Saigon
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)
Saigon is a name that was applied to a shipment of seeds sent to Florida from then-French Indochina by David Fairchild in 1902.
The 'Saigon' we have was obtained from Fairchild Farm, from a tree grafted off of what was considered David Fairchild's original Saigon.
This tree makes medium-to-large oblong shaped fruit that turn a light greenish-yellow color at maturity. The flesh is pale yellow, fiberless, with a very good Indochinese-hybrid class flavor.
Other versions of Saigon grown from seed have seen some degree of variation, with some developing pink or red blush and smaller fruit of varying shape. Because it is polyembryonic, many Saigon trees in the early 20th century were grown from seed.
Fairchild's original Saigon is quite dwarfish in growth habit and very precocious, and fruits well in humid Homestead, FL suggesting that it could be a good choice for humid interior areas in addition to the coastal zone we occupy. Our tree was planted in 2017 and started fruiting in 2020. It has been very disease resistant thus far.
Flavor: Indochinese hybrid
Country: Vietnam