I hold the fourm record!! Last night I ate a California Clementine, the Cutie brand, supposed to be more or less seedless. The ONE I ate last night had 23 seeds in it. Laaz e-mailed me a week or so ago and ask where I got the clementine seeds I planted. I told him to purchase the California fruit and you will get your seeds. Laaz, do you want any seeds, If so I mail them to you. - Millet

Sure do. I bought two boxes of the same fruit & brand as well. Not a single seed in the lot.

Might be the bees thingy in California. Guerilla-style bee operators in the citrus plantation during lean times might have caused the seediness. Let me see if i can post that amusing article pitting beekeepers against seedless citrus growers...

Interesting.....yes that would be interesting reading. My two primary hobbies are citrus (gh) and beekeeping.

Wow Millet!!! are you by any chance Irish?? LOL
Gina *BabyBlue*

Here's something about the weird range war between citrus growers and beekepers

see page 4
http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/newsletters/topics_in_subtropics1_03.pdf
http://ceventura.ucdavis.edu/newsletterfiles/Topics_in_Subtropics2899.pdf


More cooperative information between them:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AA092

Joe Real, thank you very much for the links to the Tropics In Subtropics Newsletter. Not only was the bee information interesting, I also took a page of notes on the mandarin varieties and their seed production habits. Concerning planting Navel Oranges as a protective boundry around Clementine, I just finished an article on bees and citrus. In the article it stated that there are two kinds of bees that visit citrus groves. One type are pollen collectors, and the other kind ar only necter collector bees. When it comes to Navels only the necter collector bee are interesed, the pollen collector bees do not bother them because of the lack of pollen. Also bees in a citrus grove tend to travel up and down the rows more than across many rows. One major reason that Spanish Clementines are usually seed free, is because it is illegal (against Spanish Law) to place a bee hive within one mile of any clementine mandarin grove. BTW is the Tropics In Subtropics Newsletter available over the internet, or does one have to subscribe to it by mail? Perhaps Citrus Joe has some comments on bees as he keeps bees and also is a citrus collector. Thanks Joe Real for all the work on this article. - Millet

Millet there are quite a few issues here http://fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu/newsletters/topics_in_subtropics.shtml

Geees, lots of good stuff, Thanks Laaz. - Millet