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University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3558 (opens in a new tab)
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Ercan Yıldız; Mustafa Kaplankıran · Journal of Agriculture Faculty of Ege University · 2017-03-20
https://doi.org/10.20289/zfdergi.297992 (opens in a new tab)
Full six-page article retrieved from the supplied DergiPark PDF. Printed pp. 108–110 (PDF viewer pages 1–3) report 2010–2011 hand-pollination trials in Dörtyol, Hatay. Fremont was on sour orange rootstock; pollen treatments were Rhode Red Valencia, Midknight Valencia, Valencia Late, and Rio Red grapefruit, plus open pollination. About 100 flowers per treatment across three trees; fruit quality was sampled from 20 fruit per cross-combination in each of two years. Fremont has separate Table 1 fruit-set and Table 3 fruit-quality results; do not combine them with the paper's Robinson results. TSS and TSS:TA are analytical measures, not sensory ratings.
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Ercan Yıldız; Mustafa Kaplankıran; Turan Hakan Demirkeser; Celil Toplu · Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca · 2013-05-28
https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha4118937 (opens in a new tab)
The article reports a 2010–2011 study at the Mustafa Kemal University experimental farm in Dörtyol, Turkey, with Fremont, Nova, and Robinson scions on Troyer, Carrizo, or common sour orange. Its abstract states: “The total carbohydrate content reached their lowest levels in July for cv. ‘Robinson’, in August for cv. ‘Fremont’ and cv. ‘Nova’.” This is a leaf-carbohydrate result, not fruit sugar or eating-quality evidence.
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USDA APHIS Citrus ID, Edition 2
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8554 (opens in a new tab)
Entity 8554; footer identifies Citrus ID Edition 2, October 2011. Origin is presented as a quotation of Hodgson (1967), attributing the Clementine × Ponkan cross to P. C. Reece, first fruiting to Brawley, selection to J. R. Furr at Indio, and release to 1964. The page's fruit key and Hodgson cultivar description are distinct from the Chiefland Budwood Facility's clone DPI-833-49 notes.
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Jagan Singh Gora; Ramesh Kumar; Brijesh Dutta Sharma; Chet Ram; Mukesh Kumar Berwal; Deepak Singh; Ram Swaroop Bana; Pradeep Kumar · South African Journal of Botany · 2022
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629921003598 (opens in a new tab)
South African Journal of Botany 144 (2022), pp. 124–133; DOI 10.1016/j.sajb.2021.08.037. Abstract reports rootstock effects on Fremont scion in an arid Indian trial. Full-text HTML Methods identify the site as ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Bikaner, Rajasthan, and the trial as four scion/rootstock combinations with five replications during February 2017–November 2019.
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Houzz
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1835889/please-tell-me-about-fremont-mandarin (opens in a new tab)
The thread includes an original question about a dwarf Fremont and separate replies. Hoosierquilt, whose profile identifies USDA 10A / Sunset 23 in Vista, California and whose reply is dated only relatively as “15 years ago,” offers a cultivar description and growing advice: easy-peeling, juicy, somewhat seedy fruit; earlier ripening and good on-tree retention; a nearly thornless, productive tree with hot-inland growing advice and a sunburn caution. The commenter does not state ownership or direct sampling of a Fremont plant. AshleySF separately reports tasting market fruit, describing it as flavorful and somewhat small; she says she had not bought a tree. Neither report gives a sample count or scored taste intensity.
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Camilla de Andrade Pacheco; Evandro Henrique Schinor; Mariangela Cristofani-Yaly; Marcos Antonio Machado; Fernando Alves de Azevedo · African Journal of Agricultural Research · 2016-11-10
https://academicjournals.org/journal/AJAR/article-full-text/175C65961595 (opens in a new tab)
African Journal of Agricultural Research 11(45), 4600–4609; DOI 10.5897/AJAR2016.11716. Methods identify Fremont IAC 548 fruit collected in June 2012 from three-year-old trees on Rangpur lime at Cordeirópolis, São Paulo, Brazil. Wax/no-wax treatments were compared under ambient storage (21 ± 2°C, 60 ± 5% RH) and refrigeration (8 ± 2°C, 90 ± 5% RH), with weekly assessments through 42 days. The paper reports acceptable physicochemical and sensory quality for 30–35 days under refrigeration; results apply to this postharvest experiment, not tree cold hardiness or unqualified cultivar-wide fruit specifications.
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C. A. Pacheco; E. H. Schinor; M. R. Motter; M. Bastianel; M. A. Machado; F. A. Azevedo · XII International Citrus Congress, abstract proceedings
S17P19, printed p. 315, in the one-page PDF. The Fremont abstract reports an untrained 50-person consumer survey in Cordeirópolis, São Paulo, with appearance/flavor acceptance rated on a 9-point hedonic scale and purchase intention on a 5-point scale. It reports 79% approval for processed juice and 69% for fresh fruit; 84% said they would buy juice and 70% fruit. These are study-specific survey responses, not sales or sensory intensity scores. The PDF also contains a separate S17P20 abstract, excluded from the Fremont citation. The S17P19 title mentions Alternaria brown spot, but this abstract supplies no method or result establishing resistance.
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daleysfr · YouTube · 2011-05-24
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzJH0UwqQSY (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Video duration 1:07; native English transcript captions cover 0:00–1:00, with the final seven seconds lacking caption text. The presenter reports on Fremont fruit in a winter backyard segment at 0:00–0:17, describing it as small, colorful and tight-skinned. Captions from 0:25 onward introduce Daisy and later compare Daisy and Emperor; those comments are excluded from this Fremont source. No measurements, maturity date, location, rootstock, or scored taste intensity are stated.
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