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From the Groves: The Citrus is looking amazing this Winter! With the dryer climate conditions and cooler weather the fruit is coloring up nicely and the brix/sugars have surpassed last year‘s at the same time. Our Sugar Belles have a brix around 11.50 – 12.00 and is more firm with an even better size than last year’s crop! Our sweet and delicious, Holiday Golds Mandarins have an amazing batch as always and eat just like candy! The color is coming along nicely and honestly are a huge customer and employee favorite! Harvest has begun on both our Navels and Grapefruit.…

From the Groves: We are very encouraged to report brix trending a full point higher than this time last year. We continue to be excited about external quality, and seeing fruit break color much more consistently than previous seasons. Grapefruit internal and external quality is exceptional and the size is looking decent as well. This years crop is sure to impress! Looking into November we will continue to watch weather patterns and hope for continued cooler, drier periods. This becomes important for the trees to switch from a vegetative state that produces leaves into focusing on storing energy and sweetness…

From the Groves: We’re thrilled so far with what we’re seeing across all of our varieties. Last years cooler, drier winter is paying off. The bloom was very uniform, which should translate to more consistent maturity and sizing. Grapefruit specifically is looking fantastic. During the summer, the trees are in a vegetative phase and utilize their resources for vegetation. The shift in weather patterns from summer rain to dry fall is what triggers the tree to transition out of the vegetative phase and move toward fruit maturation. Basically, “growing” season is over for the tree and the resources are shifted…

Our Valencia Oranges are at their peak of freshness! The Red Grapefruit have about a month left in their season. The Valencia Oranges and the Red Grapefruit are tasting very delicious this season! Order yours today!

The weather and other growing conditions are being good to our Valencia Orange crop. Our Valencia Oranges are looking very good and will continue to get better over the next few weeks. The weather has been very kind and will be very good for growing citrus over the next few months.

The weather and other growing conditions are allowing for amazing quality, both inside and out. Our Cara Cara Navels are really juicy and we will have a good supply of them until the end of the month. Our Navel Oranges are excellent in taste and should be available through the first week of June. We are looking forward to our Valencia Orange crop as they are on track to be exceptional!

The weather is great and is being kind to our fruit. Our GoldenBelles continue to improve in taste! Our two navel varieties are in the peak of their seasons and waiting to be picked for you!

We’re still a month away from harvesting, but our early varieties are maturing nicely. Our navels are starting to break color and are sizing up well. Grapefruit are on track as well and we are anticipating having good size to kick off our season. The weather has been kind for the majority of our growing season which should improve the overall internal quality of our citrus.

A Red ripe Minneola that is ready for harvest. This is the ideal color we??e looking for When we are spotting a crop. Spotting a crop involves clipping/picking only the The brightest color fruit and only the sizes we??e looking for. The rest of the crop is left on the tree to continue coloring and sizing. We will typically spot across a block 2-3 times. The picker is using his clippers to harvest fruit. Honeybells require clipping to remove the fruit from the tree. If pulled by hand, the large stems will tear the skin off the fruit. A mixture…