The Tropical Fruit Forum

Thanks, I agree they look like seeds, and probably from birds. Much appreciated.

Found about ten of them this am. They are some kind of pod or egg, and they were in a very sticky substance. These I found this afternoon. They are the same thing, just dried out a little.

After the late December 5 day cold snap, temperatures have been above normal. Four out of five of our trees are showing significant new growth. Only the satsuma is lagging, but it's late anyway. The Hamlin has even blossomed. Only hoping we can get through the next 5 weeks without a hard freeze. Not likely though. Winter rarely ends peacefully.

Thanks. Foley, Al is on the same latitude as I am in Kingsland, GA, the next state over. He is talking about the exact same recent cold snap that we both had. I'm a meteorologist by vocation, and I checked the weather data for the 5 days. His cold weather was actually slightly colder than mine. We had temps that bottomed out in the low 20s for 4 nights in a row. It was clear and cold, and breezy the first two nights. They were the longest nights of the year, and each night had 10 hours+ below freezing. More power to him, but if you don't know the difference between a juice orange, and a navel, what else is there to say. Shoulder shrug.

Thanks for that. We picked a bunch of Honeybells before the freeze, and I think they're good, but I will confirm.

We also have very sandy soil here in SE coastal GA. After reading the other recent thread, I might benefit from adding some compost. I follow the UGA extension fertilizing recommendations for our area, so hopefully I'm not too far off on that end.

Not too sure how that could occur, because I fertilize with a complete supplement, and the other trees look good. But anything is possible, I'll look into it.

We have 5 trees, and they are doing ok except for this one. After reading the recent thread about greening, I noticed that tree looks a lot like this one. The rootstock is from a Halo orange, and we started it from seed 7 years ago up north, and brought it south with us in 2016. I grafted a Cara Cara, and a Honeybell to it about 5 years ago. It was doing great for 4 years. In the last year or so it started looking like this. Hope the photos are ok. I know there is some leaf miner damage, and recent freeze damage, and sun shadows. Please help.

We have a young Owari Satsuma a few years old, and it has about 20 fruits this year. The juice is sweet, but they are hard to eat, and chew, and you have spit a chunk of pulp after every bite. Our neighbor has a mature Satsuma, and the fruit melts in your mouth, and is really sweet. Will ours improve with age? I hope so. Thanks.

We had two hard freezes last winter when the tree was blossoming. We protected as well as we could. Now I notice the oranges on our Hamlin tree are small, and alot are dropping. The only thing I can think of was the cold weather last winter. Is this possible?

I don't use xx-xx-xx fertilizer. I use a citrus fertilizer with all the goodies.