Size code
Orange size 1, and why a clementine 1 is smaller
Size 1 covers the second largest band on the orange scale. The one entry our catalogue holds against this number is a clementine, and a clementine is sized on its own table under the same regulation, where code 1 means a far smaller fruit. Read that row as a fact about the cultivar, never as a diameter.
The figures
| Size code | 1 |
|---|---|
| Diameter range | 87–100 mm |
| Varieties we pack in this size | None of ours is packed mainly in this size |
| Within the range of | Clementina Clemenules |
| Mandarin and clementine size 1 under the same standard | 63–74 mm |
What it changes on an order
You run mixed citrus lines
One gauge setting cannot serve both tables. A packer moving a line from clementines to oranges has to change what the number on the label means, and a specification carrying the bare digit gets read against whichever table the reader happens to have open.
You are auditing a supplier's paperwork
Marking rules ask for the species and the variety on the package alongside the class and the size. Where both appear, the code is unambiguous. Where the species is missing, a bare number tells you nothing you can act on.
You are writing a tender
Spelling out the fruit and the table next to the code costs one line and removes the entire argument. Tenders carrying only the digit get answered twice, once by each reading, and you pay for the confusion in comparison time.
What this note does not settle
- Our clementine is listed in this code on the clementine table. It is not an orange of this diameter, and nothing here should be read as an offer of one.
- No orange in our catalogue declares this code at all, so availability is not the question this page answers.
- Whether a buyer's own paperwork points at the orange table or the mandarin one is settled by the contract. A page cannot settle it for you.
One digit, two tables
The regulation sizes each kind of citrus on a table of its own, and the tables were never built to line up. A mandarin, a lemon and an orange all begin their scale at a low number and all mean something different by it. Nothing warns you. The digit looks like a digit.
Our catalogue shows the trap instead of hiding it. The row above lists a clementine against this code because that is what the grower declared, on the clementine table, and reading it as an orange diameter puts you out by a wide margin. Anyone who buys mixed citrus meets this once, and once is plenty.
How to write it so nobody misreads it
Put the species next to the number. Write the fruit, the table and the code together and your specification stops depending on whoever opens it next. One line, in a document that gets read by people in three countries who have never met.
Marking rules already push in that direction, since a package has to carry the species and the variety alongside the class and the size. A specification that follows the label rather than inventing its own shorthand is one that travels. It also turns an arrival check into something a warehouse does without ringing anybody.
Where a buying house runs oranges and easy peelers through one system, the safest habit is keeping the two scales in separate fields. Sharing a column is how a clementine order ends up measured against an orange band.
Talk to the grower
Tell us the variety, the sizes and the delivery week you need. You get a delivered price and what we can commit to in writing, from the person who picks the fruit.
The grower handles enquiries. Response times are still to be confirmed.