Fishy: If you are Southern CA, I'd guess you may be a low chill area. The best low chill nectarine I know of is Artic Star ~250 chill hrs. You can buy it bare root this winter from Bay Laurel Nursery Atascadero. It is a low-acid white-flesh, very sweet and flavorfal.

Clemenules was my favorite mandrin when I lived by Fresno. But citrus is kinda sensitive to heat units so you need something for your climate. I also really like Washington navel and Chandler pummelo. They need a lot of heat.

The Fruitnut

I am in a similar situation. I have a very large area that is ALL concrete that is in Full Sun, so I got a bunch of Very Large Hard Plastic containers and I planted Dwarf Trees. Take a look at Dave Wilson Nursery website and read their descriptions. You can special order trees thru Armstrong's or any local nursery for delivery next year. I have Dwarf Necta Zee Nectarines and Dwarf Honey Babe Peach and they are doing very well in the containers. I also planted Yosemite Gold, Clementine, Kishu Honey and Darcy Tangerine in these same containers. Also, doing very well. You may want to check out OSH, they sell Four Winds Dwarf Citrus trees and they look very healthy to me. I am not sure if the sale is still on but last week they had a sale and I bought a bunch for 20 bucks each.

I purchased an Arctic Star this year but I planted it in the ground. It is growing like a weed. They had blemish free, beautiful fruit. I cannot comment since it is not in a pot.

GL

Nancy

Since you seem to be partial to stone fruits I wonder if you might consider grafting to a Nanking Cherry rootstock. NK (prunus tomentosa) appears to be a fairly decent, modest sized, plant to which the stones often graft well. (I believe it was Plamfan who encouraged me in this direction, and who could certainlyly tell you more.) You might graft several varieties to one plant in this way, if that were to be helpful to you.

Good luck,

M