i bought my Gold Nugget 3 years ago. i tasted a few fruit from it last year and it tasted pretty good. this year, it wanted to set so much fruit, but i probably thinned 99% of it. i still have 25+ fruit growing. i always come back and watch this video and love your channel
The later and longer you wait and leave the gold nugget on the tree the sweeter it will get this tree is sweeter in may and lasts into august it is a late mandarin.
The reason I bought the gold nugget is because I was told the fruit can sit on the tree up to 6 months after ripening without losing its quality vs other mandarins which have to be picked within a month or two or else they rot on the tree
These are my favorite, I got 2 from Reed and I am hoping it starts to produce soon. You can let them ripe more, their skin becomes really loose that it peels right off. The Sumo mandarin (new one that is a new type that is not being sold to the public except the fruit) seems to come from the gold nugget.
Garry, you're right on with your suggestion to let these ripen up a bit more. We're harvesting them now and they are much sweeter than they were a couple weeks ago.
I know that this is a little late. But my gold nugget is excellent, juicy, sweet, very easy to peel and no tartness at all jus cut them when the peel is all loose Just sweet and delicious!
We have a new tree on the new farm and had our first harvest last year. They definitely are very sweet as long as you leave them on the tree to full ripeness.
Hmm, I wonder if they would hold that long for us. Usually the only citrus we have that makes it into April without being nearly dry is grapefruit. We'll have to give that a shot!
Great to see the vids more often! Do you plan on planting citrus on the new farm this year? Are you planning on planting deciduous trees or wait until next winter for that? Jeff
Hey Jeff! We're working on getting fencing up over the next few weeks and trying to get all of our tree starts and potted trees in the ground before May. We need to keep the cows out before we can get anything in the ground!
Hey there! Glad you're enjoying the content. A couple of questions for your orange tree. Are you here in the Phoenix area? If not, let us know where in the country you're located. Will you be planting this in the ground? With that we should be able to give you some ideas.
Some frost is fine for citrus trees, but they don't do well under 30 degrees F. Hot summers are not an issue as we are very hot here. They also do well in Florida which is more tropical with less cold and much more rain.
This is really starting to grow on us also. We're still harvesting from this tree and as we get further into the month the fruit is really sweetening up very well.
@@xrsjohnm usually those trees are a couple of years old by the time they're in pots that size. The larger caliper is a good sign it was a bit older, so that makes sense that it would fruit earlier on.
Hey David. We have 4 Mandarin varieties on the new farm; Gold Nugget, Daisey, Tango and Honey. Each a little different from the other, but all fantastic varieties for us here in AZ.
Hey there Wayne. Sorry, but we actually don't live on this property any longer, so we don't have access to those seeds. We do plan on putting a Daisey onto the new property, but we don't have one as of today.
@@KINGKHAN-zn2ed yeah, I would agree with that assessment. About the only one we've grown that I think would give it a real fun for the money is the Daisey when it's fully ripe. That's just hard to beat!
Love your video how you compare and provide the taste. I live in Texas and looking for a very sweet mandarin tree to grow on our small garden (our family doesn’t like sour fruits:)) . Can you please suggest us 1 small sweet tree to grow? Thank you very much.
Hey guys! It's hard to go wrong with a Mandarin tree if you're looking for a sweet fruit. Gold Nugget and Daisey Mandarins are both very sweet. We've found Cara Cara oranges are also very sweet with little tart.
@@kaidentoysngarden5497 What part of Texas? Im in Louisiana and grow 14 types of citrus, some are sweet with very little tang, some are a balanced mix of both and some are bold but very sweet.
@@kaidentoysngarden5497 so a couple of things, H town is in zone 8b/9a so cold hardy is important, remember the freeze in February? The other is Tx like Louisiana is a quarantine state so you are limited to what local nurseries have available. Online options will not ship into Tx. The largest grower in Tx is Saxon Becknell & Sons so you can look at their website to get an idea of what should be available locally. I think the Owari Satsuma is your best bet. They should be available at local produce stands now if you want to try them. I have been picking and eating satsumas every day for weeks and still have a month or so before season ends. Tree stays small, fruit peals easy, very sweet, mostly seedless and when fully ripe almost no tangy flavor. The only less tangy one available would be the Clementine (Cuties) but it’s not as cold tolerant.
So are you tasting the gold nuggets yet? Its supposed to start picking in april? How sweet was it? And gets sweeter The later you pick the tree, in may June july?
Great question and I wouldn't be able to say on this tree. We moved onto our new farm back in 2019 and don't have access to this tree any longer. We do have a young Gold Nugget tree on the new farm, but it's only been in the ground for a year.
Hello Inderjit. Yes, most citrus trees have thorns on the branches, but the root stock usually has the type of thorns you're describing. Are you sure you don't have sucker branches growing from your root stock? If you're not sure, you can take a picture of the tree where the branches are coming out from the trunk and send it over to us. Maybe we can help you figure this out! You can find our email on the About tab here on RUclips.
