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mrtexas · Posted: Tue 15 Jan, 2013 9:56 pm

I have a medium size tarocco tree here in Beaumont,TX. This is the first year I have seen any hint of color in the fruit. Fruit is larger than a moro or sanguinelli. Very sweet but not as much of distinctive blood orange flavor. This is not Bream tarocco.

Oddly about half the tree has mutant fruit on it. They are less sweet and have a very bumpy skin. Some have prominent sheepnose like the end of a minneola. I'm planning on cutting the limbs off with the inferior fruit. Good idea?

Sanguinello · Gest

That is typically for Tarocco.
Big, sweet and few colour.
Just Tarocco ROSSO has some distinct colour.

Young trees have often funny fruits.
Pruning won´t help.

Laaz · Posted: Wed 16 Jan, 2013 2:09 pm

My variegated Blood orange may be Tarocco. It has always had decent color & smooth skin. The peel stays yellow with a few stripes. I believe I got the budwood from someone in CA back in 2004-05. Didn't even know it was a blood until it started to fruit.

I'll have to try a fruit or two today. I'll get some photos later.

Sanguinello, some Tarocco's have very good color.

http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/bream.html

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Sylvain · Posted: Wed 16 Jan, 2013 3:59 pm

So you came again to give your pearls to us (the pigs)!!!
Laughing

Sanguinello · Gest

Who knows ?

Maybe it is rat poison now .. Razz

Radoslav · Posted: Wed 16 Jan, 2013 4:24 pm

This forum has a big popularity around the world, and people take seriously informations posted here. So in the future, I will not hesitate to remove any post, if it is clear nonsence.

Laaz · Posted: Wed 16 Jan, 2013 4:25 pm

Fruit today. Color is not quite there yet.

This is a photo of the fruit from mid Feb a few years ago.

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Laaz · Posted: Wed 16 Jan, 2013 4:31 pm

Radoslav wrote:

This forum has a big popularity around the world, and people take seriously informations posted here. So in the future, I will not hesitate to remove any post, if it is clear nonsence.

I agree.

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ilyaC · Posted: Wed 16 Jan, 2013 4:33 pm

Sanguinello wrote:

Yes, that is BREAM !
Tarocco is a cross of Moro with another Sicilian Orange, here it cuts back to Moro and to all the blood oranges ancestor Sangiunello.

The same level of raticide content as before-
Tarocco oranges are much older than Moro.

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Sanguinello · Gest

RyanL · Posted: Thu 17 Jan, 2013 5:49 pm

Here is a standard Tarocco, these have been exposed to low temperatures for a good month or more now. I didn't take a photo but another fruit on the same tree right next the one pictured had much less pigment, about what you guys posted above. Go figure. This one pictured has really nice flavor with dark, thick juice & firm texture, sweet too.

Sanguinello · Gest

Yes, even at Moro can one side of the tree exposed to the cold wind have a totally black pulp and the other side well protected from cold very little pigmentation.

What is typically for Tarocco is a striped/flamed coloration and not fully coloured like Moro.
Only Tarocco Rosso has a fully pigmentation.

I never said Tarocco tastes bad, it has a lot of sugar and tastes also well without pigmentaion.

Radoslav · Posted: Thu 17 Jan, 2013 7:23 pm

Sanguinello wrote:

Yes, even at Moro can one side of the tree exposed to the cold wind have a totally black pulp and the other side well protected from cold very little pigmentation.
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But RyanL wrote : "fruit on the same tree right next the one pictured had much less pigment"

It does not fit to your "theory"