Although the Murcott does not have an attractive exterior color, it is an excellent eating quality fruit with thin skin and good internal flesh color and high sugar content.
Trees tend to alternate bear.
Heavy cropping can result in extensive limb breakage and tree collapse. The condition may be partially alleviated by extra fertilizer applications and early fruit thinning by pruning during heavy fruiting years. Trees on trifoliate and trifoliate hybrid rootstocks such as Carrizo citrange and Swingle citrumelo also appear to develop a scion-budunion incompatibility at about 10 years or older, a problem which can further contribute to tree collapse. Such incompatibility combined with the overcropping enhances tree collapse and death. Trees are normally cold hardy, but are highly susceptible to cold damage when heavily laden.