Tangerine (or ponkan) grown from a seed.
February 24th 2008 11:12
My ponkan plant
In the fall of 2004, I was buying tangerines (or maybe ponkans) to make my own orange juice for breakfasts. I would take the skin off, which is very easy to do with these delightful fruits. Then, I would put them into my blender and whirl it a while and strain the juice and a little of the pulp through a wire strainer.
That was my morning routine. One morning I got to thinking that I was paying five pesos or more for each ponkan (as the locals call them). I used five or six per day for breakfast drink. That was rather expensive, I thought. I decided to save some of the seeds and plant them to see if anything would happen.
From the six or seven seeds I planted in peat pots, a couple of them grew. I babied the little plant for a long time. When it was large enough to cope with the outside world, I planted in it the ground.
You can now see how large it is, compared to me in the picture. It is about three and a half years old now. I really don't know how old it must be to bloom and begin to bear fruit. However, whenever that happens, I can have my own orange juice for breakfast without buying ponkans (or tangerines if that is what they really are).
Maybe they will be sour. I don't know because I don't know if the originals were hybrids of simply regular fruits.
I would be happy for your comments about this. Feel free to visit a great gardening center at: Really Long Link
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