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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusMeiwa Kumquat
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc1471 (opens in a new tab)
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Mckenzie Farms & Nursery · YouTube · 2023-12-18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpB-lhbNRM (opens in a new tab)
Native transcript retained extract, 1:53–2:10. The presenter recalls that one Meiwa tree had not received freeze damage. The recollection gives no date, minimum temperature, exposure duration, protection, rootstock, or damage-assessment method; it is not a quantified cold-hardiness claim.
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The Millennial Gardener · YouTube · 2025-01-13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwh3I3axQ4 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: A southeastern-coastal North Carolina grower identifies a Meiwa Kumquat on trifoliate rootstock. At 9:14–10:59, the presenter calls Meiwa sweet inside and out and tastes an under-ripe, underdeveloped fruit, describing it as sweet and candy-like. Native English auto-captions cover 0:00–19:22. The tree is approaching its fourth year; fruit were explicitly not fully ripe, and no measurements or analytical method are given.
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The Millennial Gardener · YouTube · 2023-12-18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpF9lWJKCuA (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: A southeastern-coastal North Carolina grower identifies a Meiwa Kumquat, grafted on trifoliate rootstock and a little over two years old. At 11:00–11:55, he describes Meiwa as having a sweet interior and skin, contrasting it with Nagami’s sour interior, and reports this small tree was planted in the rear property. Native English auto-captions cover 0:00–23:52. This is a grower account without sample measurements, harvest date, or an independently measured cold event.
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Edge of Nowhere Farm · YouTube · 2019-01-08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksyNLe6LUc4 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 9:38–12:04 of a 17:20 video. The presenter describes a potted Meiwa tree and one cut-fruit sample, including shape and seed observations. The raw timestamped transcript is retained in the Fukushu source archive.
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Gardening and Cooking Made Easy · YouTube · 2021-03-23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f4gAas1yjE (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 5:54–10:00 of a 16:44 video. The presenter separately describes planting a 3-gallon Meiwa specimen in Arizona and its site exposure. The raw timestamped transcript is retained in the Fukushu source archive.
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The Mulberries · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUO9SEdTW9I (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Native English auto-generated captions reviewed 0:01–43:44 of a 43:47 video. The Meiwa sample is from the presenter's second-year plants in an unheated greenhouse (0:30–0:40; location unstated). At 6:15–6:41 three fruit weights are spoken as 9.7g, 8.6g, and 9.7g; the presenter gives an approximate 9.5g sample value. At 25:43–27:21 he describes the sample's sweetness and absence of bitterness. No exact publication date was verified.
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Boisefruit (@Boisefruit) · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRyXyzZ4Otw (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: In a tasting recorded Jan. 20, 2025, the presenter compares one Meiwa fruit with one Marumi fruit. He describes the Meiwa as having thick, sweet skin and a pulpy, less-juicy interior, while noting that the younger plant or fruit might improve with age (3:10–4:40). This is a single-fruit comparison, not a measured or cultivar-wide result.
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Growing Fruit · 2023-07-13
https://growingfruit.org/t/meiwa-kumquat-tree/55576 (opens in a new tab)
Twenty-post thread reviewed through the last visible post. The July 13, 2023 opening post by poncirusguy describes an own-root in-ground Meiwa with flower buds, without a location. Later posts are separate growers and plants: one uncertain Meyer-seedling-rootstock graft, a Kuharske citrange graft/approach graft to Flying Dragon, and distinct fruit-set/bloom reports. The thread also contains greenhouse thermostat context at 35–45°F, not an outdoor hardiness observation. Attribute each claim to its poster; do not combine into one tree history or generalized yield.
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NoUsernameEn · Reddit — r/Citrus · 2022-09-05
Thread comments by Realtorbyday and Rcarlyle give distinct Meiwa accounts. Realtorbyday describes their family-grown Meiwa as sweet throughout, lacking a preferred tart note and with an almost-soapy quality; this is anecdotal, unmeasured flavor wording. Rcarlyle describes sweet/bitter peel, marmalade use, and seeds as a consideration when eating off the tree. No measured taste scale, Brix, pH, mass, or location is supplied.
