{"id":20117,"date":"2024-03-21T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=20117"},"modified":"2024-03-21T10:16:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T10:16:47","slug":"ojai-pixies-friends-ranches-extols-the-salient-features-of-ojai-valleys-late-season-citrus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2024\/03\/21\/ojai-pixies-friends-ranches-extols-the-salient-features-of-ojai-valleys-late-season-citrus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojai Pixies: Friends Ranches extols the salient features of Ojai Valley\u2019s \u00a0\u201clate-season citrus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Though California has year-round <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/united-states-of-america\/citrus-fruits\/\">citrus<\/a> availability, it is late-season fruits of early spring such as Ojai pixies that garner much appeal. The pixie is a small tangerine that measures 3 inches across its cross-section. It has an easy-to-peel orange skin that harbors a juicy, seedless, sweet flesh. The fruit grows only in eponymous Ojai Valley, north-east of Los Angeles, courtesy of family growers. One of these growers is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/friendsranches.com\/\"><u>\u00a0Friends Ranches<\/u><\/a>\u00a0, now deep into the 2024 pixie season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selina Wamucii contacted Emily Ayala of Friends Ranches, who explored the defining characteristics of Ojai Pixies.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Ojai Valley in California is unique in growing really great tasting late-season citrus. We get cool night and hot days in the winter months which lends to great flavor development. They like the daily change in temperature&#8211;from 70-90 degrees Fahrenheit to 35-50 degrees at night.\u201d She described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Production Seesaw<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This leads naturally to the fact that 2024 had an early thaw that saw the harvest start as early as late February. This factor and a peculiar production seesaw of pixies affect production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emily explains: \u201cPixie mandarins are very alternate bearing&#8230;having a big crop one year followed by a light crop the following year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, this has to do with the unique biology of each tree.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEach tree is not the same; some trees this year have a heavy crop and will therefore be light next year. &nbsp;This is the main reason people don&#8217;t grow them commercially.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There ends the interesting discourse on a fruit whose total production back in 2012 was around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunset.com\/food-wine\/ojai-pixie-tangerine-peak-season\"><u>2 million pounds<\/u><\/a>. It reaches its peak in April, a time when other tangerines are ebbing. The pixie first grew in Ojai Valley in the late 1960s through a breeding program by the University of California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-about-friends-ranches\"><strong>About Friends Ranches<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Based in Ojai Valley, California, Friends Ranches is a fifth generation family farm that grows and sells ojai pixie tangerines. The farm\u2019s other citrus fruits include blood oranges, Tahoe Gold tangerines, gold nuggets, navels and lemons. &nbsp;The ranch also specializes in natural juices from its fruits.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though California has year-round citrus availability, it is late-season fruits of early spring such as Ojai pixies that garner much appeal. The pixie is a small tangerine that measures 3 inches across its cross-section. It has an easy-to-peel orange skin that harbors a juicy, seedless, sweet flesh. 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