Our orange and clementine varieties
Browse our orange varieties and Clemenules clementines from l’Horta, Valencia. Compare their regional picking windows and intended use. Ask us to confirm availability for your delivery week.
What each of the four is for
Navel Foios is a table orange. The datasheet lists it for the table and does not list it for juice, and it is also three of our five plantings. Navelina and Navel Lane Late are listed for both uses. Clemenules is a clementine, Citrus x clementina rather than Citrus x sinensis, which puts it on its own size table under the marketing standard and makes it a separate line on an order instead of a variant of the oranges.
Where the fruit is going narrows the choice faster than the cultivar name does. A loose display and a commercial juicer ask different questions of the same orange, and the juicer asks first: what the machine will accept comes before any discussion of variety. Sweetness and juice yield have not been measured on our own fruit. Those rows are on the datasheets, visible and empty, and they stay that way until somebody takes a reading.
Valencia is a place, not a variety
An enquiry for Valencia oranges names our region and leaves the fruit unspecified, because Valencia Late is also a cultivar and the word does both jobs at once. We grow no Valencia Late. Navel Lane Late is a late navel and shares nothing with it but the adjective. The full cultivar name on the enquiry removes the ambiguity before it reaches anybody who has to act on it.
The same care pays off with the clementine. Clemenules has its own datasheet, its own picking window and its own size scale, and a specification written for oranges does not carry across to it. Quantity and delivery week are worth stating separately for each product, even when both are going on the same lorry.
What to send us once you have chosen
The size codes on a datasheet describe the framework of the standard, not the contents of a cold store. What we actually pack is a narrower band than the one printed there, and which part of it exists in a given week depends on how the pick fell. Ask for that instead.
An enquiry we can answer the same day has four things in it: the cultivar, a rough quantity in whatever unit you buy in, the destination town and the week. If your customer would take a second cultivar, naming it there and then improves the odds of a yes. For a repeat programme the shape matters more than the first order, so tell us how often and how much each time, and whether the weeks are fixed.
Buying across a whole campaign
A programme that runs from one end of the campaign to the other does not stay on a single cultivar. The varieties here open and close in sequence, so at some point the name on your delivery changes. Agree that change with your customer before it arrives, and keep the cultivar written on the order rather than the word oranges.
If your delivery dates are fixed, start from the weeks and let the variety follow. Some weeks have two picking windows open and give you a choice; others have one. The windows shown on each variety page are the regional ones for that cultivar, and the picking dates of our own plots are still being recorded, so the week you need is checked against what the plots are giving before anything is confirmed.
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.