Dan Willey discusses new citrus varieties with the Monterey Bay California Rare Fruit Growers

[@HCOGGAN]

wow what a great video

[@ryantaylor7988]

The Lemonade Citrus tree seems to be from New Zealand, we have them allover the place, my mothers uncle was growing them in the 50's here in New Zealand, they are said to grow pretty true from seed that seems to fit, as they grew most plants from seed back then, I have several trees grown from seed soon to fruit, they have dark colour on the young leaves and stems looks black at a glance bronze black purple up close, the stems colour then turns shades of brown with age and cold exposure. Lemonades are sold grafted to Trifoliata 3-4m tall or Flying Dragon growing to only 2m tall, plants fruit Jul and Aug yet can stay on the tree for a long time only getting sweeter. another New Zealand Heritage Citrus the Grapefruit 'Morrison's Seedless' was developed in NZ around 1860 by Mr Morrison from Warkworth Auckland. his is really quite an historical Grapefruit as it arrived in NZ from the Orient via Australia in the 1800's. The fruit was first grown by Sir George Grey in his orchard on Kawau Island and then developed further by Mr Morrison. The popular Grapefruit 'Golden Special' was in turn developed from 'Morrison's Seedless'.

[@ChivoXL909]

Interesting, I planted a couple of citrus seeds I found in a mandarin I was eating to grow as a bonsai tree and only one of them sprouted after a few weeks but with 4 individual plants with their own taproots so that means I have a chance at one of them being a clone? That is kind of cool.

[@mflbikes1870]

Your focus should be on breeding only hlb tolerant varieties so the future is not as bleak for California's citrus as hlb takes over.

[@cosmoblender]

nice video 👎