Citrus Growers Forum

morphinelover · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:29 pm Post subject:

Laaz wrote:

I just smoked a bunch of T-bones with Sanbokan budwood. Had to prune the tree back and rootstock is not slipping. Gives meat a great flavor by the way.

I've spent a great deal of time reading and learning about smoking meat but that is the first time I've ever heard of using citrus wood. I've used cherry, plum, apple, crabapple, and pecan. I usually buy one of those big bags of wood that has a oak, hickory, and maple blend and it does pretty good. Last Thanksgiving my dad and I smoked a turkey using cherry wood and it was the best tasting turkey I've ever ate. Everyone kept asking me what I used and how to do it like that.

Laaz · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject:

Citrus wood adds a great flavor to meats. JoeReal is the one who turned me onto it.

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Millet · Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject:

Out here in the West, people frequestly smoke meats using Mesquite wood. Millet (1,443-)

Kamco · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject: Sanbokan

My small Sanbokan tree, photos and discussion:

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Patty_in_wisc · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the pic Kam. Beautiful fruit. I see snow on ground..is it in ground or in a pot?
Sometimes I snip off fresh rosemary,thyme or whatever I have & throw them on coals. Adds flavor to meat & fish & smells GREAT.
Still wanting a bite of those sanbokans!

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Ned · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:23 am Post subject:

Kamco,

Your Sanbokan looks different from the ones I have seen. The peel is orange, as opposed to yellow, and the flesh of the fruit has an orange color that mine lacks. It does not seem to have the number of seeds a Sanbokan normally has and, though I don't remember how many sections mine have, I looks like yours may have as many as 12. I am pretty sure mine did not have that many. Also your peel is thinner and adheres to the flesh closer than a Sambo. Could yours be something like a Mineola Tangelo?

Ned

Millet · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject:

I go along with all five differences that Ned points out. Kamco's fruit does not look like any Sambokan that I have ever grown, plus the peel is to smooth for a Sanbokan. Kamco's fruit looks like it could possible be hybrid. Especially big color difference in the pulp.- Millet (1.438-)

Laaz · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:51 pm Post subject:

I agree, not a Sanbokan. The leaves are not correct either.

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Kamco · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:42 pm Post subject:

Hi all,
Patty,
it was placed on the ground, but only during taking of a photo. I had it in cold room during winter. I growed it in Slovakia, Poprad region, at the foot of the High Tatras mountains. Clima and other about Poprad:

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Ned and others,
it is possible, also our Czech citrus guru Mr. Broza Cool

says that Sanbokan looks like other. But I bought it as Citrus sulcata. Rolling Eyes

The tree was very small, only 1 year after grafting, trifoliata is as rootstock. After this, the tree did not fruit 3 years, now it probably will be, it has about 20 buds.
The peel was yellow/orange, the flesh was sweet, sourish and it tasted like ..... a soap. Wink

Mineola Tangelo? Perhaps.... time gives an answer Rolling Eyes

Never mind, I'm enjoying from it. Wink

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Laaz · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:14 pm Post subject:

Kamco have a look here

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I just took these photos a couple months ago for Jorma. Sanbokan should have no orange coloring at all.

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Kamco · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject:

Oh, so many differences! My small citrus is really not a Sanbokan, probably. Rolling Eyes

Thanks for an interesting link.
Kam

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Kamco · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject:

My citrus marked as Sanbokan Rolling Eyes

has fruit shaped like pear, is it similar to your Sanbokan fruit?
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Laaz · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject:

Give me a few minutes I will go take a photo of my fruit.

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Laaz · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:36 pm Post subject:

Ok here you go. Sanbokan lemon fruit & leaf. I left three fruit on the tree all winter & they were still good in March, but no orange at all just bright yellow fruit & flesh.

When ripe the fruit are as large as grapfruit.

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Kamco · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:26 am Post subject:

Thanks, Laaz.

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