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I found a good mulberry seedling tree (male) that seems to root well for me so I stared rooting many cuttings now. I finally got the hang of rooting cuttings without much effort so I can make many rooted cuttings for rootstock now.

It will be 1 year before I can graft onto these rooted cuttings.

So, just curious if there is enough interest for me to graft some good varieties on these future seedling plants for next year.
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Sales to registered forum members for at least 6 months.
Not taking any advance orders, will not sell them until after the grafted plants are ready to ship.
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Here's the list of mulberry varieties I'm thinking of grafting onto the seedlings when they are old enough to graft.

1. Red Himalayan (from Exotica) - huge leaves, vigorous, fruits well after 3 years. Fruit tastes good, brix =22.
2. White Pakistan- my variety seems to grow slow/dwarf style. So this might be a good one for those who want to grow in ground and keep it small (under 8 ft). Fruit tastes is excellent, sweet, brix =28.
3. Australian Green- white long fruit, similar in size and taste to white pakistan. Fruit seems to stay on longer than the white pakistan. Vigorous grower. High fruit production. brix =28.
4. DMOR9- long red fruit. Seems to be one of the best tasting from peoples review. I haven't tasted many fruits on new grafts. Vigorous grower, I should have many large branches by next spring to use scionwood. (sale on ebay $150)
5. Siam Jimbo- fruit is supposed to be 1-1/2", fat red/black fruits. My fruits were that not fat, similar is size to Thai Dwarf. Maybe next year it will have larger fruits that tastes better.
6. Silk Hope- taste is good.
7. Thom's Super Pakistan- long red fruit, similar to DMOR9. Still not many available except on ebay ($150)
8. Gerardi Dwarf- small, 1" fruits, tastes good. Suppose to be a dwarf mulberry due to close leaf nodes.
9. Sange e Latte (Italy)- translated fruit color is blood & milk (red/with white background). Taste is excellent. Different from most mulberries here in the US. (not really available except here).
10 Persian mulberry (morus nigra)- small fruit, supposed to be best combo of sweet/tart. Vigorous grower, as much as my Red Himalayan.

-> Not showing any of the varieties that are easy to root from cuttings such as the Black Pakistan & Shangre-La

The cost of the grafted tree (1yr old) could range from $30-$50 each, plus shipping cost.
The cost of the grafted tree is for the pots I need to purchase, seedling tree, and the scionwood which is a fair price. If you think it should be lower in cost, let me know as well below.

Let me know if you would be interested in this, please tell me which ID number above is of interest.
I have 24 varieties and I think these above are the best tasting.

If there are enough people interested, then I will graft the top 3 most requested below (popular/desirable) as my seedling trees become available for grafting.

If I decide to graft these, I will post the final top 3 varieties by the end of the month.

Thanks..

I will be planting a lot of my loquat seeds this year and will not let most of them grow until it fruits.

So, just curious if there is enough interest for me to graft some good loquat varieties on these future seedling plants for next year.
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Sales to registered forum members for at least 6 months.
Not taking any advance orders, will not sell them until after the grafted plants are ready to ship.
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Here's the list of loquat varieties I'm thinking of grafting onto the seedlings when they are old enough to graft.
  Added Estee on 7/22.

1. Big Jim (my variety, could be a seedling tree from the nursery, not sure- tastes excellent).
2. Vista White, large white flesh fruits, very good tasting
3. KT1-Kosmic, highest fruit production, very good tasting, flesh is white/yellow.
4. KT3-Sheri Lynn, white/yellow flesh, very good, medium to large fruits, one of my favorites
5. KT9-Lindsey, orange flesh, one of the best tasting of the orange flesh, larger fruits than Big Jim.
6. KT2-OCBC_Keiko, unreleased white flesh seedling. Very good to Excellent tasting, round fruit, much better than a Mogi or Argelino.
7. KT6-Lisa1, white flesh, highest brix (22-30).
8. KT23-Lenox, white/yellow flesh, excellent tasting fruit.
9. KT26-Michael1, white flesh, highest brix (21-29).
10. Peluche
11. Estee .

If anyone has the passiflora quadrangularis ML (PQML) growing, I'm interested in buying 2-4 cuttings.

