I ate my first Owari Satsuma from one of my mature in ground trees yesterday, it was still mostly green, but tasted good, perhaps slightly tart. So my advice is also to try one of the more ripe looking fruit. In my area we typically start picking the Owari fruit around the first or second week of November.

Is the soil still currently soggy? Or has the soil recovered and dried out from the overwatering? Because I think the only thing that’ll save it from overwatering at this point is completely bare rooting it and putting it into a new mix. Not enough leaves to make the roots absorb the moisture quick enough. Also won’t be warm anymore so less of a chance of drying out the soil. If it still has healthy roots left, it’ll definitely recover albeit slowly lol

I think it was soggy because it rained the day before. I'll go over there tomorrow and pick some fruit, repot it, put in inside in my dads sun room where it will dry out good. Thanks for the replies.

I would slide it out of its pot and take a good look at the roots to see if they have root rot. Is the tree in a well draining mix? You can put a wick up into and through the bottom of the soil and leave a piece of the wick extending out of the hole in the bottom of the pot, it will help pull extra moisture out of the soil. I would keep it in the sunroom to help it dry out and pull all of the fruit off on the branches that have no leaves. Taste them. They can still have pretty good flavor at that stage. On the branches that have leaves, leave a few to ripen a bit more, they are so close to being fully ripe.

Thanks, Jinny. Yes it's in a fast draining mix. I'll check the roots when I go back over there. I will pick some fruit too. Hope they are on the sour side, I like a tangy orange.

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Went over and picked a lot of the fruit. Took a look at the roots, Had some dark brown roots, but not as bad as I feared. I re-potted it. I think it will make it. Leaving it outside tonight, but my sister will bring it in tomorrow night as it will be much cooler and I don't want the tree to have any extra stress.

The picked fruits are still mostly green, but they taste pretty good. Not sweet, but not too sour either. A pleasant mix. They have a nice 'twang' like we like with oranges. We have had much worse from store bought oranges that's for sure. I could enjoy these all day.

Thank you steve! I wanted to ask because an electric drill is the only complex piece of tool/machinery that I have so this works out perfectly!

Dave that’s great the repotting went well. It sounds like it’ll recover nicely when brought indoors. Anytime I have too ripe citrus from the store, I always think to myself that an underripe one would’ve been much better. Tastes better to be sour and tangy than watery insipid sweet imo