Fruit Cocktail/Zill 28-18
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE Make your Grafting Request Order
We are only able to graft twice a year, Late Spring & Late Summer.
- If we receive the order between after September 24th and before May 1st, The trees will be grafted in Spring & should be ready by the end of the year.
- For orders made after May 01st and before of September 24th will be grafted in late Summer and should be ready in the Spring following year, May most likely.
Only Once the small tree has completed two flushes of growth since it was grafted do we consider it ready to leave our nursery.
(Estimated time is 6 to 8 months. Some varieties take longer time to growth)
Fruit Cocktail was a Jakarta seedling from the breeding project of Gary Zill in Boynton Beach, FL, originally planting number 28-18.
The fruit is roundly/ovately shaped, medium sized, and turns yellow. The flesh is fiberless and has an extravagantly rich bouquet and flavor, with different spice notes, some turpenes, medium sweetness, and reminiscent of packeted fruit juice you may have enjoyed with lunch as a child. The seed is monoembryonic. It is a mid-season variety here in West Palm Beach.
We top worked a Tahar tree into Fruit Cocktail in 2017 for further evaluation. The tree had its first crop in 2020 and has fruited each season since. The production habit is best described as modest thus far, but adequate for most backyard producers. The fruit have been very disease resistant, both to anthracnose and bacterial black spot.
The tree has a low-to-moderate vigor growth habit with vertical, dense canopy.
Flavor: Indian/West Indian
Country: Florida-USA