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First blood orange
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It's still a small tree, and I've only let one fruit stay - it's colouring up very nicely, but does anyone know how long I should leave it or how I can tell it's actually ready? I'm thinking it might be like my mandys - they stayed orange for ages before they were ready (lots of fun getting my daughter to go out and test the fruit each week. Her enthusiasm for mandys meant she never got the idea she should be careful of the first bite!) ta Jules |
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First blood orange
jules wrote:
Hello all It's still a small tree, and I've only let one fruit stay - it's colouring up very nicely, but does anyone know how long I should leave it or how I can tell it's actually ready? I'm thinking it might be like my mandys - they stayed orange for ages before they were ready (lots of fun getting my daughter to go out and test the fruit each week. Her enthusiasm for mandys meant she never got the idea she should be careful of the first bite!) ta Jules The local tradition is that oranges are not properly ripe until the frost has been on them. I doubt that the frost has any affect in itself but the idea is leave them until well into winter. We leave citrus on the tree until they are needed, in some cases this is many weeks after they seem to be full coloured. If they start to fall or get fungus etc we pull them. David |
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First blood orange
Thanks, I'll leave it until well into winter, but blood orange is frost
tender so I think I won't let the frost get onto it somehow! ta jules David Hare-Scott wrote: jules wrote: Hello all It's still a small tree, and I've only let one fruit stay - it's colouring up very nicely, but does anyone know how long I should leave it or how I can tell it's actually ready? I'm thinking it might be like my mandys - they stayed orange for ages before they were ready (lots of fun getting my daughter to go out and test the fruit each week. Her enthusiasm for mandys meant she never got the idea she should be careful of the first bite!) ta Jules The local tradition is that oranges are not properly ripe until the frost has been on them. I doubt that the frost has any affect in itself but the idea is leave them until well into winter. We leave citrus on the tree until they are needed, in some cases this is many weeks after they seem to be full coloured. If they start to fall or get fungus etc we pull them. David |
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