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Originally Posted by Richard
The Peruvian Lime is not hardy nor weak, but I was commenting on the choice of the robust Eureka as a host. This sounds like a good match and I hope it works for you.
Wood pocket is a nasty bugger and I'm happy to learn about a Bearss cultivar that is not susceptible.
I was perplexed about which lime to grow at home until Toots introduced me to the Taveres Limequat. I haven't acquired one yet -- hopefully I will finish the reserved planter for it this summer.
I forgot about your love of wine-making from fruits. Given the lemons you have named, I think a Libyan Blood Orange wine would match your tastes!
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I will never be able to make my own blood orange wine. I have a large tree filled with all the publicly available blood orange cultivars from UCR. The fruits are so good that they don't get to the fruit bowl. If ever they make it there, they won't last a day. I just got me the newest addition, the Delfino.
But I also discovered that one branch of my Salustiana sweet orange had developed the splotches of blood pigmentation within the flesh. This has not been observed before. Other references states that the Salustiana has deeper orange flesh, but mine used to be like that and this year it changed into a blood orange pigmentation pattern. I grafted this unto a Moro blood orange and may have been "contaminated" or mutated in the process, after all, we have more extreme temperature fluctuations here in the North than in the South, something that enhances blood pigmentation in citruses.
