Please check out this link and share your experiences and knowledge. We all know about the hardy citrus that is inedible, but these would be way cool!
http://www.worldwideplants.com.....citrus.htm
I am not gonna copy this over cuz it should come up easily w/o passwords etc.
[quote="plumfun":8vjg6rf6]They are located:
2115 Olanta Hwy
Scranton, SC 29591
I am not certain that all things that will grow in South Carolina will survive in the PNW. T'would be interesting for somebody to run a complete panel of tests though! hint hint
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Mind Reader! lol 
I actually hold out more hope for these than some of the bananas. It's the not-getting-hot-enough-in-active-growth-summertime trick again that limits some of our supposed zone 8 stuff here. But that can be mitigated with placement (along south side of house) etc. That was good feedback on another thread that black plastic pots would absorb heat nicely in summer but expose the roots to cold in winter. Therefore there would be a need to mulch around to insulate them. I have a bale of straw and can see I will need another one soon.
Anyone know of a good source of rootstocks for the trifoliate orange? I found a good source of seed on ebay that is affordable. All good things in good time. 
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I bought a ten degree tangerine from them. I grew it indoors for a few years until I felt it was strong enough to grow outside. It survived a few years outside with minimal damage, but it never fruited and hardly flowered. Last winter it died. It did not get down to 10 degrees. I will not buy another.
Owari Satsuma is a great plant, but you can't leave it outside all winter. I bring mine in for the winter. It produces good tasting tangerines and has a fragrant flower. You don't have to ship to SC to get this one. One Green World has it and Portland Nursery probably does too. I would be surprised if Cistus didn't have it.
Many of the others are inedible, or just barely edible. I am growing Poncirus Trifoliata, but it grows very slowly. I am also growing yuzu, although I had one that died in winter.
I would be interested in the Morton Citranges or their supposedly hardy tangerine.
John S
PDX OR
[quote="John S":39gjienq]It was in an all-day sun situation. I am located at 430 feet in Cedar Hills, uphill from Beaverton, so we do get a bit colder than most people in the northern Willamette Valley.
John S
PDX OR[/quote:39gjienq]
Some of the below are generalities...
Depending on your location and the 'swales' (rivulets, valley-things) around you - being up in the air like that could give you cold air drainage and actually be better than down in the valley or on the plateau like me. Hard to say w/o actually seeing and with google maps street view etc.
I have large trees in back and fenced all around. For the most part this is a good thing. But we are not far from a creek and that walking trail in downtown Beaverton area. So we can get cold fog hanging around here longer than other places.
Both of us can get both warmer and colder & are more exposed than down in the Willamette Valley near the river. More severe and hotter overall is good for subtropicals. I used to live in Johns Landing right on the river and it was surprising how much colder / cooler it was down there.
I wanna try to use 'black rocks' around some of the banana and other trees to warm them up. Also using straw.
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