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The Mulberries · YouTube · 2026-10-13
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Summary from transcript: The Mulberries reviews two near-ripe fruits presented as Clementine × Thomasville and donated by Ross. The presenter does not know who made the cross and questions its precise ancestry. Fruit weighed about 90 g and 119 g (roughly 105 g average), with smooth rind, difficult peeling, abundant juice and grapefruit-dominant flavor. Juice read 10° Brix; an imprecise pH strip read below 3, while the final scorecard lists pH 3.0. The presenter separately reports that his own plant in Central North Carolina survived about 10°F without injury; that tree had flowered but had not supplied the tasted fruit.
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C.T. Kennedy, reporting from notes by John R. Brown, M.D. · Fruit Gardener
Printed page 13 (PDF page 2). C.T. Kennedy reports from John R. Brown, M.D.’s notes that a few seedbox survivors from a Clementine seed-parent × Thomasville pollen-parent cross were planted at William Chapman’s League City orchard about 1970 and fruited in the early 1980s. Brown judged their flavor worse than Thomasville and said early indications suggested greater hardiness, but the December 1989 freeze erased the selection from his list. The scan does not identify individual seedlings or connect this historical batch to the modern Clementville sample; it gives no plant-level cold measurement or explicit death count. A separate later bibliography cites Fruit Gardener 24(2):12–16 (1992), but issue/date details were not visible on this scanned article page.
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