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Midsweet Orange
Type and parentage: Sweet Orange
Average diameter (inches): 2 3/4 - 3
Seeds per fruit: 6-24
Commercial harvest season: January - March
Midsweet is a midseason orange that attains a good brix:acid ratio about February 1. It produces slightly less fruit but higher pound of solids and has a better juice color than Hamlin. Fruit ripen later than Pineapple and hold well on the tree through March. Trees are more cold hardy and less susceptible to pre-harvest fruit drop than Pineapple.
Selections available at the Immokalee Foundation:
MIDSWT-S-DPI-800-6-10-X-E: This is a seedling selection of the Homosassa orange and was released by the USDA in 1987.
University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, 1999
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Bureau of Citrus Budwood Registration
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