I thought it might be interesting to make a pictorial record of my St. Ann Satsuma over the course of the growing season.

Here are the results:

5-01-13: A few days after removing the winter protection


5-24-13


6-12-13


7-06-13


7-21-13


8-04-13


8-07-14



9-01-13



9-20-13


9-23-13


10-11-13


10-16-13



10-22-13


10-26-13




11-08-13: Last picture before putting the winter protection back up.


The fruit are just starting to sweeten up, hopefully they will be ready in the next month or so.

St Anne are early satsumas. Are you sure they are St Anne? They should have been done a while ago.

They look delicious!

Do all satsumas grow that fast? If so, maybe I should start growing satsumas myself!

Laaz, I had briefly thought that too, but this tree flowered in Mid June, probably 1.5-2 months behind when most Satsumas down south flowered (takes a while for things to warm up here in the Spring).
It's been ~150 days since the flowers began to open with the St. Ann
In comparison, my container Armstrong Early flowered in Mid-Late March and had mature fruit in Mid Sept. (~170 days).
In the future, I'll probably also try Xie Shan and the Armstrong outside.

Mark, I'm surprised you don't have at least one or two already. Satsumas are one of the earliest sweet citrus to have mature fruit in the Fall.

I have often considered growing one like miyagawa but on the other hand mandarins (store bought) are not my favourite citrus fruit. Most are too sweet for me. Homegrown might be different of course!

I do have a kara mandarin, but that's not satsuma. Kara is late ripening. Mine are still dark green but soft to the touch. I already tried one. It was still a bit soar but taste was promising!

It looks like all your hard work has paid off. Enjoy your fruits Scott! I agree with the delay of ripening of your fruits. My in ground trees are always at least three weeks or more behind Laaz's or any more southern grown trees. We get a later start with warmer weather and flowering up here.

Thanks, I was kind of hoping they would be ready by now... Looks like I'll have to squeeze into my citrus igloo to pick them now. This coming spring I might try to heat up the enclosure a couple months early to get a head start on the growing season.