The Tropical Fruit Forum

When I transplanted the FD seedlings in my photo above, I did notice many, almost half of the seedlings were poly, more than one stem growing from one seed.

Here's a few photos I took of the poly seeds.Can anyone tell me which one of the poly seedling will be the clone of the parent FD.

Florida must be 2-3 months earlier than CA.

TnTrobbie, what is the Turkey loquat? I have never heard of that variety. Do you know if the flesh is orange or white? How is the taste?

Ok, that would be great, I read some good things about Campbell. I will definitely send you a message in fall for a trade.

I have a few more new seedling varieties (fruits, tastes good) so getting my collection back up slowly(25).

I agree, it is much easier for me to graft any variety on my large Brewster tree, then air layer that branch to take it off to a separate pot. I've got 10 air layers started, now that I know how to do it better than the first time tried air layers (3 out of 12 good).

Tortuga, ok, thank you for the insight on the Ugli fruit taste. I will need to go ahead and get the real one and graft onto my larger Oroblanco tree (multi-grafted tree) so that I can taste the fruit.

I might as well try adding the NZ grapefruit (poorman's) when I get the two varieties of Ugli fruits.

I grafted 3 NMT varieties on my longan and they were growing good for 2 years, even had flowers and small fruits which i removed. Now only 1 surviving NMT on the longan and it hasn't grown much since the first year with fruits. I'm giving up on grafting lychee to longan, waste of time. I should have focused on grafting all the NMT varieties onto the big lychee tree I have. Now you can't get any lychee scionwood from the GRIN-germplasm in Hawaii.

I have no problem with any grafts on my lychee tree so I will stick to that. I only have one NMT vareity grafted on the lychee tree and it is still growing fine, but it grows very slow. I recently grafted some Sweetheart lychee from two sources (Ken, Son) and those grafts are doing well. In 2 yrs the Sweetheart, Maurituis (Frank), Seedless(Max) has grown about 12 inches. The largest growth was on the Sweetheart, some grafts are now 3 ft long. All have flowers and should have fruits this year.

I wanted to show you my Chinese pomelo parent (Roy's) fruit leaves. It is not a Honey pomelo, but it is supposed to be a variety of pure pomelo from China. My tree is over 15yrs old now, and the leaves are the largest of all my pomelos/pummelos or any other citrus I grow. Also fruits tastes excellent.







Does anyone have any other citrus tree with a larger leaf? I would like to know since this one is the largest leaf I have seen on a tree. Must be a world's record.

Reedo, wow, nice photos and plants. You grafted tree really did well for one year growth.

Did you say it takes 2 yrs for the seeds to germinate to the size you show in the photo? It sure takes a long time to grow. I'm planning to try both cracked seed and untouched seed germination to see if cracking the seeds open will shorten the time for it to start growing out.

Ronnie Demler is the person on Facebook that wrote a nice 10 page PDF paper on how he germinates the yangmei seeds (written in Jan 2020). Here's the facbook link below with the document.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/402462807192797/posts/1405283506910717/?comment_id=1405564263549308&reply_comment_id=1406670503438684&notif_id=1675185274339327&notif_t=group_comment_mention

I agree with you on the grafting, no different than any other grafting like citrus, lychee. One interesting thing I noticed about how they graft all these bare root trees we got is that they are all veneer grafts. So, for those people who wanted to know the trick, just copy their technique. I haven't had good scion wood to do the grafting on myrica californica rootstock until now so this time I will do a lot of grafting. Problem is, there are not that many sources for the rootstock, all out of stock since many people are buying them up.

Tortuga, yup, you're correct, good eye. I got this small, grafted plant long time ago from the Greenscene plant sale here. It was labeled as Ugli, but it never had fruits that looked like it. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't taste that good, and fruits are always small.

One of these days, I wanted to graft a real Ugli scionwood from UCR/CCPP budwood but from reading some descriptions, it doesn't sound like a great tasting fruit. Have you tasted the Ugli fruit and is it worth me grafting a real scionwood?

I just have too many varieties now and not sure if I want to graft the Poorman's Grapefruit or Ugli on this small tree. My grafted tree has been in ground for over 10yrs and it is still only 6 ft tall with skinny branches like a key lime tree. I'm thinking of grafting more Kishu mandarins since they are very productive and fruits are sweet and seedless. I only have a small grafted Kishu so I might make this tree a dedicated (only one variety) Kishu.

i agree with you Brian, I really like the small kishu fruits, easy to peel, always seedless and can just eat the whole fruit at once.  My kishu doesn't give much fruits sometimes so I'm grafting more now on all my trees so I can get more of these fruits. I like the meiwa, nagami, marumi kumquats as well for small size fruits but I don't seem to get a lot of fruits on these kumquats since they are in pots.

This is a photo of a friends Kishu tree, my goal is to get one of my trees to look like it with hundreds of fruits.

Matti, I mentioned it above but maybe it wasn't clear. I ate both the McDill and yellow sapote fruits from the Fullerton Arboretum for the first time. Then I needed to get some more fruits so I could grow the seedlings. I planted about 3 seeds from each fruits of McDill and yellow sapote (had no name on the label) and after 5 yrs the trees were large enough to graft onto the 34 varities of white sapote on the largest seedling tree. I eventually had to remove the big seedling tree and it died when I transpanted it so now I'm down to 25 varieties on my two smaller seedling trees.

I don't know about grafting season varying with rootstock. The only rootstock to use is loquat seedlings and quince seedlings that I know of. You can use quince to keep the grafted tree small. I only use loquat rootstock so my answer is no, it can be grafted any time of the year.