The Page Mandarin is considered to be the finest tasting citrus variety of them all. Page Mandarins are also rather difficult to locate. Currently Four Winds Growers has a limited supply of the 1 year old dwarf trees for sale. I received two of their Page Mandarin trees just yesterday. I'm sure they will not last long, so if you are interested in this variety, you can contact them, but I would not wait long. - Millet

Got my first fruit last year from my 4 year old 6 foot tall inground tree, I wasn't impressed. Maybe it will improve with age(I dumped two wheel barrows of puffy satsumas from several 5 year old trees as well). The clementines and fairchild mandarins tasted better.

Clementine and Fairchild, plus many other varieties, all are good tasting mandarins. Taste is very subjective, still Page is considered to be the best tasting of all mandarins. The main cause of puffiness in mandarins (all types) is the fruit being picked too late, past the fruit becoming "ripe", and late picking is also a cause of mandarins having a bland taste. I know that young citrus trees, of all varieties, generally produce inferior fruit, but I'm not sure if the youth of a tree has much to do with puffiness or not. - Millet

In my experience, youth of tree and variety has everything to do with inferior fruit, especially satsuma and other mandarins. Young mandarins of any variety make dry puffy fruit at my house. My whittaker's gold grapefruit has had good quality from the first fruit. Location is another variable. What does great in the California high desert may not do well in hot and humid climates. How about ugli? The grocery store fruit comes from Jamaica. Supposedly, grown anywhere else, it looks completely different. Then there is opinion. I have heard that clementines don't do well commercially in Florida and California is best. Well, the clementines on my tree last year here in SE Texas were definitely better than any California or Spanish one I have eaten from the grocery. In fact, my home grown fruit is better than any store bought fruit I've ever eaten. Perhaps the highest quality clementine from California is better than the highest quality clementine from Florida. But I've never tasted any highest quality fruit of any kind from California. What is in the grocery here is under ripe, great looking, bland, insipid awful fruit.

I have two dwarf page mandarins from Durling's that have been barely productive. However, the fruit that has come off has been excellent! Very tasty! Not too seedy either. Maybe three or four seeds per fruit. This is my favorite mandarin right now. The Tahoe, Shasta, Yosemite & Gold Nuggets have not produced anything of quality yet.

Unfortunately, the Page Mandarins are in my citrus hedge experiment which limits the amount of 360 degree sun for them. At least they are in the sun from sun up to sundown.

I only had one satsuma last yr and 3 ponkan mandarins, first fruit from both, but they were both good. I would be happy if they get better, but what I had was not bad.

Skeet, you should get yourself a couple Page Mandarins. Tolumnia, who lives in Gainsville, has perhaps a dozen Page Mandarin trees. He has told me that they are his very favorite citrus. - Millet

Yes, at least here in north Florida, Page is far and away the best orange or mandarin. I gave my mother some a while back, and she gave some fruit to a 90 year old friend, who told her "I wish Norris had never given me those damn Pages. Now all other oranges are no good."

I just got two more from Lowe's here, and if I could find any more space, I would get more. I had to plant one of those over at my son's house. He already has two Pages, but was glad to get another one.

I have 2 Page grafts on my Lisbon, (I got budwood from He Moa Kane)---both of them took and are blooming. As soon as my flying dragon seedlings get big enough I will put a Page on some of them. I have had both Page and Ponkan from Becnels on So. LA --some years the Ponkan is best, some yrs Page and I like both.

My 3yr old Page made about 2dz fruits this year. Very rich tasting fruit, I think with some age it will make my favorite list. It had a very tight thin skin that was hard to peel. But tasted great. Grown on almost pure sand in full sun.

Selkirk

Everyone has his own take on taste, but, as far as I am concerned, Page is one of the best mandarins I have had.

Ned

When I purchased my first Page Mandarin, it was due to the advice of tolumnia. Glad I did. As I posted, I purchased two more Page trees from Four Winds last week. - Millet