The Tropical Fruit Forum

No, keep overwinter in pot with minimal watering, protect from wind, and plant in March or April. Die back from freeze and fungus typically shows in March first.

Pay attention to the screc website. This offer unfortunately already sold out but they had top tier varieties for sale at a bargain.


The first Cherimoya Pop-Up Presale is now live! We currently have only 23 bags of cherimoya for sale. Each bag contains between 5-8 pieces of fruit and weighs ~8-10lbs.

Bags are $50 each and contains a mix of the following varieties: Carmella, Sabor, Orton, Fino de Jete, Deliciosa, Selma, Big Sister, Pierce, Chaffey, Whaley, Oxheart, Santa Rosa, and White. 

All bags are prepacked; fruit cannot be swapped or exchanged.

Bags will be available for pickup on Friday, December 4th from 9-12pm at UC South Coast Research in Irvine. To purchase, please visit: http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=32524

Large commercial grower in Fallbrook said to loon for big seeds or west Indian, and frank has seconded the west Indian suggestion. I've had great luck with bacon seedlings I got from Brad. Fast and vigorous growing trees.

My trees have grown pretty well the past 2 years, although I haven't been on top of pruning. Seedlings definitely grow best, but some varieties like lemon zest and orange essence and Ambrosia have grown very well for me. My best fruit this year has been pina colada (brix 27-30, ripe in November) and cac (brix 26, ripe in October). Coconut cream had brix 16 but still carried its flavor well. Taralay alwa had been brix about 15, good texture and flavor just OK. Ambrosia I believe is not true Ambrosia, got it from plantogram. M4 has put out lots of fruit which I harvested early last week prior to ripening... I picked early because I figured our Temps were dropping and they wouldn't get any better, will report later. Overall, I was disappointed until tasting the Pina colada and cac. There's hope for next year. For comparison, I had picked 1 Pina colada 1 month ago, brix about 16 and not anything special. 1 month later - fantastic taste. Orange sherbet put out several mangos but the ones I've tried so far haven't been anything special either. I chalk it up to young trees. I'm planning on changing my fertilization and watering practices next spring and expecting better quality fruit next year.

Modified cleft /veneer. And you can still cleft the top if you like.

My reed tree set fruit for the first time this year.  They're sizing up quickly. Already baseball size. I should be harvesting them next year right? Is that normal? For them to get so large so fast? It's on toro canyon rootstock.

Hi all

I have 2 in ground black sapote, reinecke and ...black beauty(?). I've had them for 3 years. They flower every year, and each year the flowers dry up and fall off. They look very similar to persimmon flowers (I believe they are related). I know some plants have male flowers, but as I have grafted plants the source material should be able to bear fruit.

I'm at a loss at this point and am thinking of replacing the trees or topworking them. It would be a shame to sacrifice 2 great looking trees, but after 3 years and with no fruit to show for it, I'm hard pressed to keep these when they should have fruited within a year.

Am I missing anything? Doing something wrong?

The different season may be either from differences in climate or it may be one of the successive flowerings. My tree flowers 2 to 3 times per year, and it's hard to tell which group the fruit comes from.

Technically avocados can be airlayered. That's how they generate clonal rootstocks, but it is a long and laborious process. I've heard they take up to a year or more to form roots. I personally don't think it's worth it. It's really easier to germinate seeds and graft over the strongest seedlings.

I've actually used the plastic shells and the flat air propagators for air layering figs and can usually get roots to show in 6 weeks.

A few years ago, a member posted a video from south Asia or Southeast Asia of a large mango tree that was essentially air layered, but it looked like the climate was tropical and really conducive to such.

Buy from oscar at fruitlovers nursery. He's got several different varieties. I have 3 different Inga species growing now, all seeds bought from oscar, all germinated and growing easily and well in socal.

Mine hardly has any seeds, maybe 1 per fruit. Source ccpp

I have a tree but scions won't be ready for a few months as tree is holding fruit now

Plant it sideways if you're not sure 🤔