University of Georgia Extension agent Jake Price recently summarized yields for three recent seasons from Owari satsuma trees in a rootstock trial. Last year, 2023, was the last harvest year for data collection in the trial. Fruit load of Owari on X-639 rootstock in fall of 2021 averaged 571 pounds per tree. Price reported that yield in the trial plot peaked in 2021 with a yield of about 20,300 pounds on 60 trees, which would be close to 61,000 pounds of fruit on a per-acre basis.
Yields were expected to decline in 2022 because satsumas tend to alternate bear, and that was the case. The trees in the trial yielded 16,080 pounds of fruit in 2022, which would have been 48,240 pounds of fruit per acre. "I considered that an off year," Price commented.
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