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ethnoguy said:
I didn't even realize that they had thorns until I got mine. I think you have inspired me to start again. THANKS!

EG

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ethnoguy said:
I didn't even realize that they had thorns until I got mine. I think you have inspired me to start again. THANKS!

EG

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Most of the commercial varieties of citrus that I have seen have small or almost no thorns.  I think the trait usually comes back when grown from seed. I'm growing some orange and tangerine trees from seed. They have long 1.5 to 2 inch thorns on a tree only 2 feet tall. I've grown several orange and tangerine trees and did nothing special as far as seed germination goes.  Planted fleshly collected seeds about 1/2 inch deep, kept moist, good amount of sun, worked for me.

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xpaciscool said:
where did you guys get the seeds for your lemon, orange, and clementine trees. Somebody said get fresh harvested seeds. I know oranges are hybrids so they are seedless. I've heard they graft an orange branch onto a lemon tree, and then it grows oranges. I would love to grow a clementine tree. For a fruit tree to flower and bear fruit, do you need two trees, or will one tree self polinate itself?
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Most citrus are self-pollinating, and some actually require no pollination to produce fruit; in this case the fruit will be seedless. Most citrus trees will also cross-pollinate, producing mixed species varieties.


Here is a strange variegated citrus I grew from kumquat seed. The growth form is odd for kumquat, and the fruit has a different shape, inner structure, taste, and the tree sets fruit earlier. The most interesting thing however, is that the green, unripe fruit has yellow lateral stripes running from the stem to the bottom of the fruit. For these reasons, I suspect this is the result of cross-pollination with one of my many varieties of citrus.