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Reply With QuoteYummy! You’re gonna have me looking into buying other citrus trees now. Already bought an Owari Satsuma.
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Harvesting All the Time............Juicing Citrus
Seems everyday something is ready to harvest this time of year. Although several of our citrus trees went into shock after the tornado threw them around all but the smallest citrus tree produced an abundance of fruit. They are out of timing though stacking the harvest days too close together. Normally we have fresh citrus 5 months out of the year but it looks like that will be cut to 3 months at best this year.
These Limes are ripening to full ripe. When ripe they are still a Lime just have a little sugar developed in them. Both Lime tree containers were tossed quite a ways so the trees went into survival mode and produced a lot of small fruit. To get the trees back on their normal schedule I had to strip pick both trees of any fruit close to ready. All the Lime trees here have another crop of fruit & some are blooming already. So these were cut this morning, juiced, and most of the juice frozen. Both Persian & Key Limes are in the pile.
Both our Page Mandarin trees are loaded but the one that got tossed is a full 30 days early on ripening the fruit. The fruit flavor profile is completely developed and very little pith is left between the skin & flesh. Page Mandarins are the Orangest tasting, the very best in Orange flavor, one of the sweetest of all the Mandarins. The one catch is the amount of seeds.
Crazy amount of seeds. Juicing with this appliance helps deal with the excess seeds. I make wine with the juice as well as drink fresh, ice cold in the morning.
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Yummy! You’re gonna have me looking into buying other citrus trees now. Already bought an Owari Satsuma.
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A 5 year old mature Owari is the only citrus good to 15 degrees all the rest 30 degrees or higher. I think I mentioned the new Artic Frost Satsuma that at 5 years old is good to 9 degrees. Certainly wany to plant on the southern side of a building to knock off the wind chill factor. I am currently growing out 2 Artic Frost Satsumas in containers to the 5 year maturity.Originally Posted by SuperDave336
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I’ve already put mine in the greenhouse. Had trees cut today and they dropped a smaller one on my greenhouse. Wasn’t real happy about it but other than some tears in the plastic the frame held up. I can tape up the plastic. Knocked a limb off one of the figs inside. Accidents happen.
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The tree guys I used a while back dropped a big limb against the back frame bending it, same frame that eventually was crushed in the tornado. Some tree guys are great but some just can't see the whole picture before starting the saw. Hate you had any damage, buy good tape so you don't have it open up at a inopportune time.
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Frost & Freeze Threat Citrus in the Shop
This kinda continuous cold snap is great for the fishing but tough for all our citrus trees. I moved them all into the shop a few days ago. The Skeeter was evicted briefly.
Check out this Rio Red Grapefruit tree. I keep it pruned close to the support framework so when walking it back and forth limbs are not broken.
The pruning makes it load up with fruit.
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That tree is loaded!!! Yeah I wrapped my greenhouse with a Harbor Freight tarp and it helped a couple of degrees. They were sold out of the thicker extreme weather tarp on black friday sale when I went. I still might get that tarp even though I doubt I re-wrap my greenhouse.
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Freezing the Pecan Harvests
Growing producing trees is a task in itself. When you get a harvest crop another task is at hand getting all the crop in. With the harvest usually comes preparing your harvest for storage. Freezing is our go to way to store the harvests we make here. So I have posted Cracking & Picking the Pecans we harvested but not how we store them. Vacuum packing is the best way for us to keep Pecan over a several year period. I had Pecans that were 5 years old this past year as we were working to clean all the old pecans out before this pecan processing started.
So my wife found this cheap bag holder just to see if we liked using one and is was $4 for a 2 pack. Well one was broken when it arrived, Yea Amazon junk, anyway I used the other measuring 2 cups of pecans plus a palm full into each bag.
I uploaded a short video of vacuum sealing the pecans in the bags. Trying to position the bag correctly with one hand was impossible. Sorry for the moving around.
These 7 bags got the year of the crop and placed in a zero degrees freezer.
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That’s cool to watch. We usually use freezer ziplock bags. We have some from several years back but I guarantee yours will be fresher for longer. Awesome
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Still Forced Harvests..........
It amazes me when it gets to the middle of winter and all my fall producing citrus trees look bad every year. Leaves fall off, my shop floor was full of them, now as poor as they look Blooms are busting out everywhere. The cycle starts over. I have one Key Lime Tree mainly for making Key Lime pies, I had to go out yesterday and pick a pile of them as the tree still has over a hundred set.
This is the third harvest of the little Limes since this time last year. A person only needs one Key Lime tree. I'm making a Lime Ice Box Pie first thing after breakfast.
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