The Tropical Fruit Forum

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Just curious if any member here is growng the Russell avocado. I have a grafted Wilson Popenoe avocado.

If you are growing the Russell avocado tree, and it fruits, can you post a few photos of it, would like to see how it looks, also with it cut open. I saw the photos from Carlos's website/blog, but just curious if any forum members are growing it. I'll be grafting some scion wood for someone, and they tell me the fruit tases very good.

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Has anyone seen a loquat fruit with red blush fruits?

If you have a variety that shows any color besides the yellow/orange skin, please post a few photos.

I have one variety, don't know the name since the tag fell off, it has a nice red blush on the outside skin. Last year this same branch had fruits with this unusual splash of red on the skin.

I'll try to take a few photos when the rain stops. The fruit taste is excellent, white flesh.

Reply to Steve:

The fruit skin changes (thick or thin) depending on the rootstock. I have my large tre (photo above), it tastes very good and juicy, skin is medium, about the same thickness as Valentine. This cocktail is grafted on a grapefruit tree as interstock.

The same scion wood I grafted on an Lane Late Navel orange tree as interstock has smaller fruit with skin that is about 1/2 the thickness. That grafted tree seems to have fruits that are sweeter than the larger fruits on grapefruit interstock. Here's the other grafts on Lane Late Navel, see how much smaller the cocktail fruits from that tree are.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.