Some 2,000 oranges are picked Friday in annual harvest from the surviving tree that launched the citrus boom. Columnist David ...

Every December in Southern California, the days get shorter yet brighter — and it’s not Christmas lights or the shifting sun that make the region shine. I’m talking about citrus. Trees heavy with ...

Springtime on ASU's Tempe campus is characterized by the bright Seville sour oranges blooming overhead. Everywhere you look — a round juicy orange peers back at you. Before the oranges hit the ground, ...

We have a blood orange tree, and I was wondering when is the best time to harvest the oranges when they're at their peak? — Jimmy Blood oranges (here we commonly plant the Moro blood orange variety) ...

A volunteer harvests fresh oranges from a tree in Metairie as part of a fruit gleaning program to benefit Second Harvest Food Bank. (Photo courtesy of Second Harvest Food Bank) In his religion class ...

Q. When is citrus fruit ready to harvest? A. Florida uses five indexes to determine maturity of citrus, including soluble solids, juice content, acid level, soluble solids/acid ratio and skin color.

The statisticians at the California Department of Agriculture tell us there is an average of 466 pieces of fruit on every navel orange tree in California this year. That’s the highest “fruit set” in a ...

Warmer, sunnier days are just ahead. Don’t buy it? Just take a walk through Costco, and you’ll see summertime in full swing. The big-box retailer is leaning so far into summer that it’s currently ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. When is the best time to pick my oranges? I have about 60 this year on two ...

MOGI GUACU, Brazil (AP) — Orange juice prices have always been volatile, falling when bumper harvests create an oversupply of oranges and rising when frost or a hurricane knocks out fruit trees. But ...