The Tropical Fruit Forum

Has anyone tried this pomelo available from the CCPP?  They probably got the name wrong.  Seems like there was a mix up according to their description.  Pics look nice and possibly tasty.

If it was a supermarket pummelo, my guess would be Chandler.

Kaz, why don't you donate some original Cocktail wood to CCPP so they can stop spreading that sucky bud mutation.  I already told Rock at CCPP about the different Cocktails in 2019.

Here's my original post that Kaz's answer is for:

Kaz, do you have the smaller thin skinned version of Cocktail?  I planted a cocktail grapefruit bought from a local nursery after tasting some from the supermarket that were delicious and were large orange size with thin skin.  The fruits from my tree turn out much larger with thicker skin and didn't taste good, so I decided to graft Cocktail budwood from CCPP and unfortunately these turn out the same as my tree.  After the fifth year of disappointing fruit I chopped it down.  Maybe there was a Cocktail bud mutation at some point at the CCPP.

On a positive note, the Rojo Blanco turned out super flavorful for me.  High acid and high sugar with low bitterness in the skin.  It refused to grow for the first two years on Seville Sour, but grew quickly grafted on C-22.

Yes, that's what the yummy cocktail fruit form the supermarket looked like!  My tree had fruits that looked more like oroblanco in size and skin thickness, but full of cocktail seeds and lacking flavor.  That just blows my mind that the interstock/rootstock can make that much of a difference.  I don't think there many other citrus with this severe of a difference.  Rare exception of a citrus that doesn't taste better on sour orange rootstock.

That's very cool!

Psidium guinense x: A potential hybrid guinense species. Species confirmed by Leslie Landrum, who believes it to be a guinense or possible hybrid of.  Fruit was delicious. Very nice tart/sweet ratio with only a couple of seeds and lots of flesh! A really beautiful and low growing, but slow plant. Large showy  flowers and absolutely something I want to grow a lot more of.

Looks kinda like P. australe or what Marcos calls Hybrid Araza.

I have a 4 years in the ground Chislett navel orange.  This is the second year it's set fruit and it's already very good.  It's tastier than Washington and almost as good as Cara Cara.

It might be the best late navel variety according the UC research.  Much later season than the popular Lane Late navel and less granulation problems.  My experience is it's tastier and more productive than Frost Washington navel.  Also it's juice won't turn bitter like Washington due to lower limonin!  The only drawback like Cara Cara is that it's harder to peel.

Too bad some nursery bought the exclusive rights to it in the US, so CCPP can't offer it's budwood anymore.  Does anyone know if these rights expire?  If so, When?

Has anyone tried the patented Kinnow LS and Fairchild LS mandarin varieties?  They were available from CCPP for a short time years ago.  According to google patent search, their patents expire around 2030.  I was lucky to get Daisy Seedless wood from CCPP before they sold the license.  It is excellent and very low seeded.

One of two C22 cuttings I started around Christmas rooted.  I just used a tall low budget seedling propagation dome and peat plugs and Clonex gel.

Is anyone growing the Kinnow LS variety?  Is it good?
I have Daisy low seed version.

Salustiana is an orange I don't hear anything about, But it's been an excellent orange for me in Phoenix AZ. 
It's my most heat and cold tolerant orange and very vigorous.  It bears heavily and consistently every year and earlier than most.
Just to compare it to some well know oranges:
It's earlier and more heat resistant than Frost Washington.
More cold hardy, peelable and seedless than Valencia.
More seedless and tasty than Trovita.

It's a blonde fleshed orange with good flavor and balance that's excellent for juicing and also peelable.  Did I mention how tough it is?

Can I ask which trees tolerated the heat well? I live north of you but we are only a little cooler than you with summers over a hundred for almost 4 months reaching to 114 sometimes. My problem is I also need cold hardy varieties to make impart the winter.

I think many mandarins would do well for you especially Kinnow, Encore and Lee&Nova.  Orlando, Gold Nugget and Tango should be good too.  For oranges I would go with  Salustiana, Trovita, Washington and Moro.  Calamondin and limequats are a good substitude for lemon and lime if it's too cold for Meyer lemon.   Hirado Buntan, Valentine and Mato Buntan are more heat and cold hardy than other pomelos /pummelos.  Why do we need two ways to spell Citrus maxima?

Maybe I should. But I got 30 other varieties from them that were correct.  This is the only wrong one and it was grafted some years ago.