satsuma
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Hey y’all, It looks like we are going to get some cold weather next week. Right now, the forecast here in Tifton is showing temperatures being down in the low 30s early next week. I’m seeing other places are expected to drop down into the upper 20s. We’ve had a lot of warm weather here…
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I previously talked about fruit damage caused by birds scratching and puncturing green fruit. There is another type of damage to citrus fruit caused by an insect that looks like a grasshopper called a katydid. These insects are green and well camouflaged. They develop flat wings as adults that make them look like a leaf…
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August 20, 2025 As we are getting later in the season fruit are getting larger and people are noticing more blemishes on fruit. One type of unusual damage is caused by birds. If you see green fruit that appears scratched or scraped with tiny holes that haven’t quite pierced the skin that could be bird…
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The following is from the Georgia Department of Agriculture: We hope to again, be able to ship fresh fruit to Florida in 2025 to be packed. As in previous years, the Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services will almost certainly require groves to be inspected and found free of HLB, Sweet Orange Scab, Citrus…
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Last fall the Owari satsuma trees at J.L. Lomax produced a tremendous amount of soft fruit that became puffy very quickly. Category 2 hurricane Helene may have contributed to the fruit quality being so bad last year. With all the fruit soft and of low quality we only harvested fruit from 12 of the 60…