Clementville

Clementville is the catalog name used here for the hybrid reviewed as Clementine × Thomasville by The Mulberries. The video presenter says he does not know who made the cross and questions its precise ancestry. The specific Clementine parent, breeder, and cross direction remain unverified.^⁠[1]

The video reviews two near-ripe fruits donated by Ross, distinct from the presenter’s own plant. They weighed 90 g and 119 g; the presenter estimated an average near 105 g. He described them as round, smooth, difficult to peel, with few seeds and abundant juice. At this stage he found grapefruit-dominant flavor with pomelo and sweet-lemon notes; the refractometer read 10° Brix. The final scorecard lists pH 3.0, while the presenter separately describes an imprecise strip reading below 3.^⁠[1]

The presenter reports that his own plant in Central North Carolina survived about 10°F without injury and recovered vigorously. It had flowered but had not yet fruited at the time of the video. The video does not report the exposure duration, event date, measurement method or protection, so this single grower report does not establish a guaranteed cold limit; the two donated fruits came from a different source.^⁠[1]

An earlier account described a few seedbox survivors from a Clementine seed-parent × Thomasville pollen-parent cross, planted at William Chapman’s League City orchard about 1970 and fruiting in the early 1980s. John R. Brown, as reported by C.T. Kennedy, judged their flavor worse than Thomasville and said early indications suggested greater hardiness, but the December 1989 freeze erased the selection from his list. This is a historical batch; the article does not identify the seedlings or connect them to the modern Clementville fruit. Brown’s poorer flavor assessment and early hardiness indication broadly resemble the modest fruit-quality appraisal and stronger cold response reported by The Mulberries, but these parallels do not establish that the samples are the same selection.^⁠[2]⁠[1]