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Kishu Mandarin?
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Posted by tasty 3a (My Page) on Sat, Feb 6, 10 at 23:24
| Hi, My friend who works at a greenhouse has got in a shipment of citrus, they were all the ordinary stuff except one kishu mandarin and I got so exicited that mandarin some how got it's way here so I need little info about the kishu mandarin before I buy it so any info about the fruit, it's growth habit, how take care of it will help.
Thanks
tasty |
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RE: Kishu Mandarin?
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| Small fruit but tasty- its worth having . Hope the label is correct |
RE: Kishu Mandarin?
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| The Kishu is very sweet and easy peeling. It produces fruit about 2" in diameter. It produces a small tree which works well as a container plant. Mildly cold hardy but will not stand zone 3a winters outside. |
RE: Kishu Mandarin?
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| Thanks for the info, guess I have to get it now. |
RE: Kishu Mandarin?
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According to Lewis Walden and some web research I
have done, Kyshu is a corru*tion of Kyushu region,
Ja*an, and this is a seedless Kino Kuni Kat man
darin. I doubt this since Kino Kuno is very tart
until after March. Kyshu is sweet in December. All Kats are about as cold hardy as Satsumas. They
are fine container cultivars. |
RE: Kishu Mandarin?
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| Hi every one: I bought a seedless kishu 2 years ago. It is producing lots of fruits, they are beautiful . Now, they are ripen, I peel one to eat: to my great surprise, it has lots of seeds and the taste is terribly sour. don't you think they put the wrong label on the tree? Kim |
RE: Kishu Mandarin?
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| Can you take some pics and post them for us to see? Can you differentiate between the Kishu foliage and any suckers (and thus fruit) that grew from below the graft point on the trunk? Chances are it would be one of the two scenarios: root-stock fruit or mislabeled tree (unlikely if purchased from a reputable nursery). A friend of mine, whom I usually consider fairly intelligent, insisted his orange tree had grown "weird hybrid sour fruit" because it was planted next to a lemon and was cross-pollinated and had shared roots. Upon investigation, it was very clear that several branches grew from below the graft and was producing Trifoliate (family) foliage and fruit. |
RE: Kishu Mandarin?
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- Posted by mrclint z10SoCal Valley (My Page) on
Mon, Nov 29, 10 at 23:03
| I bought a kishu mandarin from four winds and the fruit is small, seedless, easy to peel and super sweet. Nice little tree. |
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