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TRI
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Joined: 13 Jan 2010
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Location: Homestead, FL Zone 10
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| Posted: Wed 23 Nov, 2011 6:07 pm |
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I just ate a few satsumas from Owari satsuma tree in back yard and the flavor was excellent. They were not dry like some others have reported and very high quality! So far I have harvested 550 satsumas and there are still hundreds left on the trees. This is a very productive year!
Too bad I will not enjoy this great fruit as I am moving to Homestead,Florida Saturday. I will miss my citrus! My family is staying though and they will enjoy this harvest.
Growing citrus has been a lot of fun over the years. I started back in spring 1999 with three satsumas and one Meyer lemon. Two of the satsumas are still alive but the Meyer lemon died only after a month after planting from root rot. I have since planted two more Meyer lemons in 2001 and another Owari satsuma in 2004. I have harvested over 10,000 satsumas and over 12,000 Meyer lemons since 2001! |
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Darkman
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Joined: 20 Jul 2010
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Wed 23 Nov, 2011 10:53 pm |
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That is awesome. Good luck on your move.
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TRI
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Joined: 13 Jan 2010
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Location: Homestead, FL Zone 10
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| Posted: Fri 25 Nov, 2011 12:01 am |
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Darkman, you will have great harvest with time. You will not need many citrus plants. Only a few can supply you with so much fruit that you give most of it away. |
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rasputinj
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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Location: SoCal
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| Posted: Sat 03 Dec, 2011 1:07 am |
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Mine came early this year and were not dry either, while last year they were a bit dry. This is also the first year I have had some critter eating them also. My friends Owari which is down the street is still a month away, I started picking fruit in Oct.
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Darkman
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Location: Pensacola Florida South of I-10 Zone 8b/9a
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| Posted: Sat 03 Dec, 2011 1:10 pm |
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| rasputinj wrote: | | Mine came early this year and were not dry either, while last year they were a bit dry. This is also the first year I have had some critter eating them also. My friends Owari which is down the street is still a month away, I started picking fruit in Oct. |
Any idea what critter it was?
I picked my last two Owari yesterday and both were pretty good. My wife likes the Sunburst better and we ate the last two of them. I agree that the Sunburst was more acidic and flavorful. I have one Kimbrough that I will probably eat today. After that I have three Hamlin oranges and that will close out the 2011 season. Except for the three hundred or so Mewia Kumquats that I have. LOL
| Tri wrote: | | Darkman, you will have great harvest with time. You will not need many citrus plants. Only a few can supply you with so much fruit that you give most of it away. |
I hope I am overwhelmed with fruit at some point. I currently have 28 citrus and I will probably buy 8 more next spring. I certainly would not mind sharing with my neighborhood. There is a man in the neighborhood that asks people if they would like some of his satasumas and if they say yes he says he sells them for $5. I don't care what he does with them I just don't like his approach. He has about 5 trees that are about twenty foot tall and bear heavy crops. Each year the fruit hangs until it falls on the ground on anything but the lowest limbs. There are many food banks that would send someone to pick them and he could have a tax write off but he chooses to let them hang and rot. When he rakes his yard and puts it out by the road there are hundreds of fruit in the piles. Many of them still edible.
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rasputinj
Joined: 23 Feb 2010
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Location: SoCal
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| Posted: Sun 04 Dec, 2011 4:43 am |
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I have setup up 2 traps to catch the critter. I had 35 Satsumas this year. Kishu will be up next.
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Skeeter
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Joined: 23 Jul 2006
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Location: Pensacola, FL zone 9
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| Posted: Wed 07 Dec, 2011 7:49 pm |
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My satsumas (Owari) were good--juicy, decent flavor but not real sweet. The Ponkan mandarins are better than the satsumas, just as easy to peel but with some seeds. The Daisy mandarin is still the sweetest, but Ponkan has not reached peak yet. Page is sweet and has good flavor, but small and hard to peel. One oter characteristic of satsumas that I don't like as much as the Ponkan is the skin on the segments--it is tougher in the satsuma.
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Darkman
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| Posted: Thu 08 Dec, 2011 12:50 am |
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Ate the Kimbrough. Glad that I only had one this year. It was not good. A little dry, insipid, and chewy. This tree was just planted this year and I know that it will get better.
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