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I have a nice 6 foot Psidium longipetiolatum (Arazá serrano) tree for sale. The tree started fruiting last year. It's in a #15 pot. $120.

Local pickup in Orange County, CA.


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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Looking for Painter Rollinia scions
« on: February 14, 2024, 11:51:31 AM »
I've read good things about Painter Rollinia -- does anyone have scions of it? How does it taste compared with other Rollinias? Message me if you do -- thanks!

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The time has come for me to start clearing out extra trees.

I have two nice grafted Eugenias in #15 pots for sale, $150 each. Both are trees I grafted with good varieties, 6 feet tall, fruiting regularly for a few years now.

Local pickup in Orange County, CA.

Grafted Black Star Surinam Cherry (Eugenia uniflora)


SOLD: Grafted Ben's Beaut Cherry of the Rio Grande (Eugenia involucrata)

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My starfruit trees love to produce flowers but never seem to set.  I grafted them years ago to Kari and Sri Kembangan but they never set.  They're in relatively large containers (probably 30 gallon) and grow nicely and flower nicely but never set fruit.  I've tried giving them various nutrients, including withholding nitrogen, but it hasn't worked.  I've also crudely tried to hand pollinate, but that hasn't gotten them to set.

Is there a trick to getting them to fruit?  A time of day to pollinate?  What stage of flower should I pollinate at, if any?

I know usually people don't hand pollinate, so I'm wondering what might be wrong here.

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Does anyone have Panama Red Passion Fruit plants?  I'm looking to buy at least one medium-large one if so -- sadly my big one cooked when we hit 100 F a couple weeks ago and is barely alive.  (It was surrounded by concrete, so probably got much hotter than 100 F.)

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Does anyone have any West Indian avocado seeds available to use as rootstock?  I'm looking for something like 5-10 seeds.  Thanks!

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A couple years ago I spent a long time house hunting in LA to find a place with the perfect combination of microclimate for tropical growing, enough land to plant my hundreds of trees, walkability to the metro, easy access to the freeway, good schools, quiet neighborhood, and the rest.  And I found it, in the Mount Washington neighborhood.  It was a classic 100 year old house that needed some work with two south-facing downslope parcels of land just a 10 minute walk from the metro gold line (and 9 minutes by train to downtown) and just a couple miles on the 110 from the heart of the city.  Plus it's just a few minutes walk from the excellent local elementary school.  But when we started doing work on the house, it turned out we needed to carefully rebuild the entire house from scratch, which is what we spent the last two years doing, piece by piece, from the bones on up.

The house is great now, but we're exhausted in every way.  So we're selling it.  I'm posting about it here in the hopes that some rare fruit grower will want it (either you all or someone you know), because I hate to see such prime land going to someone who won't value the land and microclimate.  It's solidly Zone 11a -- one of the few SoCal neighborhoods that is -- plus it gets the right amount of warmth to get great growth on tropicals.  (I studied years of weather station data from every station in the area to figure this out...)  The land is officially 1/4 acre but functionally 1/2 acre given the unused land around it.  And we rebuilt the house to be what we wanted rather than what a house flipper would do, so we spared no expense (everything from solid oak floors to a 5.28 kW solar array to new copper plumbing, electrical, windows, doors, kitchen, bathrooms, appliances, foundation bolting and footings and huge beams -- really everything...).  House is 1729 sq ft, 3 bedroom / 2 bath plus a den.

I'm not a pro photographer and the listing -- which will go up soon -- will have proper pictures, so here's just two, one from downstairs and one upstairs.

If you're interested please message me.  Thanks.




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Anyone have suggestions for a tropical/subtropical shrub/bush that grows very fast, is relatively tough (doesn't need careful watering) and makes a decent hedge?

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** UPDATE: GONE **

Free for anyone will take all of these at the same time:

Dwarf Brazilian Banana (15 gallon pot, about 8 feet tall)
Mysore Banana (5 gallon pot, about 6 feet tall)
Achachairu seedlings (sharing a 5 gallon pot)
Mexican Garcinia seedlings (sharing a 5 gallon pot)

Pickup from San Juan Capistrano, CA.  Send me a message if you can come by today, tomorrow, or Saturday.

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I'm looking for a few seeds of West-Indian avocados like Catalina or Mexican avocados like Zutano.  I'm particularly interested in getting the seeds in the next couple of weeks, and want the largest size seeds possible.   Please let me know if you have any -- thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Where can I get Catalina Avocados?
« on: October 14, 2019, 02:46:04 PM »
Anyone know where I could get Catalina avocados (really just the seeds, but I'm fine with buying whole fruit too)?  I'm in California, but happy to do mail order.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Zutano avocado seeds?
« on: October 13, 2019, 12:06:40 PM »
Anyone have a few (about 5) Zutano avocado seeds they could spare?  Happy to buy or trade.

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I'm looking for some fresh Catalina Avocado seeds for rootstock.  I'm in Southern California, and can pick up locally or trade via mail.  I don't need a lot -- maybe 5.

