The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yes, there are at least 3 different names that are sold under, but I think they are the same plant. I have all three types and the fruits are the same, long, thin, yellow when ripe, super sweet tasting like a honey melon, with no grass flavor.

I grafted the P. decaisneana on my common purple vine. I grafted 3 scions and only one actually made it, the others started to bud out then died back so I cut off my branch below the graft point.

vnomonee, that is very informative, thanks. My flower was at stage C in the diagram, the anthers and stigmas were facing each other and about to touch. I gave it some pollen from my other common purple passionfruit which has lots of flowers now.

I have another flower that will be opening this week so let me know if you are suppose to hand pollinate the flower when it is at stage C.

fliptop, your first photo shows leaves with fingers, the Black Pakistan doesn't have leaves like that, it's leaves are single spade shape.

Good, thanks for letting me know.
Good luck growing them!

Loquat seed order is closed for 2022, maybe next year I will have the sale again and sort by variety if I have time.

I took some photos before to compare my Tice fruit/leaves with my Shangri La. So, you can look at my photos and maybe see which one your tree and fruit matches.

Here's the fruits:

Mike, very nice fruit !

Orkine, I grew the seeds you sent me last year and they look good, see my photos. When do you think I should separate the seeds into individual pots?

I'm in SoCal and will be grafting the Cherilata on pond apple when these seedlings grow larger in another year or two.

Ok, thanks for your feedback. I did read online that this plant is scarce and hard to find. The fruit is like a giant raspberry and the vine grows fast. This sure sounds like an interesting fruit, I would think you would get many people interested in this plant. I hope I get the red or yellow fruit from the seedling vine. This is probably easier to grow than the Yangmei.

Good to hear the scions are arriving in good condition. Mulberry cuttings keep much better than white sapote cuttings for shipping. I will need to remember if I ever sell white sapote cuttings again to wrap them in parafilm, not use moist paper towel since they like to mold.

Forgot to mention in the above photos that the seeds are from the batch from last shipments. Someone asked me how long does it take to grow and what percentage will make it.

I grow many varieties of mulberries (23 varieties) here in SoCal. My Thai Dwarf/World's Best has been growing for over 2yrs and both are identical, tons of fruits, taste is similar, not much taste except when ripe or the later crops of fruits seem to have more taste. People (neighbors) who pass the house have said they really like the mulberries.

I grafted some branches of Jan's Best (from a forum friend) this spring and it does have more taste/flavor than the Thai Dwarf/World's Best. My grafted branches had a few fruits this year and the fruit is smaller than the World's Best (skinnier) but is sweet and taste is good. I plan to keep the Jan's Best grafts, it's a keeper. But nothing so far grows as vigorous with close leaf nodes than the Thai Dwarf/World's Best, so it makes a great rootstock to graft other varieties and it is very easy to root cuttings.

6-4-22 Update:

Ok, so I still have to many Mix Seeds for me to plant since I have other varieties as well that I planted.

I will be offering the same seed sale below:  [ until supplies last ]
1. Forum members that have been a member for at least 1 year will have priority to buy first. Also those that have not purchased the seeds earlier.
2. Loquat Mix Seeds, quantity = 10, $5. No other quantity request sold.
3. You will need to pay for handling/shipping of $10, USPS priority mail, small box.
4. For those who live in contiguous (lower 48 states) USA.
5. Paypal payment only.
6. I will post a few photos of the seeds that I had in the vermiculite bags when I shipped out on 5/20 so you can see how the seeds germinate in the bags if you did not plant them yet.
7. Send me a PM message to ask if the seeds are available, do not make payment until I say it's reserved for you.

More background on the mixed seeds:
(1) seeds are from the 2022 fruits I have on my trees, 46 varieties are mixed in these seeds, including the following top quality fruits:
- China White
- Peluche
- Sunset
- Avri
- Big Jim (orange)
- Big Jim (white)
- Shorepointe
- Christmas
- Exotica Big Orange
- CRFG, Big Steve
- Mogi
- all my seedling trees (including one with brix =29)

(2) Each order will get a free gift of 1 Peluche seed.

(3) Only seed that is excluded from the Mix Seed is my Imperiale seeds from Italy.

Here's how the seeds are starting to root in the bag of vermiculite. These seeds were in the bag since the last time I shipped the seeds. You can see how well the seeds grow/germinate.