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Hi everyone,

looking for scions of the following

PLUOT
Flavor King
Flavor Queen
Flavor Rouge Pluot® Interspecific
Plum
Flavor Royale Pluot

CHERRY
 Minnie royale
 royale lee

or any others superior cultivars of these that are worth growing.

Thanks,

Samuel

Hi Everyone,

could anyone help with the ID of this plant. I would say it is a member of Myrtaceae family and was sold to the owner as a jaboticaba which is not at least not the common ones...first flowering after 4 years... Thanks!

Hi everyone,

i have just pruned my atemoya trees and so have some scions i would like to trade.

Here are the cultivars i have available:

• atemoya: Lisa and "unnamed Mauritius"This unknow cv. from Mauritius (well at least i can tell it got into Reunion from Mauritius...) is a self fruiting cv. It has very sweet and nice flavor. see the link below to a topic i had launched about it http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=10299.msg131957#msg131957
• cherimoya: El bumpo
• sugar apple: a vietnamese cultivar very sweet and tasty with interesting seed/flesh ratio (see the attached pic from a 1st year fruiting tree, i assume the trees can come bigger if hand pollinated and from an older tree).
  
  
  
  Cheers,
  
  Samuel

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Hi everyone,

i am planning to "release" at the end of the year the first grafted trees ever of atemoya to be cultivated on the island.

I have heard about few attempts of growing atemoya here in the past. I suppose these were grown from seed thus ending in mixed results which may explain why so far atemoya is not commercially grown neither as it is in home yards; it is simply unknown.

I feel happy i could find this tree in a customer's yard that he brought in from an experimental station in Mauritius and that i find to be for the least "good" and not to say very yummy (not to me only but as well to many persons i gave it to try) see my post about it here http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=10299.msg131957#msg131957 and for which i did not get much input . Even though it may not compete with all the top notch cultivars you guys are familiar with i.e. Pink mammoth, Geffner, African pride, Kj Pinks and so on. These will come soon hopefully- your contributions are most welcome

i have gone through quite a few threads on the forum dealing with annona rootstocks and could get quite a few tips to consider in my thinking, thanks a lot to all those who contributed still i was feeling like i may get more specific answers to my specific case. So here it is:

Considering that:

• atemoya seeds and cherimoya seeds are so far a rather scarce resource around here (i still must have currently about 100 seedlings in the nursery)
• A. reticulata seeds are plenty and readily available around (i must have about 2 hundreds seedlings in the nursery that are ready to be grafted)
• places where atemoya is supposed to be adapted at its best are dry tropical like conditions (average minimum monthly temperature of 21,6°C/annual rainfall 600mm)
• and of course as per the natural compatibility or incompatibility habits of Annonas

What would be my best option regarding the choice of rootstocks to propose some trees that will thrive the most in the conditions mentioned above which are the conditions where talking about annonas sugar apple and bullock heart are the rules (which correspond to an elevation on the island from sea level up to an estimated 500m)?

finally i was wondering how atemoya could behave in much wetter places (annual rainfall from 2000mm to 4000mm) with temperatures slightly cooler ...would they be worth growing and if yes on which rootstock?  in these areas, bullock heart and soursop are the most common annonas...

thanks for any input,

Samuel, Reunion island





 

Hi everyone,

one of the plot i have started to convert into a fruit orchard has mostly some poor volcanic soil (volcanic cinders). I have started to plant some gliricidia here and there that i am planning to use as soil builder by cutting them back and shredding them. They  grow very readily even on the worst spots where fruit trees struggle to get established. 

My concern is to know how easy it will be or not to get rid of them once they will have done their job of building up the soil? which i assume may occur after 3/4 years of continuous coppicing. I have seen some gliricidia trees around here that can come pretty big and i would not like such a thing to happen in the orchard as they may compete with fruit trees for water and nutrients. Considering that i don't have any machine like an excavator or not even a tractor that would help doing the job... cutting back to the stump is all i can afford to do.

any experience/suggestions on that topic? related questions i have is what distance distance from the fruit trees should i plant them?

I have also been thinking of others species like Moringa sp., Inga sp. and Cajanus cajan (that is probably less risky as it is not really perennial). Any suggestions for other interesting soil building trees in humid tropics/subtropics are most welcome. Thanks!

attached is a photo of my friend Simon playing with a pick and preparing a pit for papaya planting. You can clearly see the difference between the planting  rounded site were we added some outside clayey kind of soil and our own rocky type of soil all around (that justify the pick  )  stone walls also attesting the rocky thing...

Wind gust around 150 km/h have already been measured and the system still approaching. It may even pass over the island. Still hoping for another scenario.

Pray for us and for Reunion fruit trees!

http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=56.68,-18.43,2318

Samuel

Reunion island

Hi everyone,

on the topic started by hawaii fruit grower http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=7101.0  i think i can recognize on the picture (bottom left) a seedling of rambutan showing signs of leaf tip burn.

It is also very common here and can sometimes be pretty much detrimental to the seedlings, actually i have lost quite a few this way. I wonder what are the reasons for these symptoms? Does anyone have any views about that?

Samuel

Reunion island   

Hi everyone,

i am wondering how to go for pruning my sapodilla trees. How to start with getting them in their pruning program... I don't have much experience in pruning trees even though i have been documented myself on the subject for a while now but very little practice. And because each specie or genus  are a different story...

i am growing either grafted sapodillas or marcotted ones. I would generally space them about 15 to 20 feet apart. Some trees are about man size now (see the attached picture)

so i am referring on to you long time sapodilla growers to give me advice on how to train sapodilla and possibly others sapotaceae ie canister, mamey that seem to be having the same kind of growth habit.

Is the mango tipping method described by Richard Campbell well adapted to sapotaceae?

Thanks ,

Samuel
Reunion island

Hi everyone,

i have some seeds of this endemic palm known as red palm tree. A palm tree endemic to Reunion island where it is cultivated for its palm heart and considered as a treat in local cuisine. It is appreciated for its nice nutty flavor.

http://www.arkive.org/barbel-palm/acanthophoenix-rubra/

Cheers,

Samuel

Hello everyone,

i am considering to try grafting mango in this season which is a kind of fall, i say a kind because we are at 21° south latitude so it would be some kind of tropical fall. Currently the min temp are about 22 °C, should get down to 17 °C in August.

It is the common practice here to graft mango during summer but i wonder how successful it could be in that period of the year. I still see a lot of potential scions on the trees around.

Does anyone have experience doing so?

Does anyone know about nurseries that would propagate and sell grafted seedlings of durian and Pulasan in PR? ...

i found this nursery http://jardineseneida.com/ they have quite a wide selection of fruit trees but they do not mention durian nor Pulasan.

thanks for any contacts or reports about the cultivation of those 2 species in PR...

A friend of mine got to taste this fruit while having Holidays in Seychelles. forgot to ask him about the flesh and its taste. Will let you know. I am hesitating between biriba and atemoya. What do you guys think it could be? Thanks