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shameless dude 
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 12:59am |
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been able to find good tasting oranges? i love eating 1 or 2 oranges a day, and if i want flavor (like they should taste) i usually have to get the mandrin ones, even them little cuties are about flavorless. it's been 2-3 years since i've been able to find any good ones, usually they are either hard and woody inside or about rotten or fermenting indside. PfffffT! used to get the thick skinned ones, they were almost always flavorfull, but haven't seen them for a long time either.
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Thad in AR.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 5:17am |
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I also like the big thick skinned easy to peel oranges. Haven’t seen any for a bit.
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desertjoe
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 8:54am |
 ,,,I guess "Everybody" liked them big thick skinned ones is why you don't see em in the stores anymore,,,they must be sendin them good ones to china,,,,errr,I din't say that,,,,,, 
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ac hunter
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 9:05am |
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Back in the 60's Dad and Mom would spend a month in Florida and an aunt and uncle would stay with us youngsters. My parents would bring back fruit from trees in some friend's yard. Tree ripened oranges and grapefruit; haven't tasted anything like it since and getting worse all the time. They also brought tangerines that the skins would almost fall off of. I'm with you Shameless, what ever happened to all that good fruit?
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Gordy
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 9:56am |
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I buy Navel Oranges they are the thick skinned easy peeling new crop starts November can normally find good supply through the winter little harder to find good ones after April. good bedtime snack most every day never have found good ones at Wallmart
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Tbone95
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 10:42am |
Produce is more and more being grown under "mass production" conditions as much as possible, and the taste, or lack thereof, shows through.
About the best we've gotten in several years is the fruit sales the FFA does. All of our contacts are graduated now though, bummer.
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Ray54
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 11:50am |
Somebody could help his own cause if he regulated that dang old confounded "MACHINE". You have to leave us out west just a little bit of cold but not to much. Had old boy that grow up raising oranges told me they are good to 28 degrees if not for to many hours. But that was when it was time to lite the fire pots in the old days, filled with crank case draining's.
But if the groves don't get to the lower 30's the sugar level doesn't come up. The dry woody ones have been froze and the juice leaks out and you have nothing but pulp. Many less acres of oranges in Florida because of citrus greening disease, imported from Asia as well. Kills the trees off over 4 or 5 years. California been fighting hard to keep it away. Been talk of curry but still in the testing stages. Don't know about fresh fruit but most juice is coming from South America.
The Asians are willing to pay the most,  so they get the best. Good cherries even though the local season is short, are about impossible to get. All because in Asia they get $10 a pound. |
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shameless dude
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Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 10:51pm |
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Ray....a new business adventure for you!
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JohnColo
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Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 1:28am |
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The Clementines I get at the grocery store are pretty good, $4 for a 3 lb bag.
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Ray54
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Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 10:47am |
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Ray....a new business adventure for you! |
To cold for citrus. There was a lemon tree that got to be about 100 years old. It was about 2 miles away by a spring real high up coming out of the mountain. But cold back in 1990 finally got it. The way heat rises the hill tops have the least frost here. So the newer houses built up on top of hills have a citrus tree or 2. That old lemon tree had been froze off to the roots a few times and had many little shoots out of the root ball. And boy did it have some thorns on it maybe 2 inches long.
Or where you meaning cherries? Had 2 trees, when the youngest was about 7 or 8 he would sit in that tree for hours at a time. Had the cats all sitting around waiting for a feathered treat to fall from the tree and the boys bb gun. The only way to get many cherries here. But then some disease came along and the big one was dead in just a few months. Planted several more and they all died. Another place that had a half a dozer really big cherry trees all died. 
Besides I am to old and tired to be planting a tree for 10 years down the road.
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BrianC
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Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 12:43pm |
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Ray we need a few crates of Ojai Pixie tangerines.
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 11:03pm |
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The oranges I grow in my shop are very small and very tart. On my dwarf tree they get to shooter marble size and more lemon than orange. The skins are about paper thin and you just eat without pealing. My grow light burned out last month and it dosent seam to like the new Led aledged grow light.
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