Thread: Fruit, Nut, and Vine Grafting, Tree Propagation, Tree Care

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.