My Edible Fruit Trees: Kumquat Trees QLD

Kumquat

Comments: - beautiful tree that was there when we moved in, made some nice marmalade the first year but did not care for it well enough. RIP

Dwarf Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: - Nice fruit to eat off tree if you can tolerate the tanginess (50/50 with my visitors). I puree and freeze to use later in citrus desserts. Useful tree, colleague made me a jam from my fruit - I liked it!

Planted: 2013

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Self Pollination

Dwarf Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted)

Comments: -

delicious fruit straight from tree combining sweet and sour

Fruiting Months June, July, August, September, October

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 3 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: foliar spray

When I Fertilise: Spring

Dwarf Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: - Love to use Kumquarts in Liquers and cooking

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 30 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Amgrow Organic Fruit Fertilizer and Composted Manure

Pest Control: Only when necessary, use Beneficial Insects and Mint in pots as well

Organic Status:Certified

Dwarf Kumquat Calamondin (Grafted)

Comments: - Mainly grown for ornamental reason, but can be used for cooking (I don't get enough). Very attractive when in fruit.

Planted: 2006

Height 1.2 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Citrus feed, coffee grinds

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

Occassional scale, but don't use commercial White Oil spray - all leaves fell off, and some branches died-back.

Question:

What can I use for scale - White oil made all the leaves drop off?

Dwarf Kumquat Calamondin (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

It is doing fine and in full flower at the moment

Planted: 2007

Dwarf Kumquat Meiwa (Seedling) ^6/10

Comments: -

a lot sweeter than the veriegated my children eat them off the tree makes a great jam

Fruiting Months March, April, May, June

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Fruit Harvest: 8 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 12 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Kumquat - Calamondin

Kumquat - Calamondin

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Kumquat - Calamondin

Comments: -

great fruit and jam

Fruiting Months June, July, August, September, October

Height 3 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 10 kilograms per Year

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: lucerne mulch

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Kumquat - Calamondin

Pollination: No

Kumquat - Meiwa

Height 2 Feet

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Kumquat - Meiwa

Comments: - delicious fruit straight from tree

Fruiting Months June, July, August, September, October

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: foliar spray

When I Fertilise: Winter

Kumquat - Meiwa (Grafted) ^5/10

Planted: 2016

Height 0.6 metres

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control: none

Organic Status:Organic

Kumquat - Meiwa (Grafted) ^9/10

Planted: 2012

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Kumquat - Meiwa

Pollination: No

Kumquat - Meiwa (Grafted) ^10/10

Comments: -

I love eating these sweet-sour lemonly citrus straight- especially for their sweet rind. Out of the fruit trees I have planted these were the first to have fruit, and from family I know they are a very productive plant. Unfortunately the possum wanted to try too and climbed up the stalk of one yound bush, causing it to snap in half. It seems to be still surving by a sliver of bark, and I think it has a new bud coming from above the graft mark so that is good news. 

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: nagami

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mucl, blood n bone, gypsum

Kumquat - Meiwa

Comments: -

Bought Yandina Market 23/1/10
Planted along fenceline below ramp.
Good crop in 2012

Planted: 2010

Growing: In the Ground

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Pollination: Self Pollination

Kumquat - Nagami

Comments: -

Planted on bank near driveway

Planted: 2010

Pollination: Self Pollination

Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted)

Height 0.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Fertiliser or Organics Used: Blood

Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted) ^5/10

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In a Pot

First Fruited: 6 Months from Purchase in Pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

When I Fertilise: Winter and Spring

Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted) ^9/10

Comments: -

I had always thought that the only thing Kumquats were good for was the making of marmalade. Until, until that is when I recently had one to eat. The initial reation was the reaction to the sourness of the juice, but then as I started to chew on the skin I realised just  how sweet it was.

I was an immediate convert!

I am growing this in a pot and it has suffered some fruit drop in the hot dry weather we are having.at the moment. I am going to have to get a good layer of mulch on it.

Fruiting Months May

Planted: 2015

Height 0.8 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Winter and Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chook poop ciitrus fertiliser

When I Fertilise: Spring

Pest Control: I imagine that it will be subject to the usual citrus pests; leaf miner,gall wasp etc and the usual treatments will apply.

Organic Status:Partially Organic

Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted) ^8/10

Height 0.8 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Pollination: No

Kumquat - Nagami

Comments: - Best tasting fruit out of Meiwa, Calomondin and Nagami.

Pollination: No

Pest Control: Organic nature oil.

Organic Status:Organic

Kumquat - Nagami (Grafted) ^8/10

Comments: -

Tough little tree, produces fruit every year. 

Fruiting Months June, July, August

Planted: 1997

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1998 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Yearly

Pest Control:

so far, no pests

Organic Status:Organic

Kumquat - Variegated ^2/10

Comments: -

Bought from Bunnings 2007.
Planted Nambour 2007/8
On bank above the ramp.  Has always struggled and died back during dry summer 2009/10.
2012. Now protected from uprooting by the turkey and finally putting on good growth

Planted: 2009

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 1 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pollination: Self Pollination

Pest Control:

Spayed with white oil to deter bugs

Organic Status:Partially Organic