Expensive and illegal!

Forgive me for being ignorant as this is only my first year growing any plants, but why would it be illegal? I grow a few citrus trees in containers on my roof deck in the summer and under 1000w MH during the winter. I don't intend to sell anything.

I think clemintino rubino sounds great but I thought his name was Mark Rubino

Is there anything similar available in the US?

No there are no pigmented mandarins besides mandared which is private and not own able. People like me are trying to get fruit to tissue culture but the fruit is hard to find and tissue culturing is probably illegal. Not that I care.

Your gonna have to settle for a blood orange.

Blood orange or go for another mandarin that is good. No blood clementines available in the US. What mandarins do you have already?

Evan

What I find interesting is I grow all kinds of veggies not found in the grocery store. This gives me variety. With citrus I concentrate on the variety that will grow the best tree with the most production so to get a good amount of fruit per season. I find that growing 3 zone to far north is too challenging to be picky on variety. I also like veggies with flavor and fruit on the bland side. I guess I don't want the bold flavor that fruits bring so I grow my own if possible.

I wish you luck on this one. There are aplenty of very good tasting varieties out there that are in his country

I recently purchased a shiranui mandarin, oroblanco pomelo and fukushu kumquat. I also have a Meyer lemon, ruby red grapefruit, cara cara navel orange, and Mexican lime.

Yeah to repeat you need a blood orange. Otherwise wait til four winds has Valentine grapefruit if you want the real red fruit. Cara cara is nice but it isn't the same kind of red.

I forgot to add I do have a one-year old Moro blood orange. I was interested in the blood mandarin because I thought it would be something others wouldn't have seen before.

Yeah, lol because it doesn't exist.

Laaz over at the Citrus Growers Forum had them, but he hasn't posted in a while. Maybe try posting there anyway. Maybe one of the member had gotten one from him in the past. But, if you are in a citrus state he would not be able to sell you one.

Cory

Laaz has what?

mandared? Patented and illegal to give out

ruby clementine? No clean budwood is in this country

Since we are on this topic if anyone knows of a retailer of mandared aka red nules please let me know. Also Israel sweetie.

I just checked the UCR budwood lists and there's no mention of Clemintino Rubino or ruby clementine. I wonder where Laaz found his.

Read down this page for a discussion on Clementina Rubino and some photos of the fruit.

http://citrus.forumup.org/viewtopic.php?t=7882&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=rubino&start=30&mforum=citrus

Does this look like the one you're looking for? It's kind of ugly!

Does he in fact have it? He has asked for seeds of plants from overseas which can be done legally.

pip313 - Israel 'Sweetie' is the same as 'Oroblanco' (grapefruit X pummelo hybrid).

A quick search shows several US suppliers including Four Winds Growers.

Oroblanco originated in California. Pomelit aka Israel sweetie was crossed in Israel. Not to be confuse with Pomlit from South Africa. They are similar though.

Sweetie/Oroblanco - there is long-standing controversy here, and we have no way of knowing which version is true. Israeli sources say the Sweetie cross was made there, but there is also an unattributed source, said to be in UCR Riverside, which claims the royalty payments for a registered variety were avoided in the following way:

"University of California (UCR) system, received a notice recently from the Citrus Board in Israel claiming that the name "Sweetie" has been trademarked by the Israelis. The Israelis are stating that they bred the Sweetie. It is believed that all they did was take an Oroblanco and graft it onto a seedling grown rootstock, grow the grafted tree on, and then take the seed from the fruit of the grafted tree and germinate it. Then the seed that was taken from the fruit of the grafted "Oroblanco" tree was germinated, grown on and then give it a name. There is no doubt in my mind this is what Israel did to call their Citrus a Sweetie and trademark the name. Now, the Israelis are stating that they bred the Sweetie."

Dna test being done?