The Tropical Fruit Forum

Hi guys,
I still have not had any luck with finding scion wood for my white sapote, i would be extremely grateful if someone would trade or sell it to me, also looking for fresh passion fruit seeds(i purchased seeds online but they never sprouted)

I have the following up for trade:
Dragon fruit cutting (red flesh)
Dragon fruit rooted in pot (white flesh)-local pick up for this
Pomegranate cutting
cherimoya seeds
Hawaiian papaya seeds

Thank You
Jason

Jason, how many cherimoya seeds do you have to trade? I have different white sapotes to trade.
Mark

I think this is the same variety I bought in Ottawa, I asked the store owner if it was a Madame Francis and he said it was. It was ok, but nothing out of the ordinary. Probably as you say Simon they were picked early for shipping. I also saw them at Whole Foods today, for $2.50 each. I paid $1 in Canada, but also saw them for $2.50 up there.

I was in Canada over the weekend and went through China town, and picked up these real nice treats. The green lychees were exceptionally tasty, some of the best I've had. The mangosteens were all great, and the langsats had one or 2 seeds in the whole bunch. There were also sugar apples, dragon fruit, and some type of atemoya. I also picked up a few Haitian mangos, which I assume were Madam Francis, the one I have pictured is a green asian. There were also Palmer, Ataulfo, and Hadens.

Anyway, I have read that the fruit is not irradiated that is imported into Canada, can anyone confirm this?

You guys in Florida are 3-4 months ahead of us out west. My lychees are still flowering and some of the fruit are only rice grain size. Don't even get me started on the mangos. Hey but we have some delicious Cherimoyas starting to flower.

Mark in Chula Vista

I get acerola cuttings at about a 80% take. I take a pencil size, 4-6 in piece, cut all the leaves off except a few on the top, wet just the end and only cover the very bare part with hormex 45, pre make a small hole 3 inches deep in a moist 80 perlite 20 peat mix, then slowly place the cutting in and and gently fill in around the cutting. Then I place a plastic bag over the top of the container and keep in warm shade. The bagged cutting provides plenty of moisture.

Mark

Up at the UC cooperative extension Dragon Fruit research station in Irvine, California there is a recording of a Cooper's hawk that seems to repel the varmints and birds, although it is kind of annoying. I was there and kept looking for the bird, and finally realized it was a recording. Those owl boxes are not the greatest, because you have to get the owls to nest and then they may not even be picking off the rodents, also they have a specific nesting season usually around late winter early spring and that is the time they would be looking for the most food. A good way is to get a live trap, and get the squirrels. For the birds, the wineries out here use the strips of shiny mylar to repel birds, but not keep it up all year long, only when the fruit is about ready, otherwise the birds get used to it.

Good luck

On my first flowering I counted 52 fruits.  Not huge, but I'm pretty happy about it.  I've picked a couple so far with the rest in the next week or two.  Looks like I should be getting many more flowers soon.  I don't remember reading comments about flowering cycles, though I imagine it might be different in NorCal, but I'm wondering how many waves of flowers I might expect in one year.

Harvey, those are real nice and glad you got the tree going up there. I had one from Ong that fruited real quick and one from Exotica that is real thick and tall and is still not flowering.

Mark, how was the sansapote fruit?

Oscar, the sansapote tasted like a lucuma and a canistel, not as sweet as a canistel or creamy, but still ok. A real impressive tree there in Succotz, Cayo Belize. The locals just called the fruit succotz, and said it is the last tree in the area.

Quote from: nullzero on April 21, 2013, 03:53:59 PM

Was great meeting everyone, thanks Ethan as well! Came back with a Lucuma seedling, Tamarillo seedling, Cambuca seedling, and Garcinia acuminata.

wow...who had the cambuca and g acuminata?

nice finds...I wonder how big they are?

Adam,
I think Rtreid (Richard) had some small seedlings.

I have the small fruit with thorns. I have been trying to get the one Top Tropicals has with wings its a large yellow

The yellow undatus which top topricals sells is really not very tasty, it has a earthy taste.

Mark

That is crazy, I have one about 5 years old, a persian mulberry that I have kept in a 15 gallon for a few years, it must be grafted on some dwarfing variety, it fruits great if I keep it watered. It is only 6 feet tall and bushy. I am afraid to put it in the ground and then jump to 50 feet real quick.

Quote from: Guanabanus on April 14, 2013, 10:41:37 PM

Remember that the new word "Cherilata" is intended for hybrids produced by cross-pollination:  a cherimoya flower receiving pollen from an Annona reticulata, producing seeds which produce plants that are then called "Cherilata."

This word does not apply to an Annona reticulata grafted onto an Annona cherimola.

Thanks Guanabanus very interesting. So what would happen if I pollinate a cherimoya flower with Ilama pollen and they set fruits? Would the seeds of these fruits produce plants that would be call cherilama?

There is a guy down here in San Diego that supposedly mixed an atemoya with a cherimoya, I haven't tasted the fruit and he said he isn't selling any trees last time I checked. I don't know if he isolated the trees from other pollen or from self pollenization.