Fastest from seed to fruitlet

Hello,
let's do something interesting.
What have you discovered?

What's the fastest from seed to fruitlet?

We know, grapefruit seedling flower in the first year, but blossom will be only one a the terminal tip, will open, blomm and drop off without setting fruit. After that, the seedling will remain years without flower and fruit... So that's no point...
So realy a fruitlet, a true little fruit, has to be set, so be guilty.

So, here is mine:

Citrus limonia "Rangpur" Seedling, approx. 2 Years old, only 30 cm high...
Pictures?

Here the bloom, and as you will see: It's not a terminal blosom, and it's not only one blosom, there are more....

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"If you provide enough heat and light, nothing will kill a citrus tree so easily." Dr. Heinz K. Wutscher, Florida

Key Lime is normally considered the citrus variety that will fruit the soonest from seed. Normaly 2-3 years. Possibly even a litle less when grown inside a warm greenhouse year around.

Hello Newton,
nothing "considered"... This above is fact.
Rangpur here is my fastest from seed. What was your's ???

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"If you provide enough heat and light, nothing will kill a citrus tree so easily." Dr. Heinz K. Wutscher, Florida

The citrus variety Procimquat frequently blooms and sets fruit the same year the seed is planted, thus actually blooms in less than a full year from seed. Procimquat trees are extremely decorative, and make fine landscape trees. I currently am growing Rangpur, but more just for collector reasons than for eating. Although "eatable" Rangpur Lime is normally only grown for use as a root stock. Not many people would find the taste of Rangpur Lime agreeable, at least for eating out of hand. However, there is one good use for the Rangpur fruit, and that is Rangpur Gin 82.6 proof.

The citrus variety Procimquat frequently blooms and sets fruit the same year the seed is planted, thus actually blooms in less than a full year from seed. Procimquat trees are extremely decorative, and make fine landscape trees. I currently am growing Rangpur, but more just for collector reasons than for eating. Although "eatable" Rangpur Lime is normally only grown for use as a root stock. Not many people would find the taste of Rangpur Lime agreeable, at least for eating out of hand. However, there is one good use for the Rangpur fruit, and that is the manufacture of Rangpur Gin which is 82.6 proof.

So again only virtual point, a 'Story'.. No facts, nothing of your own experience?
I do not want to know, which variety or type florish fastest, there are books about this enough.
I am more interested in true self made experiences, rather than some kind of stories or theoretical things.... True experiences....

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"If you provide enough heat and light, nothing will kill a citrus tree so easily." Dr. Heinz K. Wutscher, Florida

Steffen, sorry I did not include the fact that the trees are presently in my collection. As you are new to the forum, I will try to remember that the next time. I have three procimquats. All three procimquats were grown from seed. Two of the trees I planted the seed myself, the third Procimquat was given to me by another citrus collector as a gift. Two of the three procimquats bloomed in the first year from seed, which is quite common, and the third Procimquat bloomed in the second year. One seedling produced its first bloom at only 4 inches tall. I planted the best of the three trees in my landscape and the others in containers. The container trees are now 4-feet and the in ground tree is 6 feet in height. They make interesting trees, and quite easy to grow. In a month or two I will have plenty of seed, if you care to grow one yourself.

Hello Newton,
now we talk the same
Sorry, for being somewhat 'harsch' (German slang for rough, hard, cold... Frozen drew is also called 'Harsch') but I doesn't what to hear about theories, because I knew them.
It was talking about own made experiences.... And, I think, for a true Citrus, the time from seed to fruit of 2 years is very quick.
There are many seedlings in Germany around, which were older than 20 years, and did not show any sign of flowering.
So for many hobby growers it's a pleasure to get a seed of a magnificent citrus variety, and you must agree, Rangpur is a wonderfull ornamental plant, which can sucessfully grown indoors as as typical indoor/outdoor container plant, even at the windowsill if the place is sunny and warm, which will flower within two years.... There so much about patience, but for growers a patience of some decades is very long Thus two years seem very promising, and so seeds a highly in demand.

If you will send me seeds, I will try and see if the tree will flower in my climatics and in my culture as soon as in yours.... and of course: Report it here.

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"If you provide enough heat and light, nothing will kill a citrus tree so easily." Dr. Heinz K. Wutscher, Florida