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Ilya11 · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · October 29th, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=60134.msg569738#msg569738 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand forum account, paraphrased; not an independently verified trial.
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Ilya11 · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · October 29th, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=60134.msg569750#msg569750 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand forum account, paraphrased; not an independently verified trial.
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Mulberry0126 · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · October 30th, 2025
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=60134.msg569785#msg569785 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand forum account, paraphrased; not an independently verified trial.
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Mulberry0126 · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · March 12th, 2026
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=60134.msg577798#msg577798 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand forum account, paraphrased; not an independently verified trial.
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Jibro · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · April 22nd, 2026
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=60134.msg580687#msg580687 (opens in a new tab)
First-hand forum account, paraphrased; not an independently verified trial.
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The Mulberries · YouTube · 2024-12-07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCnLabiS4MU (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Ventura Lemandarin shed leaves as the field cold intensified after looking good at low-20s/19°F (5:30–6:00); the speaker did not know whether it naturally becomes deciduous.
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Jibro · Citrusgrowersv2 ProBoards · January 30, 2025
https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/thread/1132/cross-taiwanica?page=1 (opens in a new tab)
Jibro reports that his Ventura Lemandarin died in an unspecified cold test and compares its hardiness unfavorably with citrumelo and other Poncirus hybrids. The post gives no exposure temperature, duration, plant size, or test conditions. Its suggested Taiwanica × mandarin identity and possible Keraji pollen parent are unverified.
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Virginia Fruit Grower · YouTube · 2021-07-02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OmrH0wzrfA (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions, 2:55–3:38 reviewed. The speaker identifies his Ventura Lemandarin tree and says landscapers cut off a main branch; it is recovering, growing tall, and has fruit present. The transcript gives no precise site, observation date, tree age, rootstock, fruit count, or measured growth. This is a single grower observation; branch loss is attributed to landscapers, not cold or rootstock.
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Hardy Citrus · June 28, 2014
https://hardycitrus.blogspot.com/2014/06/ventura-lemandarin.html (opens in a new tab)
The June 28, 2014 post includes an account attributed to an unnamed breeder: a Ventura own-root seedling and a separate high Flying Dragon graft had different reported cold outcomes; exposure duration, test location, instrumentation and sample count are not supplied. The Jan. 21, 2020 update reports one additional fruit with a single 13.3 °Brix reading and stated size, mass and seed count, without sample provenance or method. Keep those accounts and specimens separate; neither establishes a controlled hardiness threshold or cultivar-wide fruit values.
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jsteph00921 · Growing Fruit Forum · February 23, 2025
The author states that Ventura Lemandarin has proven hardy in groves around Yalta, but provides no named grove, identified specimen, winter minimum, duration or measurements. The author frames Pacific Northwest suitability as an expectation and says he planned to graft specimens; this is an unverified forum claim, not a measured hardiness result. The linked video is a separate source.
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Rachel Kester · Coastal Virginia Magazine · July 1, 2025
https://coastalvirginiamag.com/article/strange-fruits-in-virginia-beach/ (opens in a new tab)
An interview with named grower Gaylord Ventura describes a chance seedling in a community seedling pot, a likely Taiwanica–Keraji hybrid identification, and seed transfer to Ukraine and Nikitsky Botanical Gardens. These are interview-attributed statements; exact origin date and pollen parent are not established. The article's fruit flavor description is comparative and has no tasting method or sample details.
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Raincoast · UBC Botanical Garden Forums · April 30, 2020
The thread starter identifies a Nikita Botanical Garden tree as Ventura based on an unnamed contact; later posts by SoCal2warm relay a Taiwanica seed-parent and possible Satsuma or Keraji pollen parent and describe fruit as Satsuma-like, more sour and seedy. These are secondhand reports without identified sampled fruit, counts, measured weather or test conditions; the site hardiness estimate is the poster's, not a tested threshold.
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Ilya11 · Tropical Fruit Forum · Cold Hardy Citrus · February 5, 2020
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=36098.0 (opens in a new tab)
Ilya11 reports information relayed by a friend from Kyiv about a Ventura tree at Nikita Botanical Garden and the source of its seed; he is not presented as the local grower. A fruit-acidity comparison is attributed to the video presenter, not to Ilya11's own tasting. No measured winter exposure, identified trial, or tasting method is given.
