My local Co-op had a citrus tasting today.
Of the mandarins the sweetest to me was Daisy.
Next in sweetness was Lee Nova
And the least sweet was
Looking for a cutting of Daisy. Anyone growing this??
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Please only import Citrus from a licensed seller, recently inspected for Citrus Greening Disease.
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I understand.
Daisy can be ordered here CCPP - Budwood go there, and then click on ‘I accept-Take me to the Budwood Order Forms’, then either register or login.
I’m also growing seedless daisy from seed. Daisy from CCCP is seeded. Seedless has seeds just not a lot. Got the fruit from local grocery citrus festival last year. Also growing out mandared red clementine and neopolitan mandarin. These aren’t available any other way in Texas. CCCP won’t license patented varieties to Texas. Citrus festival coming up at HEB Central market in a few weeks. Will browse for newer mandarins again to grow out seedlings.
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Thanks! I did look up CCPP but saw that cost would be $44 for 3 buds of a scion. Not that I haven’t paid a lot for my fruit tree addiction in the past!
Decided to start some seeds instead. I found this comment on a decade-old posting on Houzz. ( I don’t really understand why a hybrid would be sterile and a crossbreed would be fertile.) Do you agree with this reasoning?
Daisy is not a hybrid; it is a crossbreed; i.e. a cross between two mandarins. Hybrids tend to be sterile, if not diploid; but crossbreeds tend to be fertile. Ergo, I would seriously doubt that planting a seed from a Daisy would give you one of the parents. The seed contains a mix of the genetics of both parents; but is its own entity; and as most citrus are true to seed, I see no reason this one would not be.
*from Houzz Daisy mandarin
Don’t agree that daisy seedlings won’t be true to seed. In my experience almost all mandarins are true to seed. If they aren’t no money lost as seedlings cost nothing.
Ha, 3 buds from California cost $250 in Texas ordering thru the Texas budwood bureau. Latest expensive buds I grafted were red finger limes. Friend paid the $250 and I grafted them for him. Instead or ordering giant key lime for $250 I grew out a seedling for the cost of postage. True to seed.
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Lee x nova is a very good low seeded fruit. However in Texas it takes a long time to bear fruit, like 8 years for the tree I gave to a friend. I imported lee x nova budwood from California(thru Texas budwood bureau) years ago along with lee x orlando and lee x robinson. Lee x nova by far the best of the three.
Is that from a seed?
Thanks for the report.
The comment from the above Houzz article was that Daisy would be true to seed because it is a crossbreed and not a hybrid. Do the words crossbreed and hybrid have different meanings in plant biology?
Btw the Daisy mandarin had about 0-2 seeds per section of fruit.
I am all for preventing the spread of this disease but see no reason why a person in a non-citrus growing state should not get cuttings from anywhere.
They do have a DaisySL - irradiated selection of Daisy, but they limit it to commercial growers 
They also have KinnowSL, EncoreSL but all of them are not for backyard growers.
The story I read was that it was pretty ordinary in Florida and was sent to Riverside, CA for evaluation before they got rid of it. It turned out to be really good throughout CA. Interesting that it performs well in Texas as well
Spreading a citrus disease is a bad thing, regardless if there is a commercial growing industry in the area or not. Especially when getting cuttings from area known to have a citrus disease. Plus the insects carrying the disease can travel on their own, or accidentally be redistributed from state, to state, to state.
sure
I now have around 20 varieties thanks to you, a lady in New Jersey and a guy in Huntville,TX. You won’t believe but last year was the first rojo brilliante fruits. https://mrtexaspersimmon.weebly.com/