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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · September 06, 2024
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg533994#msg533994 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report. Post by kumin, 2024-09-06 10:05:50. The post explicitly names Mini Conestoga and reports a smaller tree with smaller leaves, flowers and fruit, abundant fruit, precocity over several years, about six years outdoors, and little fruit fuzz. A highly dwarfing rootstock trial is proposed; this does not establish that Mini reduces another scion’s vigor when used as rootstock.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · July 27, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg562820#msg562820 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report. Post by kumin, 2025-07-27 10:46:31. The seedling row appears nucellar, possibly exclusively, from visual assessment; no genetic verification or counted rate is supplied. The post also describes precocity in seedlings and grafts and hardiness slightly below common Poncirus.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · October 08, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg568247#msg568247 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand breeder report. Post by kumin, 2025-10-08 15:20:16. Mini was one of five different selections reported to have survived the preceding -8°F winter. The sampled Mini fruit was quite immature, with tart flesh described as not especially bitter; this stage-specific report does not erase earlier bitter-fruit observations.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus
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Public thread used for multiple post-level observations where no stable permalink is available. Locators retained in child evidence: kumin 2024-08-20 13:49:11; kumin 2025-04-08 19:42:01; kumin 2025-09-24 (time as recorded in research notes); Mulberry0126 2025-07-28 09:29:08; kumin 2025-11-20 16:05:46 and 16:31:30; kumin 2025-11-21 10:20:07. Preserve each author/date/time locator and do not treat the thread as a single-date event.
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kumin · The Tropical Fruit Forum · September 21, 2026, 10:41:58 AM (forum display)
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Forum post photo caption identifies Mini Conestoga fruit from a second bloom. The caption supplies no fruit measurements, quality traits, or broader flowering result.
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kumin · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · September 24, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg567203#msg567203 (opens in a new tab)
The author reports that fruits from an early bloom were beginning to turn yellow. The same post says Mini-Conestoga seedlings are predominantly nucellar and germinate well, and suggests the selection might serve as a dwarfing rootstock. These are grower assessments, not genetic testing or a reported rootstock-performance trial; hardiness is described as close to but not equal to Poncirus.
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Mulberry0126 · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · 2025-07-28
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The author reports grafting a Mini-Conestoga scion onto trifoliate orange rootstock. It flowered when about four inches long and did not immediately drop fruit; the author removed the fruit because the scion had so little growth. This is one specific graft and does not establish bearing age, mature fruit production, or rootstock performance.
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