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My "MidKnight Valencia" orange tree has been in the ground 3 years now, so it is about 5 years old. Today I harvested the first crop of sorts, about two dozen smallish, slightly sour oranges. This was expected, next year the fruit is likely to be much sweeter.

I also trimmed and picked fruit from my Eureka lemon. Lemon bars, coming up!

:woohoonaner:

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Great thread! I didn't harvest any fruits today, but I just stuck this thread!

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I harvested more than hallf of my Dancy tangerine. And before long, my Washington Navel orange. Next will be cara-cara.

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What about "grafting"?
I suppose there are not too many interested in this subject.
I've been grafting so many citrus,apples, plouts and plums since 2 weeks ago.

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i find it facinating. when and if i get all my stuff planted and moved around i would like to graft a citrus or two. any one know what you would have to graft to get blood oranges? this is one tree i must have. and what kind of stalk to use? it will be a long while before i can do this grafting thing. hopefully when i get to my botony classes we will have to do a project.....this would be excellent for a project. im not too much into apples( i dont eat them) but i do love the flowers on them. and i would like to graft my own weeping peach tree, or weeping mulberry tree. so hey im game for the grafting thing. something new to try.:o

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For more information on grafting, see http://www.bananas.org/f8/what-did-y...oday-4018.html

As for harvesting, this morning I picked about a dozen "sequoia" variety strawberries for my cereal! These are a hybrid with the wild strawberries native to the area of trees of the same name - they are not a large berry but rather medium size, very productive and sweet, and produce spring through fall because they are day-neutral.

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MsKitty:
The most knowledgeable guy I know and the one who taught me how to graft in person of different ways is Joe Real and some other people in the other citrus forum 3years ago . Now I considered my self very accomplished grafter and Joe called me an 'expert'. I've been harvesting many fruit cultivars now from my grafts. You just said you just want to graft 2 or three but once you get the know how and it's very easy you will be addicted to it and think of many ways to do it again and again.
Once I have time I will refer you to where you can learn pictorially and I am willing to bet your first try will be a success.
Imagine how thrilling you will be when you cut a 1 1/2 inch branch,attached it to another branch and viola in 2 to 3 weeks or less you see a new bud's forming and don't be surprised in another month flowers formed and harvest them in another 8months.

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For more discussions on grafting, please post here http://www.bananas.org/f8/what-did-y...oday-4018.html

As for harvesting, what are you picking now?

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lemons! I can taste the homemade lemonade right now! :)

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:woohoonaner:

Do you have an ice cream maker? Check out the recipe for lemon sorbet.

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Meyers lemons and lots of them - almost the only lemons available on an island full of limes!! And these babies are destined for margaritas!!!!

Cassie

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congrats on the great harvest!!!:2559: and having the best limes!:woohoonaner:. destined for margaritas...oh im hurt now. LOL!

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O.K., now I have to tease you about the Meyer Lemons! Did you know they are really Lemon x Orange ? I would agree that the "Meyer" is great in drinks. However, cooks are taught use the Eureka or Lisbon for that robust lemon flavor. (Lisbon is just a seedless Eureka).

:2783:

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Hmm ... that's interesting. Have you by any chance done a taste test to see how big a difference it is?

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From healthy trees, the difference is very noticable; similar to the difference between Ruby grapefruit and Cocktail grapefruit -- the latter being a Ruby with orange crossed back into it.

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I harvested the rest of my Dancy tangerine thinking that it will bud new buds soon.

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Good idea on your young tree. Although a mature tree has no problem "holding" fruit and budding.

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Thanks! And they taste good too even though not fully ripe yet.

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Yesterday I got to try the first taste of my first ponderosa lemon off a tree I planted this past Dec!!! Very nice balance of sweet and sour! It was over 3" in diameter!!!

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Congratulations! :ropingnaner:

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Talking about lemon. I have a Eureka that bore exceptionally large fruit. I am harvesting it tomorrow.

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Purple passion fruit. Had lots of flowers and fruit this winter. Getting more blooms big time again! :eek:

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Congratulations!

