Very Nice Crop! Once harvested then re-potting into a bigger container may keep her going for next year's fruit bearing. I'm envious.

Thanks! Where are you in Virginia? Do you grow citrus?

Outside of Richmond here. Yes we grew a Meyer Lemon tree indoors for 3 years before I transplanted it outside in a little greenhouse up against the south wall of the house. I had such high hopes for it up until late Feb (2015?) when the temp dropped to 3F outside. The remote thermometer read at 38F inside the tiny greenhouse (heated my 3 - 75W light bulbs) but the power failed at 2am and the greenhouse temp dropped below 20F within minutes. A total loss :-(

Sad story. Let me know if you’re ever in Northern VA. I have some duplicate citrus plants I need to get rid of.

nice tree and crop.

Outstanding

Wow!

I have an in-ground Owari satsuma in the middle of zone 7 North Carolina that's about equally loaded this year, but it's older/bigger. It had roughly a couple hundred fruits on it last year, and that was an off year. The first few years I had huge crops (relative to the size of the tree/bush) every other year and nothing (or almost nothing) the years in between (which I might have been able to even out with more aggressive thinning), but now that it's bigger even the off years are pretty good. It's just really impressive how much fruit one little satsuma tree can produce. I do cover my satsuma on the coldest winter nights, by the way.

cousinfloyd: We'd love to see pics!

Gorgeous, Dave!

Im in northern va too! i have a meyer lemon a just bought a lime and clementine last fall. do you still have duplicate trees you’re looking to get rid of?

Yes, I have a spare Murcott mandarin.

It took me a while, but here's what my satsuma looks like this year. (Persimmons drying in the background.) I don't succeed with apples half as well as with satsumas.

Your persimmons are truly a labor of love. What varieties are you growing? My Fuyu had over 400 fruit this fall. And I have Hachiya and Nikita's Gift which have not borne fruit yet. Nice satsuma by the way. It's loaded!

I'm growing more persimmons than pretty much any other fruit, which I've gone heavy on because I have lots of volunteer rootstocks and they're just really reliable and productive and I really don't have to put much into growing them. So for non-astringents I have 20th century, Tam Kam, and Wase Fuyu, plus a couple others that haven't fruited yet. For astringent kakis I have Smith's Best, Tecumseh, Sheng, Pen, Honan Red, and Tipo, plus several others that I've only gotten a small sample from so far or that haven't fruited yet. And for hybrids that are fruiting for me I have Nikita's gift (maybe my favorite of all the kaki and kaki hybrids), Rosseyanka (which is also very good but very different), and Kasandra, plus a mislabeled tree that was supposed to have been a non-astringent but I think must be another hybrid, more similar to Rosseyanka than any of the others but closer to Nikita's gift size.

What's your review of Honan Red and Smith's Best? Thinking of grafting a few more varieties to my existing trees for more diversity. I forgot to mention I have three Saijo grafts started as well.