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Eyeckr · Hardy Citrus (USDA zone 8 or lower) forum archive · November 18, 2009
http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopicf835.php (opens in a new tab)
Across the five-page archived thread, Eyeckr reports his own open-pollinated Taiwanica seedling, fruit characteristics and later own-root/grafted status. He explicitly says he could not be certain seedlings would come true and lists either Keraji or Owari Satsuma as possible pollen parent, with nearby citrus adding uncertainty. The fruit and hardiness statements are first-person garden/tasting observations without measured cold exposure or standardized sample methods.
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dave_in_nova · Houzz
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5967642/clem-yuz-seedling-tree-an-update (opens in a new tab)
The original post describes the author's separate Clem-Yuz seedling, not Ventura. A featured answer relays hearsay that the Nikita Botanical Garden tree is Ventura Lemandarin and seed-loaded; it gives no firsthand inspection, fruit sample, count, weather or tree details. Only that attributed hearsay is relevant to Ventura.
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alan · Hardy Citrus · January 13, 2014
https://hardycitrus.blogspot.com/2014/01/cold-hardiness-table_13.html (opens in a new tab)
The table's March 27, 2017 update lists Ventura Lemandarin among plants retaining leaves after a reported 21 °F drop following an extended warm period. The table describes small numbers and limited cultural conditions and gives no Ventura tree count, rootstock, exact exposure or plant-level temperature. The page's initial 6 °F introduction summarizes Eyeckr's earlier report but is not linked specifically to the later Ventura table entry.
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Virginia Fruit Grower · YouTube · February 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ajsJYXT3Q (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 0:15–1:24, the presenter gives a first-person account of discovering a Taiwanica seedling, uncertain Satsuma-or-Keraji parentage, fruit and peel traits, and distinct own-root versus high Flying Dragon graft cold outcomes. At 1:32–2:34 he recounts seed transfer to Kyiv and Nikitsky. Some transcript wording is ASR-uncertain; reported temperatures and taste are not independent measurements or cultivar-wide thresholds.
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Virginia Fruit Grower · YouTube · February 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CeMaN8e_sU (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The native captions are Russian; the uploader separately provides rough English text, not a verified translation. The clip reports an early-February crop, two trees and propagation at Nikitsky, but the creator notes the interviewee was not citrus-trained and misidentified the fruit as grapefruit. Keep the translation and identity limitations explicit; no measured cold exposure or fruit sample details are stated.
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Tom McClendon · YouTube · January 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-APGCxfxx4 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 1:46–2:40, the presenter identifies a Ventura Lemandarin seedling planted the prior spring and says it looked somewhat stressed but weathered the winter pretty well. Regional lows around 19–20°F and prolonged cold are context; exact plant exposure and rootstock are not instrumented or stated.
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Virginia Fruit Grower · YouTube · January 18, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxqTbpB9YOY (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 1:42–2:25, the presenter reports that a Ventura Lemandarin in the Virginia Beach yard survived, had severe dieback for an unknown reason and was sending new shoots; nearby shading and backup grafts are mentioned. At 13:30 he points out another backup in a poor, shaded spot. No specific freeze minimum is attributed to the Ventura tree.
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admin · Citrusy.info · February 13, 2024
https://citrusy.info/test-mrazuodolnych-citrusu-zima-2022/ (opens in a new tab)
The Czech original reports one USA-origin Ventura scion grafted on Flying Dragon in a single outdoor container-in-ground winter test; the scion died to the graft union and the rootstock resprouted. The author reports a remote probe 20 km away with a −12 °C winter minimum and says his site was usually about 2 °C warmer; this is not an exact plant-level reading. The scion came from visually similar seedlings the author thought were probably nucellar, not a verified accession. This is the canonical original; the English page is a translation of the same experiment.
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Virginia Fruit Grower · YouTube · February 1, 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpxESUtUtOc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 1:10–1:17 the presenter points out the Ventura Lemandarin and says it does not look too bad. At 3:32–3:49 he identifies a potted Ventura Lemandarin graft as a backup left outside. The around-19°F and multi-day cold descriptions are site-wide, not measured at this plant; its rootstock, pot size, exact exposure and further damage assessment are not reported.
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