The Tropical Fruit Forum

I will update this sale today.

I will be finished shipping out all orders by Friday, and I still have extra cuttings. So if you want to buy 1-2 cuttings, send me a message. Here's the update for the sale:

1. Large Yellow Passion fruit cutting, qty=2 max, let me know the quantity you like to buy.

2. You must be a TFF forum member for a minimum of 6 months.

3a. Cost is $10 for one cutting, length that will fit a USPS small flat rate box (5"x8")

3b. For CA residence, I should be able to use a slightly longer box (for same ship cost) for your cutting so it may be up to 12 inches long, and probably can have some leaves on the cut branch for rooting.

4. Cost to ship is USPS priority, $11. This is the small flat rate box, typically 2-day delivery.

5. Total Cost => $21 for 1 cutting.
5a. Total Cost => $31 fpr 2 cuttings.

6. Payment with PayPal only, "Friends & Family" option.

7. Lower 48 states

8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone, if I don't reply then you are not getting on the list.

9. Send me a message to make the purchase. I will provide Paypal info, and after shipping you will get a tracking number (USPS priority mail).

These cutitngs were taken last weekend, 4/13-4/14. Passion fruit cuttings keep for a few weeks with no problem as long as it has moisture and out of the sun.

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So, maybe the Sylvia guava grows larger (weight) than any of the Carmine series so it may not be from the same family of guavas.

Sir Graftalot, if you have eaten any of them, and measured the weight, can you reply to my question on weight as well.

No, he only had that last one in his refrig, I guess I can go and ask him to let me try 1/4 of the fruit since we seem to be having a conflicting taste results.

Let me email the guy since I'm going over there tomorrow and see if he can save me a little piece to try or it will be another 12-18 months for the next round of ripe fruits from his tree.

Not selling any more loquat or any other fruit cuttings, to much work, need to do my own things.

But no, the China Whiite is sweeter than Vista White.

fanshiliu, thank you for posting these photos of the Carmine guava. If you can translate in English any of your comments that would be nice.

I have not seen these Carmine guava photos so your pictures are appreciated, thanks.

I think there were a few other TFF members that mention this to me as well. It sure does look very similar to the guava fruit you posted, I'm excited to see this.

The person who has this large tree (height about 17 feet) told me his relative brought the tree from Taiwan. He has 2 trees, his tree and one more at another house.

So far, for me this guava is my favorite of all of the ones I have eaten. Still did not taste the frutis from JF (Frank) pnk/red flesh guava called Delores and Jalisco. My grafted branches of this one is still growing slow and may not get a fruit on it for another year. If anyone else (besides Brad) is growing Frank's guava, please post some photos of it here so I can see what it looks like. I surprised that not many if anyone else has Frank's guava fruiting yet.

I saw the fruit I posted of the Marcus Pumpkin, it had no fibers. The person who grows this tree said it is creamy, sweet, and tastes good. You must have had a bad one. The inside of the large fruit is yellow, like a Hass, but much more flesh to eat.

I went to a CRFG member's house to pick up my Marcus Pumpkin cuttings and he has 3 large lucuma trees. At least one had fruits, the trees are tall (over 20 ft) so its hard to see what the fruits look like. Maybe when I go back there I will get up on the 10ft ladder and try to get a photo of the fruit to show.

Anyone know how easy it is to graft the tree to a seedling?

I might go over to Alex's place and get a scion wood from him if he has the moist variety that you guys like. If you know which variety is the best tasting let me know and I might check with Alex. I'm not really into lucuma, just checking for Aastair really.

The person who lives here in Fullerton said I can take a few cuttings since we are trading right now.

When I looked up and saw his fruit on this large tree, it seemed to be the pointy tip fruit. Like the first one in the photo above, not the SD fruit.

China White is sweeter.

But the brix reading a few years ago showed they were close.

China White: brix = 17, 16.5, 17.5

Vista White: brix = 13, 16, 17

The fruits of Vista White is almost 2x the size of China White. My Vista White is very productive so it has as much fruits in the cluster as the China White.

 

Hi Jack, the Russell scions I'm grafting is from a large tree in Hawaii, here's the fruits from the mother tree.





This is from the one tree.

Ok, will check my grafts later, I did my grafts 3 weeks after the last shipment to people who purchased them.

Here's my seed germination status. At least there will be seedlings.

Here's what the seed looks like.