The Tropical Fruit Forum

Greetings
Got the best surprise in a long time this week. Flower buds at varying stages on a 7 year old monthong/gan yaow cross
Hugely exciting !!!!!
There are some groups of buds that are clearly a couple of weeks older than others and I even found a couple of flowers on the floor when there are very small buds on other branches. Funnily enough the larger flower buds are all on branches that are only the diameter of my thumb whereas the newer buds are along the entire length of one single larger branch

I have never used foliar sprays before wonder if this would be a good time to start ?
I have the Triple Boost stuff recommended by the local nursery - kelp / fish / worm cast emulsion and would use it weekly ??
I have a couple of bags of cow manure that I was planning on spreading around too

Seem reasonable ?

kind regards
Jim

http://www.insad.pl/files/journal_pdf/journal2009/vol17(1)2009/Full7%202009_1_.pdf This may help

How are you controlling the humidity for the durian? Could that be causing the drying of the buds?

Spanish lime will be difficult to fruit in California.  Don't forget you generally need male and female trees in proximity.  Growing marang in Southern California would be an absolute cinch.......until you woke up and realized that you were just having a horticultural fruiting dream. There is zero chance of fruiting a marang there without a very, very large green house.

What about some of the more cold tolerant artocarpus species?  - Kwai Muk or jackfruit?

http://www.pronaturaveracruz.org/apadrinaunarbol/Fichas_arboles/Annona_glabra/Anona.pdf  An orchard? wow, that is a pretty bold statement for pond apple. A tasty pond apple definitely exists.

luak - I'm originally from near you (Central Oklahoma) and have been to Eureka Springs a few times. My experience is that things in pots behave differently than things planted in the ground. My cherimoya is one or two years younger than my pawpaws but because it is in a pot it is much smaller.

AlexRF - I'll try that plan. I will use it also for pollinating the cherimoya with cherimoya since just doing it once has never worked in the past.

Any updates?

I know of one in San Diego, that has been around a while, not great looking but it is surviving.

Amazing, Marsbars - enjoyed every minute of this article. i just wonder though,
how many folks in our non-tropical climate have successfully grown them for
years in a greenhouse or in a home with high ceilings and lots of windows...

Gary

There is one in the san diego zoo, as well as a jackfruit tree.

http://www.growsonyou.com/photo/slideshow/176699-cocos-nucifera-coconut-tree-at-the-san-diego-zoo

I really dont agree with posting links from other forums, but on palm talk there is a Topic that talks about California´s Cocos.http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/25082-updates-on-coconut-palms-in-california/page-2  Ive seen pictures of people growing them in unheated pool houses (if that's what you call them?), but they never fruited. Ive also seen pictures of them growing in a south facing wall of a house in Oceanside. Them seem to 'barely' survive (probably die), when they are by the southern coast of California from what I've heard and seen from others. Ive heard sucess with people tying heating cables to the roots. I dont know if its that much true though. Although there is a great deal of success when planted in a pot. I have even germinated a store bought coconut! It rotted, I believe because too much humidity. Oh well.

Here it is in Newport Beach, living in a micro-climate since 1984. http://americanvoyages.blogspot.com/2011/11/newport-beach-coconut-palm.html


 From Atlasobsucara.com

A. Glabra has started ripening up...here is my first pics from trees around a lake in the City of Boynton Beach...they have a very strong apple smell to them...there were a bunch of iguanas gathered around munching on dropped fruits...will update on taste when I cut into them..

Any update on the taste?

Which plants?

Agreed! Most guavas are pretty sun tolerant, but yeah I have a 8ft tall strawberry Guava in LA county, full sun.

Do you know the avocado seedling variety?