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Hi, if anyone still has a grafted Fairhaven white sapote (from JF), I would be interested in buying 2 cuttings of it. I had some nice branches grafted with fruits before I had to dig up my large seedling tree and it died in the process.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / CLOSED
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:45:15 AM »
This seedling loquat is one of my old time favorite, that is why I named it after my wife Sheri.

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This post is for those of you who purchased the Sylvia (old name Betty) guava cuttings. color

Anyone else, please do not post here, make your own post.

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Ok, I shipped the last Betty/Sylvia guava cuttings to all of those people who paid for them. Today I will send out a few more because I didn't have it properly recorded, just read all my message from Feb 26 - March14.

I will post the list here until Friday so if you don't see your name on it and I missed you, please send me a reminder message, not posting it here. I will be able to see your message easier and I can communicate easier one-one in the message.

For this weeks last shipment (yesterday and today), all the cuttings were from my visit to the tree on Tuesday (3/12).

For some of you that didn't get the Free seeds (qty=5) I planned to give, you can let me know next week if you still want the seeds, just pay for the envelop/padded to ship it to you. I checked all the fruits I cut open and I will have enough seeds for everyone to get 5 seeds. Only a few people have the seeds in their package I sent out, the rest of you will need to wait until starting next Tuesday if you pay for the mailing cost. If your state does not allow shipping of guava seeds, then you need to let me know.

=> if I missed your order, you can always tell me to cancel it, and I will refund your payment.

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Citrus General Discussion / Citrus Pollen Collecting
« on: March 14, 2024, 12:58:02 AM »
This is just a note to those people that I said I would send out some citrus pollen when my trees have flowers.

For USA residence:
You will need to pay for the cost to ship it, $11, USPS priority mail, small box to fit the plastic cup I will put the flowers in. No charge for the flowers I send you.

For International residence:
TBD, will contact each one of you to coordinate shipping. May just get pollen and send it in an envelop (if I can do it properly).

The citrus that are starting to flower now and should open soon are:
1. Valentine Pomelo
2. Reinking Pomelo
3. Golden Grapefruit- only a few flowers
4. Bearss Lime
5. Albino Lemon- flower buds just starting, not open yet.
6. Citrus macrophylla
7. Banpeiyu- flower buds just starting, not open yet.
8. Thong Dee
9. Variegated Blood Orange
10. Cara Cara Orange
11. Variegated Valencia orange
12. Albino Lemon
13. Sumo
14. Roy pomelo


Please send me a message if you were one of those people that I said I would send some flowers or collect pollen as you wanted.

=> Before I send you any flowers, I need to know that you are working on citrus breeding, or have already sent you messages saying I will send these to you.

I have never collected the pollen so you may need to give me some detailed instructions on how you want me to do it.

This is for those of you that are trying to cross pomelo with something else.

As I collect the flowers, I will post update here, first person to send me message for it will get priority. I will give you 2-3 flowers, if no one else requests them, then I may send you more for that collection day.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Closed
« on: March 11, 2024, 10:26:16 PM »
CLOSED, sale is over, thanls.

Hope your guavas root or the graft is successful.


All orders have been shipped out, no further cuttings will be sold for this year as far as I know.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Closed
« on: March 11, 2024, 12:37:59 AM »
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Citrus General Discussion / Need Help with ID of citrus rootstock
« on: March 07, 2024, 06:26:15 PM »
If anyone recognizes this rootstock, please let me know what it is.
Also, how is the fruit size and appearance?

If you have this rootstock with fruits, please post a photo of the fruit.

Thanks in advance.



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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / CLOSED
« on: March 06, 2024, 01:08:57 AM »
CLOSED.

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Marta posted in one of the other forums that her website has many cuttings (140) available starting 3/1/24.

Here's the website link below:

https://reallygoodplants.com/

She has good cuttings which are hard to find so they sell out very fast. I suggest you place your order now.

I just order a few more items I wanted to graft. Her price is reasonable, cuttings are fresh and she knows what she is doing so you should be getting the correct variety listed.

She is selling a few yangmei cuttings, hard to find mulberry like Skinner, Taiwan Long, Himalayan Steve Murray.

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I had some inquires in the new guava I found (new unknown) so I did try to see if I can get some cuttings from this tree. Check out the photo of the Betty guava.

CLOSED

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If anyone is interested in tasting the Pearl guava, I bought some from Weee and it was not bad. I also had the Crystal seedless fruit last year and they are about the same as far as flavor and taste that I can detect. Fruits are large, but the Crystal is seedless so it has that advantage. The Pearl guava is a large fruit so even if you remove the seeds (spoon out), there is a lot of flesh to eat.

I'll post some photos of it compared to a few of my other varieties I have now, the Melon guava and Tropci Pink guava fruits.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / For Sale: Mulberry Cuttings
« on: February 19, 2024, 11:21:00 PM »
I cut back some of my trees today, and the cuttings are ready for grafting. In another week or two, all my trees will have new leaves and can't be used for grafting.

1. Australian Green, small cuttings, $5 each, length 6-7", about 1/4-3/8" diameter.
2. Red Himalayan, $4 each, length 6-7". about 1/4-3/8" diameter
3. Persian mulberry (morus nigra), $3 each, length 6-7", about 1/4-3/8" diameter.
4. Black Pakistan, $4 each.
5. Shipping cost is $11, USPS priority mail, small flat rate box.
6. Sale is for forum members with minimum of 6 months.
7. Lower 48 states only.
8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.
9. Payment with PayPal, Friends & Family only.
10. Send me a PM message if you are interested. Sale will be for a week.

