Spent three hours covering trees and picking fruit tonite since we'll be hard freezing for about 4-5 nights in a row There was a group of huge tangelos in the very center of my tree, the biggest was 1 lb 3 oz (539 g). Not all the fruit are huge this year, but definitely favoring the pummelo side of the heritage rather than the mandarin as they did last year...

Very nice tangelos! Do they taste good at that size?

Thank you, Lemandarangequatelo - I do take pride in my best tree and fruit, really anticipating my others coming into their productive years.

The taste of the massive one pictured here was...ok - I ate it this morning. The flavor was low to medium sweet, slightly acidic, just kinda average for a Minneola. Another few weeks on the tree would have helped, but I was afraid I would have had sorbet after five nights of hard freeze (even with three 100-watt bulbs hung in the lower part of the canopy, and a good pre-freeze watering).

I picked appx. 200 pieces of fruit from the same tree last night to save them from the freeze, I am sure there will be some more flavorful ones.

Cheers,
BC

beautiful and apetitizing ...

I eat them "grapefruit style"

You're welcome BC, thank you for posting the pics and the taste description, very inspirational. I hope your trees survive the cold weather with no problems

I have some Minneola tangelo seedlings growing from seeds I found in store bought fruit. If I remember correctly they don't grow true to type but I'm looking forward to seeing what I get.

For myself, I love the juice best, also when a lil acidic it is still delicious.