The Tropical Fruit Forum

Must admit I am somewhat surprised to see this Cambuca slowly establishing itself on one branch of a mature Sabara.

First time I have tried a double stone graft (Simon you have inspired me to try this) showing signs of life after 1.5 weeks. The scion is from a seedling Sweet Tart (cheers MR) so hopefully we’ll see how it shapes up down under.

I keep my guavas at 3-4’ tall, don’t fertilise much, throw a net with a zip sewn in over the tree after fruit set. I cannot get through all the fruit these little trees produce

Thanks for the response Seawalnut, my situation is a little different in that the particular tree/s I want to keep warm are in a community garden. So unfortunately a fire for me is s no go, so i was hoping for ideas using something quite passive and safe to add just a couple of degrees inside the clear cover i will make.

Sent a message, but no response yet, I’m interested, just joined Telegram. Where do i go from here?

First report on my Canistel experiment.

I grew 2 seedlings from a friends fruit planted about 3 years ago. Fruit were small sweet and moist but i read canistel is not true to type. I planted both in the one hole and about 2 years ago grafted wood from mature ‘Lyndall’ tree.

More recently ( 4-5 months ago) I grafted some of the branches with 2 other varieties, tipped the seedling leader at 1.5m leaving only 2 branches of the original seedling.
Both the ‘Lyndall’ and seedling tree are similar size (though quite different shape)  but what has surprised me is it is the seedling that is flowering first not the grafted tree.
There is plenty more to go in this experiment, not least of which will be the quality of this fruit if any set.

I have a young Erdon Lee lychee, maybe 3’ tall which is flowering all over. Any suggestions as to how best to manage this? I want the tree to put its energy into growing, perhaps let it set fruit then pick off?

Cheers Sleepdoc, I reckon mine must be a chance next season. I have also grafted a couple of Luc’s scions from a tree that has produced its first fruit onto my Achacha, will be interesting to watch how this develops

I have a small beetle that helps out for me, but hand pollinating certainly increases production though especially in the fringe months

Rob you write in the past tense, what happened to your tree. I have one similar age to your espaliered tree which is now holding about 35 fruits. Not sure what i’ll do with them all.

Yes I believe I have a couple, still too small to fruit yet though. Get in touch with Stevo (Steve T) on this forum he may have some

Hi all, I have recently grafted a bunch of Jaboticabas (about 10 varieties) onto 5 different rootstocks and am interested to hear others experience of how multi-grafted trees go in the medium to long term.