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Loaded 11 year old Miho Satsuma with puffy dry fruit

 
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mrtexas
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Joined: 02 Dec 2005
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Location: 9a Missouri City,TX

Posted: Fri 07 Oct, 2011 8:32 pm

Here is my loaded miho satsuma I planted in 2000. It has lots of fruit but almost all is puffy and dry. You would think a satsuma this age would have good quality fruit but no such luck. I have several other mandarins and they produced good quality fruit much faster. I have the same problem with all of my satsuma trees. This one was an un-named variety and about age 3 or 4 I topworked to miho. Rootstock is trifoliate.

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Millet
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Joined: 13 Nov 2005
Posts: 6657
Location: Colorado

Posted: Fri 07 Oct, 2011 8:35 pm

Phil, you can pick Satsumas before the stage that your fruit are at now. Satsumas are mature before they turn orange. I read either in one of my books, or perhaps on the Internet, I cannot remember which, that Satsuma's become puffy when they are held on the tree too long. I do remember, that when I read it, I thought of you, as you posted this same topic last year. However, I don't remember it saying that they become dry. - Millet (465-)
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Laaz
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Joined: 12 Nov 2005
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Location: Dorchester County, South Carolina

Posted: Fri 07 Oct, 2011 10:20 pm

If all of your Satsumas have this problem, I would say it's a soil issue or something you're doing.

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