Post by melenduwir on May 4, 2022 17:10:36 GMT -5
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Last year, I'd purchased some exotic fruit from my local grocery, but a different distributor, and despite previous attempts to grow citrus from seeds failing completely, I decided to plant them out of curiosity. Pink lemons (I'd previously thought pink lemonade was artificially colored, shows how ignorant I was) and some Key limes.
Well, I actually had some many seedlings come up and thrive that I had to give away most of them, not having enough space. One lemon was exceptionally vigorous, and I had four Key limes. The four weren't uniform, though - one grew bigger than the others by roughly a third to a half, and had to be repotted because it kept falling over. I got interested and did some research, and learned about nucellar citrus reproduction - which both fascinated and disappointed me, since I could tell there was no point in retaining most of my sprouts because they'd all be the same. But my four limes weren't identical.
Of the four, two differed only slightly and were probably true-to-type. But one was very small and dense, with soft thorns, and multiple branches. One was very tall and vigorous with half-inch long thorns. Research showed that Key limes weren't completely nucellar, so it's possible the two weird ones are self-pollinated crosses, or maybe even mutations.
The normal two I gave away, but I've kept the unusual ones.
All four limes: imgur.com/gallery/chvo3Fs
The little one: imgur.com/gallery/B1ho85F
Last year, I'd purchased some exotic fruit from my local grocery, but a different distributor, and despite previous attempts to grow citrus from seeds failing completely, I decided to plant them out of curiosity. Pink lemons (I'd previously thought pink lemonade was artificially colored, shows how ignorant I was) and some Key limes.
Well, I actually had some many seedlings come up and thrive that I had to give away most of them, not having enough space. One lemon was exceptionally vigorous, and I had four Key limes. The four weren't uniform, though - one grew bigger than the others by roughly a third to a half, and had to be repotted because it kept falling over. I got interested and did some research, and learned about nucellar citrus reproduction - which both fascinated and disappointed me, since I could tell there was no point in retaining most of my sprouts because they'd all be the same. But my four limes weren't identical.
Of the four, two differed only slightly and were probably true-to-type. But one was very small and dense, with soft thorns, and multiple branches. One was very tall and vigorous with half-inch long thorns. Research showed that Key limes weren't completely nucellar, so it's possible the two weird ones are self-pollinated crosses, or maybe even mutations.
The normal two I gave away, but I've kept the unusual ones.
All four limes: imgur.com/gallery/chvo3Fs
The little one: imgur.com/gallery/B1ho85F