Happy to trade scions of Avocado, White Sapote, Loquat, rare Passiflora cuttings, or other things.

Thanks!

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I'm getting flowers on my P. laurifolia (Jamaican passionfruit) for the first time, and am wondering what other Passifloras are compatible for pollination.  I have another genetically distinct vine of it, but it's not flowering right now.  (This is the first time it's flowered in about 6 years.)

I remember reading somewhere, but I can't find it, that it is compatible with other species, but I can't find the reference.  Anyone know?  I think I will be able to get pollen from P. alata, P. edulis, and maybe some varieties of P. caerulea.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lemon Guava cultivars / breeding?
« on: August 22, 2019, 01:42:00 AM »
Has anyone done breeding or selection on Lemon Guava?  Anyone know of any trees that produce particularly large / sweet fruit in large quantities?  The trees seem pretty variable in general, and while quite hardy the fruit is sometimes nice and sometimes bland, sometimes large and sometimes small, etc.  I did once plant out a bunch of seeds from a large-fruited tree, but never followed up to see if this quality was retained in the offspring.  If breeding is viable in it in the short term, it seems like a worthwhile plant to breed.

Separately, it might be worth doing a fruit expedition through the thickets of Strawberry Guava in Hawaii to find good cultivars, but I'm guessing most of the fruit is ruined by fruit flies.

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I recently planted a bunch of fruit trees in the ground --  across the spectrum of temperate to tropical -- and have been giving them all plenty of water, but they are all doing the usual thing of sulking / stalling their growth.  They have plenty of water, and I gave them all some all purpose fertilizer.  Bananas are the one exception, as they usually are -- they started growing as soon as they hit the ground.  But the rest are stalled.

Any ideas on how to get them to start growing again?  Once I remember feeding a diluted kelp extract for a pineapple guava that failed to grow after transplanting and it started growing.  But I wasn't sure if that was just coincidence.

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What are the fastest growing citrus (of any kind) that are worth growing?  This is in a warm/hot SoCal climate, with plenty of water and fertilizer.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Muntingia tree leaves in SoCal
« on: March 26, 2019, 12:11:53 AM »
I've been growing a Muntingia calabura tree in a container for some time before in Northern and now in Southern California, and in the winter its leaves seem to not just turn yellow but dry up and fall off.  Does anyone in SoCal have one in the ground, and how does it fare through the winter?  Do you get branch dieback, or does it do fine through the winter with little/no leaf loss or dieback?

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I'm looking for a Saba banana pup/start/plant either for pick up in Southern California or by mail (I'm happy to pay shipping).  I bought one from Going Bananas but it looks like it might not make it.  (I also found some other sources but they either are out of stock or shady.)

Thanks!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Bubble gum flavored Cherimoya?
« on: March 09, 2019, 03:10:17 PM »
I had a couple Cherimoyas (from the South Coast Cherimoya sale) that tasted like bubble gum and they were by far the best I've had recently.  (My trees have been launguishing in pots so I haven't gotten fruit yet.)

Which varieties have that flavor or similar strong fruity flavor?

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I'm trying to plan what to plant along a 6 foot fence that will be along the roadside, where I need something that will provide good screening from the street and grow taller than the fence (ideally covering the height range from 6-20 feet because the fence will cover from 0-6 feet) and be lush and evergreen.  Ideally it'd also be fruit producing but something that the average passerby wouldn't think to pick.

Any ideas?  Bananas are an obvious choice given how fast they grow, but people might pick them.  Any other ideas?  I'd like something that I can plant now and that will provide good screening within a year or two here in SoCal.

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I'm trying to figure out something that can be direct seeded / scattered for perennial erosion control in a steep orchard.  The context is Southern California, but i'm curious generally for anything that does well in subtropical or tropical areas.

So far the best option for erosion control I can find is Vetiver grass, because its roots go straight down and are known to be very good for erosion control.  But it rarely sets seed, so it can't just be scattered across an eroding hillside.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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Anyone have any suggestions of what fruit trees rodents (rats / squirrels) will leave alone?  I'm guessing there aren't many, but I'm curious if there's anything other than various cactus fruit or something like that.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / How to store / keep lots of fruit in the kitchen
« on: September 09, 2018, 05:03:31 PM »
Once our trees are all producing well we know we're going to have more fruit than we know what to do with and are trying to figure out a way to keep the fruit in the kitchen without using up all of our counter space and without having the fruit spoil too quickly. We've been thinking about getting metal wire-frame baskets and attaching them to the wall so we can store a lot of fruits and let them have airflow.  We also figure we'll want to get a deep freezer and put extra fruit in there.

I'm sure many of you have enormous harvests -- how do you deal with them?

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Does anyone have or know of someone in Southern California with a Duke Avocado tree?  The only trees I know of are way up in Oroville.  I'm looking for seeds of Duke (the fruit isn't bad either) sometime in the next month or so.  In Oroville they ripen in Sep/Oct so I figure a Duke tree in Southern California would be ripening now.

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