Along with Obusa, Mizuho loquat was introduced to the Hawaiian islands in the 1990s from Japan. It has some of the largest fruits, sometimes up to 100 grams, and is very sweet. We are unsure if Mizuho will produce flowers late enough into the season to reliably produce fruit in more northern climates but excited by the greenhouse grown fruit we’ve tasted from it.
A strikingly beautiful, small to medium size evergreen tree, Loquat features long, dark green, deeply toothed foliage and tasty, light orange, apricot-like fruit. Loquat is very happy in the Maritime Northwest, although its pesky habit of blooming in the winter makes it difficult to produce fruit in our region. Loquat’s ornamental value makes it well worth growing and, depending on the winter weather, you should occasionally receive a crop of this unusual and delicious fruit.
This is a great collection of fruit tree varieties to start your backyard orchard! Self-fertile and easy to grow varieties, these trees will bear abundant crops of fruit.
Krymsk 86 is a newer Prunus rootstock that was selected in Russia by crossing peach and plum. It has proven compatible with seemingly all peach, plum and apricot varieties and is also being used as an Almond rootstock in California now. Has excellent anchorage and vigorous roots and is resistant to most root diseases, but is susceptible to rootknot and ring nematodes.
These are seedlings of Gold Nugget loquat that were pollinated by other selected loquat clones. These are not grafted or clonally produced Gold Nugget trees. Gold Nugget is one of the most commonly seen loquat cultivars in nurseries and has been widely planted around California. We’re still trialing these here, but they are known for their vigor, which is apparent in these seedlings, as well as for their superior fruit quality which is similar in flavor to an apricot and quite large.
Along with Obusa, Mizuho loquat was introduced to the Hawaiian islands in the 1990s from Japan. It has some of the largest fruits, sometimes up to 100 grams, and is very sweet. We are unsure how Mizuho or its seedlings will perform in northern climates but are very excited about its fruit quality.
These are seedlings of Obusa loquat that were pollinated by other selected clones. These are not grafted or clonally produced Obusa trees, but we do plan on producing grafted Obusa trees in the near future. Obusa was introduced to the Hawaiian islands (where our seeds came from) in the 1990s and is thought to be a cross between Tanaka and Kusunoki.
One of the last of the stone fruits to ripen, Flavor Finale extends the harvest of delicious pluots ripening in September into October. Fruits have an excellent complex flavor with purple flesh and a bright amber flesh.
A loquat that has been growing for years at Cistus Nursery and was given to Sean by a Japanese horticulturist named Dr. Moy who simply described it as “the best one”.