Let me know.

If you want to trade for some P. Decaisneana cuttings (from Hoang) I have a large vine growing.

Thanks.


=> CLOSED, thanks Hoang.

Ok, I need to cut back this tree, getting too large again.
So, here's the KT4-Teardrop cuttings for sale. I will take Advance Order List now.

I will not cut/ship until July 10 week. I will let you know when you can make the payment once I know how many people want to buy it.

Here's the cost for this cutting:
1. KT4-Teardrop, $5 each.
2. No minimum order, maximum of 4 per forum member.
3. Must be a forum member for 6 months to purchase.
4. Sales to lower 48 states.
5. Shipping Cost, $10.20, USPS priority mail, small box.
6. I take PayPal only, Friends & Family.
7. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.

Send a PM if you would like to purchase this cutting. You will be put on the Advance Order List, and I will start to ship on July 10.

Don't send me any payment, I will let you know when you can make the payment.

Here's some photos of the tree and fruits from previous years.
This tree has been fruiting for 10+ yrs, it is a large tree, produces fruits regulary, but not as productive as my KT1-Kosmic. Fruit has orange flesh, size is medium to large fruits, taste is very good. It is not my top 10 list, but is in the top 20.

I will be taking advance order to buy item #4 below, a new seedling variety called KT23-Lenox.

The fruit has white/yellow flesh, very juicy, very good to excellent taste. Nate says it's a good one.

Here's his review of this fruit:
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I think you have something special with the white flesh seedling fruit you brought by today. Everyone has said it’s the best loquat they’ve had. Absolute perfect balance of sweet/tart, with much more sweetness than tart, and it seems like every fruit taste similar, so you’ve got nice consistency with this one. Much better/sweeter than Vista White, or any of the other whites I’ve tried. Wonderful fruit!
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New update to the list below that I have been submitted for 2023.

1. KT13-Maddox. This is my new seedling tree with nice looking fruits
2. KT21-Betty. Good tasting fruits, has been fruiting for 3 yrs
3. KT22-xxx.  First time fruiting this year.
4. KT23-Lenox.  Has been fruiting for 3+ years. Nate this is the one I brought over to you, white flesh.
5. KT24-xxx.  First time fruiting this year.
6. Norm's loquat - submitted by a CRFG (Orange).
7. Clifton- submitted by Larry Narcisse
8- Navel loquat - submitted by Eroz Garcia
9- Old San Marcos- submitted by Kevin (K-Rimes)
10-Nancy-from Nate (FV Fruit Freak), will post info on the fruits tonight
11. Chinese #1- variety name TBD, submitted by John (Johnny Eat Fruit)
12. Chinese #3- variety name TBD, submitted by John (Johnny Eat Fruit)
13. Chinese #4- variety name TBD, submitted by John (Johnny Eat Fruit)
14. Valley #1- submitted by John (Johnny Eat Fruit)
15. 1Z-2Z- from John (Johnny Eat Fruit), originator Gary (Laguna Hills Nursery)
16. Khaled #1- variety name TBD, from Khaled
17. Imperial-Italian origin, has orange flesh, creator Guglielmo (gugly)
18. Rita-submitted by Reedo
19. Melissa-submitted by Melissa L.
20. Estee - submitted by Steve B.

For now, if anyone would like to buy cuttings of KT23-Lenox, here's the requirements below:

Here's the cost for this cutting:
1. KT23-Lenox, $15 each.
2. No minimum order, maximum of 4 per forum member.
3. Must be a forum member for 6 months to purchase.
4. Sales to lower 48 states.
5. Shipping Cost, $10.20, USPS priority mail, small box.
6. I take PayPal only, Friends & Family.
7. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.

Send a PM if you would like to purchase this cutting. You will be put on the Advance Order List, and I will start to ship on July 5.

Don't send me any payment, I will let you know when you can make the payment.

If you want just a few loquat varieties then I suggest you graft the Big Jim (orange), Jim's Big White (white flesh), KT1-Kosmic (highest fruit production) and KT23-Lenox (excellent tasting).

So if you have not purchased these two seedling trees, I highly recommend you buy the KT1 and KT23 to add to your tree.

