Read About Acclimating Your New Citrus Tree.It is best suited to coastal and inter-coastal regions.This later maturing variety has an open growth habit that makes for easier harvesting.Fruit is pebbly in texture and once peeled is moderately juicy.This Kin X Dancy hybrid produces sweet, seedless fruit that is aromatic and easy to peel.Berries or Premium Size trees can be combined in 2 pack box. All ENTRY, and PRIMO sized trees can be packed together so mix and match different kinds of trees to fill out your box. Order as 3 pack or 6 pack to save big on shipping! You can mix and match different kinds of trees to fill out your box, order potted fruit trees, citrus, olives together and save big on shipping. Okay, my wife and I ate quite a few too.Shipping Tips: We can ship potted fruit trees in a multi pack boxes. They wiped out a few hundred mandarins in a month. Here is how it looked yesterday, March 26, 2020: Kids eating the last Gold Nuggets of 2020. This is how the tree looked soon after I let them at it this year: Gold Nugget mandarin tree on February 23, 2020. My routine is to give my kids the green light to pick Gold Nuggets at the end of February. Only a few remain on my tree that long though. Toots said that she has picked fruit from her own tree in her Huntington Beach yard in October that was still “sound and good.” That Gold Nuggets store so well on the tree was a major reason that Toots called it her number one citrus (the other major reason being its outstanding flavor).įrom my own tree, the latest I’ve had good ones is the end of August, but they taste their best around May and June. (This is late compared to most other mandarin varieties, some of which mature as early as November.) Gold Nuggets will continue to sweeten and peel even more easily through spring and into summer.įor how long can Gold Nuggets hang on the tree and maintain quality? I’ve eaten some from a tree in Valley Center in San Diego County in September that were still very good. We are in inland San Diego County, and our Gold Nuggets start to taste good and peel well from March.
Here in March is only the beginning of the Gold Nugget harvest season. It is said, however, that the alternate bearing of Gold Nugget can be moderated through pruning. But if you are looking for a mandarin that produces fruit more evenly through the years, then Gold Nugget might not be your best bet although many mandarins alternate to a degree. I don’t mind because I have other mandarin trees whose harvest season is at about the same time, such as Pixie. Here it was in that year, 2018, three years after planting from a five-gallon container: My Gold Nugget mandarin tree in 2018.įarmers don’t like that Gold Nugget trees tend to alternate bear, and I imagine some home growers wouldn’t like this either. The year prior, it had an abundance of fruit. Here in 2020 we are finishing eating a few hundred Gold Nugget mandarins from the five-year-old, five-foot-tall tree, but in 2019 it produced only three, three lonely pieces of fruit. This might be in part due to the fact that its fruiting has alternated. Kishu mandarin on left, Gold Nugget on right both planted at the same time and grown on the same rootstock. Mine was planted at the same time as some of my other citrus trees and it is on the same rootstock and yet it has grown a bit faster. Vigorous is the word that comes to mind when I think of a Gold Nugget tree. The flavor is rich but mostly sweet it does not have the tang associated with some other mandarins such as Dancy. The segments of Gold Nuggets are easily separated, seedless and firm, bursting with juice. It’s an intoxicating smell, but it does make your hands messier than with some other mandarins whose peels come off more dryly. You would find Kishu or Satsuma mandarins even easier to peel than Gold Nuggets, but Gold Nuggets peel easily enough that my two-year-old daughter doesn’t ask me for help.Īs you peel, Gold Nuggets release heaps of aroma and oil from the rind. Once Gold Nuggets are mature, you can easily peel them with a single corkscrew motion, popping the pith at the core out of the bottom. Algerian clementine mandarins next to a Gold Nugget. Unlike some other mandarins, Gold Nuggets do not have a nipple at the stem end where the fruit attaches to the tree. The name Gold Nugget comes from the appearance of the fruit’s rind, which is bumpy and ribbed.
Compared to other mandarins, Gold Nuggets are medium size - bigger than Kishu or Tango, smaller than Shasta Gold or Shiranui.
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