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Fruit Maven · Fruit Maven
https://fruitmaven.com/2010/03/meiwa-kumquat/ (opens in a new tab)
Review page path places it in March 2010; no exact publication day is displayed. The author describes a small round orange farmer's-market sample and lists Meiwa grown in Rainbow, California, without identifying an orchard or explaining the location attribution. Separate reported traits include firm, nearly crunchy/fibrous texture, limited juiciness, light orange/acidic aroma, and roughly five or six seeds per bite in that batch; the author notes another source says Meiwas have few seeds. Star graphics are presentation ratings, not calibrated taste intensities. The 2011 comment by Mike is a separate fruit report; the comment does not establish whether that fruit came from the tree Mike says he purchased.
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Tfarms (@Tefoe) · YouTube — Tfarms (@Tefoe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHAIl_TQ3M8 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 0:09–0:51, the speaker says they bought a Meiwa “at the beginning of the year, a few months ago”; this does not establish an exact observation date. At 1:42–3:23, the speaker describes a potted tree after a late-winter cold blast, including flowering/flower drop after a night in the 30s, about 1½ feet of new growth, and fruit estimated about golf-ball-sized; exact temperature, duration, location, and protection are unclear. At 3:47–4:53, the speaker describes sweet skin with a little citrus-oil bitterness and flesh that is sweet, juicy, firm, and a little grainy. At 6:31–7:12, this fruit is reported seedless while some other fruit have a few seeds. Grower observations, without measured taste scores or fruit metrics.
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Treehouse Orchard and Vineyard (@TreehouseVineyard) · YouTube — Treehouse Orchard and Vineyard (@TreehouseVineyard)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLn2hh3jN4Y (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The grower tastes fruit from a container-grown Meiwa tree; its age is uncertain (about four or five years), and pot sizes are estimates. The speaker describes fruit as roundish, juicy, and very sweet, with a tiny bit of tartness; an approximate “two to three seeds” report is not clearly tied to each fruit or a sample count. The grower also describes uneven ripening and late-summer/fall flowering, without establishing a fixed harvest season. No Brix, pH, mass, or exact observation date is provided.
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Supreme Family Garden · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN2C3IIpIVE (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: 15:44 video; English auto-generated captions cover 0:00–15:21; no exact publication date verified. The presenter compares Meiwa, Nagami and variegated kumquats, recommends Meiwa for sweetness, and calls it the sweetest by far (0:42–1:49). This is a general grower recommendation, not a description of a particular fruit tasting or measured sensory test.
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Eliezer S. Louzada; Chandrika Ramadugu · HortTechnology / American Society for Horticultural Science · 2021-05-05
https://journals.ashs.org/view/journals/horttech/31/3/article-p243.xml (opens in a new tab)
The review identifies canker-resistant Meiwa kumquat as a protoplast donor in grapefruit somatic-hybrid experiments. This is donor-cell context, not a new Meiwa field-resistance test or result.
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poncirsguy · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · January 23, 2026
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=30891.msg574242#msg574242 (opens in a new tab)
poncirsguy reported a Meiwa on Flying Dragon in clay soil doing well under four layers of glass, five inches of leaf mulch, and heat from three 13-watt CFLs. The grower explicitly said cold tolerance was unknown; no outdoor threshold or Flying Dragon-specific phenotype is established.
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Dennis Peck · The Oregonian/OregonLive · 2022-01-13
The article’s “ONE GREEN WORLD FAVORITES” block says descriptions are from OneGreenWorld.com. The Meiwa profile calls it the sweet kumquat and says it is larger than Nordmann; it describes whole-fruit eating, sweet skin and tart/spicy flesh, and advertises hardiness to at least 20°F and probably lower once established. No accession, sample or exposure context is provided.
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