Here's the photos of the loquat tree and fruits:










---> These fruits below were banged around by the wind and was hitting the other branches and block wall so they have some scratch marks. If they don't get knocked around, the fruits are nice and pretty like the ones above on the tree. They still tasted good.

SALE IS OVER

This sale is for the Estee loquat cutting. It has white flesh; it is on my top 5 best tasting list. It is also one of the giant loquat fruits. Taste is excellent, juicy sweet, can't go wrong if you have this one. It probably is the best large size white loquat that I have tasted so far.

Since I will have only 10 cuttings to sell/spread around. I will do a raffle for you to guess a number, and the first 10 people to guess closest to the number when I end this raffle will have the opportunity to buy 1 cutting next week.

This tree is an established tree, large, has good form, about 12 ft tall, growing in ground for over 15 yrs.

I have this variety grafted on multiple in ground trees and have been tracking the flavor every year for 7 years since I grafted this one back in 2016. Taste is very consistent, when ripe it is one of the best white flesh, not many other will taste better. I would not be selling any scionwood of this variety, but I met the owner of the mother tree this year and he let me take cuttings from his tree. My grafts are too small to take cuttings.

Seedling 20, Estee, white flesh, large fruits (100 grams), and taste is top 5. There are not many other loquat varieties that tastes better than this one. The others which may have more sweetness (higher brix) is my seedling varieties.

I have permission to sell some scion wood of Estee so that we can spread this variety to the hobby. Profit will go to the owner of this tree, less cost for me to ship it. Limited quantity of 10 scionwood for sale at this time. Maybe next year there will be more available.

Here's the cost for this cutting:
1. Estee, $25 each.
2. Order quantity = 1 per forum member.
3. Must be a forum member for 6 months to purchase.
4. Sales to lower 48 states.
5. Shipping Cost, $10.20, USPS priority mail, small box.
6. Total Cost => $35.20
7. I take PayPal only, Friends & Family.
8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.

When I find some photos of the fruit, I will post it later. For now, you can see the photo on the other posts of the giant loquat comparison below.
https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=51447.msg494948#msg494948

Since there are some interests in the dwarfing nature of FD and using these for rootstock, I will document my recently planted FD seedlings. I separated the seedlings after 4-6 wks to monoembryonic and polyembryonic seedlings by visual inspection.

You can look at the photos and make comments, but please don't side track my post where I'm just documenting the growth of these seedlings.

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I planted maybe 300-500 seeds from my fruits of my 40 yrs old Flying Dragon tree:

I just planted out my seeds from the Flying Dragon tree I have, here's a few photos of the seedlings. They look very similar to me. I have many other varieties grafted on the tree and another tree 10 feet from the FD.





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I have new photos of the seedlings I will post later when I have time. They all look healthy, the polyembryonic seedling do have irregular size seedlings but I did not see anything special, just very small seedlings or larger ones.

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-> Now taking New Orders for next week shipment :  update 6-26-23

I will take last advance orders by 7/4/23. Please send me a PM to place your order.
Not selling any more after this date so don't send me messages asking for some later.

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I'm taking Advance Orders for the Mulberry cuttings this week. Here's the list of which varieties I can cut.



Here's the cost:
1. Black Pakistan, $3 each
2. Thai Dwarf/World's Best, $3 each
3. Red Himalayan (Exotica), $5 each
4. White Pakistan, $5 each
5. Australian Green, $5 each
6. Shipping & Handling Cost = $10.20, for small flat rate box, holds 10 cuttings
7. Maximum quantity you can order is 3-4 each so others can buy some before I run out.
8. Must be a forum member to purchase.
9. Payment using Paypal only, Friends and Family
10. Sale is for lower 48 states
11. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone. If I don't reply to your request, you know why.

I will post some photos later tonight. This year I had many fruits on all of my Red Himalayan trees, they taste good. The White Pakistan/Australian Green fruits bunches as usual, everyone loves this one. My trees are huge now and need to cut them way back.

Send me a PM to get on the wait list, when I have time starting this week, I will process the order in the sequence I put your request on my list.

Since I have not seen many people post about their contorted mulberry tree, I thought I would take some photos of my grafted branch and show you what it looks like. This tree is pretty unusual in that the branch is all contorted, I read some people use the branches in flower arrangements.

