and shipping is free!

I think when I bought, the prices were $34.95? But yeah! Good sale!

By the way Denise, I visited the Ralston Arboretum in Raleigh today - next time you are in town it's worth a visit. They have a 15ft tall Dunstan citrumelo that has lots of fruits on it, plus a large flying dragon, citradia, and Ichang lemon. Huge, mature trees of all of them. Pretty cool.

lucky_cloud Do you live in the triangle area? I think there is an arboretum and a dairy farm on the NC State campus too which I have been wanting to see. I am not sure when I am going up there again. That drive is a killer. lol.

Yes, I live in Durham. The Ralston Arboretum is the NC State one, I believe. It's only about a 25 minute drive for me. (Different from the NC Arboretum in Chapel Hill, I always get them confused.)

Well, you get what you pay for and I should have known better. The US Citrus Satsuma is very nice and came wrapped in a little burlap bag with a cute lime in a net bag too. But, at $29.99 with free shipping it's only 12" high and pencil thin. Came in one of those 10" plastic tubes that made me think of the single roses you get. Again, it's nice and healthy and a great graft. You can tell they aim to please with all the little niceties it came wrapped with. But I would have been happier spending an extra $5 for an entry tree at FWG which also would include shipping and be a much larger tree.

I just saw a picture today of a blooming calamondin from US Citrus on Indoor Citrus Tree Group FB group page. The owner received it this spring. I was impressed and believe me I don't impress easily. lol. Nancy, one of the selling points of this tree is that it will mature faster because it was micrografted. If US Citrus offered a variety that I wanted and on a dwarf rootstock, I would be very tempted to order something.

That's great to hear Denise. I don't know what micrografted means- Heading on over to google it.

OK...sounds very labor intensive and expensive. Obviously the tree's well worth the extra money. Sorry, to US Citrus. It's a beautiful little tree. Will post a pic of right here and side by side with it six months from now.

Are those wash tubs under your trees? What are you using as risers? I have been looking for oil drip pans to go under my 20" pots but not having much luck. I am looking for an inexpensive alternate solution.

Nancy, you and lucky_cloud can compare how your trees grow. lol. https://www.houzz.com/discussions/anyone-ordered-from-uscitruscom-dsvw-vd~5382366?n=53

I, for one, would love to see how they grow compared to the traditional method of grafting and waiting 3-4 years for the tree to bare fruit.

Yes Denise. They are 18 gal dishpans from Walmart. For the bigger trees I use the black hard saucers you get at AM Leonard etc. You gave me the best idea several months back and that was to elevate them on bricks in their drainage tubs. I still have to empty the tubs pretty quick after watering because I don't like standing water around the basement but nice for them all to drain quick and not sit in water at all.

Nancy, have you seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzh5KtzLD3Q

Nancy & Denise - another idea for under the large pots is something that Evan had suggested last year and that I also deployed - the Home Depot mixing tubs - https://www.homedepot.com/p/Medium-Mixing-Tub-26100/300488545

The dimensions for the medium are 6" tall x 20" wide x 28" long.

You could potentially put 2 smaller pots in one. I had propped my citrus pots on large river rocks that were placed in their saucers but I think I may end up propping the larger ones on low height metal plant stands inside a tub.

And Denise - thanks for that link. I put video up in a browser tab to try to watch today!

I suggested the bricks because we had an abundance of them when the house was built. I like dual purposing stuff rather than going out and buying new. I love the patio paver bricks because they are smaller than the regular type.

Thanks hibiscus. I would never have thought to look there. How tall are the sides? My pots are 10" at the bottom and widen as it gets taller and end up at 20" wide.

Denise - most of my container shrubs are sitting on bricks out on the patio right now so that they don't root into the ground and can drain easier, so I hear ya! I usually try to keep a set of "clean" bricks indoors for multiple purposes like what you describe!

hibiscus - I never thought to check out a dollar store to find something like that. Haven't been to one in awhile but had found some of the larger plastic dishpans the last time I did go to one. I use them to hold cleaning supplies kept under the sink or in the basement on a shelf.

The meiwa I got from them, my hand for scale, and a baby fruit on it. Also, the kaffir I got from them as well, with lot of new growth coming on.

lucky_cloud, I cannot believe you have blossoms and fruit on them already.

It's a little insane - the thing keeps blooming. If it didn't look otherwise happy I'd be worried. But also the rootstock keeps trying to sucker like crazy and it's not growing much otherwise. I guess it's just the weirdness of Meiwas.

Meiwa kumquat trees are strange. Yours looks really nice. Is it on PT or FD or something else?

So, I don't know. The suckers are not trifoliate. I would swear they look like sour orange but meiwa is supposed to be incompatible with it. I keep meaning to email them and ask.

lucky_cloud I would contact US Citrus and let them know what's happening. It may not be normal for the rootstock to be so vigorous. Send them a picture of the rootstock growth and maybe you will get another tree for free. I think they would be willing to practically do anything to make customers happy because they are such a new company.

I actually cut a sucker and am trying to root it right now. It's been a week and it's still green but who knows if it'll work.

I just emailed them just to ask what rootstock it's on. Steve has mentioned before that he has huge calluses on his meiwa rootstocks from cutting suckers - I think it's a finicky variety.

can you take a picture of the tag

Sure thing

No rootstock ID that I can see.

The oil pans are about 3 inches deep and a little over 12 inches across. Instead of bricks, I use the tops from Simply Orange bottles, they are very sturdy and I don't think they are recyclable.

Dollar Tree also has dishpans and litter pans, but they are lightweight.

No listing of any letters denoting root stock there

Both Meiwas I have are rigorous grower and flowering almost constantly. Both are on Volkamer. One I got last year and I think survived because of this root stock.

They said that they ARE on sour orange, and that it has been working well for them. Hmm, that's kind of weird but we shall see. I may try a graft onto some rootstock I have that I THINK might be Volkamer.

Over in FB a customer is questioning the instructions sent with the trees like the daily watering and planting in regular potting soil. Did any of you follow the instructions to the letter and how did the tree fare?