Rosa
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)
Rosa is from Brazil, where it grown on a considerable commercial scale and pronounced "HO-sa". It has drawn some attention for being one of the earliest maturing varieties in Florida, typically having at least some spring-time fruit. The trees are very sensitive to changes in weather patterns and flower very easily as a result.
It is an ovate shaped fruit developing a pretty pink-red blush well before ripening. The flesh is very firm, somewhat fibrous, and yellow. The seed is polyembryonic. Rosa's flavor and aroma are strong, resinous and loaded with turpenes with moderate sweetness.
The trees have been *very* slow growers for us and highly manageable, probably appropriately descibed as dwarf here. They are very anthracnose-prone however and probably not suitable for the interior, being more appropriately grown within a few miles of the ocean.
The fruit also appear to be at least partially susceptible to Neofusicoccum rotting fungi, so we are evaluating the impact on its yield. Rosa normally has two crops, one from March to April and a second from June to July.
Flavor: Indian-West Indian
Country: Brazil