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Kevin Jones:
Are you growing a "Topaz"?

I was wanting to get feedback from other growers.
I know there are several dozen of these grafted Topaz plants out there... and if you have one I would like to know your opinion so far.
Topaz has a very sweet passionfruit-like taste... very tender and juicy... with none of the battery-acid taste of your standard Pitangatubas.

Here's one I found today while watering... still green but quite large:




Here's a couple of ripe ones:





Topaz fruits don't turn the bright lemon color of Pitangatubas... but instead a golden-chartreuse.
If you have one... let me know what you think.
Thanks.
Kevin

palologrower:
It's flowered, but has dropped most flowers so far. there's a few hanging on, but nothing set.

Colin:
Anyone have scions available for sale or trade?

roblack:
Mine threw out a few fruit. Yes, they stay partly green when ripe. Fruits were larger than my other 2 tubas. Taste was pleasant and interesting, both mildly sweet and sour, with some other weird complexity going on. Nothing off putting, no funky resin. One of my other tuba seedlings (might be a hybrid/looks different, thought it was uniflora) with orange fruits actually is a bit sweeter, but I have only tried a couple Topaz at this point, and not sure hitting them at peak time.

 

shaxs:
Mine is still small. I put it in the same container as my un-named pitangatuba to get it to cross pollinate.

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