The Tropical Fruit Forum

I have 3 Mexican Cream trees I purchased, the fruits are not large but on the smaller size. Taste is good, but not very good. The Syliva guava is much better and much larger.

The only other non-crunchy guava I haven't tried is Frank's Delores and Jalisco. Brad tells me they are really good so I belive him. Maybe my grafted branch will have one fruit next year so I can taste it. My orange flesh guava should have frutis by next year as well.

Looking good Al, thanks for posting.

They should shut down their website if they are still not delivering any orders. He never did answer me when I sent him a private message/email so there must be something else going on.

Mulberry0126, nice work. But I'm wondering why you wouldn't use a larger tree as the rootstock for this project. It will just keep your multi-grafted branches from growing at a normal pace so your grafts will be slower growing than if it was on a larger rootstock from the beginning. I do have plenty of citrus in ground, so I have the luxury of using larger rootstock in CA. Still looks very impressive though, great job.

kulasa, you said,
"I am not a fan of sumo, I think there's alot more mandarin out there that are better. I prefer gold nugget and owari."

If you like oranges and you like mandarins, then you should like the taste of sumo/shiranui. You must have tasted a dud, try getting some fresh home-grown sumo and decide if you like it or not. I have pretty much every type of oranges and madarins that people say tastes really good, and my sumo/shiranui fruits are very good as Brian mentioned. So, I'm thinking you may have just eaten some average store purchased sumo maybe?

UCR/CCPP website.

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Wow, very nice guys. Nick has a monster leaf. Now I don't know if I want to show my small leaves on my two plants. Nice growth on yours as well Nate. Maybe I better move my plants into a larger pot, the treepot may be too small.

Joe, nice growth on the Shine.

If anyone else has the Shine growng now with leaves, can you post it here, I'd like to compare the leaves of Shine to my tree.

If you show me yours, I will show you mine. I also have a Red Shine grape growing.

Thanks for the reply Brian. One more question on this fruit, does it taste good?

Ok. Yeah, I like the bumpy fruit surface, kind of neat, much more bumps than the ponderosa lemon. The only other fruits I have seen with similar or more bumps are the Kaffir lime and Bizzarria lemon.

Is your lemon fruit large like a grapefruit? Also, if you take some photos of the leaves then I can confirm 100% that it is a macrphylla or not.

Oh, good to know, I will watch my Oliver and Sherry for the red blush.