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fruit full of seed.

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JLYNN starts with ...
Do you know why my Lemonade Tree would be producing fruit full of seed? Theres barely any flesh its all seed inside.
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2nd May 2016 12:03pm
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jakfruit etiquette says...
Nearly all Citrus trees are grafted onto a Citrus rootstock. These can take over and produce not so edible seedy fruit.
ie 20 to 50 seeds
This is the usual answer when a Citrus tree produces strange fruit.
If however, you are sure your tree is still producing Lemonades, ie they dont also taste strange, it could be pollination from another Citrus(seedy), or Lack of water + fertiliser to develop fruit(barely any flesh).
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Manfred says...
No JE- it can't. What pollinates the fruit can't have any effect on the fruit. The fruit itself is purely the product of its mother. Only in the next generation can a bad pollinator affect the fruit. The sperm can't alter the placenta.

I am guessing that the fruit has been left on the tree too long. Harvest it when it is still greeny-yellow, not when it is fully yellow. For citrus purposes (or even more generally), Boyne Island should be considered tropical, rather than subtropical. (Pers com- Trikus.)

Seediness is a characteristic of juvenile citrus. Where did you get the plant? Is it a seedling or a cutting? JE is right to point out that citrus seedlings used for rootstock will be seedy if allowed to take over and fruit, but all citrus have long juvenile periods, and if it is a rootstock taking over it won't produce any fruit for about ten years, and not much even then.

Most lemonades I know of are on Poncirus rootstock (Poncirus trifoliata). Not my favourite, but it has some advantages, especially for the home gardener, and it is easy to recognise by the trifoliate leaves.
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jakfruit etiquette says...
Hi Manfred, my point was the presence of seeds, or seedyness could be caused by pollination, (but not the actual fruit characteristics or quality.) In some "seedless" Citrus vars, only pollination from another variety will cause seeds to develop.
Some Citrus are polyembryonic, ie clonal seeds develop from the fruiting parent,
but many Citrus have sexual reproduction, with the possibility of multiple embryos(seed) per fruit.
Many Citrus probably have both systems going at the same time.

Excessively seedy Lemonade fruit seems highly unusual in any case, ie quote "fruit full of seed? Theres barely any flesh its all seed inside".
That doesn't sound much like Lemonade at all. I would be confirming the trees variety as a first step.











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JLYNN says...
Thanks for all the information. I'll take a picture next time we pick some fruit. Its a tree thats been here since we moved so could be quite old. It was fruiting when we moved in 5+ yrs ago.
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