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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: Vernmented on February 07, 2019, 08:22:01 PM
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Grafted October 2017.
Topworked a non fruiting Sabara.
First flowers showed up on the rootstock and just noticed the trunciflora flowers. Very excited. I haven't tasted these before. I got the scions from Phelipe Castro out in California.
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josh was the very first person i sold scions to a year ago. woot woot woot woot congrats brother!!!!!!!!! i been giving out scions to friends in california like mad cause i am moving to FL and want this tree genetics to live on.
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what are you using as fert?? unicorn urine? :P
why mine still no flower after like 6y? :'(
(but i did see my friend's tree that I grafted about 6y ago, start to finally flower...a small, but nice trunciflora about 4ft tall with 3inch caliper, about to bust out with flowers all over...not something u see every day)
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Came across this interesting article on it a while back.
https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/5432707
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Wow, nice job Josh, looks like you used about 1/2" scions or so very impressive ;)
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Hanapaa! Great job!
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Thanks guys. I kept it fertilized with azomite, mighty grow 4-3-4, sul-po-mag, potassium sulfate, gypsum, sulfur and consistently moist. I put in in ground in a large fertile mound about 5 months ago with heavy mulch. I have been filling my water tanks with well water and dropping the pH with sulfuric acid down to the low 6s/5s which I think converts the high levels of calcium carbonate into calcium sulfate.
There were some big fatty scions used.
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Any one needs scions PM me
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PM sent Veggieman! Nice advertising 8). Grrrrrrr8 job Josh! That's ridiculously good.
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(but i did see my friend's tree that I grafted about 6y ago, start to finally flower...a small, but nice trunciflora about 4ft tall with 3inch caliper, about to bust out with flowers all over...not something u see every day)
Adam, here is a picture mine from probably from the same batch. Your nice graft can still clearly be seen. It's the same height but with only a 1.5 " caliper. I'm encouraged that I might get flowers years sooner than I thought.
(https://i.postimg.cc/phC98BTb/20190212-075633-3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/phC98BTb)
Great work Josh! Let us know how they taste.
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i just realized we are getting close to the 7r mark since grafting, so some should definitely start to put out blooms.
I'm still waiting on mine though.
(but i did see my friend's tree that I grafted about 6y ago, start to finally flower...a small, but nice trunciflora about 4ft tall with 3inch caliper, about to bust out with flowers all over...not something u see every day)
Adam, here is a picture mine from probably from the same batch. Your nice graft can still clearly be seen. It's the same height but with only a 1.5 " caliper. I'm encouraged that I might get flowers years sooner than I thought.
(https://i.postimg.cc/phC98BTb/20190212-075633-3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/phC98BTb)
Great work Josh! Let us know how they taste.