Benny, those are some great pics!! Hope someday mine will all look like yours. Welcome back & nice to see you here again.
Patty

Patty:
You know, I said the same words to someone at Citrus Forum just about 3 and 1/2 years ago.
I learned almost all I know about citrus in that forum. I really thank all those good guys and dolls who helped me recognized what I was doing wrong. Millet was one but there are so many others.
So perhaps in a couple of years you would be saying what I just told you.
Regards,

Benny

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Benny, your trees are always first class. The Page Mandarin has a very good crop on it. I think Page Mandarins are amoung the best tasting of all citrus varieties. Have you eaten any from your tree yet, and if so how was the taste? My Page Mandarins have turned color but I don't think they are quite ready yet. The tree is also just now starting a new flush of leaves. BTW, what is your favorite citrus fruit to eat?? Take care. Millet

Millet:
I have not tasted my Page lately because maybe 3 weeks ago I tasted it and still not ready. I don't know but I think Page needs heat in order to be sweet. Last year they were not to my liking so I end up juicing them.
My favorite is really Washington Navel because they are large, sweet and juicy. Next is Honey Tangerine because once you started eating them from the tree, you can't stop. Although they are on the smaller side they are easy to peel and the sweetness is stucked on your palate so you keep on eating them to keep that sweetness on your tongue and keep on clipping the fruit from the tree and before you know it they were all gone.

Millet,I wish you would change your mind regarding the Citrus Forum Millet.
There are many people out there who really needs your help and I am not that savvy giving advice to them. They need someone like you.
I think I am needed there more than here because there are many big guns here and when you moved nobody is left there. It is now teettering to oblivion.
But I respect your decision. And I understand.
Oh, by the way I have 38 total citrus in my yard. 8 planted in the ground and the rest are in pots.

Benny, we can always invite them over by pointing the link when you reply. I can send you template on what to type at the end of your replies. You will basically have to cut and paste it, then your replies in the other forum can have a link here.

Most of our Mandarins, including the yosemite GOld, Shasta Gold, PAge don't really taste as good compared to those in the southern Ca. I agree with Benny that Washington Navels and Valencias are big and tasty. Now I can add Blood oranges and pink Navel to that list.

Last year I bought Cara-cara navel fruits from a fruit stand. These tasted very sweet but lacked the acidity. My Cara-cara has a load of fruit and tasted one last weekend, and it sure is not very sweet, but it has the correct type of acidity that I am familiar with. It ranks high along with my Washington Navels. Still, the sanguinelli is my best tasting citrus for eating purposes. Valencias, especially the midknight would be the best for juicing.

It is very exciting to know the taste of different varieties that I have grafted more than a year ago. I am somehow disappointed with other mandarins except for the good old reliable Owari Satsuma and Algerian Clementine. But I think given time, they will become sweeter too. When it coms to mandarins, I will shift towards the later season crops, that is, the later they are from winter, the better they should taste.

What is your favorite blood orange? I bought a moro in my local grocery store a month ago or so & what a interesting great flavor...although a little tart. Maybe not guite ripe?
I have Moro, Budd, & Sanguinelli. I hear Sang. is best but I don't know. No fruit from any of mine yet.
Benny, I know you love to help people, but that other citrus forum made their own bed. They got rid of all the good people and left all the people on who were irritating & provoking arguements. Let the people who need help know about this forum. Just email them---- I did to many people that are now on here, or at least come here to read.
Again, your pics & citrus a great.
Patty

"Benny, we can always invite them over by pointing the link when you reply. I can send you template on what to type at the end of your replies. You will basically have to cut and paste it, then your replies in the other forum can have a link here."
Millet please let me know how to do this.
Joe:
I don't have a Valencia because long time ago I bought some from a store and they have so many seeds but tasted OK. I have Midknight and I am very fond of it. They are not very large and juicy and sweet just like the Navels but no seeds.
Are you telling me that the Shasta Gold will not taste as I thought it should be? I am looking forward tasting them when they ripe. So is your Clemenure.
Thanks for the info.

Joe:
Also I like my Cara-cara. It tastes just like you described them and it rung at the top of my list. I also like my Dancy and Honey and W. Murcott etc......hey, I think I am dreaming again.
I am glad I bought the Sanguinelli and I am looking forward for its fruit. Before I shied away to buy them when I looked at the inside and seemed pretty bloody but I'll be bold this time.
Benny

Patty:
Thanks for the info and I may do just that. Toni is beginning to get to me again. She talks nonesense and get credits from somebody else postings and claimed them to be her own. She always refer it from "the book" she read and claims to be an authority on all subjects. But other people believed in her because she monopolizes the response but then nobody else responds to their querries except her. Because all the big guns left citrus forum even AAE. So she is having a ball there. Poor guys are just left in the open.