Some Chinotto hybrids

[till]

I pollinated some flowers of my small Chinotto tree last year. My documentation was a mess I have to admit. But I know for sure that I used Poncirus pollen. Besides that I probably also used Yuzu pollen. (Cf. the winged leaves. I had no C. icangensis pollen.) Why the cross? Hmm, I did not expect good tasting hybrids. It was more out of curiosity. I wanted to see whether I get hybrids with Chinotto-like growth habit and I was impressed how many fruits Chinotto bears even under bad growing conditions. So I thought there is something interesting in Chinotto hybrids.

Here are the results: The small miniature seedlings on the picture are nucellar seedlings, i. e. pure Chinotto. The much bigger seedlings are hybrids. One is trifoliate. Its a Poncirus hybrid. Others have winged leaves. These should be Yuzu hybrids. As you can also see, the depressed Chinotto-like growth habit with small distance between the internodes is not consistently inherited. The biggest seedling has no signs of it, the trifoliate seedling and some others have the feature but less so than pure Chinotto. The seedling in the middle has it to a high degree. There are no dwarfs among the hybrids. That means the dwarf growth of Chinotto is a recessive allel.
Remark: It is not clear at the moment how many seedlings will get winged leaves. My experience is that pure Yuzu seedlings at first do not have winged leaves. I had seedlings of various citrus that at first had no petioles at all but later they got winged leaves.

[hcoggan]

Very cool! Can't wait to see how these turn out

[till]

Thank you. Me too!