I'm in Olympia, WA and seeing how many different rare citrus varieties and hybrids can survive outside here.

Not very many people trying to grow citrus outside here.

I'm also hoping to develop some new hybrids.

Things don't really begin consistently warming up until late May or June, so it's a short growing season, but the Winters, though long, are relatively mild.

I do have some Shasta Gold seedlings, great variety, but I'll have to hybridize it with something else before it could ever survive here. My Satsuma, another great variety, did not survive outside here, even though it was under a cover.

I have a couple of Yuzu, a C. ichangensis, a Changsha mandarin, a grapefruit x trifoliate bitter orange hybrid that's doing very well, a Bloomsweet grapefruit that barely managed to survive under a protective cover, close to the South facing side of the house in a warm sunny spot, and of course a Flying Dragon.

I've tried several others that didn't make it here.

My Clementine x Yuzu hybrid still doesn't have any leaves, it's been trying to bud out, but the little green buds keep shriveling up shortly after they pop out, it's as if the plant doesn't have enough energy to grow out. It was a colder Winter than usual this year, we had 18 inches of snow, which is not usual for this area.

Of course I'd never think to try planting something like a regular lemon or orange, they would never survive outside here.

1 Meiwa kumquat on Kuharski Citrange

4 seed grown Meiwa kumquats

1 Fukushu kumquat on C35

1 seed grow Fukushu kumquat

1 NZL on C35

1 NZL on US897

1 NZL on sour orange

1 Valentine pommelo on US897

I have a lot of interesting hybrids, but probably nothing you would really want to eat.

I do have multiple Oroblanco grapefruit plants grown from seed.

And a rare Giant Citron variety. Supposedly the fruits can get bigger than pomelos.

Also a couple of kumquat x C. ichangensis hybrids that are said to be really hardy, down to hard zone 8.

SoCal, that Giant citron might be the one that is called Djeruk Bali in the Far East. It’s one that I love, eat a ton of them while I spend a few years there, big and kind of flat.

No, this one is Yemenite Giant Etrog Citron.

I have a collage of pictures I compiled together (pictures were not taken by me)

SoCal, I am not interested, the one in the Far East I am looking for at one time, got too much now.