The fruits of the contorted mublerry is very sweet, what a surprise it was. The last few years it only had a few fruits on each branch that were very small (1/4"-1/2" long) so it was difficult to taste it for flavor or compare it to other varieties like Shangri La.

This year my grafts have full size fruits, and lots of them. The size of the fruits are 1/2-3/4" long, taste is very good, sweeter tasting than the Shangri La, Jan's Best World's Best, Tahi Dwarf, Tice, Oscar, Silk Hope.

If you grow this variety, please post some photos or make your comments on the taste of the fruits.

I heard that the name given to this contorted variety by the lady who found the mutation on her tree is:

Callie’s Delight Contorted Mulberry

For Mother's Day, I picked the last of my ripe Valencia orange to make a Mimosa for my wife.

Some of my mulberry fruits are starting to ripen so I wanted to share some photos of the ripe fruits I picked. I will put up the photos soon today.

The following mulberries are ripe here in SoCal:
1. Thai Dwarf/World's Best
2. White Pakistan
3. Australian Green
4. Saharanpur Local
5. Shahtoot/King White
6. Red Himalayan

As far as I can tell, the four white long fruited mulberries above are the same variety. The fruits are the same size, taste, and color. But I do notice there are differences in growth of the branches/leaves.

I only have the Red Himalayan fruits ripening and do not any of the other red long fruiting mulberry (i.e. Skinner, Taiwan Long).

If anyone has ripe mulberries, please share your photos and describe how you like the taste/flavor.

Once my mulberry trees are done with the fruits, I plan to cut them all back a lot so if there is interest, I will generate an Advance purchase list for the mulberry cuttings so it will make it easier for me to just contact you when I cut the branches and then you can pay and I will ship. There are some rare/scarce varieties that I will not be taking cuttings yet since my grafts are too small.

Here's my list of mulberries grafted on my trees. But only the ones with X will be large enough to take cuttings and share.



Since my Thai Dwarf/World's Best and Red Himalayan, White Pakistan, Australian Green, Saharanpur Local have all fruited and most are half way done ripening I will start the advance order list for cuttings:

1. To be on this Advance Order -Waiting List, here's what you must meet.
2. TFF forum member for 1 year minimun (no exception)
3. Limit of 3 cuttings max of any variety I mention. No minimum
4. Shipping cost of $10.20 (USPS small flat rate), no pickup.
5. I am limiting the number of members on the list to 10 max. You can be on more than one variety list.
6. I will check your registration date to determine yrs of membership.
7. Any member with 10yrs or more gets the cuttings for free, but pays shipping cost of $10.20

I will not be reading this post here for request to be on this list, you must send me a message and when I acknowledge you are on it, then you are good to go. When the fruits are done, I will start going in priority order of this list.

Anyone growing seeds from citrus fruits that are variegated?

I remember Laaz mentioning that most of the variegated fruits seeds will end up as albino and die and only a very few varieties will not be albino. So I decided to try and germinate as many of the variegated citrus fruits I can find this year.

I have a neat variegated Satsuma fruits that I germinated seeds and all of them (100%) germinated as albino seedlings. Very interesting that the small seedlings are still alive after a few months. There were some that started to die but half of them is still alive.

If you have any variegated citrus fruits you are growing, please take a few photos of the seedlings and post it here. I have 3-5 different seedlings starting to grow so I will post them soon..

Hi, does anyone have some loquat fruits starting to ripen?

If you have some fruits starting to turn yellow or are ripe, please post a photo and identify which variety it is.

I will start taking photos of my loquats that are starting to ripen now and list which varieties they are.

So far the green Peluch fruits seems to be the largest variety. My Imperiale fruits look smaller than the Peluche.

The Sunset fruits are still green but the fruit size looks smaller than many of the other varieties. Big Jim seems to be one of the earlier fruiting for me. I did have a seedling tree which had ripe fruits in January.
 
If you think your fruit this season is one of the largest fruits then please take a photo of the fruits on a scale so we can see who might have the largest loquat fruit for 2023.

I will be taking brix reading of all the fruits as they ripen and create a table for each variety. If you have a brix meter, please take a reading when your fruit is ripe.

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