@@InderjitSingh-vq4ly suckers grow from the root stock, so they will be under the graft point on the tree. I'll link one of our videos here where we talk about it; ruclips.net/video/pDITe7HaGgc/видео.html
Hello Eduardo. I'm not sure how you can find them. The challenge we have here in the US is all of our citrus trees are grafted, so the seeds do not produce the same kind of fruit. You would need to take a cutting (branch) from an existing tree and graft it to another citrus tree.
I'm not really sure on that one. We don't sell trees here, but they are available from online nurseries from time to time. I just don't know if they'll ship overseas.
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i bought my Gold Nugget 3 years ago. i tasted a few fruit from it last year and it tasted pretty good. this year, it wanted to set so much fruit, but i probably thinned 99% of it. i still have 25+ fruit growing. i always come back and watch this video and love your channel
That thinning is so important, especially when you get a really heavy fruit set on younger trees!
The sugars weren't developed when you ate it in February supposed to be picked in April plus gold nugget has a long hang time relative to citrus.
We'll have to give that a shot to see if that helps. Thanks for the suggestion!
The later and longer you wait and leave the gold nugget on the tree the sweeter it will get this tree is sweeter in may and lasts into august it is a late mandarin.
The reason I bought the gold nugget is because I was told the fruit can sit on the tree up to 6 months after ripening without losing its quality vs other mandarins which have to be picked within a month or two or else they rot on the tree
@@xrsjohnm that would sure be useful to have it hang that long and still be in good shape!
These are my favorite, I got 2 from Reed and I am hoping it starts to produce soon. You can let them ripe more, their skin becomes really loose that it peels right off. The Sumo mandarin (new one that is a new type that is not being sold to the public except the fruit) seems to come from the gold nugget.
Garry, you're right on with your suggestion to let these ripen up a bit more. We're harvesting them now and they are much sweeter than they were a couple weeks ago.
The gold nuggets should be picked in march -April
Thanks for sharing, now I want a Gold Nugget Mandarin. It will have to wait until next year because my tree fund is now empty.
Yeah, it's that time of year when everyone's tree fund is about exhausted!
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Great video, thanks!
Thanks and sure thing! Glad you enjoyed this one.
I know that this is a little late. But my gold nugget is excellent, juicy, sweet, very easy to peel and no tartness at all jus cut them when the peel is all loose Just sweet and delicious!
We have a new tree on the new farm and had our first harvest last year. They definitely are very sweet as long as you leave them on the tree to full ripeness.
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Thanks Big Lou!
Its supposed to be picked in April way too early in february
Hmm, I wonder if they would hold that long for us. Usually the only citrus we have that makes it into April without being nearly dry is grapefruit. We'll have to give that a shot!
Great to see the vids more often! Do you plan on planting citrus on the new farm this year? Are you planning on planting deciduous trees or wait until next winter for that? Jeff
Hey Jeff! We're working on getting fencing up over the next few weeks and trying to get all of our tree starts and potted trees in the ground before May. We need to keep the cows out before we can get anything in the ground!
I simply binge watch your videos.
I just got myself a plant of Valencia Orange Can you give me some tips on how to begin with the soil ?
Hey there! Glad you're enjoying the content. A couple of questions for your orange tree. Are you here in the Phoenix area? If not, let us know where in the country you're located. Will you be planting this in the ground? With that we should be able to give you some ideas.
Sub tropic, heavy rain after very hot summer, little cold winter with frost problem ..
Is this orange can grow their ?
Probable other species?
Some frost is fine for citrus trees, but they don't do well under 30 degrees F. Hot summers are not an issue as we are very hot here. They also do well in Florida which is more tropical with less cold and much more rain.
I think the gold nugget is for me
This is really starting to grow on us also. We're still harvesting from this tree and as we get further into the month the fruit is really sweetening up very well.
I have 2 gold nuggets in my backyard 2 yr in ground. In banning, CA zone 9 one has 3 fruits the other one none.
Do you know approximately how old the tree was in the pot? Most citrus usually fruits around the 4th or 5th year in my experience.
I bought both of them from home depot in beaumont,CA in 5 gallon, so I guess they were how old do you think they were?
One is about 5 ft tall and narrow the other is 4 ft tall and narrow
The one that has fruit had a larger caliper trunk when I bought both of them.
@@xrsjohnm usually those trees are a couple of years old by the time they're in pots that size. The larger caliper is a good sign it was a bit older, so that makes sense that it would fruit earlier on.
The gold nugget definitely looked like it wasn’t at its ripest stage. Heard it has a zipper peal.
I think you're right with your assessment. It definitely needed a few more days on the tree!
@itsasickness What is the name of your dwarf mandarin and do you think it would do well in San Jose, CA (zone 9b)?
I imagine it would as we're in Zone 9b as well. Hopefully they get back to you on your comment.
Do you use nitrogen fixing plants or trees? Thanks.
That's a great question. We don't use them outside of the annual garden beds and even then it's sparingly (I.E. beans next to squash, etc).
Did you plant both again at your new farm?