:woohoonaner:

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I've been away, but here's what I pulled in in the last week or so.

Canna lily leaves for making humitas
Lantana camara berries for making jam
Fresh figs
Fresh tunas (red prickly pears)
Guavas (the red kind)
Limes
Lemons
Mandarins
Palm berries
Taxo (passionfruit)
Granadilla (passionfruit)
Longstem red roses
Tomate de arbol
Uvillas (cape gooseberries)
Beans
Beets
Summer squash
various herbs and spices
Cinnamon leaves (from a friend's tree)
Sambucas
Mulberries (white)
Agave flowers (for salads)

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:woohoonaner:

Yum!

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I love the variety - I'm originally Canadian, and the sheer novelty of picking figs in March blows me away sometimes.

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And that's just the spring (breba) crop, you should also have another crop of white & brown figs in the Fall !

Your town sure looks like a beautiful place. I hope to visit the area someday with my spanish speaking daughters.

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If your still reading this no I don't have an ice cream maker used to but it stopped working so I threw it out. Might buy one soon as it's getting hot and lemons grow fatter and juicier every day! Thats one thing I love about my tree sometimes the lemons hang on for years! Only growing bigger every day! Once I harvested a lemon bigger than a grapefruit! It was one mocho lemon!

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All the cara-cara and Trovita oranges.

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Fresh Strawberries! :2181:
I bought these plants in Exeter Calif. two years ago. They are a day-neutral variety, but otherwise unmarked.

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Sorry for the delay in replying Richard - and I can't do the quote thing properly, but yes I did know it was a cross - but so thin skinned and juicy that I can forgive it!

Cassie

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Lorax - what do you do with your granadilla (assuming we are talking about the same thing - 12 inches long with a thick rind and not much flavour in the fruit)? All that comes to mind is candying the rind - not enough fruit to juice unless you have a superior type. Do you cook the rind as a vegetable? My p. vitifolia has taken off to such an extent that I am almost afraid to plant more varieties ( 60ft before I took the machete to it!).

Cassie

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Prince Ranier cherries

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Stella Cherries
Eureka lemons
Calamondins

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Clemenule from Spain

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Congratulations on the continuing harvest Benny!

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Thanks! Richard.

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This morning I picked almost 3 gallons of apricots. I'll probably have the same amount ripen each day for the next 2-3 days. Coming up in a few weeks: ripe Green Gage Plums.

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With those apricots, my wife Sue made 1/2 gallon of apricot sorbet and I made a quadruple-size apricot pie in a large broiler pan!

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oh that looks yummy!

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Richard - ripe apricots taste wonderful - can't grow them here of course, but when we lived near Johannesburg, the peaches, nectarines and apricots were everywhere.

I'm with Sue on the sorbet and ice cream too - but mine are passion fruit and mango as we are at the height of the season - fruit everywhere, pineapples too.

Cassie

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Hmm ... my passion fruits won't be ripe for quite awhile. But today I did harvest more apricots, two ambrosia muskmelons, and a connecticut field pumpkin. This afternoon we'll make apricot jam and tomorrow pumpkin pie.

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Delicious sequoia and quinault strawberries ! :2216: And a zillion seed heads from several varieties of ornamental sunflowers .

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'Furry Yellow Hogg' Tomatoes
Suyu Nishiki Cukes
Kamo and Cambodian Giant Eggplants
Limon ,Jalapeno and Italina Frying Chilis
Litchii Tomato(disappointed. Not returning to next yrs' garden!)
Thai Golden Melon(")
Cheers,
Pat

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Way to go, Pat!

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From the apricots picked yesterday (Saturday): 6 pints and 2 half-pints of apricot jam!

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This evening I went back to check on the Apricot tree and picked 10 gallons worth (50 pounds!). I guess I'd better get busy removing the pits ...

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ok now my mouth is really watering....apricot jam....oh so yummy.

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Pitted, sliced, and packed with a bit of lemon juice: I now have 4.5 gallons of fruit in the refrigerator for Tuesday's cooking extravaganza! :D

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good job!