The Tropical Fruit Forum

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.

Here's my photos from yesterday's tasting.

It looks like I will have some cuttings I can sell of the Marcus Pumpkin avocado cuttings from a mature tree that is about 30 feet tall, has been fruiting for many years.

I did get to taste half a fruit that was already picked and left in the refrigerator for a few weeks at least. It has yellow flesh, looks similar to a giant Reed to me. Taste is good, creamy, sweet, I liked it.

I planned to just graft them to my trees, but it appears I have some extra to share. I am limiting the purchase of only 1 to a member.

1.) Marcus Pumpkin cutting, qty=1, $20
2.) Cuttings will be about 1/4" diameter scions, length about 6 ", minimum of 4 leaf nodes.
3). You must be a forum member for 6 months minimum, no exception. Please don't message me if you don't meet this requirement.
4.) Shipping cost $11, USPS small flat rate box.
5.) Total Cost = $31
6.) PayPal payment only, use Friends & Family option to pay.
7.) Lower 48 state.
8,) I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone, if I don't reply to your message, I will not sell it to you.
9.) Send me a message to make the purchase, not requesting below on this post.

I'll post some photos later.
 

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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.

Yes, I figured that much from my web search. Just don't know many people who grow it, or have tasted it

Sir Graftalot, sorry but my question was for the person who posted all these new photos from China.

=> fanshiliu, please reply if you can to my questions.

What is the difference between the Four Season Red and Carmine?

Is it because Four Season Red has fruits all four season of the year?

I think the Sylvia guava I found is more similar to the Four Season than the Carmine. Can you tell me the weight of the largest Four Season fruits?

The largest Sylvia guava (if you saw my posts) is 243 grams, which is larger than any Carmine photos I have seen.