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Yes thank you Millet, the shiranui is an unregistered/untrademarked form of the dekopon. It has just became available through the Citrus Clonal Protection Program and the minimum order of buds is 6 and the max is 12 it is on early release. I am planning on using some Sour orange rootstock to graft it onto
If I remember correctly, blood oranges don't seem to color up well in Florida? - Millet
Chance seedling of Decopon started 15 years ago, it tastes more like Buntan pomelo!http://www.fruttama.it/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=783
For the people that started Shiranui from seeds:Chance seedling of Decopon started 15 years ago, it tastes more like Buntan pomelo!http://www.fruttama.it/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=783
It seems it can be peeled rather easily:Google translation of the Italian discussion:http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fruttama.it%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D10%26t%3D783&sandbox=1
Got my shiranui bud wood this morning so went to a few home improvement stores and a nursery looking for some good rootstock and man were the Pickings slim tons of Meyers and Mexican likes but looked like their own roots I ended up buying a 5' trovita orange on C-35 rootstock the grafting went good the bark was slipping so I decided to T bud graft the c35 with 3 buds I was hoping to get a much smaller tree but it had the nicest straightest trunk so I got it.