21st Southeastern Citrus Expo @ Madison Citrus Nursery - Nov 21-22

[manfromyard]

And here's part of a grove tour by another attendee , Growing What I Eat, that I met.

https://youtu.be/Odgtyw49Zk0?si=9YhQsGGm_LVfcQVX

https://youtu.be/Odgtyw49Zk0?si=9YhQsGGm_LVfcQVX

[BP]

One of the cool things was the nuggets of information that were dropped. During the grove tour, Hershell told us about Superna mandarin. That was known to be one of the best tasting citruses but production was low. It was accidentally found that it only produces well on US 812 rootstock. So many good info there. But for me the highlight had to be the citrus tasting at the Nursery on Saturday!

Oh wowww that looks SO fun

[manfromyard]

For me it was the absolute highlight. The sleeper hot of all the fruit was definitely the US Sundragon. Orange taste, but had almost a pineapple tang to it. I ended up buying a tree that day.

One of the Speakers has a video posted:

Mary Sutton from UGA on Growing Cold Hardy Citrus:

https://youtu.be/ff8Z6zJFxA4

[sheaper]

US Sundragon is quickly climbing my overall charts.  I love the size and taste as well as tendency towards small seeds or overall seedless.

My only gripe is that the bottom half of almost every sundragon ive ever peeled was more adherent than the rest and tends to split the soft and melting flesh. 

It has all the flavor of a navel and more with similar peelability to shiranui but probably harder.