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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusCalamondin
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc2592 (opens in a new tab)
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The Mulberries · YouTube · 2026-05-14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BPp5SNEsmU (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 23:46–24:18, the presenter describes a patio-grown Calamondin with heavy flowering and growth and their indoor-growing preference.
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The Mulberries · YouTube · 2024-12-15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AESlkft9DRM (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 0:31–0:49 and 2:20–3:15, the host describes keeping household Calamondin trees indoors in North Carolina and previously New York. At 7:28–8:35, he estimates one tree had about 30–40 fruits with additional young fruit and flowers and says its flowers are fragrant. These are first-hand, approximate observations of household specimens, not measured cultivar-wide results. Auto-generated captions; uncertain rootstock and variegated-plant details are excluded.
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Summer Rayne Oakes / Plant One On Me · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1846776753c (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The speaker describes one grafted Calamondin in a pot in a Zone 5/6 setting: it is taken outdoors in summer and moved indoors to a brighter southern exposure for winter. The rootstock is not named; this is one speaker’s container-care experience, not a hardiness test or cultivar-wide limit. Captions are auto-generated; no observation date is stated.
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Weird Explorer · YouTube · 2018-03-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJTGecvn074 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenter compares one under-ripe, green-exterior fruit with one ripe fruit identified as Calamansi/Calamondin. He describes the unripe sample as orange inside, lime-plus-mandarin/orange-like, and grassy; he calls the ripe sample “very sour” and somewhat more orange-flavored. These are subjective observations of two samples without verified cultivar, origin, harvest date, or measured ripeness. Auto-generated captions; no shelf-life result is established.
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Wild Floridian · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvBkqSyht4M (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The speaker describes a Calamondin found as a volunteer seedling in Florida and grown for over 10 years, with propagated trees in differing shade/sun settings. In the speaker’s Zone 10 location, trees may carry flowers and ripe/green fruit together, with up to six harvests in one year. These are personal reports from multiple trees and not a controlled trial or cultivar-wide yield. Captions are auto-generated; no observation date, accession, or rootstock is stated.
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FEATR · YouTube · 2023-04-12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RzBVOUrwc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The documentary says Calamansi is also known as Calamondin, Lemonsito, or Panama Lime (2:21–2:28), and describes culinary uses including soups, marinades, sauces, peel, leaves, and buds. At 37:32–38:14, one food-and-wine speaker describes an orange/lemon aroma leaning toward mandarin with a sherbet-like note. Separately, an Altona family estimates a backyard tree has been there “almost maybe 30 years now or 40 years” (13:00–13:39); its identity, planting date, and rootstock are unverified. Captions have gaps; claims remain attributed.
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GoldenGully · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnWD7djVeS8 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenter identifies the fruit as Calamansi, says it is orange inside with an orange smell, and describes a sour flavor combining lime and orange (0:00–0:20). After squeezing several fruits, he says there are “a lot of seeds” (0:22–0:41). These are unquantified impressions of an unidentified sample. The 8.9/10 rating concerns a mixed drink, not the fruit, and is not included. Auto-generated captions; sample origin, cultivar, maturity, and date are unstated.
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Real Life Fruitopia · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6b0nR8sY8 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: A Melbourne backyard grower reports the Calamondin was one year in the ground after a few months in a pot, bore four fruits in its first season, and had at least half a dozen tiny fruits set for the next year; timing/count context is not fully consistent. In a separate tasting, he compares partly green and ripe fruit; he describes the ripe sample’s peel as crunchy and says it is “definitely not sweet in any way,” while the green sample has lime/mandarin and grassy notes. These are personal observations of selected fruit from one tree, not measured ripeness or cultivar-wide results. Auto-generated captions; no exact observation date or accession is stated.
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Terra Mater Gardens · YouTube · 2023-02-03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ-hN9D-9rA (opens in a new tab)
Summary from uploader description and partial visible captions (not a full transcript): The page describes Calamondin as Citrus × microcarpa; a visible caption at 0:02 equates Calamansi and Calamondin. At 1:00–1:08, partial captions say juice is used in acid beverages and like lime or lemon juice, including for gelatin, fish, cakes, marmalades, pies, and sauces. These are page-description and incomplete auto-rendered caption claims, not measured plant observations or a taste report. Transcript export was unavailable and visible caption coverage is discontinuous; unverified cultivation metrics and incomplete origin fragments are excluded.
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T. Ralph Robinson · Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society · 1931
https://journals.flvc.org/fshs/article/download/102979/98910/0 (opens in a new tab)
Historical report on p. 112 says calamondin was severely injured or nearly killed in freezes during the prior decade in north Florida and Gulf Coast areas; it contrasts Glen as hardier. No measured temperature is specified for those calamondin injuries.
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Walter T. Swingle; T. Ralph Robinson; E. M. Savage · USDA Circular No. 181 · August 1931
Printed p. 13 (PDF p. 33) describes common calamondin before the Glen Citrangedin account: vigorous, productive trees with small red, acid ornamental fruit of kid-glove character; it reports the 1924 freezes nearly annihilated existing plantings in northern Florida and Gulf Coast regions and says young trees are often injured around 20°F. Historical account only; no accession-specific cold threshold.
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Edward O. Olson and G. H. Godfrey · Rio Grande Valley Horticultural Club · 1953
http://www.subplantsci.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/v07-1953.pdf (opens in a new tab)
Table 2, printed p. 28, reports counts for seedlings in Substation 15 plots inoculated in 1950: cotton-root-rot deaths in 1951 and 1952, and seedlings alive in September 1952. Counts are not percentages; the table gives no per-row denominator. The paper cautions that freeze injury, other diseases, and planting-date differences complicated comparisons.
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till · Citrus Growers v2 · Hybridizing citrus forum · December 4, 2022
https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/post/7296 (opens in a new tab)
First-person forum report of hand-pollinating Calamondin with C. ichangensis. The author reports few flowers, fruits, and seeds and visually interprets mostly pale-yellow embryos as likely hybrids after separating embryos from seed coats. No count, controlled comparison, or genetic confirmation is supplied. Source is the exact post permalink; supplied thread captures cover pages 1–2 of 3.
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