The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hello SC4001992,
wonderful pictures you posted of your tree, very good for comparison. Due to beeing a nearly newcomer to citrus,
I don' have so much fruiting harvest yet, but I can share pictures of my Tangelo nova and  Keraji with first fruits of the plants, riped final from october in greenhouse, but I was very satisfied with the taste for my not real citrus climate conditions in zone 7, Germany  .





above pictures tangelo nova, perhaps not 100% ripe, due to more green than orange rind, but already very good aromatic taste and good sugar acid balance.





Keraji mandarin, first fruit of one of my first grafts, already good ti eat, but perhaps it would have gotten more sweet a few weeks later. Was already sweet but a little bit more acid.

Congratulation Kumin, first ripe fruits from your cross, looks encouraging.
Regards Frank

interesting informations, up to now I can confirm very good frosthardyness and very strong revitalization ( with passive protection supported last winter -16 ° Celsius with about 50% twig damage, but came back in summer to about 3 times size as before winter).
A second plant in pot had a fruit and this shows also the slow development of fruit ripening.
Curious how the in ground planted will manage the 2 nd winter and if now there will be a chance of flowers and fruits ?

Thank you Marcin, very interesting plant and nice pictures with the reddisch leaves.
Curious how it develops in ground - good succes and regards Frank

Very interesting fruit comparison Jim  , how old are your mandarin trees, and in which age/ size did your Changsha and Citsuma Prague fruit for the first time ? I also have them in ground and so I' m glad to hear that Prague tastes very good.
Best regards Frank

Thanks Andrew, yes this is perhaps possible also with the late maturing. I have a Satsuma miagawa in pot , this variety works in my climate and I had delicious fruits last year begin of November

Regarding first picture in this link, it resembles a Zinc deficiency
https://www.yara.fr/fertilisation/solutions-pour-cultures/agrumes/carences-agrumes/

interesting taste test .
It leads me to two questions:
1. Owari seems not to be as good as his assumed reputation. I have a satsuma collot which shall be a kind of owari.  Does anywhere cultivate satsuma collot and what are the experience concerning fruit quality and frost hardiness ?
2. Bishop citrandarin seems very promising , Does anywhere in Europe cultivate Bishop citrandarin and what are the experience concerning fruit quality and frost hardiness ?
Thanks Frank

Thank you Luak for your information and pictures.
So you keep them pretty warm, mine are kept at about 35 ° F, as minimumtemp. at night, daytimetemperatures normally are much higher due to sun warming.
For my Chandler this worked quite well in the last winter in my greenhouse.

Hello Brian,
I have also a Chandler with 3 fruits this year.
After my experience from last year I decided to wait with harvesting until March/April. Because last year I tested in October, in January and March and the March fruit was the best.

Hello Jim,
congratulation to your fruit success.
Very interesting and good report.
Hope to get my Kerajiand Changsa next year to flower/fruit.
Had this year 5 Satsumas miagawa which I liked very much.
Best regards Frank

Thanks for your informations, yes I also have them on my citrus trees, so i stop them at the trunks with biological resin, which works well.
best regards Frank

winter preparations are starting although no freeze annonced for the next 10 days.
This time will try to make bricks arround the plants and then wrap around cocos mats. Perhaps this time I still add one or two water bottles if place is enough. And finally I hope we not get again down to 3,2 ° Fahrenheit  .
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Yuzu, last year no protection was to optimistic, freeze nearly to ground,   ( but didn' calculated to get 3,2°)

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Citsuma Prague

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Ivia

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HRS 899A, new try at new location (plant last year died after winter and spring freezes)

regards Frank