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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: For Sale: Mulberry Cuttings
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I've grafted Austin and Jan's Best on Black Beauty and they grew well with no problems.
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I have a old (30yrs) Cocktail grapefruit that has very large and tasty fruits, this tree always has large (3-4" long) thorns every time I trim it back from 20 ft down to 10f. The trunk on this tree is about 10" diameter. Good thing about thorns is it will keep the rats and squirels from climbing the tree to get to the fruits.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.
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.
One of two C22 cuttings I started around Xmas rooted. I just used a tall low budget seedling propagation dome and peat plugs and Clonex gel.
Does growing citrus rootstock from cuttings rather than seed affect its vigor etc.? I've heard that air layering mango for example produces a very week plant.
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.