Looking great Susanne always a bonus when the trees come with fruit on them.

Brian

And this time I really need to let some for my husband to taste. Hopefully they are tasty as the couple of fruits from my first Meiwa. Btw, just discovered one new tiny leaf. Seems they don't do the flush thing? Or do they just mine doesn't??

Good looking tree!

Very nice tree. Try tasting the ripest fruit It may already be ripe enough for you.

I have known Stan personally for many years and Susanne's tree is not one of Stan's best trees. That tree should never have been allowed to produce and then retain all of those fruits. During the first years of a young tree the goal is not fruit, it is to stimulate a vigorous growth of leaves and the development of the foundation branches that will become the framework of the mature tree. Only after the tree has become established, then the goal can be to produce fruit. It can easily be seen that all of the fruit permitted to remain on the tree has robbed that tree of the robust growth that should have properly occurred during the tree first 3 years. The poor tree has not developed any foundation branching what so ever, and the canopy development is also in shamples

Silica did this damage the tree for the future??? Or will it recover after the fruits are off?

The tree will grow when the fruits are picked.

Susanne, that all depends on you, the grower. The hardest part will be trying to get that tree to develop good foundation branching, which is the future of any citrus tree. You can see that the top of the little tree is really struggling, It tried its best to development anything it could but was robbed of the energy to do so. Wishing the possible best for this little tree.

Silica, any suggestions as to how to get the tree to develop good foundation branching?

The tree is not well balanced at all, like Silica said. Susanne, you will have to help that tree.

Okay, this tree does not look balanced because it is heavy with fruit. The top branches are pulled down And he said I could train them up with a stake again. How do I get the tree in better condition? Besides feeding? (tree did not get enough fertilizer over the summer is what Stan told me) Obviously the fruits are almost ready to be picked and does not really matter at this point. Tree will be kept under light over the winter time. The same as my other trees. But what else??

Remove all the fruit and let it breathe for a while without any load. There are no branches on the right. Expose that side to direct sunlight and there is of cause checking the roots, feeding, keeping the roots warm, good soil mix and lots of love :))

It looks unbalanced because one side is loaded with fruit and the other side barely has branches and they are weak.

Susanne.

Meiwa Kumquat trees grow so slowly that keeping the fruit does little if anything to slow the growth down. The Meiwa will abort any fruit that it can not support as mine aborted about 100 fruits when the sink hole exposed the bottom 2/3 of the trees root. Go ahead and start harvesting the fruit. Provide light for it this winter and pre-spray for insects. Mites love kumquats. All citrus trees can get mites and be knocked back but the Meiwa will take 4 years for every year any other citrus would need to bounce back. If you feel like growing lemons from seed, you can over feed for spindly growth to attract mites as a trap plant. Use a systemic poison on these plants and you will have little to no problem with your meiwa.

Steve

Steve, I do not agree with the first sentence in your above comment. Even though it grows slow, same rules of care apply.

Steve what an Idea do use a trap plant. Thank you. I was just checking for predatory mites and thinking about ordering some to release in the citrus room. Maybe (hopefully) this will keep them under control?

Sunshine when the tree arrives, lots of fruits are close to be ready. I think it really does not matter much to pick them all off immediately or wait until ripe at this point as the damage (if there is one) is already done. The tree will have six month before flowering again. As soon as almost all fruits are off, will re pot in a bit bigger container. Fertilize well and put more light on the naked side. And then wait and see what happens.

Susanne, i may get a meiwa from him next year. I looked everywhere and didnt think to check stan out. Please take pictures when you get it.

Lauren I will do that for sure. I also would not hesitate to look at FW next year. Yes something is not always going the right direction but overall I am really happy with their trees. If I would not already have gotten so many trees this year, I would order a premium Fukushu and Marumi, and when available the seedless Nordman.

Susanne, i just got 2 trees from FW and im satisfied. I have got sad trees from them buuut they never hesitated to replace any of them. I have also got some AmaZZing trees there also. I have a couple more i want but they are not in stock at the moment. Maybe next year. Ive already got over my limit this year and should wait to see how my extra bedroom converted to growing room serves my trees and IF it can hold anymore. Haha

Susanne, update us on the taste of your Meiwa fruit;)