I've never tasted meiwa, but hopefully others here can chime in.

My Meiwa is very tasty in my opinion. Don't forget to plant your Meiwa seed. They come true. I am going to guess a leaf node count of around 70. On my tree that would be about 3,5 feet tall. How fast do you plant to grow your tree. I augment my tree's wither growth with.

My first seed grown Meiwa 5 years ago is now dead. Spider mites.

My Meiwa kumquats do 3/4 of all growth in the winter month under these lights.

Steve

No, Meiwa kumquats do not come true from seed, only the Nagami comes true.

yup, as soon as I discovered the seed I stuck it in the pot to the lonely mineola seed. Steve are the meiwa juicy? The one I had was very dry but I just bought the tree couple of months ago and with shipping stress and re potting might not be what it could be? Spider mites can be bad and this year I will spray the heck out of the tree before they come in.

Silica why is that?

Susanne, the way I look at it is, only plant a seed that does not come true. When a seed that does not come true is planted and grown you will get a never seen before citrus variety. It is true the majority of the time these trees are inferior, but every now and then a new wonderful excellent variety is borne. This actually creates something new, a variety that will survive long in the future. Many of the varieties grown today the world over came from chance seedlings. A true from seed trees is nothing but the same old variety that can be found anywhere.

Silica how do we know which one is true from seed and which is not?

My Meiwa seeds were polyembreonic.

I thought if polyembriotic they are identical clones?

No, one is a clone of the female parent while the other is a hybrid of both parents.

Susanne, when I tried Meiwa few years ago offered by a friend, I was not impressed by it that much and I did not see it (or did not pay attention) in stores after that. Last year I was shopping in an Asian store and noticed the fruit neatly packed in small bags and it was labelled as kumquat. I remembered my friend offering me that same fruit and I purchased a bag of it, tried it at home, it was sweet and delicious. Last winter I spent small fortune on Meiwa fruit from same store, it was available in that store from December to April of this year. I planted some seeds, some of them were polyembryonic and some not. They grow very slow. Steve has very special way of growing them.

And which one is which? One seedling emerge stronger then the other. Sure sign?

I have to take back my above post. Poncirusguy is correct, Meiwa kumquats DO come true from seed. All kumquats do come true from seed EXCEPT for Nagami. I wrote my above post backwards saying--- no kumquats come true except Nagami. Apologies to Poncirusguy.

Sunshine did you keep them all? Still growing?

Now it makes me happy to have put one seed in soil. Hopefully I can grow them like Steve :)

Planted many, about 30-40 and survived only 6-7 of them, the batch form December did not survive ( in April they were overwatered by my friend, while I was on vacation), then planted some again in April. Will post pics for you tomorrow.

Oh yes and thank you :)

Steve, simply amazing! You have special touch regarding kumquats. Susanne, here are my Meiwa seedlings grown from April, just snapped a picture for you:

On the far left are kumquat seedlings planted in a bunch and kept at home (intentional, experiment), they are darker green, stems are green because of lower light. The four separate ones are living outside all summer, lighter green but they built little bark, did not grow much this season. All of them are on the same schedule for fertilizing, some are polyembryonic. The one on the far right is 8 month old Meyer lemon seedling.

Sunshine thank you for sharing. I have the second meiwa seed in the soil now and I really feel encouraged by you and Steve. Looking forward to see what your Meyer lemon will do in the future :)

Meiwas are sooo slow! They say Meyer does not come true from seed :) but I love the way it looks, the foliage is dense, if cared for properly.

My first meiwa crop did seem not as juicy as one would think, but it was still yummy. The seeds I planted have grown veryvery slowly. Slower than the nagami seedlings.

And I lost several of them, I guess due to damping off. Steve recommends lifting the seedling to expose the lower part of the stem, away from the soil. I also use diluted apple cider vinegar, although I don't know if it actually affects the fungi that causes damping off. I need to look into that.

I aim to expose the top 1/2 inch of root. I have never seed damp off high than 1/2 inch. I also fill the pot to the lip so there is no cavity inside the pot to hold a higher moisture/humidity zone.

Steve

So, I had a couple of those little suckers again and the trick really is to get them when they are just turning color (thank you Steve). Not a lot of juice but definitely a bit more spritz to it. Put six more seeds in the dirt and I sure hope they will start growing. The taste is very promising. I wish the tree would put on some new growth, as I want a lot of the little Meiwa fruits. Hot enough for sure but nothing to see yet.