Which Orange variety Tastes The Best

[sc4001992]

Just curious about the best tasting oranges you have eaten and grow. I have been looking/growing oranges and trying to find the one that tastes great. So far I like Cara Cara taste a lot, but the most juicy, sweetest, large seedless orange I have tasted is the Lane Late navel orange. The blood oranges look nice but I don't think they taste as good. The Lane Late fruits are larger and have good production here in CA. I have one other navel orange (unknown parentage) which is excellent tasting, not as sweet as Lane Late but the flesh is firm, almost crispy, sweet with a little tartness. All the other oranges I grow tastes ok (good for juicing or eating out of hand) but do not compare to these three I mention. Here's my order of favor tasting oranges so far:

1. Lane Late (CCPP, VI352)
2. Cara Cara (CCPP, VI471)
3. Crispy Orange (unknown parentage)

Let me hear which oranges you like so I may need to grow them and taste the fresh fruits. I have tried most of the oranges listed on CCPP budwood (UCR) and have not found much better.









 

[sanguinho]

Navel lane late for me too.

[ash]

Wow is that your lane late. That's a lot of oranges for two years after grafting. How big was it when grafted?

[sc4001992]

Yes, my grafted tree branch. Scion/budwood purchased from CCPP (UCR), size was about 5 inches long when I grafted it. This Lane Late scion was grafted on my adult tree, top branch. All the fruits in the photo are Lane Late fruits, it was very sweet. The grafted branch had about 30+ fruits. I have many citrus varieties grafted on this adult tree. I had one lower branch to the right that had 110 Oroblanco fruits (full size, 1lbers) that broke the entire 2" diameter branch off the tree before. I should have thinned the Oroblanco fruits but I was trying to get a neat photo of the ripe fruits hanging, it broke off before I could take the photo.

The one with the huge navel was a odd ball fruit, most do not have such a big navel button.

[sc4001992]

I find that if you graft scions on larger trees, then the graft will grow faster and have many more fruits than if you grafted on a small tree (which most of you know).

Here's another photo of my citrus fruit, nothing to do with oranges but since you were surprised with the amount of fruits on this graft I will show you it.
This is my Cocktail grapefruit/pomelo branch which had 34 fruits (1-1/2 lbs each) on one grafted branch a few years back. The tree was getting to large so cut it way back now.

[ash]

Wow that is a lot of fruit on one branch.
I like the idea of grafting onto a mature tree. It makes sense. I intend to buy a few mature trees once I have room for them. I live in Ireland so citrus doesn't grow well outdoors. I always need more greenhouses.

[fructose]

What sweet orange would you all recommend for a colder state? One where december bearing fruits would be destroyeed (8a, 8b)

[Laaz]

Hamlin ripens in October.

[poncirusguy]

Feb 3, 2021 20:13:32 GMT -5 Laaz said:

Hamlin ripens in October.

Thank you Laaz

[travillion]

Intrigued by the discussion here. I would love to try the lane late. Does anyone know if it is compatible with sour orange rootstock?