{"id":18093,"date":"2025-04-15T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/the-return-of-satsumas-and-new-varieties-for-spring-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T22:15:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:15:05","slug":"the-return-of-satsumas-and-new-varieties-for-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/the-return-of-satsumas-and-new-varieties-for-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of Satsumas and new varieties for spring 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mandarin trees have been sold out in our store for a few days now.In May, Satsumas will be back, along with a few new items.<\/p>\n\n

\"\"
Around May 15, Satsumas mandarins will once again be available on FA5 rootstock in three varieties: Owari, Okitsu and Iwasaki.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
The range of orange trees is set to expand, with varieties that allow the harvest to be staggered.<\/strong>First with the Washington Navel orange, slightly later than Navelina: harvesting can begin in January.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
The Fukumoto orange is even earlier than Navelina.The tree is smaller and less vigorous, but just as productive. It is suitable for small gardens, as its adult size is much smaller. The fruit, however, remains of good size, around 200 grams.In commercial plantings, the Fukumoto variety increases the number of trees per hectare and total production. <\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
This orange harvest calendar is published by IVIA, the agricultural research institute in Valencia (Spain). Fukumoto and Navelina are clearly the earliest. Washington ripens a month later.Note that these harvest dates are for Valencia, where the climate is very different from Switzerland.In Ticino, in our experience, thesesame<\/em>orange varieties take around 3 weeks longer to ripen. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
Natsumikan (Kawano cultivar) is a Japanese summer orange, ready for harvesting in April and May. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
The fruit is slightly flattened and very juicy. The Kawano cultivar is much sweeter than the classic Natsumikan. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
Changshan Huyou is China’s favorite pomelo. It is a natural hybrid of grapefruit (Citrus maxima) and sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). It’s prized for its taste, but also for its many health benefits (vitamins and antioxidants). <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
The pulp is juicy and sweet. The membranes, on the other hand, have retained the bitterness of grapefruit, but are easy to remove. In China, the fruit, still green and dried, is a traditional remedy for coughs and respiratory ailments. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
Ichangquat is a hybrid of Kumquat and Ichang Papeda. In the greenhouse, it can produce berries in any season and very quickly. Outdoors, the first flowering in May produces ripe fruit in August. July flowering produces fruit in November. They have a strong, aromatic taste, inherited from the Papedas. The tree has very good resistance to cold, down to -14 degrees for short frosts (one night). <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
The Beni Madonna orange is a Japanese creation, extremely juicy and with a melting pulp, which is the pride of Ehime prefecture.It is the first of the “jelly citrus”, citrus fruits with gelatinous flesh that are a huge success in China.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
Its very thin skin makes it difficult to peel, fragile and sensitive to weather. A choice variety, to be grown under cover and harvested early. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\"\"
Beni Madonna oranges are only available in Japan during the month of December. But they have to be ordered months or even a year in advance. They are sold carefully packaged, at $10 each. <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Satsumas and all these new varieties will be available for sale in May, both in-store and online. <\/strong>If you would like to be notified of their availability by email, please send us a message. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mandarin trees have been sold out in our store for a few days now.In May, Satsumas will be back, along with a few new items. Satsumas and all these new varieties will be available for sale in May, both in-store and online. If you would like to be notified of their availability by email, please […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3213,"featured_media":18056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpagrumi.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}