One month before the start of the season

We are almost ready for the beginning of the 2015-2016 season of Naranjas al Día. In about a month we will start selling the first variety of mandarins: Marisol mandarins. As always, you can buy the best selection of Marisol mandarins in boxes of 5, 10, 15 and 30 kg.

For this season, seeing the good acceptance that had last season boxes of oranges without selecting, we will have this mode of boxing in each and every one of our products. Thus, throughout the season we will have two lines of sale with a special selection and a cheaper one with no selection or filtering of the fruit.

Let's get to know the Marisol mandarins better.

Marisol mandarins are a variety that we had never sold before in Naranjas al Día. You know that we have always been concerned about the fact that you can enjoy our citrus for as long as possible, so we have spent several years working on the production of new varieties.

Marisol mandarins are an early variety, together with Clemenrubí (in a few years we will have this variety) they are the first mandarins to ripen. They are sweet mandarins, of good size and seedless that, due to their ripening time, do not have that characteristic orange colour.

Last year, at the beginning of the season, we explained the case of green mandarins. It is not that they are not ripe, far from it, but these varieties, because of the dates in which we are and the type of maturation, maintain a greenish color that, with the passage of time, already collected, are taking that orange color so characteristic of Valencian citrus.

Making final preparations

As you well know, the work in the field is not waiting for oranges and tangerines are ready to collect and send them to your homes. You have to water, prune, fertilize... and "clarify".

The work of aclarir (clarifying in Valencian) can be somewhat contradictory but necessary. We say contradictory because clarifying is nothing more than going tree by tree pulling up mandarins and throwing them on the ground.

Why do mandarins have to be thrown on the ground?

First of all it is done in order to have a higher quality production. For example, these days when we are clearing the Marisol mandarins, we are throwing the smaller mandarins or those that are more affected by the hail that fell in Julyto the ground.

In this way, the mandarins that remain on the tree are of the highest quality but, in addition, we are oxygenating the tree so that it will have the capacity to give more nutrients to the fruit.

We oxygenate the tree so that it feeds the fruit better but also so that it grows. If we have a tree with a large amount of fruit, it focuses all its energies on feeding the fruit while it forgets about itself (like parents with their children). It is important that the tree sprouts and generates new branches, among other things, to produce the fruit of tomorrow.

If we were to leave a lot of fruit on the tree what we would get is a lot of fruit of very low quality and very little or no production the following year.

Another reason to remove this excess mandarin is to prevent the branches from breaking or arching. Mandarins and oranges grow very close together at the end of the branches so if there is a lot of fruit the branches can break under their own weight.

And that's where we are. Working to produce the best mandarins and waiting to see how this month of September evolves to be able to start sending the first boxes of the season sooner or later. If the temperatures drop and it rains a little, the Marisol mandarins will ripen a little earlier and we will be ready to send the first boxes.

Let's see if by the end of September, beginning of October we say to you that of:

"The season of Oranges a Day begins".

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