I’ve just been wondering..

Does anyone else notice than when you buy mandarins from the shops, you really often get a mandarin where the outside of the flesh (not the skin) is sort of pockmarked with lots of little craters?? These ones usually taste bad.

Why does this happen?? It has never happened to my homegrown mandies, which I put very little effort into, so what’s going on with the shop mandies?

Sorry.. when I said “not the skin” I probably should have said “not the peel” :)

probably damage from rough handling, but I could be wrong…

bluegreen said:

probably damage from rough handling, but I could be wrong…

Hmm, there’s a thought. It does seem to come in batches – i.e. if I buy a bag of mandies and one is like that, chances are most of them are. Soemtimes you can salvage a few good segments though. Maybe I am just too fussy :)

Such manadarins are starting to break down.
It is from being stored too long.

roughbarked said:

Such manadarins are starting to break down.
It is from being stored too long.

Ahh, thanks RB!

Creepy that even the first mandarins of the season are like this – I guess the ones in my local IGA must be coming from far away.

Hopefully in a couple more years my little tree will be big enough to keep us going through the season – although by then we’ll probably have moved house – heh.

bon008 said:

Hopefully in a couple more years my little tree will be big enough to keep us going through the season – although by then we’ll probably have moved house – heh.

a lady from the old GA forum had a thing about fejoas. She loved them. All she wanted was a fruiting fejoa tree in her back yard. I takes a number of years for a tree to mature enough to fruit, and it would so happen that just before it was ready to fruit they had to move house. This happened about 3 times! They would move into a new house, she would plant her tree, then 5 to 7 years later (or whatever the time period was) they would have to move and she would have to start again. We were starting to tell her if she didn’t want to move again, to stop planting fejoas!

bluegreen said:

bon008 said:

Hopefully in a couple more years my little tree will be big enough to keep us going through the season – although by then we’ll probably have moved house – heh.

a lady from the old GA forum had a thing about fejoas. She loved them. All she wanted was a fruiting fejoa tree in her back yard. I takes a number of years for a tree to mature enough to fruit, and it would so happen that just before it was ready to fruit they had to move house. This happened about 3 times! They would move into a new house, she would plant her tree, then 5 to 7 years later (or whatever the time period was) they would have to move and she would have to start again. We were starting to tell her if she didn’t want to move again, to stop planting fejoas!

ROFL :)

bluegreen said:

bon008 said:

Hopefully in a couple more years my little tree will be big enough to keep us going through the season – although by then we’ll probably have moved house – heh.

a lady from the old GA forum had a thing about fejoas. She loved them. All she wanted was a fruiting fejoa tree in her back yard. I takes a number of years for a tree to mature enough to fruit, and it would so happen that just before it was ready to fruit they had to move house. This happened about 3 times! They would move into a new house, she would plant her tree, then 5 to 7 years later (or whatever the time period was) they would have to move and she would have to start again. We were starting to tell her if she didn’t want to move again, to stop planting fejoas!

Who was that again?? she was from echuca?? met her a few times be blowed if I can rememer now LOL

The Estate said:

bluegreen said:

bon008 said:

Hopefully in a couple more years my little tree will be big enough to keep us going through the season – although by then we’ll probably have moved house – heh.

a lady from the old GA forum had a thing about fejoas. She loved them. All she wanted was a fruiting fejoa tree in her back yard. I takes a number of years for a tree to mature enough to fruit, and it would so happen that just before it was ready to fruit they had to move house. This happened about 3 times! They would move into a new house, she would plant her tree, then 5 to 7 years later (or whatever the time period was) they would have to move and she would have to start again. We were starting to tell her if she didn’t want to move again, to stop planting fejoas!

Who was that again?? she was from echuca?? met her a few times be blowed if I can rememer now LOL

was it Soft & Squashy? Last I heard she was in Echuca.

It was PaddlePop Lioness, and she was in Leeton at the time…I think they only stayed in Leeton about 2 years…she was also heavily into stunted trees…

I mean, stunted trees as an art form…

Dinetta said:

I mean, stunted trees as an art form…

Bonsai!!!

bluegreen said:

The Estate said:

bluegreen said:

a lady from the old GA forum had a thing about fejoas. She loved them. All she wanted was a fruiting fejoa tree in her back yard. I takes a number of years for a tree to mature enough to fruit, and it would so happen that just before it was ready to fruit they had to move house. This happened about 3 times! They would move into a new house, she would plant her tree, then 5 to 7 years later (or whatever the time period was) they would have to move and she would have to start again. We were starting to tell her if she didn’t want to move again, to stop planting fejoas!

Who was that again?? she was from echuca?? met her a few times be blowed if I can rememer now LOL

was it Soft & Squashy? Last I heard she was in Echuca.

The Paddle Pop Lioness.

Dinetta said:

It was PaddlePop Lioness, and she was in Leeton at the time…I think they only stayed in Leeton about 2 years…she was also heavily into stunted trees…

I knew someone would remember.

pomolo said:

Dinetta said:

It was PaddlePop Lioness, and she was in Leeton at the time…I think they only stayed in Leeton about 2 years…she was also heavily into stunted trees…

I knew someone would remember.

I always got PPL & S&S confused :(

Also.. part of the reason they are breaking down is being stored too long in “too moist” conditions.

Ah Leeton.. just next door.. ;)

Fejoia grow well around this area.. ;)