Hey David. We have 4 Mandarin varieties on the new farm; Gold Nugget, Daisey, Tango and Honey. Each a little different from the other, but all fantastic varieties for us here in AZ.
Does Gold Nugget Mandarin have thorns? We just bought some and they have a bunch of thorns.
Yes, unfortunately they do have thorns. Most citrus does to varying degrees.
Hi hi any chance of getting some Daisy seeds? Thank you, Wayne
Hey there Wayne. Sorry, but we actually don't live on this property any longer, so we don't have access to those seeds. We do plan on putting a Daisey onto the new property, but we don't have one as of today.
Which is best between Satsuma and Clementine for flavour and sweetness?
Satsuma is really hard to beat, but the clementine is a bit easier to grow and less finnicky.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarmFrom your opinion Satsuma is better than Clementine. if you say Gold Nugget vs Satsuma?
@@KINGKHAN-zn2ed the Satsuma would be my choice between those two.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm So can I say that Satsuma is better than Clementine and Gold nugget?
@@KINGKHAN-zn2ed yeah, I would agree with that assessment. About the only one we've grown that I think would give it a real fun for the money is the Daisey when it's fully ripe. That's just hard to beat!
Love your video how you compare and provide the taste. I live in Texas and looking for a very sweet mandarin tree to grow on our small garden (our family doesn’t like sour fruits:)) . Can you please suggest us 1 small sweet tree to grow? Thank you very much.
Hey guys! It's hard to go wrong with a Mandarin tree if you're looking for a sweet fruit. Gold Nugget and Daisey Mandarins are both very sweet. We've found Cara Cara oranges are also very sweet with little tart.
Thank you very much for your advice 👍
@@kaidentoysngarden5497 What part of Texas? Im in Louisiana and grow 14 types of citrus, some are sweet with very little tang, some are a balanced mix of both and some are bold but very sweet.
We are in Houston. I have heard honey mandarin are very sweet from research. We are looking for a tree that doesn’t grow big with a very sweet taste 😂
@@kaidentoysngarden5497 so a couple of things, H town is in zone 8b/9a so cold hardy is important, remember the freeze in February? The other is Tx like Louisiana is a quarantine state so you are limited to what local nurseries have available. Online options will not ship into Tx. The largest grower in Tx is Saxon Becknell & Sons so you can look at their website to get an idea of what should be available locally. I think the Owari Satsuma is your best bet. They should be available at local produce stands now if you want to try them. I have been picking and eating satsumas every day for weeks and still have a month or so before season ends. Tree stays small, fruit peals easy, very sweet, mostly seedless and when fully ripe almost no tangy flavor. The only less tangy one available would be the Clementine (Cuties) but it’s not as cold tolerant.
Is there a dwarf form of mandarin?
Mandarins are fairly small trees already, but having one on a dwarfing root stock would do the trick.
So are you tasting the gold nuggets yet? Its supposed to start picking in april? How sweet was it? And gets sweeter The later you pick the tree, in may June july?
Mine are alternate bearing they take turns fruiting opposite my I got lucky with that.
Gold nugget also is not a true mandarin but a tangor tangerine orange hybrid.
Great question and I wouldn't be able to say on this tree. We moved onto our new farm back in 2019 and don't have access to this tree any longer. We do have a young Gold Nugget tree on the new farm, but it's only been in the ground for a year.
Wow you must miss your trees I don't ever sell my house I usually pay it off first then maybe buy another mature fruit trees are priceless!
@@xrsjohnm mature fruit trees really are priceless.
Do gold nugget tree have thorns ?
I got one last year, did have small thorns ,
But an year after I see long and strong thorns on new branches .
Hello Inderjit. Yes, most citrus trees have thorns on the branches, but the root stock usually has the type of thorns you're describing. Are you sure you don't have sucker branches growing from your root stock? If you're not sure, you can take a picture of the tree where the branches are coming out from the trunk and send it over to us. Maybe we can help you figure this out! You can find our email on the About tab here on RUclips.
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How do I find it out if these are suckers?
@@InderjitSingh-vq4ly suckers grow from the root stock, so they will be under the graft point on the tree. I'll link one of our videos here where we talk about it;
ruclips.net/video/pDITe7HaGgc/видео.html
how to buy mandarin gold seeds to receive here in brazil.
Hello Eduardo. I'm not sure how you can find them. The challenge we have here in the US is all of our citrus trees are grafted, so the seeds do not produce the same kind of fruit. You would need to take a cutting (branch) from an existing tree and graft it to another citrus tree.
How to buy in india ....
I'm not really sure on that one. We don't sell trees here, but they are available from online nurseries from time to time. I just don't know if they'll ship overseas.
not much info on growing a gold nugget mandarin, mostly tasting
Hey David. That's true, this one was a lot more of a tasting video as it was our first harvest off this tree right before we sold the old property.
Is that planted on a high land area or low land area? Hot or cold climate?
We're 1 hour NW of downtown Phoenix, AZ. Desert, flat land.