Chong, you continue to make a reference to getting in trouble with some member here. Such vague comments reminds me of some other member who no longer posts here. This just causes more confusion and is more likely to cause trouble than saying what you're thinking, IMO. If you're talking about Jeff Earl, he doesn't ever bother to visit here unless I happen to mention something to him that he might want to comment on (like when he had an auction running last year under his new eBay ID and Taylor questioned if it was really Jeff Earl). I'm going to visit Jeff Earl tomorrow to pick up a LHI banyan and check out his big flowering Mauritius lychee, but wouldn't bother to mention any discussion about speculation of the Texas Star and Cal Gold being the same.
To the best of my memory, Jeff hasn't said what part of Texas he got his original Cal Gold from. I remember it was mail order, before Al Gore invented the Internet, and was some old Mexican guy that didn't have a name for it. Jeff's comments are posted in some old thread which I've linked here before if you really feel inclined to see what he says about it. Also to the best of my knowledge, he's never bought a Texas Star from Ty Ty. Maybe I'll give him one if I get enough pups this summer.
You've made a comment here that Texas Star might be a little more hardy than Cal Gold. On what do you base this statement? I've never read of anyone growing them both and comparing them. I plan to do that but on a small scale with no statistical significance, but will make some comments about them when the time comes.
Just be happy, warm weather is here!
