I always wanted to try starting with a seed but im not much for growing things so im flying blind.
my grampa had a Satsuma grove and he always said, if you plant a Satsuma seed it will grow one of two trees, a lemon or a grapefruit tree, depending on the variety of Satsuma tree it was. he planted a Satsuma seed once and it turned into a strange tree with leaves with *****ly stickers on them and one half was full of lemons that were semi-sweet and the other half had bitter lemons on it. a light freeze killed it when it was about 5 years old.
I heard that tangerines were fairly good success rate at growing the same fruit from seed but little to nothing ever mentioned about any other orange fruits so maybe i'll try growing a tangerine sprout this spring
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