This weekend I visited an orange garden, this orange garden is located not far from where I live about 9 kilometers,to get to the lication can be by vehicle.
Location is as foot of mount Gede Pangrango, West Java, the location is as an altitude of 1200 a bove sea level.
Long the way, are treated to views of plantation, before entering the orange garden. These is a gate that informs, you about the location of the orange garden.
The air is quite cool with the background a mountain, fresh and clean air makes the body healthy. After entering the garden area, you will be treated to orange trees and their fruit.
This orange garden is about four years old, and already a lot of fruit,with the number of orange trees about 200 trees,and each tree has been fruittul.
This is an effort,of course,it is not that easy for orange starting from seeds to grow and bear fruit require effort ranging from maintenance pest control and other.
Every visitor to this orange gsrden can pick their own oranges, by choosing orange that ripe on the tree or riching orange that are still half-ripe.
These orange fruit are sold to visitor. After picking the orange, the orange an weighed and then visitor pay for the oranges the pick.
This types of orange is called the dekopon orange,a cross between the Kiyomi orange and the ponkon orange. The kiyomi orange is a cross from Japan in 1949.
Kiyomi orange are monogenous orange so they are often as parent orange,Kiyomi has new hybrid characteristics like Dekopon.
Kiyomi orange has a unique characteristic white a sweet taste and seedless orange aroma.
The ponkon orange also know as the Chinese honey orange,the ponkon is a sweet orange vultivar with large fruit dekopon orange were developed in Indonesia in 2014 in the Ciwiday area of Bandung. According to information from orange farmers. Thank you.