Thank you all for your nice words for this C/Verdeal
@Jaime .- On the questions about how much rain affects this fruit.. Aim afraid not to have the proper answer..
Of course it doesn't take excessive humidity very well.. but as our fall is generally warm and dry, seldom we have fruit losses due to rains. On old times, Nature had it well planned...... first rains would show up 3rd week of Sept..to help and have a more or less moistened soil to ease tillage and preparation for the cereal planting.. At that time there were still plenty of fruit on the trees and rain would certainly damage but the losses were minimal... as all those fruit were happily taken by cattle...pigs.. poultry etc.. or even to distillers... but those were the days!
@ tsparozi .- Agree with your comment on the contrasting colors.
@ serge .- Nice to hear that those cuttings have rooted fine.. Hope to hear further news next season
@ pino .- There are a number of strains of Cotia.. may be you have this one (?) .. A lot depends on the source.
Francisco