The Tropical Fruit Forum

When my tree has flowers I will save it for you, just give me the proper method to store it for you. Right now my tree has many large fruits hanging.

I will be selling some cuttings from my KT1-Kosmic, KT3-Sheri Lynn, and Vista White loquat tree.

Plan to ship any sold cuttings starting on 12/10 for one week only.

Here's the cost for the loquat cuttings:
1. Must be a forum member for 6 months
2. Cost for cuttings, $12.
3. You will get 3-4 cuttings that will range from 6-8" long.
4. CA residence only, cost to ship is $12, in small box.
5. Total Cost (CA only) = $24
6. I will be taking cuttings/shipping starting on 12/10. Ship out for 1 week only.
7. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.

If you are interested, send me a message, you will need to make the payment before the 12/10 cutting date.
Any questions, send me a message and ask. May not be offered in the future.

I will be first selling to the CA folks, then if I can still take more cuttings, then I will sell to other states. Cost to ship outside of CA is more so I need to determine the size of the cuttings and box to use.

Here's the cost for the passiflora decaisneana cuttiings:
1. Must be a forum member for 3 months
2. Cost for cuttings, $12.
3. You will get 3-4 cuttings that will range from 6-10" long, depends on weight limit.
4. CA residence only, cost to ship is $12
5. Total Cost (CA only) = $24
6. If you like a few leaves on the top end, let me know when you order it now. Pay asap so I can try to get it out by 12/12.
7. I will be taking cuttings/shipping on 12/12. Ship out for 1 week only. After that it will be next year due to Christmas delays in mail.
8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.

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9. Anyone outside of CA, send me a message if you are interested, I will need to discuss shipping cost and size of box. Lower 48 states only.
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The taste of passiflora decaisneana fruit is very good, best passion fruit taste so far for me. I will add more photos later this weekend of the fruits I picked and show photos of them cut open.

The fruit has a brix = 18, not bad, sweet with no sour taste at all. The smaller fruits do not have much inside to eat, but the larger fruits do.

These cuttings can be rooted rather easily. I put my cuttings in a jar of water and when I see roots, put them in a pot. Once the plant starts growing in the pot, it will go fast, you should be able to plant it in ground in 4-6 months afterwards.

Here's some photos of the vine and fruits from the other posts I made here:
https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=47858.0

That is good to hear. Yes, please post a photo of the plant.

Any more updates on the rooted cuttings?

I have some bad news on my large vine, it died, probably to much stress when I cut it back so much. Or it could have gotten broken in the main trunk area and I didn't see it. Either way, my large vine is dried up and dead now so my Pomelo can grow strong again.

Lucky for me I had the 2-3 cuttings I started in water to show how to root them so I can start over with those plants now.

So, hope your cuttings are doing well, you may be the only one to have this unknown variety and can give it a name when it has the first fruit, hopefully next year.

Here's my update on the fruits that actually made it until ripe without any critters eating them.

I hand pollinated as many flowers as I could daily, what a lot of work, but very exciting when I saw the small fruit set in about a week. I covered every fruit with the organza bags.

After the fruits started getting larger, now I had to wait until it ripened as Ron and others had said. It was not quite brown yet, just starting to show some light color (not green any more). Then I noticed one by one the larger fruits were getting holes one the side or the entire half of the fruits were eaten through the bags. So, I double bagged the remaining fruits, and they were still getting eatten through the bags. Tried brown paper lunch bag, it didnt work, so I just let them grow until I saw a slgith brown to dark brown skin to pick them.

The good news is I did end up getting 13 nice size fruits that seems to be ripe now. The bad news is I started out with 37 fruitlets so I thought I should get about 30 good fruits to send out one to each friend on the forum, sorry that won't happen this year.

I will post some photos of the fruits later tonight.

Oh, didn't realize it was you Thien, if I have my next Younghan's Gold fruits (have green fruits now) then I can send you a few. All the other varieties right now have just some small fruitlets on the grafts. I will send you a PM when my fruit is ripe.

I have not read those articles. I just wondering myself why some varieties such as Younghan's Gold has yellow flesh when ripe but the leaves have no fuzz underneath it. There are some named yellow sapote that can be distinguished by the wooly leaf (CT#6, #7. my seedling Maddox) and the trees do not grow fast, stays small after 5 yrs. The taste of the fruits seems to be different to me when I eat a know white sapote and compare it to the yellow sapote.

I suppose if it white sapote is a cross between the two then there would be no way to categorize it as either.

The weak ones die, the strong ones survive. I plant all my seeds in a community pot and the ones that remain are the strongest. Also applies to loquat seeds I plant.

Ok, sounds good.

I haven't seen the FB (Harvey's) page before, thanks, doesn't seem like it is current. Also, Marta has a very good review when she has chance to taste the white sapote. From her blog, I heard about Harvey's seedling variety he calls B3 (Delta Gold) and got that one grafted on my tree.

There is another database on the White Sapote, someone here posted from it before.

Just had a few Clytia white sapote frutis, taste was excellent, it has a small shpe like a potato, like to take some photos and post it.