The Tropical Fruit Forum

DIANA the brand name of premium oranges from Spain come onto the market without the peel being treated with fungus repellents or synthetic conservatives such as wax coatings. This way the peel is edible, which is a considerable mark of quality throughout the EU. - Millet

Citradia, if you protect your Citrangequat during the winter for the first 3 or 4 years, so that the stems can get some thickness to them, the tree should become more tolerant to the cold.  The thicker the trunk and branches the more cold the tree can take. - Millet

Brett, Sun Pacific, the owner of the Cuties brand grows their own trees.  However, as the fruit gained in popularity they could not keep up with the demand.  Therefor, they have contract growers who grow  fruit for Sun Pacific.  My guess, the total production would have some older trees  which produce the best fruit, and some new trees, which produce less desirable fruit.  The local environment of each grove could also play a part.  As in all areas of work, there are good growers and not so good growers. - Millet

If a branch is dead it should be removed. However if the branch is alive, even with badly sunburned leaves it should be kept.  The life span of a citrus leaf is approximately 18 months, then it is replaced by new leaves.   Therefor, all branches with life should be retained. - Millet

What does the Clementine R6 taste like?  Is it more lemony in taste?   The Amoa 8  does not seem to be available in the USA, although the tree is growing and fruiting in the Citrus Variety Collect at University of California at Riverside.  I noticed that the Amoa 8 does not turn red until late in the maturity.   The Italians have hybrid many citrus with the Moro to get red fruit. -Millet

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Millet

Don't know about a tree that size, but you can buy a nursery tree, and either Harris Citrus (Harriscitrus.com) or at Brite Leaf Nursery (Briteleaf.com), both in Florida

Millet

Bahama, your correct. Grapefruit bloom in early spring, can be eaten October/November, but if you let them remain on the tree until February/March, they become much sweeter. - Millet

The older the tree gets, the better the fruit they produce.  It has long been known that older trees produce the best fruit. - Millet

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Millet

Greening, a fatal bacterial disease, was first confirmed in the fall of 2005, but growers did not begin noticing an alarming increase in pre-harvest drop until the 2012-13 season. A certain amount of fruit drop occurs naturally, ranging from 6 to 13 percent of the crop over the past 25 seasons for citrus trees not affected by freezes or hurricanes, U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show. Greening has doubled and even tripled those pre-harvest drop rates. Early and midseason oranges, about half Florida's orange crop, were one of the most affected varieties with drop rising from 7 percent in 2010-11 to 22 percent in the recently completed 2014-15 season, USDA figures show. Every fruit that drops cannot be used for sales and comes directly off the growers profit. - Millet

Florida growers by October 2016 will get about 100,000 trees of two new tangerine varieties that are seedless and easy to peel.
The two new tangerines – identified as “7-6-27” and the more ear-catching “UF-Glow” – will be the first new varieties to make the second tier of the three-stage development process under the Fast Track program. For growers, the most significant benefit of the second tier is that they can sell the fruit in the U.S. market. The other 14 new varieties in the Fast Track program are still in the first tier — the trial phase with a smaller number of trees for each variety and a prohibition on selling the fruit. After the second-tier stage, which lasts for five years, 7-6-27 and UF-Glow will go into the third tier, or open commercialization, when the trees will become available to any grower who wants to buy them from a nursery. That means growers participating in the second tier get a five-year head start on producing the new fruit for the market. Lower royalty fees is the other benefit for Fast Track growers. For agreeing to set aside acreage for field testing the new varieties, growers will pay a royalty fee of $1.70 per tree.  - Millet

Root maker Air root pruning containers is the only container I use.   They are a great container and produce a excellent root system.  I agree with brain, they don't dry out any faster than any other type of container. - Millet