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Gold nugget self destruction

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spaugh:
This tree is really hard on itself.  It breaks branches and loads up so much fruit it's hard on the tree.  Too much of a good thing.

1rainman:
In the wild citrus usually don't fruit until it's a big tree after five to seven years. So it's good to pick some fruit off when green because this amount of fruit will drain energy on the plant.

brian:
That is a really impressive fruit set.  Shame it broke the plant, but what a harvest. 

sc4001992:
You might want to pick some of the ripe fruits instead of leaving it on so long. Your tree is still not that large. Fruits will not be ripe until end of Feb/Mar but that's too many to leave on that tree.

spaugh:
Too late now, I will start eating them soon and get it off and trim the tree back.  My other citrus trees look similar.   I will post pics of another mandarin tree thats 8 years old and is even more crazy than this one.  The gold nugget is around 5 years old. 

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