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Virginia Fruit Grower did a video review on the Krueger:

https://youtu.be/iyJ1q-PAuW8?feature=shared

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Why have anything processed when you can have them off the tree au naturel?

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Oh no, you haven't seen my yard, front and back, completely full of fruit trees in ground and hundreds in pots.

I don't see the problem  ;D

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Ok, your the first one on this post to review it. Glad you liked the fruits, I thought it was a winner since it is bite size and no seed, super rare to find something like this.

I hope you and everyone else who got the scions from this order have fruits in a few years. I think I might make one larger tree with this variety just so I can have more fruits on the tree sooner. I did find someone with a large avocado tree that needs to be dug up so I might just go back there and buy that tree, after I dig up the last Carmine #3 guava tree I found last year. That should be enough fruit trees for me, need to stop collecting.

I hope it starts fruiting for me soon as well. As for "stop collecting fruit trees" - I have a no more than a 24'x14' grow space...even I haven't thought about stopping.  :)

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These little guys are delicious - not much different from your typical Hass in terms of flavor. The flesh does seem to be a tad moister than a Hass. Less of a need to have something to wash it down with. The skin is totally edible; doesn't contribute much in terms of flavor, positive or negative. However, if you scrape out the flesh and eat just the skin by itself, it does have a slight resiny taste, but again, you wouldn't notice it if you ate the entire fruit. They should go great in a salad. Kind of remind me of olives.

The fact that I don't need to breakout the knife and spoon, or look for a garbage can for that matter, makes this the perfect lazy-man snack. I can picture myself popping a bowl load of these watching TV Homer style (much healthier than chips).

All in all, this is a winner and I'm glad to be growing this one out. Thanks for the woods and treat, Kaz!

Oh, btw, my parents thought the fruit was weird, but said it tasted just like a regular avocado.

Wow that was quick. Make sure you only eat the fruits that are ripe, should give when you squeeze it. If it is hard to cut or eat then it is probably still green and will not have any taste. Inside color should be dark yellow when it is ripe.






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Ordered the Krueger cutting Monday evening, received multiple woods (each fully loaded with buds) and sample fruits today. Kaz, you're too generous! Couldn't believe it when I saw the package in my mailbox this afternoon...CA to NY in 3 days. Saving the fruits to sample with my parents when they visit tomorrow - they love rare fruits. I'll give my two cents on the flavor then. Temps are going to be in the 20s next week so I brought my little potted Lila rootstock in and grafted on the Krueger. Fingers crossed!





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24 Chiefs - 17 Eagles

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Thanks again for a chance at this rare variety avocado, Kaz. It'll be great to see these fruits hanging alongside my Lila on the same tree.

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Thanks, Kaz. I have already made a payment for 5 avocados ($5), but no need for a refund. Please consider it as store credit for future purchases :)

- Wei

Too late you package shipped out. Don't pay for any fruits, you get 2 complementary fruits.

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Wow, talk about one man's trash...

Your post reminded me to follow up on a message I had sent on this same fruit 🤣. I was able to get a bag to try as well. The owner put a post up to sell some fruit and got thousands of messages, he looked down at his phone to answer a message and it turned out to be Kaz. It must be fate.

He was nice enough to bring me a ripe one to try and can confirm it is quite tasty. The skin is edible as well. The original owner saw no value in the fruit and was just letting them fall to the ground for the critters. Its crazy how different we value things.






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I have tried grafting Sabara on Sabara from numerous sources. The free woods I got from Kevin were the only ones that took. Thanks again for those, Kevin.

Sabara to Sabara is, for some reason, more fickle than other grafts. I've had slow, and often long term problematic Sabara grafts, but I think it was the rootstock more often than the graft itself. This said, I have also had many takes. I have a real nice one, almost foot long scion that is looking pretty good right now.

I prune my fruiting sabara pretty hard every year and send out pieces for free, just pay shipping. I will probably do this in a couple weeks. Keep an eye on the BST in the next few weeks if someone doesn't sort you out.

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Thanks for the pictures. The Krueger's a nice sized fruit in comparison. Can't wait to sample the fruit and have this thing grafted up. Thanks again, Kaz.

I just made the bags of fruits to ship out today. If you are buying a scion, I highly recommend you buy a few fruits so that you can taste it and not pay extra shipping again later.

I just ate a few more ripe fruits, and it tastes better than a Fuerte. It tastes like a Hass, dark yellow flesh, nutty side.











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I think they'd make a great cuke avocado, pitted olive, and honey jar jujube salad.🤤

Wei, thanks for that video. It made me laugh since my seedless avocado tree I have (about 8 ft tall) also has miniature fruits just like that guy's Mexicola avocado cuke. The fruits on my tree so far have been all seedless finger fruits about that size and it turns black when it is ripe. Really hard to tell when it is ready since it is so small, not easy to do a squeeze test. I took some photos of my small crop of 8-10 fruits this season so I will posted here so you can see how small the fruits are compared to the real Seedless Krueger avocado fruits.

