Kinnow Tangerines

17 years ago

I'm putting in a rave review for my very favorite tangerine: Kinnow. I got the dwarf tree over three years ago -- had it in a big pot where it sat and refused to grow and got chlorotic and was attacked by all kinds of bugs. Finally, got a place created for it in the garden, in it's own space in a terraced bed. I planted it in early spring -- it didn't grow much for months -- then in mid-summer it took off and doubled in size. It flowered profusely and then put out a crop of fruit all over the tree. By late January the golden fruit was ripening and I have been picking them a few at a time. They keep getting better on the tree. The BEST flavored tangerine -- PERIOD! Rich and tangy -- nothing else comes close. Quite a few seeds and a tight skin that takes a little doing to remove -- but WHO CARES with flavor like that.

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ashok_ncal

17 years ago

Bencelest,

I did several grafts with the "Nules" budstick that I got from your plant. It's too early to tell whether they've "taken", but I've got my hopes up! It's funny, I don't think I've ever tasted "Nules" at the Lester collection ... there's too much to try, and some things get lost in the shuffle. (Plus, I find it hard to keep all of the clementines straight -- there are so many of them!)

Cagary,

Yes, absolutely, I think the "Gold Nugget" mandarin is fantastic in every way. I have some grafts of it growing, but they haven't fruited yet. I had the opportunity to taste citrus at the U.C. Riverside Variety Grove a few years ago, and that was perhaps my very favorite. (We were there quite late in the season -- in May -- though, so the very late-ripening "Gold Nugget" probably had less competition from other citrus cultivars.)

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bencelest
17 years ago
Good for you. I have a kinnow but i am not as successful as you. It is still in its original pot.
What you should try also is kishu mandarin. I believe that is sweeter than kinnow and easier to peel.
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ashok_ncal
17 years ago
"Kinnow" is certainly quite good, but there are other, similarly intensely-flavored mandarins. (There are so many great-tasting mandarins that it can be hard to keep them all straight!)

"Kishu" has less prounounced acidity, so the fruits have more of a "citrus candy" flavor. (Although "Kishu" fruits are not bland or insipid -- they have enough acid to be quite pleasing to the palate.)

Bencelest,

Out of all the mandarins that we tasted at Gene Lester's place, I definitely thought the "Kishu" stood out from the rest of the pack as sort of a "different" tasting fruit. (Not so acid that you might feel that your mouth was about to melt after eating a few.)

One of the other mandarins that another visitor claimed had a distinctive flavor was the "Keraji", which a fellow tourer/taster claimed had a unique lemony taste. Sadly, by the time I sampled some "Keraji" my taste-buds were so burned out from all the acid that I couldn't get a good sense of the flavor.
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bencelest
17 years ago
Ashok:
Wait until you taste the clemenule from Spain that you got. You will ask no other but that! It is so juicy, sweet and so heavenly you would not ask any other.
But I hope you were successful grafting them. Eh?
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siegel2
17 years ago
You should also try the recently released "Golden Nugget" tangerine. Its the best of the ten or so tangerines that I have growing here in south Orange County, CA.

Here is a link that might be useful: golden nugget tangerine
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sautesmom Sacramento
17 years ago
Is it a tangerine or a mandarin? To me, there is a huge difference in flavor--tangerines are sweet-tart, and mandarins are just sweet, more like oranges. I love tangerines, but mandarins I could take or leave, just like oranges. My favorite tangerine is Dancy.
I wish I could taste the Kinnow and Golden Nugget, to see if I could fall for them too!
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ashok_ncal
17 years ago
Sautesmom,

This is one of those somewhat tangled nomenclature issues.

*All* of these fruits are mandarins.

The term "tangerine" is sometimes informally used as a synonym for mandarin. However, sometimes the word is also used to describe a particular class of mandarins -- those with extremely orange-red skins, like "Dancy".

There are certainly many mandarins that are *never* referred to as tangerines that are quite sweet/tart. (Clementines would be one good example.)

It would be a bit of a drive from Sacramento, but there is an "open house" tour and citrus tasting at the U.C. Lindcove Field Station every January. There is also a tour of Gene Lester's private citrus collection (near Watsonville) every March. Both of these events offer the opportunity to taste many, many different kinds of citrus. (Although the "Gold Nugget" mandarin ripens quite late, and probably wouldn't be ready by January or March.)
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bencelest
17 years ago
Ashok:
I've been to Gene Lester's last year and this year but I don't recall he has a clemenule from Spain, although he has so many different citrus varieties he collected all over the world.
If I recall Joe Real said that this variety is not yet being sold to the public.
I maybe mistaken.
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ashok_ncal
17 years ago
Bencelest,

Again, I don't know whether Gene has the "Nules" ... I don't remember seeing it there, but there are lots of things there that I haven't yet tasted! I bet Joe would know for sure.

By the way, as you may recall, the clementine that really got the attention of the crowd was the "Corsica #1" -- for some reason, people really gravitated to it this year. Yet another clementine to grow! (Maybe Gene will allow budwood collection next year.)
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bencelest
17 years ago
HereÂs the image of my clemenule

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And hereÂs the image of my clemenule fruit after they riped:

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Ashok:
I hope so.

Benny
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