Finally ... Fruit !!

[xpatUSA]

Seven or eight years ago, I planted a Satsuma-Mandarin tree, imagining basketfuls of fruit within a few years. Yum.

At about 2ft tall, it produced these in Spring:



Full of Eastern promise, the little 1/2" diameter fruit either fell off - or got eaten in spite of the guardian. In the following years no blossoms appeared, hence no fruit. Suddenly, this year, there's blossoms all over the now 10ft tree and some tiny fruit are a-growing ...



Posted more for the story than for C&C ...

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Lucky you are they different from ordinary oranges?

[xpatUSA]

Lucky you are they different from ordinary oranges?

Hello Nandakumar.

This is the variety:

https://www.thetreecenter.com/miho-satsuma-orange-tree/

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Ted, thank you