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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusConestoga 011 Citrange
kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · March 18th, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg550214#msg550214 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand forum account, paraphrased; not an independently verified trial.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · March 28th, 2026
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg579001#msg579001 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand forum account, paraphrased; not an independently verified trial.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · April 08, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg552522#msg552522 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · February 03, 2019
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg343000#msg343000 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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Lifeasible; posted by kumin · Lifeasible · report reproduced on Tropical Fruit Forum · 2021-09-02
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg439772#msg439772 (opens in a new tab)
Original ten-page report dated September 2nd, 2021, supplied by the user and matched to the ten report-image links in the breeder’s post. Flow cytometry of supplied leaves identifies sample MGM-2 / LF01-M-210821005618 as tetraploid (reported nuclear DNA content 1.43 Gb); the diploid control is 798 Mb. The accompanying post identifies the tested plant as Conestoga 011. Report pages 2 and 4–7 describe the sample, method and result. No direct chromosome count or molecular parentage test.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · May 14, 2020
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg388453#msg388453 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · October 01, 2023
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg503765#msg503765 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · April 15, 2024
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg519917#msg519917 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · September 14, 2024
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg534798#msg534798 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · April 07, 2023
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg488666#msg488666 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · August 27, 2021
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg439322#msg439322 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · May 11, 2020
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg388091#msg388091 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · January 25, 2019
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg342327#msg342327 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · February 08, 2019
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg343495#msg343495 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · June 14, 2019
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg355739#msg355739 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · November 25, 2019
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg372939#msg372939 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · January 26, 2019
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg342383#msg342383 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · February 22, 2023
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg484670#msg484670 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · February 23, 2024
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg514660#msg514660 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · January 31, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg545192#msg545192 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report; retain stated sample, protection, date and uncertainty. Seedling appearance alone does not establish embryo origin or parentage.
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Citrus Genome Database
https://www.citrusgenomedb.org/Analysis/1829479 (opens in a new tab)
Genome resource reviewed against the CGD assembly record and existing variety identity. ZK8 is a sequenced trifoliate-orange reference relevant to the Poncirus background inherited through C-35. It is not a sequence of Conestoga 011 Citrange or its recorded parental accession, and does not establish ancestry percentages or cold tolerance.
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Citrus Genome Database
https://www.citrusgenomedb.org/Analysis/1749921 (opens in a new tab)
Genome resource reviewed against the CGD assembly record and existing variety identity. DHSO is a sweet-orange reference relevant to the sweet-orange background inherited through C-35. It is not a sequence of Conestoga 011 Citrange or Ruby sweet orange. The separate 011 flow-cytometry report measures ploidy and DNA content; it is not a genome assembly.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · May 1, 2020
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg386830#msg386830 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report. The post compares Conestoga 011 and 010 outdoor grafts on Poncirus after an unspecified winter; it also compares an original 058 plant in a coldframe. It gives no temperature or duration, and the differing protection conditions limit direct hardiness comparison.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · May 30, 2020
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg390349#msg390349 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder comparison of Conestoga 011 and Poncirus petiole length. The author describes the observation as a brief examination and gives no measurement protocol; the post's tetraploidy and triploid-breeding comments are speculative and are not established by the petiole observation.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · January 1, 2021
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg414513#msg414513 (opens in a new tab)
The author reports little or no observed cold-hardiness difference to that point among Conestoga 010, Conestoga 011, and Poncirus, then ranks 011 as fully deciduous and the hardiest hybrid in this collection. The reported +10 °F low applies to the update, not as a measured minimum for 011; coldframe plants had higher sunny-day highs than outdoor plants.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · April 8, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?msg=552551 (opens in a new tab)
Kumin reports that Conestoga 011 was seriously damaged but survived. The post does not give a temperature or exposure duration for 011. Its separate −8°F statement concerns TaiTri.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · March 29, 2024
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg518106#msg518106 (opens in a new tab)
Kumin reports that Conestoga 011 had developed flower buds at six years of age. This is an individual report, not a replicated age-to-flowering estimate; it does not call these the first flower buds.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · 2019-05-04
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg350788#msg350788 (opens in a new tab)
Kumin reports that most of the pictured in-ground F2 segentranges survived a January/February 2019 low of −11.8 °F; the post identifies Conestoga 011 as a vigorous, deciduous specimen and says it received no protection at any time. The following separately captioned plant is described as having zero dieback; that observation is not assigned to 011. This is a grower report, with no station, duration, or detailed exposure record.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · 2019-09-13
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg365236#msg365236 (opens in a new tab)
Kumin identifies the pictured selection as Conestoga 011 F2 hybrid, says it was among the hardiest selections, and reports top-working it onto mature Poncirus trees for the upcoming winter test, with multiple clones propagated as backups. A third image is captioned as the original survivor and described as deciduous. This post gives no measured winter minimum or trial outcome.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · 2025-11-21
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg571000#msg571000 (opens in a new tab)
In post #571000, Kumin calls 011 tetraploid and reports that its seeds are fewer in number but much thicker. This is a qualitative grower description; the post supplies no seed count, thickness measurement, or method. Ploidy should be supported only by independently documented evidence, not inferred from this seed description.
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