The Tropical Fruit Forum

Just curious if anyone here has been growing the Vista White Seedling tree that was sold at Exotica Nursery in SD.

I just got some large cuttings that I will be grafting and adding to my collection. If you have this tree and it had fruits, please describe the fruits and if it tastes as good as the true Vista White or not.

I also grew out many Vista White seedling trees from my tree, and now I have one large tree (20ft tall) which has been fruiting for a few years now. The fruit looks similar to the Vista White, but maybe not as pure white flesh as the original variety. Also the fruit looks similar but the fruits do not grow in such huge clusters as my true Vista White (see photos below).

But I do notice my seedling Vista White tree seems to be more tolerant of the sun, the fruit doesn't seem to get sunburned, but the real variety will sometimes. Also, the color of the skin is a little darker than the real one. I will need to take some good photos of my seedling Vista White this month when they fruit again. Taste did seem similar and so the only advantage might be that the tree is stronger, vigorous, and can tolerate the sun better.

This is just a question for some of you members that might be interested in buying one (1) cutting of the Big Yellow Passion Fruit vine. I showed this photo of the one fruit I got to taste which I thought was better than any of the purple type fruits like Purple Posum, Fredericks, and a few others I tried from Brad and others vine.

This would be a potential Advance Sale List for 20 people that are really interested in this large yellow passion fruit.

I'm so happy that I will be getting this cutting and if there are some extras, I wanted to share it with our forum members who meet my requirements below.

So here's the Advance List Requirements:

1. Large Yellow Passion fruit cutting, qty=1 only per forum member

2. You must be a TFF forum member for a minimum of 6 months, and have purchased from me in the past. Please do not reply here or send me message if you don't meet this requirement.

3a. Cost is $10 for one cutting, length that will fit a USPS small flat rate box (5"x8")
3b. For CA residence, I should be able to use a slightly longer box (for same ship cost) for your cutting so it may be  up to 12 inches long, and probably can have some leaves on the cut branch for rooting.

4. Cost to ship is USPS priority, $11. This is the small flat rate box, typically 2-day delivery.
5. Total Cost => $21
6. Payment with PayPal only, "Friends & Family" option.
7. Lower 48 states
8. No guarantee that you will get to buy one even if you are on this list of 20 people.
9. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone, if I don't reply then you are not getting on the list.
10. I will put you down in the order I receive your message, and I acknowledge you are on it.
11. The is an Advance Sale List. I should be able to let those who are on this list know by next week if you will be able to buy it. I plan to give the profits from this sale to the owner of this passion fruit vine for his trouble to give me some cuttings.

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If there is any interest of my offer above, then send me a PM message by end of day Friday (midnight) and you may be on this list.

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This seedling loquat is one of my old time favorite, that is why I named it after my wife Sheri.

This is just a note to those people that I said I would send out some citrus pollen when my trees have flowers.

For USA residence:
You will need to pay for the cost to ship it, $11, USPS priority mail, small box to fit the plastic cup I will put the flowers in. No charge for the flowers I send you.

For International residence:
TBD, will contact each one of you to coordinate shipping. May just get pollen and send it in an envelop (if I can do it properly).

Just send me a message asking about what is flowering at the time you are thinking of using the pollen.

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I had some inquires in the new guava I found (new unknown) so I did try to see if I can get some cuttings from this tree. Check out the photo of the Betty guava.

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I cut back some of my trees today, and the cuttings are ready for grafting. In another week or two, all my trees will have new leaves and can't be used for grafting.

1. Australian Green, small cuttings, $5 each, length 6-7", about 1/4-3/8" diameter.
2. Red Himalayan, $4 each, length 6-7". about 1/4-3/8" diameter
3. Persian mulberry (morus nigra), $3 each, length 6-7", about 1/4-3/8" diameter.
4. Black Pakistan, $4 each.
5. Shipping cost is $11, USPS priority mail, small flat rate box.
6. Sale is for forum members with minimum of 6 months.
7. Lower 48 states only.
8. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone.
9. Payment with PayPal, Friends & Family only.
10. Send me a PM message if you are interested. Sale will be for a week.

No more cuttings for the rest of the year for me.

Just wondering if anyone else is growing the Tropic Pink guava. I have a few trees from La Verne nursery and the fruit is not what I expected. I have 3-4 fruits (first fruits) on my tree and they fruit color is white/red blush and the inside flesh color is white.

I thought the Tropic Pink guava has red/pink flesh fruits. If you grow any of this variety and have pink colored flesh, can you post a photo of your fruit.

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