Sour Oranges?? Help!
Make marmalade out of them, that's the only suggestion I have. I don't
think you can make a sour orange edible. George Glenn Letsch wrote: We live in Walnut Creek California We planted an (Dwarf?) orange tree several years ago. It is bearing an immense amount of fruit but the oranges are VERY VERY sour, even if you leave them on the tree til they are deep orange. It doens't matter how long they stay on the tree They are not edible. Is there anything we can do to make them edible? Even for next season? Thanks Glenn L |
Sour Oranges?? Help!
Dance around it on full moons and at the solstices. Getting sweet
oranges is a function of mystery. It's all about climate, and of course variety. George Shirley wrote: Make marmalade out of them, that's the only suggestion I have. I don't think you can make a sour orange edible. George Glenn Letsch wrote: We live in Walnut Creek California We planted an (Dwarf?) orange tree several years ago. It is bearing an immense amount of fruit but the oranges are VERY VERY sour, even if you leave them on the tree til they are deep orange. It doens't matter how long they stay on the tree They are not edible. Is there anything we can do to make them edible? Even for next season? Thanks Glenn L |
Sour Oranges?? Help!
I live in Florida and I have a tree with the same problem. After
endless searching and contacting those in the know, I discovered that the primary reason is that the root or base plant which is the lower of the graft section is always sour. The upper graft, the flowering section, the sweet type of orange we hope to continue in growth. However in some cases the lower primary plant becomes dominant over the entire tree and the oranges become sour. And that's the truth.......Not much one can do. mike wrote in message news:OTOha.15474$OV.113955@rwcrnsc54... Dance around it on full moons and at the solstices. Getting sweet oranges is a function of mystery. It's all about climate, and of course variety. George Shirley wrote: Make marmalade out of them, that's the only suggestion I have. I don't think you can make a sour orange edible. George Glenn Letsch wrote: We live in Walnut Creek California We planted an (Dwarf?) orange tree several years ago. It is bearing an immense amount of fruit but the oranges are VERY VERY sour, even if you leave them on the tree til they are deep orange. It doens't matter how long they stay on the tree They are not edible. Is there anything we can do to make them edible? Even for next season? Thanks Glenn L |
Sour Oranges?? Help!
you have a sour orange - there is nothing you can do to improve it. options
are; pull it out and start over with a known variety from a citrus dealer - or - obtain several varieties of cuttings, cut the tree down leaving 1 ft of stump and try grafting in the cuttings good luck Otto - Orlando - Orange County - FL "Glenn Letsch" wrote in message om... We live in Walnut Creek California We planted an (Dwarf?) orange tree several years ago. It is bearing an immense amount of fruit but the oranges are VERY VERY sour, even if you leave them on the tree til they are deep orange. It doens't matter how long they stay on the tree They are not edible. Is there anything we can do to make them edible? Even for next season? Thanks Glenn L |
Sour Oranges?? Help!
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Sour Oranges?? Help!
John Savage wrote:
(Glenn Letsch) writes: We live in Walnut Creek California We planted an (Dwarf?) orange tree several years ago. It is bearing an immense amount of fruit but the oranges are VERY VERY sour, even if you leave them on the tree til they are deep orange. It doens't matter how long they stay on the tree They are not edible. Is there anything we can do to make them edible? Even for next season? Is it the tree that is dwarf, or the fruit? There are some varieties of orange that are very bitter, they are suitable only for making marmalade--and they make superb marmalade. Seville I think is one. Your use of the word "immense" suggests that you might have a cumquot not an orange. Cumquots are like small oranges or mandarins, are very sour despite their deep orange colour, are typically borne in immense numnbers on small trees, and can be made into the most delicious marmalade that you could ever taste. I have heard it's possible to sweeten fruit from a very sour lemon by watering some copper sulfate solution around the dripline of the tree, so you could try this sparingly to see whether it has a similar effect on citrus in general. It would effect the next crop, I presume. But I think the best advice is to find a few marmalade recipes and start cooking. You might be able carve out a name for yourself in homemade marmalades! -- John Savage, Sydney (newsgroup email invalid; keep replies in newsgroup) Ah, but not all kumquats are very sour or even sour at all. I have two, one has sweet, round fruit that is seedy. The other has oblong fruit that is slightly sour but seedless. The first is a grafted dwarf, the second would grow very tall if I didn't keep it pruned. George |
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