Another try.
First year of fruit for both seedless kishu and fairchild mandarin after three years in the ground. I grew the rootstock and grafted the scions. Neither are particularly mature or good tasting yet, pale with weak flavor. I've been eating satsumas with green skins and orange flesh for about a month. I'm a little disappointed by the kishu, perhaps I'll graft pong koa or atlas honey mandarin on it, two of my newest aquisitions from TreeSearch Farms in Houston, TX. Fairchild mandarin is really good but seedy like all "tangerines." I've also got a clementine on flying dragon producing for the first year. I've heard clementines don't do as good here near Houston as California but am skeptical of this clain. I've tasted some pretty good ones. The grackels particularly liked the clementines as well. They pecked the skins of nearly every one while about gold ball sized. The grackels do some damage on all my citrus fruit, but don't ruin them for the most part. It is the leaf footed bugs that can ruin every fruit!