The Tropical Fruit Forum

Normal fertilizer, but I think the soil is just good in my area. All my trees seem to have large fruits (loquats, citrus, persimmons) without much care, just mainly water.

You want to try the Banpeiyu pollen?

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I communicated with the girl who went there and ate some of these fruits, she said it is supposed to be the best there. Has been around for only 7 years. I thought the Mizuho was supposed to be one of the best and I have it grafted, taste was ok, nothing special. My other varieties are better tasting than the Mizuho but it was the first year it had fruits so taste may improve next year.

Nice that you are going to Japan, try to find/buy a fruit called Queen Nagasaki loquat. It measures in at 150 grams according to a person who went there to visit relatives.

I found a person who has a seedling tree in SoCal that has fruits larger than any of my Peluche fruits (117 grams). This seedling tree has fruits which weighs 120 grams, without thinning the fruit cluster. I know this to be true since I went to his house and picked the fruits myself. It could replace the Peluche as the largest loquat fruit, wow. When I get chance, I will be posting the largest loquat fruits this season showing the fruits side by side.

No, it is for who ends up being the NBA champs so more games to go.

Wow, that's growing well. I do notice the Red Himalayan is probably the most vigorous grower on my grafted trees as well. I trimmed the top of the branches to 10ft last year and it is already 20ft again so I will need to cut it again in a week or so.

poncirsguy, your FD does not look like it is 2.5 yrs old, it looks much older. I have a 35 year old FD and it's trunk diameter is 2". How large is your FD trunk diameter? Maybe the photo makes it look larger than it is.

Till, I saved some pollen of the Banpeiyu pomelo if you can use it. My tree had flowers a month or so ago, now its holding fruits (yah) for the first time this year. I also have both the small fruit (no thorns) and larger fruit (big thorns) Kaffir lime so I should be able to get some pollen when it flowers.

Joe, is there a date when the sale will be open? I did send him an email but have not heard back.

My Persian has leaves but I don't see any fruits on the branches. It is about 1 year old from grafting, length is about 10 ft tall, no fruits. I hope it will have fruits in my location. Never tasted a morus nigra fruit.

It should not be a compatibility issue. I have grafted most of these mandarin combinations and never seen any with compatibility issues of the graft. Yours looks to me to be a possible albino type color starting on the scionwood. I have trees that have lighter color branches, almost yellow (branch and leaves) which are grafted on normal green branch lemon tree and it survived ok. You yellow graft will eventually go back to green so nothing to worry about (I think). If it starts to turn all light yellow (healthy branch & leaves) then it will just be a weak branch and needs the green portion of the rootstock to nurse it.

This year 2023 Peluche loquat taste report. I have much more fruits on the Peluche grafted branches this year so maybe I can get a better result from my sample taste test.

I did notice that the Peluche fruit will turn slightly yellow at full size fruits, then start to slowly turn yellow to dark yellow when it is fully ripe. One problem I notice is that some fruits will not make it to fully dark yellow skin (ripe) so the taste is inferior to those that actually hangs on the tree until they are ripe.

I'll take some brix reading of the Peluche this year, but I know before I do this, the brix numbers will be lower than last year. All my loquat varieties have lower brix number since it did not get hot here in SoCal as normal years.

I will also show some photos of the largest fruiting loquats that I grow. Here's the ones that I see that are the largest loquats:
1 Peluche, one fruit can weigh as much as 110grams
2. Imperiale (Italy), weigh as much as 100 grams
4. Gulielmo II (Italy)
5. BS-Ester
6. Khaled (newly found seedling tree), can weigh up to 120 grams
7. Vista White, not as heavy but the fruits look large since it has a round/rock like shape. I have one large fruit on my tree so when it ripens next week, I will post all the fruit photos of these loquat giants.

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If anyone has photos and weight of their largest loquat fruits, please post them here and if you know the variety name, identify it in your post.

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Alex, wow, I didn't know the Pantin fruits get so large. Very nice looking fruit.
If you take cuttings from the tree, I would be interested in buying a few small (1/4"-1/2" diameter) cuttings. I think I have a green sapote which has not had any flowers yet so I want to graft a fruit scionwood eventually on the tree. My tree is about 8 ft tall (skinny, no side branches).