I didn’t know this guy had a TH-cam channel. I was always looking forward to his videos on the nature hills channel but I haven’t seen him post in a long time Glad I found this channel
Thanks for that, I worked with the Nature Hills group for about 2 years. then did the Tomorrows Harvest group for about 3 years until they closed it down last year. For years i did the Dave Wilson Nursery videos and i am back working with them and a number of different growers and hybridizers to produce these fruit related videos. Thank you for joining in .
Man i never cared about Satsumas. i grow okitsu and xie shan. i have a miho wase on the way from 4winds growers. however yesterday, i was picking clementines on my multigrafted tree. and i happen to pick a very airy fruit that had loose skin. it certainly didnt smell like clementine(if you grow them you know exactly what they smell like). so i peeled it, tried it and wow was i blown away. juicy, tender, ultra sweet, a bit tangy. it was one hell of a citrus fruit. brixed at 15.5. i know it was a satsuma that my brother grafted in 2020 but not sure which one of tbe two i mentioned. After yesterday i am convinced that Satsumas in my area should be picked in mid december and not november
Cool that you got a brix reading on it! I think the Okitsu would have had that sugar but not the Dubashi. Miho wase in my experience is very similar to Okitsu which it is related to. I have no experience to speak of with Xie Shan. i am still not the a great fan of the Satsuma cultivars really. There are just far too many other better tasting Mandarin choices now.
What is the hardiness comparison between these 2 varieties and owari? Here in Oregon i am interested in experimenting with Satsuma in a protected microclimate against the south side of my house. Earliness would be nice but in my climate hardiness takes priority. I did just see pics of a lady with a large in ground yuzu lemon tree loaded with fruit near me. She was making lemoncello with it.
There are so many Satsuma varieties being offered in the United States now. I have not really heard hardiness being an issue. The Satsumas are the hardiest of the mandarins and it is safe to say that they will tolerate to about 28 before the fruit is damaged and to the low 20's before the tree is damaged. I have to add that is not sustained, rather the lows being less that 3 or 4 hours. Every hour at the extreme low tolerances increases the odds of severe damage.
I’m just up north of you in Washington state and I’m growing Owari and now trying Brown Select as I’ve read they’re a few weeks earlier than Owari, but I’m interested in any hardy varieties that may ripen earlier then Brown Select. I’d also suggest growing a Prague hybrid that is supposed to be hardy to zero degrees when mature.
@yochanontheseeker1942 I recently met a guy with lots of first hand experience. He said owari in our climate ripens after Christmas which risks an early hard freeze damaging fruits. He said stick to varieties with the word Wase in the name. Wase means early. These varieties tend to ripen in November in the PNW. One Green World currently has 3 Wase varieties of mandarin in stock.
@@BryanRezendez That's good information, Owari is after Christmas here in the Central valley, but we rarely get a hard enough freeze to damage them. But some time back about 8 years or so ago we did get one that did al lot of damage. I am interested in the one you call Prague Hybrid. ill look to see if they have that variety in the clean program here
The problem is that most all of the Nurseries i deal with are wholesalers and don't sell direct to the public. Let me know where you live and i can see if one of the citrus growers that i deal with ships near you
The two nurseries that work with the growers I work with in that area are, Orchard Nursery in Layfette and Alden Lane down in Livermore. I just moved out of Antioch back to the central valley
I didn’t know this guy had a TH-cam channel. I was always looking forward to his videos on the nature hills channel but I haven’t seen him post in a long time
Glad I found this channel
Thanks for that, I worked with the Nature Hills group for about 2 years. then did the Tomorrows Harvest group for about 3 years until they closed it down last year. For years i did the Dave Wilson Nursery videos and i am back working with them and a number of different growers and hybridizers to produce these fruit related videos. Thank you for joining in
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Man i never cared about Satsumas. i grow okitsu and xie shan. i have a miho wase on the way from 4winds growers. however yesterday, i was picking clementines on my multigrafted tree. and i happen to pick a very airy fruit that had loose skin. it certainly didnt smell like clementine(if you grow them you know exactly what they smell like). so i peeled it, tried it and wow was i blown away. juicy, tender, ultra sweet, a bit tangy. it was one hell of a citrus fruit. brixed at 15.5. i know it was a satsuma that my brother grafted in 2020 but not sure which one of tbe two i mentioned. After yesterday i am convinced that Satsumas in my area should be picked in mid december and not november
Cool that you got a brix reading on it! I think the Okitsu would have had that sugar but not the Dubashi. Miho wase in my experience is very similar to Okitsu which it is related to. I have no experience to speak of with Xie Shan. i am still not the a great fan of the Satsuma cultivars really. There are just far too many other better tasting Mandarin choices now.
What is the hardiness comparison between these 2 varieties and owari? Here in Oregon i am interested in experimenting with Satsuma in a protected microclimate against the south side of my house. Earliness would be nice but in my climate hardiness takes priority. I did just see pics of a lady with a large in ground yuzu lemon tree loaded with fruit near me. She was making lemoncello with it.
There are so many Satsuma varieties being offered in the United States now. I have not really heard hardiness being an issue. The Satsumas are the hardiest of the mandarins and it is safe to say that they will tolerate to about 28 before the fruit is damaged and to the low 20's before the tree is damaged. I have to add that is not sustained, rather the lows being less that 3 or 4 hours. Every hour at the extreme low tolerances increases the odds of severe damage.
I’m just up north of you in Washington state and I’m growing Owari and now trying Brown Select as I’ve read they’re a few weeks earlier than Owari, but I’m interested in any hardy varieties that may ripen earlier then Brown Select.
I’d also suggest growing a Prague hybrid that is supposed to be hardy to zero degrees when mature.
@yochanontheseeker1942 I recently met a guy with lots of first hand experience. He said owari in our climate ripens after Christmas which risks an early hard freeze damaging fruits. He said stick to varieties with the word Wase in the name. Wase means early. These varieties tend to ripen in November in the PNW. One Green World currently has 3 Wase varieties of mandarin in stock.
@@BryanRezendez That's good information, Owari is after Christmas here in the Central valley, but we rarely get a hard enough freeze to damage them. But some time back about 8 years or so ago we did get one that did al lot of damage. I am interested in the one you call Prague Hybrid. ill look to see if they have that variety in the clean program here
Ed, what is the name of this nursery? I'd like to visit them and get a miho wase mandarin
The problem is that most all of the Nurseries i deal with are wholesalers and don't sell direct to the public. Let me know where you live and i can see if one of the citrus growers that i deal with ships near you
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The two nurseries that work with the growers I work with in that area are, Orchard Nursery in Layfette and Alden Lane down in Livermore. I just moved out of Antioch back to the central valley