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Hey Kaz, just messaged you for a bag of fruits. Thanks.

Thanls
Ok, for those of you who purchased a Krueger scion and didn't buy any fruits, I will give you 1 complimentary fruit so you can taste it. But you need to post here with your feedback of the fruit you ate.


Don't forget to wait until it turns black and gives a little when you squeeze it. I noticed the fruits that are all black or show any softness on the ends are already over ripe so I will try to send fruit that is not fully ripe yet.

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Kaz, would you say the skin on the Krueger is doable? Someone on YouTube has a Mexicola Cuke avocado and we all know the skin on the Mexicola is edible, but the fruit looks to be very tiny though.

https://youtu.be/_yVs5xzjuMY?feature=shared

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Would you have given up on fruit trees if the injury was caused by fruit picking up a ladder?

Yup, it slowed me down with my fruit tree collection and grafting on a crutch so such a long time. I didn't get the surgery for over a year so one legged for a while.

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Ha...not worth a broken knee that's for sure!

I stopped playing 2 years ago when I broke the knee, so I don't even know what is the best Pokemon now. Don't get me started again, I'm not allowed to play it.

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Caught 7 Gyaradoses in one event.

For me, this find is better than the Sylvia guava tree or the Betty fig tree. If there are any Pokemon players out there, you know the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrCUQuJsDYI&t=5s

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bellamy Seedling ID Help
« on: January 31, 2025, 10:59:27 AM »
Thanks again. Good luck with yours as well.

The description says it "tastes better than any jabo" so I went with it.

Glad i could help! Good luck with it! :D

Bellamy has some more seeds available rn at 10$ if anyone wants to pick them up for cheaper

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bellamy Seedling ID Help
« on: January 30, 2025, 09:24:44 PM »
Mystery solved! I bought seeds of Myrciaria caerulescens (Roxa - Blue Guaquiea) last summer. Thank you so much for figuring this one out.

Yours looks exactly like my m. Caerulescens!


Bought some seeds from Bellamy over the summer. Planted them in small pots, didn't pay much attention to them until just now. Looks like a batch has sprouted, but I was too lazy to note the plant's name on the cup, simply taped the label that came with the seeds to the container. Unfortunate, it's all faded. Can anyone tell what this is?





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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bellamy Seedling ID Help
« on: January 29, 2025, 05:19:21 PM »
That's a nice looking plant.

Prolly Beaurepaireana if I can remember correctly that's one of the only ones on your list that pops out with that fuzzy.

My E. Beaurepaireana seedlings look nothing like it.



Ok very weird, I germinated a seed from Bellamy that was supposed to be Eugenia Bahiensis that looks exactly like this. Hard to mix up since it’s very different looking than other seedlings. I looked up images of mature E. Bahiensis and it doesn’t look the same. I also have seedlings of E. beaurepairiana and the leaves don’t match either. So I’m confused as to what exactly we both have? Here’s a photo of it first emerging and some current photos.






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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bellamy Seedling ID Help
« on: January 29, 2025, 04:30:30 PM »
Bought some seeds from Bellamy over the summer. Planted them in small pots, didn't pay much attention to them until just now. Looks like a batch has sprouted, but I was too lazy to note the plant's name on the cup, simply taped the label that came with the seeds to the container. Unfortunate, it's all faded. Can anyone tell what this is?



it looks a lot like my myrciaria caerulescens seedling. i will post a picture later

Thanks you. The name does sound familiar. Here's an updated picture of the plant:




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Thanks for the suggestions, Nick. That luma apiculata does look like a jabo. I'll look into it.

Unfortunately without supplemental heat, frost cloth doesn't really do much to protect trees.
Even my jabos got wrecked in 28 degree weather.
No way they could make it a whole winter even here

I've found frost cloth to be beneficial when combined with a poly tunnel/hoop house for zone 7b/8a type plants. So id agree frost cloth aint doin much on its own

My greenhouse protected plants are all hanging in there, but I really want to get some exotic stuff in the ground.

You should look into luma apiculata, it's cold hardy and gives a similar aesthetic to jabos. Hardy tamarillo and Tasmanian mountain pepper should be solid in your zone as well

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You and me both on that regard, Kevin. I should have trusted my fellow growers' advice over the seller's embellished sales pitch.

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They made it sound like this thing was native to Antarctica...got duped!

Always be cautious of the seed seller's tales of grandiosity. The forum members are where you'll learn what is true or what's not. Still so much discovery left yet! I do appreciate you trying though, despite you ignoring me. I was actually kind of hopeful I'd be proven wrong.

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Guava rooting never worked for me, but grafting is a piece of cake if done in spring.

I don’t like propagating guavas, but when I used to grow professionally for a couple large nurseries here in CFL, I had pretty good success at rooting cuttings. Just a ballpark but figuring I have rooted at least 50k guavas from cuttings. They aren’t easy, but I know the tricks for getting higher percentages.

I'm all ears for these tips!

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