The Tropical Fruit Forum

Bill, I just wanted to say THANK YOU, great job again.

These plants seem to be the best ones so far that I ordered here from the group buys.

Lot of hard work, so thanks for doing this for our TFF members, we appreciate your effort to get it for us.

This is a place holder for some neat photos I will post here later tonight, just took them.

I have taken some comparison photos of the following so you can see the size, shape, and in some cases the brix readings I did.
- Crispy Honey, my last 2 fruits
- Nagami kumquat
- Nagami kumquat seedling, has larger fruits
- Nagami kumquat, weird one with mini size fruits
- Seedless Nordmann Nagami kumquat

Could not show the Meiwa, very low fruit productions on my trees and they ripen much earlier. I tried to ask anyone else who grows kumquat but no one had fruits now.

Yes, definitely.

I was thinking of adding the New Zealand grapefruit but I doubt it will be sweeter than Valentine, Cocktail, or this Golden pomelo.

If it is then let me know and I can add it to my tree. If you get a ripe fruit, please take a brix reading and I can compare your number to all my citrus I have that I have recorded the brix when I remember to take it.

Kaaps, how can you distinguish a Sabra from looking at the bark?

I'm new to Jabo so don't know anything about the different varieties, just the small plants I bought from Kevin.

I agree with Brian's comments. If the scion is green, it is alive, leave it alone. I had some citrus grafts take up to 2 years before any new buds pushed out. I graft a lot of citrus scions and it is normal for some grafts to take up to one year before showing any buds.

Sam, I have seen the results of J-root seedlings, they grow fine, but not as fast or healthy as straight roots as Millet and others have mentioned. I just don't get rid of my J-root seedling, still can be useful to graft.

Do you think the loop caused the splitting, I don't. I have seen similar look on many seedlings and it doesn't damage above the trunk that I have noticed. It just may restrict the growth a little but usually no harm no damage.

I didn't know there was a thornless calamondin, thats a good one to have. My grafted tree has thorns, but at least it has good large fruits so I'm happy with it. Are your fruits perfectly round shaped or a little elongated like the Centinel kumquat?

I liked the Marumi when our CRFG had the tour at the UCR budwood research grove. It was the sweetest kumquat we tried.

I did find an aborted seed in the honey crisp.

Yes, the Golden Grapefruit I ate years ago looked like what you posted, it has a thicker skin/rind.

But this Japanese Golden Pomelo has very thin skin and sticks to the flesh so not so easy to peel, but it is really sweet and juicy. I just ate 10 of these thin skinned Golden Pomelos and they had the thinner skin as you can tell. Here's some other fruits I cut in half to show the thickness of the skin/rind. Some Valencia orange, OroBlanco, seedling pomelo, seedling Ruby Red grapefruit.

You should have kept the Nagami and grafted on the Nordmann seedless nagami. It tastes a little less sour and no seeds. I did that on my Nagami so now it is mostly Nordmann seedless kumquat. I like it better than the Maru or Meiwa now because it still has a lot of fruits and easy to eat with no seeds to worry about. One of my favorite kumquats now, but the Crispy Honey is too sweet and can't beat that one.

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.

I got my plants, this time it was a little shaken up, packing wasn't good. But all the plants are still alive so I'm happy. Now just need to get it to grow and have fruits.