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Citrus hold really well both on the tree and after it's picked. Grapefruit is like every other citrus here, we have a variety for all seasons. When you combine the right variety with the right cultural practices there really is citrus being picked somewhere within a hundred miles of me year round.
 
Thanks for the replies ,Has the colder weather this winter had much of impact on the fruit growing areas of the south? I hope to visit some day if the cattle prices hold out for a couple more years it will happen.
 
tamarack":2pob32jp said:
Thanks for the replies ,Has the colder weather this winter had much of impact on the fruit growing areas of the south? I hope to visit some day if the cattle prices hold out for a couple more years it will happen.
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By south do you mean south of you or our southern states? Here in CA the drought is the killer. Cold doesn't hurt much here unless it's early. The sugar in fruit that's close to ripe acts like anti-freeze.
 
ga.prime":2sze15jb said:
California grows the best lemons and cuties.
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and navels. ;-) Cuties aren't a variety, they're a marketing campaign. Paramount farms brings marketing to agriculture like no-one else can.
 
Cuties are a huge improvement on tangerines. I disagree on the navels. Cali's sure look the best but Fla wins the taste test.
 
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Citrus from Ca can't compete with Fl grown fruit. The taste is not there, the skin is thick and heavy. A pound of fruit from Fl has 1-2oz. more juice and meat. We keep fruit for a month or more, you have to pick the plugged fruit out.
 
Florida fruit is very good, but I really like Cara Cara oranges from California. The peeling is thick, but the fruit is bright orange, sweet,juicy, and very delicious. I have been buying them for several winters now.
My brother-in-law used to buy some real good FL oranges when he was living and people came through town selling them. Don't get them anymore.
 
I felt like spring had sprung after temp got to 78 degrees here in Middle GA today. Daffodils are blooming along with flowering quince and forsythia. A lot of Japanese magnolias were in full bloom last week when the freezing temps came and turned them brown. My Yoshino cherry is getting ready to bud.
Nice shower early this morning. Then sunshine by church time and the rest of the day. Enjoyed a good walk after checking cows. It really was a beautiful day! Now we have chances of rain with highs only in the fifties all next week.
My daughter was excited as it got up in the 40's in New York today!
All winter I have been telling myself, " If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" I hope it is not far away now.
 
cow pollinater":h21avh6k said:
ga.prime":h21avh6k said:
California grows the best lemons and cuties.
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and navels. ;-) Cuties aren't a variety, they're a marketing campaign. Paramount farms brings marketing to agriculture like no-one else can.
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They shulda made the skins black, and the public's demand would have no bounds--they could bundle them with a package of cab chuck roast and they'd fly right off the produce shelf.

I've tried growing citrus here, but can't keep them from freezing back. The plants survive and grow, but I think it is just growth from below the rootstock graft.
 
There are daffodils blooming all over here and I am only about a 3 hour drive south of the Canadian border. On Saturday I was up at Dad's place getting it ready to sell. That place is less than 80 miles from the border. There were lots of flowers blooming. My brother had cut the grass there last Tuesday and there was already a half inch of new growth.
 
cow pollinater":11p8nmco said:
tamarack":11p8nmco said:
Thanks for the replies ,Has the colder weather this winter had much of impact on the fruit growing areas of the south? I hope to visit some day if the cattle prices hold out for a couple more years it will happen.
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By south do you mean south of you or our southern states? Here in CA the drought is the killer. Cold doesn't hurt much here unless it's early. The sugar in fruit that's close to ripe acts like anti-freeze.
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The southern states you would have to go about 400 mi south of me just to get out of the snow.
 

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