For all my non-Filipino peeps, make a dipping sauce for salty proteins with the calamondin juice and add soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, ginger, sriracha, chili oil, etc... mix and match.
When she passed, my grandmother’s calamondin tree was at least 25 years old. I don’t know who took it, afterwards. My husband saw it (laden with fruit) before she died and always wanted one, so I bought him one about 11 years ago. It is now at least 6 feet tall in a large pot (making it 9 ft and can barely get it in the garage for winter). One year, I picked over 300 little oranges off it. I made marmalade and froze some pulp. I found a recipe for a calamondin cake, and it was good, too.
FYI Calamondin fruit is used as seasoning on most asian food it actually it taste better than lemon and lime. You don't eat it as a fruit never. It's often used as squeezed on most asian food, and juice. Just like lemon juice. It actually taste better than lemon juice. "Calamansi Juice"
You can use the juice as the acid in a salad sauce: 2:1 ration olive oil to calamondin juice, salt, pepper, some dijon if you want, a touch of soy sauce. It's delicious. You can also use the juice for cooking: add to a soup, fish dish, etc. Whatever you do with a lemon, pretty much.
Nice video. Kenna, I have 2 Calamondin (Calamansi) dwarf trees planted in the ground in San Diego, CA. With the calamansi, I make the best lemon meringue pies, lemonade and calamansi marmalade. I squeeze or slice calamansi on any dish that calls for lemons. I use the slow released fertilizer for citrus and Neem oil. I do have a problem with spider mites sometimes. QUESTION: What's your measurements with the water, alcohol and dish soap you use? I would like to try that mixture and see if it'll works for me.
I have grafted other citrus onto my Calamondin trees, you can make sweetened juice from it. I also save scions or live twigs from store bought citrus and graft it.
In my experience, my lemon was pretty easy except for a spider mite infestation (that's difficult on anything) and it died instantly when it got way too cold. That was absolutely my fault and not hard to avoid.
Stimulate your calamondin with a wooden dowel (tall as possible ) wrapped clockwise with copper wire . Will promote robust growth , and heavy yields. (Electroculture).. works very well!
Calamansi. I spelled it wrong. The simple thing is to put soy sauce in a dish. Squeeze in calamansi and crush in spicy peppers if you want spice. Use as a dip for meat. Goes best with stewed meat like Filipino Bulalo.
Are you serious? Do you know where Calamondin original came from? Another name is "calamansi or Kalamansi" in Filipino. It's from the Philippines originially then started growing in other Southeast Asian countries. It's now common in more tropical areas like California, Arizona and Florida. Calamansi fruits are mainly used in cooking, sauces (especially with soy sauce), desserts, cocktail drinks and most of all the best citrus juice ever. You should check these calamansi trees on RUclips. You should try making yourself kalamansi juice. It's better than American orange juice. It especially great if you are sick with a cough. There are so many uses in the Philippines. You know, in fact, when I moved from Boulder, Colorado to Arizona, first thing I did was order Calamondin from a nursery (private) before my house was even completed so I can have the landscaper plant them for me. Now, I have 3 mature trees in my yard that produces abundant fruits all year round. I have never like lemonade.
No no, let me correct you there: citrus are insanely hard to care for. So unless you somehow simply meet the conditions they need, all of a sudden they die on you. You need to be extra careful not to overwater (especially in the winter), you need rainwater or at least filtered/distilled water otherwise if you have hard water in your area, it's just a matter of time until all the salts acumulate in the soil and it's bye bye citrus. Also if you use tap water, chlorine makes citrus go bye-bye. When using fertilisers never use too much, or again, too many salts will kill it. You need to make sure they have enough microelements (zn,fe,mg etc.). You need to avoid the ones that have calcium, because here's another thing: the soil needs to stay acidic. Alkaline soil? bye-bye citrus. So, from time to time, you need to check soil acidity and take measures if it's not between 5.5 and 6(.5). Now ask me how you make it acidic again, because frankly, there are a lot of theories and I haven't figured out which one's the go to. Also, they have A LOT of pests, some of which can be tricky to fight off. They need sh*tload of sun, but not scorching hot sun. ALSO, they flower a lot. They flower and bud and have fruits until they sometimes simply kill themselves, depleting themselves of nutrients. So ya need to remove the fruits if they're too many, especially when the tree is young. Oh, don't get me started on "wintering" them. Yeah, in colder climates, you need to "winter" them. i.e. take them inside, but not inside where it's warm, you need to take them somewhere where they stay cool at about 7-15C (unheated room), because you need to correlate the lack of sunlight/sun time (which you have in colder regions) with the heat. All in all, they're lovely plants, but ridiculously hard to care for, again, UNLESS, by pure luck, you just meet all the requirement. PS: I can see how - if you live in a house (rather than an apartment) and in a place where it's summer all year round - it would be easy.
