdf