Ponkan Mandarin:

If you count the lemons, I have fruits from this tree whole year round. Just the mandarins, valencias, navels, and acidless sweet oranges, the harvest season is about 7 months. The grapefruits and pummelos are oddballs since it takes more than 18 months for them to ripen properly.

One thing that I cannot really anticipate nor predict is how heavy would a crop load be for a particular cultivar. The tree is now unbalanced after bearing much fruit unequal load on the previously well balanced branches.

Next season, I may have reduce crop loads after severely pruning and grafting over the washington navels.

Already I have kumquats on it too, and have plenty of clementines waiting to sprout in the spring.

You can trace the very humble beginnings of this tree since year 2001 from my Photo albums:

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=4148728&a=32379566&f=

Joe:

When was image 2 of 42 taken?
I ask because your 50-in-1 tree is a master work,
and I think many people will want to know when,
where and how.

Image 37 with the bright spot of light on top of the
Ponkan Mandarin and the two disk reflections from
the lense is artful. I like it.

Thanks. The image 2 of 42 in my Epson photo album was taken in December 2004.

Image 37 was taken when I was on a ladder awkwardly holding the camera while the other hand is clinging for dear life, and so would have to take what I can get. Thanks for appreciating that.

thats really neat Joe- a serious labor of love

Hopefully ill have some FDs big enough for my clumsy self to try my hand at grafting this spring.

You say Miho Wase Satsuma is very tasty, how does it compare to Keraji? I fell in love with the taste of Keraji at the citrus expo, and im just wondering what fruits I should focus on now that I know I can keep them alive.

I know there are many tasty fruits that arent produced commercially for a variety of reasons, and I look forward to the next citrus event where I can get my paws on more new fruits to taste!

Inspirational!!!

Love the Anahaw Hut also!! and the Lazarus box!! Love your photo pages!! Great that you put detail info with the photos..

Gina *BabyBlue*

I don't have a keraji nor even tasted one, unless there is a synonym for keraji.

garnetmoth wrote:

thats really neat Joe- a serious labor of love Hopefully ill have some FDs big enough for my clumsy self to try my hand at grafting this spring. You say Miho Wase Satsuma is very tasty, how does it compare to Keraji? I fell in love with the taste of Keraji at the citrus expo, and im just wondering what fruits I should focus on now that I know I can keep them alive. I know there are many tasty fruits that arent produced commercially for a variety of reasons, and I look forward to the next citrus event where I can get my paws on more new fruits to taste!

Nice pics Joe. As always, thanks for sharing.
I wish I would've tasted more fruits at expo like Garnetmoth did! I only tasted my own meyer lemon & later tasted the satsumas that Stan gave me.
Stan, you citrus man!, what kind of satsumas were they (if you read this)?? They were sooooo good, I want more!

Keraji is in the holdings of UC Riverside germplasm but is not offered to the public in the CCPP budwood program. I can wait for that one or hunt it down at Gene Lester's citrus farm.

To me keraji is not worth growing. I had a 6 foot tree and had several dozen fruit 2 years ago. The fruit was good tasting, very lemony and sweet, but the fruit smaller than a satsuma and had many very large seeds. I topworked the tree to MrMac satsuma.

What specific root stock did you use? How can I pick the best root stock for my area (Corpus Christi)? If I can get my hands on a fairly mature root stock, how long after I plant it should I start grafting?