If you had a greenhouse and could plant just one citrus tree in it, which would you choose?
I'm a Colorado boy with minimal citrus experience.
Discussion
Lemon tree, my man.
lemon over orange??
Yeah. Oranges are fine, but lemons are more versatile. Great in cooking for all kinds of dishes.
YUZU
Limes. Useful in so many recipes and drinks
Lemon if you cook. Orange if you want to eat the fruit.
Limes. So many recipes call for lime juice.
Mandarin or possibly a lemon grafted with lime.
A tasty mandarin is the best to have for eating. Oranges are great for juicing but you need a few trees if you're going that way.
Lemons & limes are useful for cooking. 1 tree produces more than any family can use though they are great to give to people (they're usually expensive).
I'm wary to graft anything or plant more than one because my dad planted four different citrus trees and they all crossbred and now have a weird flavor with none of them representing what they were initially
That's not how cross breeding works.
Cross breeding will only affect the fruit of plants grown from seeds of the cross bred flowers. That's why if you're saving seeds from annuals, you should only grow the 1 variety n the same area.
interesting. I guess idk why they all changed then
Probably something environmental.
It's definitely not a genetic change.
I've about 15 different citrus varieties.
What about kumquat?
Sell me on it besides the fact that I'd be able to tell people I have a kumquat tree
I had a dwarf lime tree that I grew in a trash can. It lived for 15 years and produced fruit twice a year. I hand pollinated during the winter. I had fresh limes about 12 weeks a year. Not to many that they were wasted but always enough for margaritas, ceviche, taco or whatever.
That's a dream of mine
Lime
I grew up with citrus and lime is usable on a daily basis.
Cara Cara