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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
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Thanks Carey. I'll check out the BIAN sale. I have a couple of Tahitian lime trees and they have been very unreliable so far.
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We have one lime (most likely kaffir or tahitian)on our property (within a fruits throw of the Ragpur) that is still young, but produces 20-30 limes a season...but they are much smaller, drier (most citrus is drier than the Rangpur!) & not as colorful or flavorful.... I love the Rangpur!
Another absolutely marvelous lime is the MEYER LIME (No, not the meyer LEMON, this is a dwarf lime with large bright, juicy green flesh with a hint of sweetness....a friend of ours has one in Puueo....tried some starts from cuttings, some grew to seedling size, but lack of motherly care struck...& haven't tried since....)
Our neighbor had talked about cutting down the Rangpur a few years ago as they really do not use much of the fruit & I agreed to care for the tree (the trunk is near our property line) just so they would keep it...if they ever do chop it...auwee!
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Carey sounds like you need to start a rangpur in your yard!
On a similar note, can you grow a meyer lemon from seeds? I just juiced one today and the juice was so yummy I wanted to grow one. And this lemon has plenty seeds. I just don't know anything about growing anything.
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Dayna, yah, I know & would right away if I had a bigger yard.... but since the neighbors tree has branches already in my airspace....
The Meyer seems to be a hybrid, have no idea if it seeds true...
I found info that the lemon can be propagated from cuttings, which is why I tried the lime....Link -scroll to 'Meyer':
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/lemon.html
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Well I've got four good seeds from that fruit so I'm going to give it a try!
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Dayna, do you want to try growing peaches?
I did my first ever trimming of the young peach tree I got from Puna Honwanji sale & have started some cuttings...they seem to be taking...if they do take you can have them...
My trimming was not "textbook" of 4 lateral branches (see what you learn living here! the only fruit I have ever had prior were acorns & a very few tomatoes) as the dog snapped the top off the tree when it was newly planted... so it starts with a low fork...have no idea how that will effect the peach production of the tree I have...or if there will ever be peaches on it, but it was blossoming like crazy when I trimmed it!
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Do peaches grow here? I would be very interested if one takes!
I'm finding out that if I stick a stick in the ground it GROWS. Hawaii is an amazing place full of natural wonders!
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I got a low-chill peach tree from Paradise Plants last year. It died down to the ground, but has come back; I hope it wasn't grafted!
PP usually has low-chill fruit trees in January, but mostly they do best at higher elevations, where they at least get some chill.
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Dayna, This peach was planted.... maybe 4 years ago, but was snapped by our ...ummm "delicate" doggy 3 years ago, it did not die that year & grew 2 little branches the next...last year it had a very few blossoms with no set...
This last year the branches shot out & this spring they were covered with blossoms...which is why I checks, found out young peach trees should be trimmed to 4 main lateral branches in early spring, went out to trim & found the low fork & selected a couple of well spaced branches on each fark to encourage as my psuedo lateral branches... & am trying to see if I can root the branch trimmings...
