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I just purchased some very delicious Japanese Golden Pomelo fruits locally. Does anyone have a tree growing that fruits?
I ate some fruits maybe 5 years ago and thought the inside flesh color was very unique, so I saved the seeds and grew out some seedlings. My seedling tree was left in a small pot and I forgot all about it so it didn't grow much for me.

When I saw the fruit was on sale from a private collector, I had to taste some again so I purchase it, $30 for 6 fruits. I'll post some photos later of the fruit.
The skin is very thin and soft, kinda difficult to peel since it sticks to the flesh. Inside color is dark golden yellow.

Taste of this fruit is excellent, I will need to figure out what other citrus I grow that it reminds me of. It is called a Golden Pomelo but the size is more like a small grapefruit, about the size of a normal Melogold grapefruit.

Here's a few photos I took today of the first fruit I'm tasting.

This is to let everyone who have purchased any cuttings from me that I think I finished with all the orders that were outstanding.

If you know I didn't ship you something that you paid for, then please send me a message this week.

Thanks,
Kaz

I took some long, dormant male mulberry cuttings today, they have buds that will start to push soon.

These branches are perfect for rooting since they are dormant, straight branches so easy to just stick in a pot or batch root them.
I have rooted similar male mulberry cuttings with success. They make very good rootstock, vigorous and fast growing.

For Sale:
1. Male Mulberry Cuttings, 2 for $10. This is for the smaller diameter scions (range of 1/4"-3/8").
2. Shipping box, small flat rate box, $11 for item #1.

3. Male Mulberry Cuttings, 1 for $10each This is for the larger diameter scions (range of 1/2"-1").
4. Shipping box, medium flat rate box, #19 for item #3.

5. You must have purchased from me before, be a forum member for minimum of 6 months, no exceptions
6. Send me a PM if you qualify and would like to buy cuttings.
7. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone. If you don't get a reply that means I will not be selling any to you.
8. Payment must be PayPal only (Friends & Family).

I'll post some photos of the prepared cuttings.

Hi,

I have a friend who  goes to Panama a lot to visit relatives, he will eventually move there to retire. He has been asking me for a few years if I know the citrus variety that is grown in Panama called the Panama National Lime. I thought it was a lemon fruit but this week he sent me a photo of the fruit and he said it was the Panama National Lime.

This flesh is orange in color, skin is green when ripe. Here's the latest photo he sent me this week.

Please let me know the name of this variety if you know it.

FYI, I noticed they are having 50% sale on the Pink Glow pineapple near me at an Asian market. If you like to buy it at the lowest price I've seen, it is $8 each at my Tokyo Central market. There was a lot of fruits on the shelf so you can choose the one you like.

I only bought some since they looked fresh, and some of the fruits had more portion of the top leaves than I have seen before. I plan to see if I can get a few to grow from the cutting.

Anyone try growing these Pink Glow pineapple and have success?

I went to the local Farmers Market this week and picked up some nice-looking guava fruits. There were about 4 different types of guava, no names to ID them. Also, some very large cherimoya/atemoya fruits so I bought 2 large ones. The total for these fruits in the photo cost $60.

I bought these so I can taste the different guava fruits, and to save the seeds from the cherimoya to grow out.

If anyone would like to buy the seeds from the guava fruit then send me a message. Probably should be able to get 25- 50 seeds for $20 (includes $11 shipping). If you want to buy seeds, the top ranked #1 & #2 (25 seeds), rank #3 & #4 (50 seeds).

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If you recognize any of these guavas or cherimoya then let me know below.
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Happy Valentine Day to all.  Don't forget to get something special for your person.

I wanted to save one of my big Valentine pomelos but ended up giving to some people and for the citrus tasting I attended.

So, here's a photo of my Valentine pomelo.

Here's the background on this seedless Fuerte tree No.3

=> 3. Fuerte#1 Seedless cocktail avocado branch

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I will now list what I have found so far of these types below and as I get some photos of the actual fruits or photos of the fruits hanging from the tree, I will add to this post. Also, if anyone else has them growing, it would be nice to see your fruit photo showing it hanging from your tree, so we know it is a real fruit tree, not some photos taken from the internet (not verified as real).

I will not disclose the location of these trees, so the tree owners don't get hassled about selling cuttings or fruits from random people who heard about it.

