Most early fruit has excellent on-tree coloring at this time. Fresh fruit packing houses are all very active shipping for the upcoming holiday season. Harvesting crews are moving all types of early oranges, white and colored grapefruit, early tangerines, tangelo and a few K-Early Citrus Fruit. Most of the processing plants are open or plan to open within the week. Maturity is progressing very well due to good growing conditions.
Caretakers are clean-cutting cover crops for the upcoming winter season.
A few cleanup sprays are being applied for fresh crops. Dead tree removal continues. Growers are burning the dead trees and some of the branches from hedging and topping. Some resets are still being planted. Harvesting to meet the holiday demand continued at an active pace.