Lol i got a good laugh with this bye bye citrus 😂😂it's all true but with the pine bark mixture and a slightly root bound pot and some good flood lamps from home depot or lowes or Walmart you can keep them pretty good all year! mist it every night when the lights go out and shower them when you water should handle most pests or prevent them except armor scale those are a nightmare but manageable i also have a par light meter so that really helps me figure out the amount of light it's getting from a window or a cheap dollar tree led lol. Also when you get them home from a nursery or online wait atleast a few months up to a year to repot cause most pots still have room to grow! Hence the common over water problem everyone always likes to stuff it in a big pot citrus roots don't grow that fast citrus roots don't like to be disturbed or drastic changes in soil. The people that wash all the soil off and put fresh soil plant will surely suffer 90%chance of bye bye citrus. Leave it alone and water when it feels kinda dry not bone dry ! And also pine bark helps acidity in the soil of you mix it in the ph of pine bark is around 5 hope you found some of this info useful although you seem pretty knowledgeable in the subject
Glad my 11 yr old, 6 foot tall calamondin can’t read your post. It often gets too dry, often over-watered, blown over by high winds, and it’s been indestructible. Live on the driveway till wonder when it gets wheeled into the garage.
For all my non-Filipino peeps, make a dipping sauce for salty proteins with the calamondin juice and add soy sauce, vinegar, garlic, ginger, sriracha, chili oil, etc... mix and match.
You know what calamondin are, LOL!!
Sounds like the fruit would be great for making homemade margarita mix
I make the most amazing calamundin marmalade, which then I used to make white chocolate truffles. Amazing! And my fav on toast too.
Love this!! Not so many videos out there about Calamondin trees.
When she passed, my grandmother’s calamondin tree was at least 25 years old. I don’t know who took it, afterwards. My husband saw it (laden with fruit) before she died and always wanted one, so I bought him one about 11 years ago. It is now at least 6 feet tall in a large pot (making it 9 ft and can barely get it in the garage for winter). One year, I picked over 300 little oranges off it. I made marmalade and froze some pulp. I found a recipe for a calamondin cake, and it was good, too.
FYI Calamondin fruit is used as seasoning on most asian food it actually it taste better than lemon and lime. You don't eat it as a fruit never. It's often used as squeezed on most asian food, and juice. Just like lemon juice. It actually taste better than lemon juice. "Calamansi Juice"
I have a tree and I’ve the fruit, they are small and sour as a lemon and seeds in them at least mine - I don’t mind eating them like that 😊
You can use the juice as the acid in a salad sauce: 2:1 ration olive oil to calamondin juice, salt, pepper, some dijon if you want, a touch of soy sauce. It's delicious.
You can also use the juice for cooking: add to a soup, fish dish, etc. Whatever you do with a lemon, pretty much.
Use it in marinades and to season. It’s amazing
Nice video. Kenna, I have 2 Calamondin (Calamansi) dwarf trees planted in the ground in San Diego, CA. With the calamansi, I make the best lemon meringue pies, lemonade and calamansi marmalade. I squeeze or slice calamansi on any dish that calls for lemons. I use the slow released fertilizer for citrus and Neem oil. I do have a problem with spider mites sometimes. QUESTION: What's your measurements with the water, alcohol and dish soap you use? I would like to try that mixture and see if it'll works for me.
I’m growing one for the fruit 😊
I have grafted other citrus onto my Calamondin trees, you can make sweetened juice from it. I also save scions or live twigs from store bought citrus and graft it.
I have a small tree, it’s bearing fruit but the leaves are yellowed around the edges any suggestion
Calamondin Tree is really beautiful. Thanks for sharing 💯💯💚💚💚💚
thank you 🤍
What pot size you have them in?
I have calamondin off my tree and they are delicious. Make sure to eat the peel, it’s like a kumquat and is the sweet part
In my experience, my lemon was pretty easy except for a spider mite infestation (that's difficult on anything) and it died instantly when it got way too cold. That was absolutely my fault and not hard to avoid.
Stimulate your calamondin with a wooden dowel (tall as possible ) wrapped clockwise with copper wire . Will promote robust growth , and heavy yields. (Electroculture).. works very well!