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I just cut some of my branches from my multi-grafted tree today.

So, if anyone is interested in the following cuttings, send me a message.

Here's the cost for avocado cuttings:
1. Lower 48 states
2. You must be a TFF forum member for a minimum of 6 months and have purchased from me or traded with me. No exception.
3. I will only go by the messages I receive, not by you posting to buy it below. There is a very limited amount I have now.
4. Cost for one Aravaipa scion wood cutting, $5 each.
5. Cost for one Duke scion wood cutting, $5 each.
6. Shipping cost $11, USPS small flat rate box (2"x5"x8")
7. PayPal payment only, Friends & Family
8. If you are interested, send me a message to purchase. Don't pay for it in advance.

I'll post some photos of the cuttings tomorrow. Fresh cut today.
My grafted scions came from Marta, so it should be correct, never had fruits yet. But I do see many flowers on both starting now.

Has anyone here purchased good avocado rootstock from a wholesale nursery?

If you did, please let me know which one you ended up buying. I'm thinking a making a large rootstock purchase (50-100) since they have minimum orders to buy them. I have a contact/friend who owns a nursery so I can get it purchased from him.

Check out the list of commercial rootstocks that Brokaw nursery has in stock now.



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Here's their website with details on the rootstock if you want to read up on it.

https://www.brokawnursery.com/ourproducts/avocado/avocado-cultivars/

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Also, if it's a good deal, I might buy some extras for those of you that have supported my sales, just pay for the rootstock and cost to ship to you once I get them. I'll probably end up picking 2 rootstock varieties for my order.

I will need to see how much it might cost me for the rootstock first.
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Ok, I just tasted a few of the Dennis Big Yellow Passion fruits, they still taste about the same, very good, hardly any sourness.

Instead of cutting all the passion fruit vine, I will take Advance Order now, those on the list can buy it for the price below. I will not take any more cuttings than to fill this order.

I will keep this For Sale open until February/March sometime. We think the fruits will all be done by March so I should be able to start taking fresh cuttings and ship while they are no more than 1-2 days old.

So, here's the Advance Sale Order:

1. Dennis, big yellow fruit, passion cutting, 2 for $15.
2. Shipping cost; you will have two options below:
    2a) Small USPS flat rate box, $11 - cuttings will have no leaves, length about 7-8" long to fit the box.
   > small flat rate box is 5"x8"x2"

    2b) Medium USPS flat rate box, $19- cuttings will have a few leaves, length of each will be about 12-14" long.
      > medium flat rate box is 11"x 13"x3"
The medium box will give you the longer cuttings for the same cost.

3. CA residence will get a slightly larger box for about $11 to ship.
4. Only open to those who have purchased/traded/sold items with me.

-> Don't message me or ask here if you don't meet #4 above.

5. Cuttings will be taken some time in March/April, fresh, then shipped within 2 days.
6. I have the right to refuse to sell to anyone. If I don't reply to your message to be on the Advance List then you will not be buying any from me.
7. Only send me message to get on the Advance List, don't post your request below.
8. You only pay when I message you to say I'm ready to ship out your order. PayPal, Friends & Family only for payment.

I will try to show some photos again of the fruits, will take another brix reading this week.

Once I get enough people on the Advance Wait List, then I will close this post.

Here's the old post with photos of the fruit and some brix readings I made last year.

https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=54808.msg529475#msg529475

Here's more info on the fruit of Dennis compared to other yellow/purple Brazilian and Qinmi#9 passion fruit.

https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=53767.msg535392#msg535392

Dennis had brix ranging from low =8, to high =16. I will try to take a brix reading again this week when my last fruit I have is ready to eat.

Does anyone know why some citrus fruits have so many seeds?

I grow many different citrus varieties, most of my trees all have 5-30 different varieties grafted on the branches of one tree.

I love the Pomelo fruits, so I have most of the good tasting pomelos. Some pomelos seems to have more seeds in them than others. For example the Reinking has a lot of seeds, maybe 20-30 seeds in one fruit. But I have a seedling pomelo tree which gives good tasting fruits, I called it Roy pomelo.

The seeds in this Roy pomelo have the most I have ever seen. Check out the number of seeds there was in just 2 fruits I cut open and ate.









I will count the number of seeds when they dry up, just washed the seeds tonight.