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חסורי מיחסרא והכי קתני: אתרוג — אחר לקיטתו למעשר ואחר חנטה לשביעית. ורבותינו נמנו באושא: אחר לקיטתו, בין למעשר בין לשביעית.
The Talmud answers: The baraita is incomplete and is teaching the following: Avtolemos testified in the name of 5 Elders: An etrog follows the time of its picking in the matter of tithes and it follows the time of the formation of its fruit in the matter of the Sabbatical Year. But our rabbis voted in Usha and decided that an etrog follows the time of its picking, both in the matter of tithes and in the matter of the Sabbatical Year.
איתמר, רבי יוחנן וריש לקיש אמרי תרוייהו: אתרוג בת ששית שנכנסה לשביעית — לעולם ששית. כי אתא רבין אמר רבי יוחנן: אתרוג בת ששית שנכנסה לשביעית, אפילו כזית ונעשית ככר — חייבין עליה משום טבל.
It was stated that the amora’im of Eretz Yisrael discussed this issue: R' Yoḥanan and Reish Lakish both say: An etrog from the 6th year of the Sabbatical cycle that entered into, and was picked in, the Sabbatical Year is always and for all purposes considered as 6th-year produce. When Ravin came from Eretz Yisrael to Babylonia, he said that R' Yoḥanan said: A 6th-year etrog that entered into, and was picked in, the Sabbatical Year, although at the beginning of the Sabbatical Year it was only the size of an olive-bulk and during the Sabbatical Year it grew to the size of a loaf of bread, is considered 6th-year produce that is subject to tithing, and if one eats it without tithing, he is liable for eating untithed produce.
תנו רבנן: אילן שחנטו פירותיו קודם חמשה עשר בשבט — מתעשר לשנה שעברה, אחר חמשה עשר בשבט — מתעשר לשנה הבאה. אמר רבי נחמיה: במה דברים אמורים — באילן שעושה שתי בריכות בשנה.
A baraita states: A tree whose fruits were formed before the 15th of Shevat is tithed in accordance with the previous year, and if the fruits were formed after the 15th of Shevat it is tithed in accordance with the coming year. R' Neḥemya said: In what case is this statement said? It is said with regard to a tree that produces two broods, two crops, in a single year.