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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 41033, member: 944"] That is the same here. Most if not all citrus is alternate bearing here. Your climate is hotter than here. A real hot day may get to 40C but usually it hovers around 37C during the summer. Here the normal citrus harvest is in middle to late fall, just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas. What some of the big growers do is try to make a spring Mandarin crop too, but I would guesstimate that a spring crop is only about 25%, if that, of their orchards. Like I said, it is a big gamble and if there are substantial rains during their dormant period that crop is lost. Although if Mother Nature is kind they can make as much or more than off of their fall harvests of Mandarin's [/QUOTE]