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If anyone paid for the passion fruit cutting and did not get a tracking number, then please send me a message to find out why.

I still have enough cuttings now for anyone who did not get it. I would like to close out this post by the end of this week so send me a message if there are any issues with your order to me.

Thanks

Can you take a photo of your tree showing the original Eureka portion (variety grafted) and the rootstock shoots you are talking about. It sounds to me that your grafted scionwood is dead so the rootstock has taken over the tree. This happens a lot, I have seen on many nursery purchased tree. The rootstock will usually be stronger than the grafted scion so if there is any disease or other issues, the top of the tree usually will die back first, then it may come back or just die and the rootstock will still be alive and maybe that is what you are seeing. When this happens to my potted trees, I just let the rootstock grow out and graft another variety onto it. For Eureka lemons, here is CA they usually use macrophylla for the rootstock so if you show a photo, I can tell you what it is.

I found a few photos I took on our field trip to the UCR/CCPP citrus grove.

Here's the Maru kumquat. Since this kumquat tasted the best, I took a few photos of this tree, not the others.

I have seen many kumquat trees with lots of fruits. It seems all the Nagami kumquat trees I know from friends and fruit collectors has the most fruits. Meiwa might be the worst fruit production of the kumquats.

So, to give you an example, I have seen Nagami trees that are in pots (4-5 ft tall) with over 500 ripe fruits at a time. Also have seen last year ripened Nagami fruits on in-ground older trees (maybe 7-15 yrs) with over 2,000 fruits. You can pick 1 pound of fruits daily for a few weeks. I got some of those very productve tree cuttings and have gotten fruits on the grafts the next year. I did have some photos but now I can't find it. If I find the photos, I will post it for you. These trees are from 4-5 people I know. I have Meiwa, Maru, and Nagami (recent graft, small branch) and the Meiwa has low fruit production. But when I went to the UCR/CCPP citrus research grove, their Maru (older trees) had good number of fruits that we got to pick and eat. The Nagami trees there at UCR still had the most fruits. It's really easy to spot a healty Nagami tree when it has fruits, it is usually completley covered with fruits so the entire canopy will be orange color and fruits galore.

The seedless nagami (Nordmann kumquat) also has the same amount of fruits (tons) just like the seeded version, Nagami. I can find the photo of the Nordmann fruits since I remember recently taking photos of that tree this year.

I like your list of budwood ordered.

What made you pick the Atwood navel, is there something special you like about that one?

Wow, didn't know you grew so many fruit trees in your greenhouse, very nice and healthy trees.

Nice video G

Brain, maybe you should add the giant yellow passion fruit vine in one area of your greenhouse. Fruit tastes good.

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I tried grating some named varieties of canistel on my seedling trees (2) and none of them took. I did this a few times and both times they failed. I hope the lucuma grafting will be better.

Over now.

But if you live local, we still have online plant sale, you need to pickup since they do not mail any plants. Just check the OC CRFG website to see what plants are left for sale.

I do have a few seedling Canistel that is large enough to graft onto.

Ok, thank you for the English translation of your info, appreciate it.

Yes, maybe someone got the seeds from the Carmine fruits and grew it in Taiwan since this one seems to be the only one I know around here on the forums that is this large. No one has mentioned they grow it yet.

That's why I'm sharing the cuttings with 10-20 members of this forum so next year, they can spread cuttings to other friends, and we should be able to archive this nice guava fruit. I'm also growing out as many seeds as I can from the fruits so that if the people who bought the cuttings are not successful grafting or rooting it, I should have seedlings next year to share. I just so happy that I stumbled across this wonderful guava.