Cumquat Fruit? (forum)

Brad starts with ...
I'd appreciate any help on 2 related questions about my Cumquats (Nagami)

1) With fruit drop, how do I know if there's an issue in the pot (and which one) or whether its just deciding for itself that it has too much fruit for a small tree? Note that its dropping the largest nearly-ripe (but too small) fruit recently. In previous years I thinned blossoms, this year i didn't. Perth has had weird weather recently

2) with both fully sized ripe fruit, but also these smaller semi-ripe fruit the skin goes soft and 'gluggy' very quickly off the tree. How do you manage your fruit drop / harvest so that I can use all of one years fruit in one recipe (e.g. liqueur or marmalade)? Freeze them?

thanks in advance

Time: 3rd June 2009 7:30pm

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Jimmy says...
www.agric.wa.gov.au search for "citrus drop".

cumquats are not ripe when they first go orange, gotta leave them to ripen inside thats why the sludge out on you.

Time: 4th June 2009 10:39am

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Brad says...
thanks Jimmy - I'd have thought that, but I had the same effect on fully ripe sweet fruit the last 2 years. if i didn't use it within 2-3 days, the skin went soft

Time: 4th June 2009 3:16pm

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Julie says...
Brad, do you pull them or cut them off? If you pull them, it leaves a small hole and they quickly 'go off'.

I put mine straight into the fridge if I have a lot (and haven't cut them off), and chop them up as soon as possible to make marmalade. I often freeze them to do it at a suitable time.

Time: 4th June 2009 6:53pm

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brad says...
thanks julie.

I cut them off, but perhaps the early drop fruit is equivalent to being pulled off. I'll try freezing any ripe fruit until its all ready to go. This year its for Cumquat liqueuer. Yum!

Time: 5th June 2009 12:56am

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Brad says...
found this thread searching for something else. I thought the forum might be interested in Kumquat karma. Possibly because of the fruit dropping early the remaining crop had a problem with vinegar fly so I destroyed it and was sad, because I was really looking forward to that liqueuer. Not long later someone at work left a huge bag of Nagami cumquats out, which are now under the kitchen sink in bottles of Vodka.

Does anyone else do this with Kumquats? I did it once before, but I'm very much guessing and relying on trial and error (beginners luck first time)

Time: 12th October 2009 2:41pm

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