Thanks for the great video. You are so awesome!
Calamansi. I spelled it wrong. The simple thing is to put soy sauce in a dish. Squeeze in calamansi and crush in spicy peppers if you want spice. Use as a dip for meat. Goes best with stewed meat like Filipino Bulalo.
Do you have any Filipino friends? They know what to do with it! They call it Calimonsi though.
Me as a Filipino: I didn't even know there was a purpose for this tree besides using the fruit for cooking.
Are you serious? Do you know where Calamondin original came from? Another name is "calamansi or Kalamansi" in Filipino. It's from the Philippines originially then started growing in other Southeast Asian countries. It's now common in more tropical areas like California, Arizona and Florida. Calamansi fruits are mainly used in cooking, sauces (especially with soy sauce), desserts, cocktail drinks and most of all the best citrus juice ever. You should check these calamansi trees on RUclips. You should try making yourself kalamansi juice. It's better than American orange juice. It especially great if you are sick with a cough. There are so many uses in the Philippines. You know, in fact, when I moved from Boulder, Colorado to Arizona, first thing I did was order Calamondin from a nursery (private) before my house was even completed so I can have the landscaper plant them for me. Now, I have 3 mature trees in my yard that produces abundant fruits all year round. I have never like lemonade.
Filipinos use it
No no, let me correct you there: citrus are insanely hard to care for.
So unless you somehow simply meet the conditions they need, all of a sudden they die on you.
You need to be extra careful not to overwater (especially in the winter), you need rainwater or at least filtered/distilled water otherwise if you have hard water in your area, it's just a matter of time until all the salts acumulate in the soil and it's bye bye citrus. Also if you use tap water, chlorine makes citrus go bye-bye. When using fertilisers never use too much, or again, too many salts will kill it. You need to make sure they have enough microelements (zn,fe,mg etc.). You need to avoid the ones that have calcium, because here's another thing: the soil needs to stay acidic. Alkaline soil? bye-bye citrus. So, from time to time, you need to check soil acidity and take measures if it's not between 5.5 and 6(.5). Now ask me how you make it acidic again, because frankly, there are a lot of theories and I haven't figured out which one's the go to. Also, they have A LOT of pests, some of which can be tricky to fight off. They need sh*tload of sun, but not scorching hot sun.
ALSO, they flower a lot. They flower and bud and have fruits until they sometimes simply kill themselves, depleting themselves of nutrients. So ya need to remove the fruits if they're too many, especially when the tree is young.
Oh, don't get me started on "wintering" them. Yeah, in colder climates, you need to "winter" them. i.e. take them inside, but not inside where it's warm, you need to take them somewhere where they stay cool at about 7-15C (unheated room), because you need to correlate the lack of sunlight/sun time (which you have in colder regions) with the heat.
All in all, they're lovely plants, but ridiculously hard to care for, again, UNLESS, by pure luck, you just meet all the requirement.
PS: I can see how - if you live in a house (rather than an apartment) and in a place where it's summer all year round - it would be easy.
Lol i got a good laugh with this bye bye citrus 😂😂it's all true but with the pine bark mixture and a slightly root bound pot and some good flood lamps from home depot or lowes or Walmart you can keep them pretty good all year! mist it every night when the lights go out and shower them when you water should handle most pests or prevent them except armor scale those are a nightmare but manageable i also have a par light meter so that really helps me figure out the amount of light it's getting from a window or a cheap dollar tree led lol. Also when you get them home from a nursery or online wait atleast a few months up to a year to repot cause most pots still have room to grow! Hence the common over water problem everyone always likes to stuff it in a big pot citrus roots don't grow that fast citrus roots don't like to be disturbed or drastic changes in soil. The people that wash all the soil off and put fresh soil plant will surely suffer 90%chance of bye bye citrus. Leave it alone and water when it feels kinda dry not bone dry ! And also pine bark helps acidity in the soil of you mix it in the ph of pine bark is around 5 hope you found some of this info useful although you seem pretty knowledgeable in the subject
@@slicktmi having a moss top layer is also super great for these guys 👍🏼
@@sharkeyes awesome! Never thought of that one
Their not that hard to care for I’ve had one growing inside for many many years.
Glad my 11 yr old, 6 foot tall calamondin can’t read your post. It often gets too dry, often over-watered, blown over by high winds, and it’s been indestructible. Live on the driveway till wonder when it gets wheeled into the garage.
Should you trim the tree