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Our family raises everything organically. We have 5 acres in the Coachella Valley, near Palm Springs CA. Winters are warm with only light and occasional frost. Summers get into the 120 + range. Whew!
We raise dates, mostly varieties called Barhi and Medjool. For fun we also grow 46 varieties of citrus, and a bit of everything else. We propagate Orchid Tree poplar, Kadota fig, and pomegranates and would be willing to trade.

Citrus we currently have:

Manderines
Daisey
Fairchild
Gold Nugget
Kinnow
Pixie
Sidi Aissa Clemintine
W. Murcott

Royal Manderine (Temple Orange)
Minneola

Navel
Atwood
Desert
Fukumoto early
Lane Late
Thompson Improved early
Parent Washington
Cara Cara pink

burgundy orange
Moro
Sanguinelli
Torroco

Valencia
Valencia

Kumquat
Meiwa
Nagami

Eustis Limequat
Indio Mandarinquat

Lemon
Eureka
Lisbon
Improved Meyer
Pink Eureka

Lime
Bearss/Tahiti/Persian
Thai/Kaffir
Mexican (key)
mexican thornless
Palestine Sweet

Grapefruit
Rio Red
Ruby

Coctail
MeloGold
Oroblanco

Pummelo/Shaddock
Affrican Shaddock
Chandler
Red Shaddock
Tahitian

Citron
Etrog (Ethrog)
Date palm varieties include Abada Amir Hajj Barhee [Barhi] Dayri Deglet Noor Desert Gem Halawi Hayani Haziz Honey Huevos Del Toro Khadrawi Khalasa Medjool Mariana Samany Sayer (SAIR) Zaglool Zahidi and 45 seedlings

I live in: United States

My zone is: z9/sunset13 CA desert

My favorite forum 1 is Fruit & Orchards.

My favorite forum 2 is Palms & Cycads.

First registered on May 10,2005.