Keraji Mandarin and Thomasville Citrangequat Taste Test

[@VirginiaFruitGrower]

Nice work. I couldn't eat unripe keraji knowing how good they are ripe

[@themulberries]

@@VirginiaFruitGrower I have to try a properly ripe one! Maybe Stan or Hershell can toss one my way, haha. Visiting Stan in a couple weeks so I'll check with him.

[@VirginiaFruitGrower]

@@themulberries nice! Enjoy your trip to Scranton

[@themulberries]

@@VirginiaFruitGrower Thanks! Always a good time over there.

[@CitrusPalmsWithTom]

Exactly

[@doggiefamily908]

This is my first year the keraji has fruit. They are so delicious being unripe, we'll eat them all before they completely turn.

[@howardfowler2255]

Your insightful review of the citrangequat gives me hope that my Thomasville will do well here in White Pine,Tennessee. The keraji also looks like a good companion for my Browns Select,Artic Frost,and Xie Shan mandarins.Thanks for all your informative and well presented hardy citrus reviews!

[@themulberries]

@@howardfowler2255 You're very welcome! I'm glad this was helpful, and I hope you have luck with your Thomasville! For being good down to single digits, Thomasville is probably the hardest lime substitute there is!

[@PeterEntwistle]

Nice taste review! That Keraji has great potential in the future 👍

[@themulberries]

@@PeterEntwistle Definitely! For a first year graft I'm shocked I even got to sample this one. Can't wait for the future!

[@richardpetersen8753]

Thanks again for your great review. More trees on my list to try in ground.

[@themulberries]

You're welcome! These are both great varieties.

[@quinnM1007]

Great review man!

[@themulberries]

@@quinnM1007 Thank you!

[@paul.1337]

I planted out a Yuzu and three trifoliate rootstocks this year. I'll provide some protection and see if the Yuzu makes it. Definitely want to graft on Thomasville and maybe a Citrumelo or Taiwanica or something. I'm in 7a/b in the Philly suburbs, so I'll see how it goes. Good video!

[@themulberries]

@@paul.1337 That's awesome, I hope it does well for you! Thomasville might be able to squeeze by in your zone, but if you haven't already, try some Citrandarins too. They are generally very hardy.

[@rangerismine]

My Thomasville fruits never makes it past the green stage 😂. I am constantly craving limes for my tacos and Coronas.

[@themulberries]

@@rangerismine Haha, sounds like you need more Thomasville plants. We blow through limes too, so our potted 3 gal limequat comes in handy - it produces tons of fruit!

[@lệnDanh-z4p]

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[@technoendo]

You got a rating system! Maybe consider "appearance" and "peelability" (might bias towards fresh eating out of hand? Maybe just a "peel" category, so edible kumquat skins can get a bonus, or maybe non-bitter skins as well, while properly penalizing thick bitter grapefruit skins) and "hardiness" as categories? Keenly interested in the Keraji and was thrilled as soon as I saw this video pop up in my feed. Thanks for getting weight, seed count, and brix readings -- real non-subjective data, fantastic! I dig most of these categories (some are more subjective, and there might be some overlap between taste/quality/seeds). I can't recall if I've mentioned it to you but a fruit growing friend of mine and I both use a rating system of "can you eat a big heaping bowl of fresh X?" Pineapple? Yes! Feijoa? No, I can just eat like 2-3 fruit, but they are still curiously good and worth growing I think. It is a bit of a subjective rating but its been a fun way for us to express a fruits exceptional quality. Fresh purple mangosteen I would attemp to eat two big heaping bowls, even if it hurt. Just a thought: I would have loved this even more if you had setup a scoring system with each category getting 0-5 points, scoring each fruit ahead of time, and then showing us your final category/composite scores while cutting into/tasting/checking seeds/demonstrating peelability. I don't object to the length of this video and did enjoy it. Coming up with a good overall rating/scoring system takes some thought so I'd take your time. For a citrus specific scoring system brix could be reduced to a 0-5 score using brackets: 0 is anything below 4 brix, 1 is the 4-6 brix bland bracket, 2 is 7-9, 3 is 10-12, 4 is 13-15, and 5 is 16+. I do like the "trifoliate" category in your system for anything hybridized with it -- people want to know this, anything not a trifoliate gets an immediate 5, and the worst tasting trifoliate is a 1 or 0 (so the we can weight for the highest score being the "best" fruit). Maybe the composite score in the end isn't as interesting as the properties of individual fruit, but its all good stuff I think. I still like where this is headed.

[@themulberries]

@@technoendo Great recommendations! I'm definitely working on an improved version of this and I will take this all into account! I appreciate it as always and totally agree about Mangosteen, my wife and I love them, my wallet not so much! Haha.

[@sweethomealabamahomestead4504]

Nice review. Are you growing Keraji out in ground in your zone?

[@themulberries]

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 Thank you! Yes, we're testing it in-ground and we also have an couple plants in our unheated greenhouse. This fruit was from one of those newly grafted plants in the greenhouse.

[@sweethomealabamahomestead4504]

@@themulberries How cold has it made it through or will this be the first winter out? If I remember right you are in zone 7/8?

[@themulberries]

@@sweethomealabamahomestead4504 Yes, we are in a warm zone 7/8. This is the first Winter testing these varieties outdoors here, but I feel confident they should survive. Let's find out!