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Just picked a 674 g (1.49 lb) lemon!
This winter has been a fantastic season for citrus here. From early November, we had the first clementines, and there are still some on the tree. I estimate we had approaching 250 kg from the one tree. Clementines gave us three months, averaging 2 daily, from a small tree. Merlin oranges were also abundant and very sweet but relatively small. Jaffa oranges (picked the last yesterday) did not crop as well but I guess we had about 60 large fruit. We had exactly 26 pomelos averaging 1.6 kg (3.53 lbs) each. We lost (storm windfalls) about half our mandoras but had three months of the juiciest fruit imaginable. We had two grapefruit trees (neither of us can have them now, incompatible with a specific medication) and we gave away an estimated tonne of them. I have cut one and grafted lime on the stump. As for lemons, we have given away two pickup loads and we still have enough to supply the village for months! The remarkable thing is that both quantity and quality (except for the size of the Merlin oranges) have been really exceptional. We, and our neighbours, now have citric acid in our veins instead of blood!
This winter has been a fantastic season for citrus here. From early November, we had the first clementines, and there are still some on the tree. I estimate we had approaching 250 kg from the one tree. Clementines gave us three months, averaging 2 daily, from a small tree. Merlin oranges were also abundant and very sweet but relatively small. Jaffa oranges (picked the last yesterday) did not crop as well but I guess we had about 60 large fruit. We had exactly 26 pomelos averaging 1.6 kg (3.53 lbs) each. We lost (storm windfalls) about half our mandoras but had three months of the juiciest fruit imaginable. We had two grapefruit trees (neither of us can have them now, incompatible with a specific medication) and we gave away an estimated tonne of them. I have cut one and grafted lime on the stump. As for lemons, we have given away two pickup loads and we still have enough to supply the village for months! The remarkable thing is that both quantity and quality (except for the size of the Merlin oranges) have been really exceptional. We, and our neighbours, now have citric acid in our veins instead of blood!
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