No more cuttings for the rest of the year for me.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lilikoi - Which Ones Do You Grow
« on: February 18, 2024, 07:01:40 PM »
I think I have all three types of the Lilikoi plants. Here's a good summary describing the three types.

http://dembedirtytoes.blogspot.com/2009/11/ll-lilikool-ladies-love-lilikoi.html

If you are growing these passion fruits, can you comment on the taste and which one you like the best. I have not tasted any fruits except when I was in Hawaii many years ago and forgot what they taste like.




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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Tropic Pink Guava - anyone growing it?
« on: February 18, 2024, 05:12:10 PM »
Just wondering if anyone else is growing the Tropic Pink guava. I have a few trees from La Verne nursery and the fruit is not what I expected. I have 3-4 fruits (first fruits) on my tree and they fruit color is white/red blush and the inside flesh color is white.

I thought the Tropic Pink guava has red/pink flesh fruits. If you grow any of this variety and have pink colored flesh, can you post a photo of your fruit.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / For Sale: Avocado Hass cuttings
« on: February 16, 2024, 11:53:16 PM »
I just got some good cuttings of the Carmen Hass avocado. I have too many to use on my trees so I will sell these four extras.

Here's the cost:

1. Carmen hass, $5 each.
2. Only have 4 cuttings to sell.
3. Shipping is $11, USPS priority mail small box.
4. Paypal only, Friends & Family
5. Send me message if you are interested.
6. Lowrer 48 states.
7. Must be a forum member.
8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / For Sale: Closed
« on: February 13, 2024, 06:33:40 PM »
Closed.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Need Help to ID This Cherimoya again
« on: February 06, 2024, 04:18:09 PM »
Ok, I will ask again if anyone can help me ID this cherimoya tree and fruit. This is my oldest tree, got a small plant from a worker 25 yrs ago. The tree is super vigorous, has the largest leaves of any annona I have growing. I only found one photo of the fruit from 15 yrs ago. This tree requires hand pollination and I don't pollinate it so not much if any fruits grow on this tree. I'm using it as a strong rootstock tree to graft other varieties.

Here's the only fruit photo I have, and some photos of the leaves and branches.
















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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Shine grapes - Sale
« on: February 05, 2024, 11:22:10 PM »
FYI,

I got a good deal on Weee, Shine grapes on sale now.



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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Need Help to ID This Atemoya- Closed - AP
« on: February 04, 2024, 11:00:46 PM »
I looked at some of the Gefner photos people posted and my fruit almost looks just like it.

I bought the Dr. White fruits from Brad and it looks different from the fruits I ate and grafted on my tree a few years ago.

Can you look at my fruit photos (got fruits from a friend) and let me know what variety it is. The person who has the trees does not know the name, just said it was an Atemoya with good size fruits which tastes good.













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I found a person who has an older guava tree that has some nice fruits, ripe ones range from 2"-4" (240 grams). I ate a few smaller fruits earlier in December and it tasted very good. When it is ripe, the flesh is softer, not the crunchy variety. It has a good smell when ripe, and one of the better tasting guava fruits I have tasted.

I went by the tree again and checked the fruits, it has some larger fruits so I got one large fruit (1/2 lb) and these were redish colored skin, like an apple. The fruit was even better than the first fruit I tasted, this one is a winner. Since it is large, there is a lot more flesh to eat.

So, if anyone can identify this variety that would be nice, I plan to graft it on my trees.

Here's photos of the fruit and branch I'm grafting.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / For Sale: Closed
« on: January 21, 2024, 11:05:14 PM »
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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Closed
« on: January 13, 2024, 11:40:21 PM »
Hi, I will have some mulberry cuttings for sale, this week only, will end it on Friday, 1/19.

Closed


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Closed
« on: December 20, 2023, 03:04:02 PM »
Closed

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Anyone Have Ripe Avocados in December?
« on: December 17, 2023, 01:53:19 PM »
Is anyone getting ripe avocados on your trees in Nov-Dec-Jan?

Just curious to know which varieties have ripe fruits in these months. The only ones I grow or know of near me are the three unknown/seedling trees that I get my fruits yearly..

1. HB_Library - avocado variety that is grafted. The scion wood came from the "Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens" about 50 years ago, now the trees are all gone. This variety is unknown, I was told the gardener working there said it tasted very good and grafted it on this mother tree. Fruit is medium size, excellent tasting. Shape similar to a Fuerte or Bacon, but it is not either.
2. Hamada avocado- avocado variety that is grafted. This variety could be a sport/mutation or seedling tree that was grafted onto a nursery tree which is now over 75 years old. One of the largest avocado tree I know of (30-40 feet tall x 30 feet wide). The person who had the original tree said the fruits tasted better than any avocado being sold at the time in the markets, so it was grafted onto this nursery tree. Fruit is medium size, excellent tasting. Shape similar to a Fuerte or Bacon, but it is not either..
3. Derek avocado- unknown source or name. The tree is about 40 years old. Fruit is medium size, shape similar to above fruits.

Please let me know what variety you are growing that are fruiting now, and if you have a photo of the fruit, post below. Thanks.

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Here's the Hamada avocado photo. These fruits have a long shelf life, you can pick the fruits and they will ripen in 4-7 days, but it will keep for up to 10 days and still look good inside.

Skin is thn, but you can peel it if you want to cut it up to look presentable.









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Citrus General Discussion / Dobashi Beni Satsuma - Anyone Growing This?
« on: December 16, 2023, 02:07:27 PM »
I have a nice bunch of Dobashi Beni satsuma fruits on my multi-grafted tree this year.

Is anyone else growing these satsuma trees?

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