First Sugar Belle 2025

[Calusa]

About the size of a tennis ball.

[Millet]

Great looking fruit.  How did it taste?

[Tropicaltoba]

Also curious. How old/tall is it? Is this its first fruit? Mine is just starting to flower, really hoping it holds fruit this year.

[brian]

Looks great, I am also interested in how it tastes.

[Calusa]

Not quite the intense spicy flavor and arome of a Minneola but sufficiently sweet and tart and very juicy. Just a few seeds.
I've got about 3 dozen coming along on the tree which is 7' tall, 3" trunk at the base and very bushy. Be ready in January.
This is the first season it produced fruit, and it was planted just under 3 years ago as a pencil twig about 2' tall.

[poncirsguy]

is this in ground or pot. Pictures please

[Calusa]

In the ground. Sorry for the lousy photo.

[brian]

I think that's a really nice looking tree.  Thanks for sharing.

[pineflatwoods]

Wow this looks great. Any issues with Citrus leaf miner on this variety? The only resistant citrus I seem to have is Key Lime.

[Millet]

That is certainly a  good amount of growth from just a three year old tree.  You have done a grate job with your tree. 

[Calusa]

Yeah leaf miner is a little bit of a problem but the tree just keeps on flushing out with new growth. Never seen any citrus grow so fast.
I saw some bags of citrus from Clifornia in the local grocery store that look identical to the Sugar Belle. Same shape, color and size.