Granny's gone and done it again

[Granny Hatchet]

The old fashioned sour oranges that look like sweet oranges until you bite into to one

No just one tree I think. I'll have to check. Most fruit trees are self pollinating. You only have to move the pollen with a Qtip from one place to another to get them to pollinate. You have to do the work of the bee. Apple trees are know to have two different trees to pollinate. That may be what you are remembering.

yes, apples.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Yes. If you like tart..... Or jelly it sweet. Lots of drinkers make a mixer with them.

you spelled it right

 

[Granny Hatchet]

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[Cynthia12]

I eat salt on mine. Some people ruin them with sugar.

Sugar!

 

[Cynthia12]

I keep hoping it's enough anyway.

 

[Nomadicus]

We used to peel them right off the tree half way down from the bottom. The cut a cone shaped hole in the middle. Cut around in the sections in the whole to let the juice flow. Put a little salt in the whole and turn it up and drink the juice as you squeeze it out.

 

[Nomadicus]

Grapefruit are not as a profitable fruit to produce as oranges normally. It's better now because many thousands of acres of grapefruit got replanted to oranges over the years.. Now with disease in FL citrus none of it is really as profitable as it used to be. Some extended family members still are growing oranges and hanging on. A lot of OJ is from Brazil now. They have the acres and somehow get around diseases better. Maybe groves fare enough apart they don't spread the diseases from one grove to another. None of that existed until a few years ago.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So Larry, like a red delicious and a yellow delicious?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

The old fashioned sour oranges that look like sweet oranges until you bite into to one

No just one tree I think. I'll have to check. Most fruit trees are self pollinating. You only have to move the pollen with a Qtip from one place to another to get them to pollinate. You have to do the work of the bee. Apple trees are known to have two different trees to pollinate. That may be what you are remembering.

Pears, too. I remember having two dwarf pear trees in a little orchard in NM. Then when I was learning to drive a small tractor, I took one of them out. I cried like a baby! Felt like a murderer.

 

[Nomadicus]

So Larry, like a red delicious and a yellow delicious?

Yellow delicious I think are self pollinating. Red's are not I think. I used to know. Yellow is a widely used pollinator. Charts are available for pollination of fruit trees. Most all peach trees if not all are self pollinating.