The Tropical Fruit Forum

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

You can use HLB resistant rootstock and then graft the other lemons you like.

US812, US897, US942 are all good rootstock.

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Brian, that's a new one, never heard anyone have that issue with one fruit.

ok, I did extend this sale until next Monday.

Here in the US, we have two seedless lemons, the Seedless Lisbon and Seedless Eureka. Both are very good tasting.

We can't get the Onix orange, looks neat, but we can get the Amoa 8 Tangor which is a darker flesh red color.

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The Campbell white sapote from Julian is fairly priced at $45 plus shipping. I have purchased 2 plants, one last year and second one on 3/6/24. The grafted tree is old enough to ship, looks to me the graft is maybe 9 months to 1 year old. The graft union is healed so there is nothing wrong with the trees he is selling and shipping out.

Maybe this variety could be a slow grower or depending on the seedling rootstock it grows a little slower than other white sapotes. I germinate a lot of seedling white sapotes plants and they don't grow much the first year, by the second year it will be much better size.

Here's the photos I said I would take of my two plants purchased from Lara farms.








 

If the molted branch is the lower one in your photo, then you might want to cut it before it returns to all green. I had a similar branch on my variegated sumo and it turn back to green, ended up cutting it off. Now the tree is all variegated again.

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Yup. my other loquats are still green or no large size fruits yet. I have a few Big Jim fruit pinnacles that show a few fuirts with yellow now.

oh, good. Yes, I do notice the red blush in on the side of the fruit that gets the sun directly.

I don't see this on none of my other loquat fruits, it may also be the time of the year it ripens. This one seems to be one of my earliest to start ripening and it also is one with a lot of fruits on the cluster of fruits.

I can respond to your question about cutting the green branches to let the variegated branches grow more. Yes, you want to cut off any of the non-variegated branches if your tree is strong enough with just the variegated branches. If your tree is still too small, you may want to wait until the variegated branches have established.

I have a large, variegated Valencia orange tree which is over 30 years old, plenty of variegated branches, tons of variegated fruits each year. I deliberately leave a few green branches so that I can still get both types of fruits. There is a difference with the Valencia orange. The normal green branches have nice size fruits about the size of navel oranges. The variegated Valencia branches (95% of the tree) will have smaller stripped green/yellow fruits that turns yellow when ripe. These variegated fruits are 2/3 the size of the normal fruits and is not as sweet.