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Is there a blood orange that does not alternate bare?
« on: January 29, 2026, 12:00:24 AM »
I really love the flavor of my bream tarocco which makes it even worse that I get a crop every other year.  I have limited, I thought I would take it out for one that produces yearly? 

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Re: Is there a blood orange that does not alternate bare?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2026, 12:51:47 PM »
Removing some of the flowering and fruit set from the tree during heavy crop years, helps the tree save energy for producing fruit production for the next off year crop

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Re: Is there a blood orange that does not alternate bare?
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2026, 09:30:45 PM »
So far (5 years) my Moro does not alternate bear. On C35.

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Re: Is there a blood orange that does not alternate bare?
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2026, 03:33:22 PM »
I am not an expert grower of blood oranges because I live in the northern part of Italy and blood oranges (or Tarocco varieties as we call them) are intensively growth in the southern Italy, but I can provide you this link with a lot of description of italian cultivars and every time you see written Alternanza assente means no alternancy.

https://www.vivaimessina.it/Scelte-varietali-in-agrumicoltura.pdf

According to that nursery, except a couple of them, no alternancy looks like it is pretty common for Tarocco: Gabella, Gallo, Ippolito, Lempso, Meli, Messina Rotondo, Rosso VCR, Sant'Alfio, Sciara, Sciré, Tapi, TDV.

They are all commercial varieties and not rares at all, but in this season maybe Ippolito, Lempso, TDV, Tapi, Gallo are among the most sold in the markets, in Sicily most of the time you'll find the variety names than in northern supermarkets but some are easily reckognisable: for example Lempso for the red peel, Sant'Alfio because of the double fruit like ombilicate oranges and so on.

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Re: Is there a blood orange that does not alternate bare?
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2026, 04:55:08 AM »
thanks for this pdf document! its very useful to compare some varieties  :) :)

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Re: Is there a blood orange that does not alternate bare?
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2026, 07:54:19 PM »
Glad that was useful!  ;)
I'll thank the Ministry of Agricultural and Forestry Policies of my country that gave founds for that studies and document printing about Sicilian common planted varieties.