Orri Mandarin - Wow, Dang Wow!

[sheaper]

I’ve wanted a Noble tree and their patented Starburst pomelo for years but they are Fort Knox on releasing anything.  I’ve never tried Orri but a good Gold Nugget is hard to
Beat.

[sc4001992]

I ate both Orri and have the Gold Nugett tree that gets many fruits. I like Gold Nugget better. Orri is still very good, but to me not any better than most good tasting mandarins and I have most of them fruiting. On a good day, either Gold Nugget or Yosemite Gold is hard to beat, Orri is not as good.

[a_Vivaldi]

For you guys in the South, when does Gold Nugget ripen for you? UCR lists it as very late for a mandarin, even into June of the following year.

[jbirdfunk]

Here in San Diego my gold nugget is ready starting January and we usually have picked all by March, but I’ve let a few last until May and they are still good.

Gold nugget is a tree I’ve planted another one of because they are so dang good and people ask for them.

[Coconut Cream]

My local farmer's market, a great place that always has all kinds of exotic fruits, had a billboard up advertising the Orri mandarin. I bought a few of them with very high expectations, but they tasted very similar to other mandarins I've had, maybe even a bit more bland. A little fibrous, a little sweet, a little tart, not much flavor. The fruit looked like the first photo shown in this thread.

[Sir Graftalot]

My little Orri tree is flowering after one year from purchase. Can't wait to see if it's as good as that first fruit I had.

[manfromyard]

For you guys in the South, when does Gold Nugget ripen for you? UCR lists it as very late for a mandarin, even into June of the following year.

I've seen it said that they ripen from Feb-Mar in South Georgia and Florida. So I've never been tempted to grow it. I think you need an environment that doesn't get hard frosts while the blossoms or fruit are developing. So unless you're greenhouse growing or in lower Florida or Texas, just buy it from the west coast.