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Radoslav
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| Posted: Thu 04 Apr, 2013 2:05 pm |
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My Mandared® just arrived:
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Laaz
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| Posted: Thu 04 Apr, 2013 2:39 pm |
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Nice tree!
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MarcV
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| Posted: Thu 04 Apr, 2013 3:09 pm |
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Looks like yours has those huge spines also!  
Any flower buds present?
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Radoslav
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| Posted: Fri 05 Apr, 2013 4:45 am |
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| MarcV wrote: |
Any flower buds present? |
it is just waking up, so will see, if there are some flower buds. |
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igor.fogarasi
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| Posted: Fri 05 Apr, 2013 10:35 am |
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Really nice tree Radoslav, although I would shape it up a little, after the fruit is set. |
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Radoslav
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| Posted: Wed 10 Apr, 2013 1:24 pm |
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New addition
CITRUS SHUNKOKAKAN 春光柑（シュンコウカン）
aka shunkokan SRA 771 sweet orange (but it has yellow fruits  )
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Laaz
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MarcV
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| Radoslav wrote: | New addition
CITRUS SHUNKOKAKAN 春光柑（シュンコウカン）
aka shunkokan SRA 771 sweet orange (but it has yellow fruits )
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That makes it a "sweet yellow"! 
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Radoslav
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MarcV
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That sure looks nice!
Where do you find such citrus plants?
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Lemandarangequatelo
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| Posted: Wed 10 Apr, 2013 2:33 pm |
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Very nice! What does your new C. Shunkokan taste like? Same as other oranges? |
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Radoslav
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| Posted: Wed 10 Apr, 2013 2:51 pm |
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| MarcV wrote: | That sure looks nice!
Where do you find such citrus plants?
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Tintori nursery |
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Laaz
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| Posted: Wed 10 Apr, 2013 6:27 pm |
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Excellent, I never heard of them.
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Radoslav
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| Posted: Thu 11 Apr, 2013 5:19 am |
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according to the internet sources, looks like it grow true from seed.
This accession came to the University of California via W.P. Bitters in 1.1. 1963 as a seed from Shizuoka pref., Shimizu-shi, Japan.
Catalogue number CRC 3476 citrus shunkokan.
In 1987 budwood was imported to SRA INRA-CIRAD France screenhouses. After declared as a disease free, it received SRA number 771. |
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Sylvain
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UCR PI 539546
Medium-sized fruit; yellow rind; oblate with depression at apex; rind moderately rough, thick; seedy; medium-large hollow core; flesh light yellow, coarse but juicy, flavor sweet; not attractive fruit.
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