Have you tried your Satsuma’s yet? I have been eating some of my Armstrong satsumas and they are almost there. The earliest maturity date for these is the third week of September. The sugar content is not quite there yet but they have a good Satsuma flavor.
The kimbrough and owari are at about the same taste now as the Armstrong but have much longer to mature and turn sweet. Can’t hardly wait.

I only have 1 satuma that set fruit and it only set 3 fruits, but then later dropped 2 of those. This is the first fruit from the tree, so I do not expect much-- I have no idea when it will be ripe, it is still pretty small now.

My sister Vicki has lots of Owari satsumas on her 2 older trees, so I will be helping her pick her crop! When does Owari ripen?

Skeet
I start seriously picking owari about the second week of November. If we get an early frost then one week after that. A week after the first frost they will knock your socks off with absolutely sweet delicious fruit.
Four weeks ago I tasted the first Armstrong and immediately spit it out. The next week it was much better but today they are pleasant but not as sweet as I like them
This will be my first year that I will have enough to sell.
How are your passion fruit doing?
Karl

The passion fruit were wild and did not come back this year. I will try to remember and collect some when I go hunting and get them restarted.

I can't wait until my Ponkan really starts producing-- it has 3 fruits this year, but it has really come a long way since last spring when it was almost killed by disease. The disease was probably casued by damage from hurricane Ivan in 2004-- it had a dozen fruits on it that year but Ivan blew them all off.

I first tasted Ponkans at one of the citrus stands below Belle Chase when I went duck hunting over there in LA. We were there right after a cold spell and the Ponkans were so sweet and the flavor was out of this world. They haven't been as good as that first time since then, but I still like them.

Skeeter, is that a grafted Lisbon?
Susan

Yes, I think it is on a trifoliate rootstock. That Lisbon now has 3 grapefruits, calamondin, Ponkan, Murcott, Valencia, Meyer, Hamlin, Minneola Tangelo, Page, and Fina Sodea grafted on it. The Star Ruby grapefruit has 3 fruits.

Skeeter how old is the Lisbon, when did you graft all the varieties on that tree. I would love to see a picture of all that fruit on one tree. You must be a master grafter to get it to all work.

This past summer was the 4th growing season for the lemon. I put most of the grafts on in Sept of 06-- my first attempt at grafting citrus--my lemon tree was 3 then. I had 13 of 17 varieties that I got from FL DPI that took out of about 40 graft attempts. Of those, most were on the lemon tree, but several were on other trees that were even younger. I have added other varieties as I could get them from other people in Florida, but FL DPI quit providing budwood to homeowners this past Jan-- a real bummer--I would be adding even more varieties.

I do also get to apply my hobby to my sisters' trees in Alabama where I have added another dozen or so varieties to their trees.

I am hopeful that I will get fruit from a lot more of the varieties on my lemon next year.

I posted pictures of the lemon, grapefruit, and my seedlings on the photo forum.