KC, i guess it depends on what you are looking for?

Mandarins will do well up there.

Tango, gold nugget, pixie, dekopon (if you can find one)

How about a Buddha's hand or an Australian finger lime?

Evan

Never mind on the finger lime, just saw your other thread, looks like you have that odd variety covered already.

What about a NZL? Everyone raves about the fruit, but I have not tasted it myself. Although if you already have a sweet lime, that may not be necessary. I agree with Evan....some mandarin of sort?

You obviously need a kumquat. What is more fun than that??

And so tasty. Hard (expensive) to buy the fruits. Fairly small plant, so maybe you could even get 2

That way you could have sweet Meiwa and tart Nagami :)

I am not sure how your particular weather would affect their culture.

I would go with a satsuma. They are cold hardy and probably would do well there.

You already have a lot of sour fruit. Go for something sweet!

If I were you I'd certainly consider 'Gold Nugget' mandarin. Apparently they hang well on the tree for quite a while too. It is supposed to do well in the Bay area.

If you are into juicing, 'Page' (Minneola tangelo x Clementine mandarin) might work. It has seeds.

Fruit is destroyed by cold below 28F. If you are prepared to bag your tree with an inexpensive party tent, 10 by 10 by 10, I would go with a bloomsweet grapefruit. Otherwise I the New Zealand Lemonade, Meiwa, and Fukushu kumquats, I don't have a bloomsweet because I live in Zone 6b and Can't tent a tree of grapefruit size, 10 by 10 by 10 and expect enough fruit to make it worth wile.

6b Steve

Gold Nugget, Okitsu Wase, Cocktail, Tango, CaraCara

Molewacker I have the Owari. How is it different from the okitsu wase?

in my yards / locale, the Okitsu is ready about 3 weeks earlier than the Owari - for me Okitsu is nicely sweet early December, Owari by mid-late December.

The Okitsu's also appear to grow more slowly and are shorter trees... the Owari seems to grow more vertically. The fruit is rather similar.

Rubbing my hands excitedly at the idea of researching each of these suggestions! 4 (5 if Dave's suggestions count as 2) votes for a mandarin of some kind, two for kumquat, and one for a grapefruit...I agree, i should move away from the sours, and get something sweet!

Steve, we hardly ever go below 30, but we do consistently hover around 34 for several nights. Hibiscus, you enabler, I ask for one suggestion, and you suggest I get two!! :) Evan, I'll ask around and see what I can get, we have a couple of good local nurseries that stock more than the usual and one might even order something I ask for. Susanne, Laura, stay tuned! I wish we could all teleport and see each other's gardens! I am off this Saturday to meet a couple of local Houzzers and I'm so excited!

Do you think citrus is ok with Fall plantings? I planted my other fruit trees around this time of year, but they did take ages to get going in spring. I ask because Fall will be bleak around here, with both kids heading off and it might be fun to go shopping for a citrus and have something to distract me!

KC

Oh hey George! I would probably like the smaller option, so I will look into the Okitsu! Did you mail order them?

KC

Fall is a good time to plant in your area KC. (as opposed to my area where we can get a fast drop to 19 in December... or as early as late Nov.).

All three of my Okitsu's came from Costco several years back (W&N). My neighbor bought both an Owari and Okitsu from Costco this past March/April (Frantz). I recall I saw both varieties on C35 as well as Carizzo.

I am in the bay area too. You should be fine if you plant it before the rainy season starts. You can always set up a temporary rain shelter. It looks like fall is coming early this year. I am closer to the marshy area though so it's usually cold at night. I planted gold nugget, tango, LeexNova, meiwa, and kishus last spring. I just added pixie last week or so. I've tried everything except the LxN and all are good. Kishus are sweet with a little tartness. Gold Nugget is really sweet. I wouldn't recommend eating a regular cutie or orange afterwards or it will taste sour. My SO notice a slight aftertaste. Tango is sweet and hold onto the tree for a long time. I picked the last tango off my parents' tree in June. LeeXNova has a history of low production but super good when it does produces. Molewacker should have some LxN to report on in the next year or two. Pixie is sweet and late season. Satsumas have a reputation of not being good the first 3-4 years.

Check OSH, they had a good selection from 4winds when I got my pixie.

Thanks, George and Junks4us! The nurseries are getting a little thin around now, but I'll have to go get some fungicide or something for the white powder I saw on my orange, so maybe I'll poke around the citrus and see what's still around!

KC

John, moved north to the peninsula from Cupertino a few years ago! Definitely less warm and sunny here! In Cupertino, you had to rein the citrus in, and I left bags of lemons and oranges on the driveway hoping someone would take them!! Even the food banks started turning down citrus fruits!

KC

Lol about the citrus. I just walked up my block with a big bag of apples to distribute to neighbors ;-). I need to make another round!

my neighbor sends my kids home with bags full of small peaches. I guess they weren't taking enough home because she walked around with big bags of peaches again last week.

That reminds me of our time in japan. We had a tiny garden and our japanese neighbor saw that we tried gardening. So he contacted his friend that had still an empty lot behind our house and arranged that we could gardening there too. Was not big maybe 600sq but enough to produce so many cucumbers that we could just not eat them all. Every time we saw somebody pass our house, we went out and gave them cucumbers. Needless to say we had more passerby by the end of the summer. Sometimes I wonder what the people that came after us did with the little garden we had. I planted all kind of things like cherry tree, apple tree, all kind of berries. Just did not cross my mind to plant citrus.

KC,

Don't spray fungicide, unless you are going to use a systemic. I see no evidence of any fungus. The white "powder" is probably just a residue from your last "application". Give it another good wash; and it should solve your "problem". BTW, I think your FB page still says Cupertino (?)

Loving the local fruit stories! John, will do! (Also fixed FB to reflect current city!)

Susanne, isn't there someone on this board from Japan who posts about struggling to find cold hardy citrus there? You were probably better off with the choices you made! Junk, I keep wondering if I should plant a peach too! And oh, to live in apple country, Laura!

KC I will not let you know where I live if you do plant a peach tree! I'm actually thinking of a nectarine tree. You should visit God's little acre nursery in san jose and reagan's nursery in newark. I've been meaning to go to God's lil acre to get an avocado tree.

Junk, that's where I got my dwarf cado from! And the calamondin and the variegated eureka! I used to live just down the street from Regan's but I have only been there once a few years ago to buy some roses!

KC where have you NOT lived? lol! I used to live in Mid-Pen and South Bay. Reagan's nearby but they close at 5 on the dot. I didn't see a good selection of cado's. I'm looking for Reed or Sharwil. Reed is easier to find.

God's Little Acre had several kinds of Avocado, junk4us! I was looking for a smaller tree, and they had the dwarf cado and another smaller one, so I didn't look at all the other varieties, but their website says they have 15 varieties!

KC