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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Sell E4 Sugarloaf mango
« on: January 02, 2019, 04:34:41 PM »
Rob, please ship me an E4.
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Just checked their Facebook page it seems they ship cuttings worldwide since they send to Paraguay and Thailand. Beautiful fruit.Yes they ship world wide and that is one many are after at the moment
does diatomaceous earth works instead of using surround wp for insect control?
Someone here did post saying they mix doamacios earth in water and spray onto plants for insect control. Seems like a safe enough thing to try.
I was really hoping to get coconut cream as my third choice. But honeykiss seems to be an interesting variety.
How much more productive is honeykiss in so cal? How much better does coconut cream taste?
Honey Kiss bears in clusters like Sweet Tart. Coconut Cream is poor producing here and has droopy attitude, with fragile branches, and could snap in santa ana winds. taste wise, both are excellent but different.
You should taste them before making up your mind.
Very helpful, Simon. Thank you.
Do you guys have any recommendations on which brand(s) to use for an organic tropical fruit tree fertilizer, mycorrgizal fungi, kelp emulsion, and compost? Or I can just look for some on Amazon and leverage their reviews.
Phil they have Dr Earth and Happy frog and some other organic stuff at the good nurseries. You should have some kind of decent nursery nearby. I think DR earth has a fruit tree mix in a blue bag that is 5-5-2. That should be a good one to start with.
For sale 2 grafted lemon zest trees on CA rootstocks. Simon did the grafting on these with scions from his trees and we used the most vigorous rootstocks of the lot.
100$ per tree.
Trees are in tall pots.
I also have a few seedling (not grafted) lemon zest and sweet tarts for sale for 40$
Spoons, the other option which is even easier is to plant seeds from Good Polyembryonic varieties so that you have a seedling that will grow vegetatively for several years before flowering. The benefit of this is that you don’t have to graft.
Simon
You need to make sure its on Manilla rootstock.
Adding to Rob's statement...Unfortunately, Coconut Cream on Manila rootstock will be quite difficult to find in a CA retail nursery since Coconut Cream is still legally under patent, and to my knowledge, only commercially grafted in Florida on turpentine rootstock. So you would likely have to graft CC yourself onto a LaVerne Nursery Manila rootstock.
There are at least 3 Florida businesses that sell and are certified to ship grafted Cocount Cream mango trees to CA:
Treasure of the Tropics, Plantogram, and Top Tropicals. Treasure of the Tropics is my preferred choice.
Call up Champa Nursery in El Monte, (714) 213-7747. Thats where i got my Coconut Cream mango from.
Go to home depot and buy a 5 gallon avocado tree and a 5 gallon mango tree. Plant them, mulch them, water and occasionally fertilize them. They will grow and you will have save a 1000$. You can thank me later.
With that size, how long can I expect before it starts to produce fruit?
Wht do you want a Manilla mango anyway? Do you plan to graft onto it? If not, seek out a better quality variety but the key is to make sure its grafted onto Manilla roitstock, not Florida turpentine.
Go to home depot and buy a 5 gallon avocado tree and a 5 gallon mango tree. Plant them, mulch them, water and occasionally fertilize them. They will grow and you will have save a 1000$. You can thank me later.
No wayzzz on the mango tree. It starts branching out too high and this will only get higher and worse after you plant it. Even with $500 free money I would not pay more than $100 for it. Due to the high branching out. The avocado has lower normal branching out, looks nice and "bushy" so is likeable. With that $500 in free money burning a hole in my pocket.... I might pay full price on the Hass or offer him $100 less and settle for $50 less. Maybe.
The avocado looks like an orange tree. Hard to tell though, cant zoom on it.
If you drive down to san diego you can get avocado trees that size for 75$ or less. Try clausons or atkins. Clausons might wven have some large mango trees also.
Mango looks nice but $$$, and its going to fall over when you take the stake off it. Getting trees that are small that dont require staking is one upside besides the huge cost difference.