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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Morella/Myrica rubra) thread
« on: March 19, 2024, 06:54:31 PM »
Nice Job Simon, your the Yangmei prince for sure, the magic touch for sure 8) Im another 5yrs. you'll be swamped in fruit ;)

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Quince, Carob finger like pods?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Trees
« on: March 19, 2024, 12:16:28 PM »
Sorry Kevin, I had Adara for awhile on plum tree at bottom of property but it ended up dying :-[ But that is what you want to make cherries adaptable to plum I think Andy Mariani up in Morgan Hills found out about that adaptable inter stem with 'Adara'. Your trees are looking great by the way great job. ;) 8)
Kevin, you could try contacting Marta @https://reallygoodplants.com/ she not showing on her scions available this year but I bet she has it worth a try!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cocktail Trees
« on: March 18, 2024, 07:00:51 PM »
Is anyone into making cocktail trees? I’m always short on space and always needing cross pollination for better fruit set so over the last few years I’ve gone kind of Dr Frankenstein. Here are a few:


Santa Barbara peach with: Flavor King pluot, Sweet Treat Pluerry, Flavor Grenade pluot, Santa Rosa plum, Arctic Star Nectarine, Royal Lee, Minnie Royal, Royal Crimson, Spicy Z, Snow Queen Nectarine, Tropic Snow Peach, and Cotton Candy Aprium.


Feijoa with Coolidge, Improved Coolidge, Mammoth, Nazemetz, Nikita and 5 or so NZ varieties



Sabara jaboticaba with: white, red, otto anderson phitantra, escarlate, navel, paulista, ESALQ, fruiting sabara from my older tree, grimal, Coronata 1, 2, 3, and a few others I forget now


Pitangatuba with FFF selected "Lemonhead" and "Gigante" adding on more from another collector this Saturday



Apple tree with: Bill's Red Flesh, Goodland, Orange Pippin, Akero, Irish Peach, White Winter pearmain, Pink Pearl, Winter Banana, Dorsett, Anna


Another look at the cocktail, it's just unhappy right now due to winter but it is about to explode on every single branch


Unknown plum with all the same stuff that's on the SB peach
Kevin, I don't think that the cherries you put one prunus rootstock will work without 'Adara' inter stem long term for sure that's what folks are using to graft cherries onto prunus rootstock. But cool multi tree for sure.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: White sapote attacked by ants
« on: March 13, 2024, 04:22:22 PM »
Pau, excellent job looks good should be fine now once it dries up no need to use fire will heal my its self.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Passiflora recommendations
« on: March 13, 2024, 12:35:06 PM »
Check out Passiflora International Society web site there is American seed bank sale on right now.https://passiflorasociety.org/

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: White sapote attacked by ants
« on: March 13, 2024, 12:30:13 PM »
I have a twenty plus year old w. sapote that did something similar but was like blisters that popped, I scraped into cambium layer all around wound and let heal looks fine now except scar. Do the same with your wound scrap clean and let heal. W. sapotes are amazing healers I had bark scraped off a w. sapote one time by tree removers hauling away big trunks and scraped bark off side of w.sapote, within a year it regrew bark in that area.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Parafilm?
« on: March 13, 2024, 12:22:05 PM »
I've always used parafilm M but that is because my wife bought a roll at local swap meet for a couple bucks 4' wide X 250' when new but will never need again in my life. ;)

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Cool thanks Kaz :)

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Kaz, do you remember his name?

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Kaz, I got fruit from Hoang :-[

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Kaz, I had planted a seedling of 'Blk. Magic' but it died in ground for unknown reason :(

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Kaz, your yellow 'Dennis' sounds interesting for sure might have to try and get cutting sometime to graft onto flavicarpa or another passiflora.
Mike, I know Australians have developed many hybrids of edulis that are sweeter than what is in USA and the real good ones never leave your Country. To bad for us because would be nice to try some of those varieties in the States :(

Also Kaz, you mentioned 'black magic' did you get that one from Hoang? He sent me one one time and I thought that it was one of the sweetest p. edulis I ever tasted. Like you said I don't like p. decaisneana but do like a sweet/tart taste in passion fruit. I have a 'Possum Purple' that a friend gave me and the first fruit I got off that vine was very sweet to my taste. I do like my 'Fredricks' in my smoothies though so, search goes on for the very good passiflora edulis or hybrid of with good sweet tart flavor.

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This one is yellow and large, fruit tastes excellent.






Kaz, you have nice big p. flavicarpa there and you say excellent taste but brixs are only 8 so, no to sweet right?

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passiflora popenovii are notorious for being hard to sprout from seed unless you can get fresh seed. Most seed out there are to old to have good percentage to sprout for sure with p. popenovii.

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sounds like a good one Mike, except we don't get some of those excellent passiflora varieties up in the States :(

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is this passion fruit unique or common?
« on: February 27, 2024, 10:49:36 AM »
Amazing for sure take cuttings and start more and name it like roblack mentioned very nice natural cross or something! 8)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Two one gallon pawpaws have shipped . . .
« on: February 24, 2024, 06:55:56 PM »
I have always but a round fence material around my new seedlings or new grafted tree with shade cloth all around and on top for first year, then open shade cloth up to morning sun and take top shade cloth off for second year.  Third year open to full sun my trees are growing fine with no problems. My climate is coastal influence inland about 3-miles as crow fly's.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Vernon white sapote in 15 Gal container
« on: February 22, 2024, 12:40:53 PM »
It's a young tree give it a chance to grow more before it will fruit. I would put in ground they don't like pot culture.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Young Cherimoya: to defoliate in February?
« on: February 16, 2024, 12:07:17 PM »
many, many years ago when i used to go to Orange  county CRFG scion exchange to get scion wood for avocados and cherimoya, I used to take my young seedling cherimoyas in the G.H. and defoliate them about two weeks before scion exchange then they would be ready to graft when I came home with cherimoya scion wood. New buds are right under current leaf petioles.

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My surinam cherry trees are about 8'-10' tall and all self seed from dropped fruit, I'm on ancient sand dune soil with 40 yrs of mulch and horse poop they are like weeds under my Chamba variety.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My Yard 2022
« on: February 09, 2024, 11:59:58 AM »
Wow Kevin, sorry to hear about damage to g.h.  glad to hear plants weren't hurt. All good hear considering wind gusts and all. Your e. repanda look great good job!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Need help can’t tell which side is graft
« on: February 06, 2024, 04:33:32 PM »
I agree will Bill, most likely was a bud graft and that's on the right side with different bark than r.s. I had same problem with some paw paw's I bought small grafted trees that had two trunks and they to were budded low on r.s. grew into branch I don't know why they (Nursery) don't cut back or some how label correct branch that is variety you bought!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: When to prune mulberry?
« on: February 02, 2024, 01:06:02 PM »
Best to prune Mulberry when dormant before they start to push sap flow, mulberry's can bleed badly from cuts made at other times when sap is flowing. You can summer prune to help with tree height and help manage size. Some varieties bleed more than others so, it's snip and learn kind of thing if you still want to prune.

Now mulberry, olive, pomegranate, white sapote, Loquat, can be cut (pruned back hard) and will regrow with no problems but will loose fruit for next one-two years ( for folks with over grown tree's).

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Kaz, that's a beautiful fruit for sure 8)

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