I have officially started on my citrus adventure. I planted this seed beginning of the year and it's doing well. I also have a Calamondin that I started from seed at the same time, but it got root rot and is currently recovering. It is about 1/4 the size with a single leaf and some good root growth. :cross_finger:

Question: Should I consider repotting the Key Limequat now, in the spring, or wait another year?

hlutzow said:

I have officially started on my citrus adventure. I planted this seed beginning of the year and it's doing well. I also have a Calamondin that I started from seed at the same time, but it got root rot and is currently recovering. It is about 1/4 the size with a single leaf and some good root growth. :cross_finger:

Question: Should I consider repotting the Key Limequat now, in the spring, or wait another year?

In this zone, my instinct would be to wait till spring.

Have you slipped it out of the pot to look at the root system? If it is root bound I would pot up a step. That will make it easier to water.

I'm curious. I've had a key lime and a kumquat. Did you cross them or acquire? Sounds interesting.

There's an elderly couple in my area who grows a lot of potted citrus plants, and grows them really really well: they usually repot plants needing it in the Spring just before moving them outside of the house so I would follow their lead as they obviously know what they are doing.
A couple of tips from past experience.
First, all citrus plants require far more water than you can imagine when you first grow them. Always keep the soil moist.
Second, always favor leaf fertilization. Citrus plants seem to respond extremely well to it and you won't disturb the potting compound.

PS: @pod key limequat has been around since the 1910's. It is relatively widespread in cultivation in Florida, for example around Tavares, but it has never been a widely popular fruit.

That is interesting. I had not heard of it but am seriously drawn to all things lime.

The nursery owner I talked to said the hybrid had been developed as a more cold tolerant key lime, but her opinion was that the flavor of the fruit is much more similar to Calamondin than key lime.

I've never heard of it on the west coast either....though I did pass a lime tree with very small fruit on my morning walk. (?) I have a seedless (Persian)?lime that's shedding fruit like crazy as I type, but it's much larger fruit. Luckily, I live in a very ethnically mixed neighborhood, so between the Hispanic and Asian neighbors, they all most all get used..

I hadn't heard of it until I saw one at the nursery near here.