Texas Fruit Growers Fall Meeting

[edself65]

Texas Fruit Growers Fall Meeting

Sunday September 22, 2013 @ 2:00 pm

We are having a fall meeting that will include plant, seeds or scion exchange. Also will encourage everyone to bring any in season fruit. If you donx27;t have any plants or other material please attend. We should have extras for everyone that attends. We will also have a grafting demo and guest speaker.

Location:

Matt Family Orchard

21110 Bauer Hockley Road

Tomball, Texas 77377

Website:
http://mattfamilyorchard.com

If you have never visited the Matt Family Orchard this will be a great opportunity for you! Also very grateful to Rick Matt for being willing to host our club meeting!

Guest Speaker:

Phil Sauber aka Mr. Texascitrus

Phil will speak to us about cold hardy citrus, citrus rootstocks and pawpaws
http://mrtexascitrus.weebly.com/citrusvarieties1.html



Phil may have the following citrus budwood available. You may want to send Phil an email to verify:



golden grapefruit
seto satsuma
miho satsuma
cara cara navel
dobashi beni satsuma
frost owari satsuma
page mandarin
clementine
fairchild mandarin
ujukitsu sweet lemon

Thanks,

Ed Self

Georgetown, Texas

[PltdWorld]

Ed, hope you guys have a great meeting.

I can't speak to any of the other citrus, but I am growing Cara Cara and it is the best orange I've ever had.  I picked my first fruit from it last season and only have 3 on the tree this year - but it blows away Valencia and any of the store bought fruit we can find in CA.  It also of course has the added aesthetic benefit of being a blood orange.

[edself65]

Thanks! We should have great weather for it!

Cara Cara is really good here also! Have you tried the Bream blood orange? Phil got wood for it a few years ago. I'm growing a couple but they haven't fruited yet!

Ed

Ed, hope you guys have a great meeting.

I can't speak to any of the other citrus, but I am growing Cara Cara and it is the best orange I've ever had.  I picked my first fruit from it last season and only have 3 on the tree this year - but it blows away Valencia and any of the store bought fruit we can find in CA.  It also of course has the added aesthetic benefit of being a blood orange.