Citrus Species, Meiwa Kumquat, Sweet Kumquat, Sweet Kinkan

I planted 2 kumquats trees 3 years ago which I purchased at a local nursery in the Phoenix area. Our summers are very hot here in Scottsd...Read Moreale/Phoenix area, so I knew these probably couldn’t take the direct afternoon sun. They are planted in an area that gets morning sun until 1:00 pm, but are shaded all afternoon. I did not fertilize the trees in the first 2 years. In the 3rd year, I fertilized them with citrus pellet fertilizer in Spring, late May and mid-summer. The first 2 years after planting, we had a small amount of fruit. This winter after the fertilization, we had 4-5 times the amount of fruit. Now in February, I noticed I have new green fruit that is starting to turn orange, a 2nd growth of fruit. There was a 2nd set of blossoms on the trees last fall, so this must be the fruit from the blossoms. I water the trees by hand in the summer about every 7-10 days when it is thoroughly dried out. I flood the basin around the trunk several times to make sure it’s completely soaked. I covered the 2 trees when we had freezing nighttime winter temps. The first 2 years I didn’t get as much growth of new leaves as I expected, but after the fertilizing in the 3rd year, they have become very full. The height hasn’t changed much. Each tree is only 45”-48” tall.

We have this growing in a small clay pot in Massachusetts. It lives outside during three seasons, and winters in a heated sunroom, toler...Read Moreating low 50's in winter. It fruited strongly in our second year of ownership. It appears to be grafted onto a Poncirus trifoliata rootstock, based on the leaf of a trunk sucker.

Central Phoenix -- We have had better luck with Meiwa kumquat as a pot plant than with other citrus, including Nagami kumquat and limequa...Read Moret, both of which did not survive. The small leaves and small fruit of the Meiwa make it good for a potted plant. We have had ours for 2 1/2 years and it is doing well and bears strongly. It is in a relatively harsh location, against an east-facing brick wall with a lot of morning and noontime summer sun but afternoon shade. We give it a winter cover and does fine.

We purchased one of these almost 2 years ago now. It's slightly taller than it was and produced far less this last round than the one be...Read Morefore. We have an almost 3 year old who really enjoyed picking the fruit and in the process, tearing off parts of the plant. Amazingly, it has survived nonetheless. I'm not entirely certain it will ever be the large plant that so many seem to have. It is definitely a fighter, though!