Satsumas are classified as mandarins, and no they do not require cross pollination by another citrus variety in order to produce fruit. Satsumas are self fertile.

Please tell me which one is the sweetest among the Satsuma mandarins? Miho? Seto? Owari? Okitsu? No? so which one then? Thank you.
K

It would be impossible to tell you which is the sweetest and best tasting as this comes down to individual taste perception. I have both the Owari and Okitsu Satsuma mandarins in containers. They are both very sweet and have exceptional taste to ME. However your taste may be different than mine. There is also a slight dependency on the soil and conditions the fruit is grown in.

My advice would be to pick the one that you want to grow. Basing your choice on our someone else's taste perception is a crap shoot. What they find excellent tasting, you may find horrible. Example: I find the taste of Calamondin wonderful and refreshing, most find it down right awful.
Andi

Very much of the quality and taste of any citrus variety depends a great deal on the location the tree is grown. Example: Washington Navel does well in California, but cannot be grown commercially in Florida. As Gardner Dragon iterated, no knowledgeable answer can be given to Kquat's question. I would say that the Satsuma variety Xie Shan has a soluble solids to acid ratio of 23:1, which is a very high sugar ratio.

thank you, Andy.
Silica: Is Xie Shan popular in the US? I haven't seen that in any nursery in Houston, Tx. I'm looking for an Oroblanco grape fruit tree too, but haven't seen it.
K

I have retired to Savannah, GA. Last year I planted two Owari Orange trees. One of the trees has 3 oranges. They are almost all orange (12/3/08). How can I tell when to pick them? Can I squeeze them or will that harm the fruit?

Don't want to waste them !!

My Owaris ripen rite about thanksgiving, so I think yours are ripe now.

Thanks, will pick them today !

Appreciate the help.
Steve

Steve,
I live near St Marys GA and my Satsumas were ripe a month ago. In fact, some were a little too ripe by the time they were picked. We were having a freeze so I picked all of them.

Are your trees indoors?
Brass

Hello all, i have a satsuma question, i have 15 satsuma trees and many of them seem to have problems, on some of them the leaves and fruit have many bumps which is very ugly ..some of my neighbors trees are the same with bumpy fruit and leaves,, can someone tell me why this is happening? thanks