Hello,
I have been lurking for months and this is my first post. I am re-landscaping my yard and have gotten rid of all fruit trees and am replacing them with citrus trees - reason being that we are a home to a colony of squirrels that eat every single fruit on every single tree EXCEPT the citrus. We have not been able to harvest any fruit for the past 10 years from our garden as a result.
I have an 18 year old Washington Navel tree, 1 sickly 10 yr old meyer lemon tree. I have obtained a whole bunch of citrus to plant in the coming spring from Fourwinds (meiwa, oro blanco, moro blood and sanguinelli blood, bearss lime, lisbon lemon). I would like to plant a juicing orange tree. I have so far come up with Valencia and Trovita oranges. Are there any other types? What would be your suggestion? I live in the San Jose, CA area where it seems that citrus do very well. Thanks in advance.

Ambersweet is a variety that was widely planted in FLorida by the citrus industry because it does not need to be mixed with other juices for taste or color, however, the citrus industry is removing them because the production was too low. Homeowners, however are not as concerned about production, so it is still considered a good choice for dooryard production.

The NUMBER ONE early juicing orange in the United States is the Hamlin orange. Hamlin has a high juice content which is very sweet. In fact Hamlin is an all around orange, as it is also a very popular day time snack orange due to its sweet flavor. - Millet (1,121-)

Valencia is a excellent orange for juicing as is Hamlin. Navels are about the only orange that is not good for juicing.

Thanks so much for your replies. I checked the FourWinds website and they do not have the Hamlin or Ambersweet available. I have had such good luck with FourWinds that i do not want to source the trees from elsewhere. I might try some grafting on my established Navel tree if I get some budwood for both Hamlin and Ambersweet.
So, I am still left with the Trovita and Valencia as the 2 choices. We do have a few nights of frost over here in a year. With that in mind, is the Trovita better than the Valencia? Thanks again for being so welcoming to a newbie.

I vote for Page as an excellent juice orange, although it is not really "just an orange". I get great juice from my pineapple orange, as well as from mid-sweet. I have a red Valencia that is also excellent, and for the first year I have fruit on my Parson Brown, which is supposed to be very seedy. Although I don't think the flavor is as good as those mentioned above, my Orlando tangelo is very juicy.

I think you are already on the right track. What is best for Florida will be different than what is best for California. The orange with the most juice content for you would be the Valencia. Navels are the other orange that does best in California. I think they have a good juice, but the juice needs to be drunk in a short period of time becasue there is a chemical in the fruit called limonin that makes the juice bitter rather quickly.
Hamlins are good, but they were found in Florida and are better suited for Florida, even though you CAN grow them. The Valencias would be your late orange and these others would be choices of early oranges. I like the taste of Pineapples (oranges), but there again, better in Florida. Even though these are not know for being a juice orange, I love Honeybelle Tangelos for being sweet.