The Tropical Fruit Forum

So I just moved houses about a month and a half ago, with all of my other trees (mind a few potted cherimoya's and a green sapote) being at my other place, the only problem is that the house is going into Escrow soon and I wanted to get a couple name important trees that are VERY comfortable in there place. I obviously expect transfer shock but honestly what would be the best way to go about this? The trees I plan on removing are Surinam Cherry (3), Cherimoya (2), Lychee (2) and Mamey Sapote (1), and Macadamia (2)

I know that the first step is to get the shovels in the ground but does anyone have any tips for dealing with relocation and transfer shock, as well as the removal for each specific tree in the first place?

Australian Blood Lime (Finger lime hybrid)

*red fleshed* Finger Lime (Citrus australasica)

Australian Desert Lime (Citrus glauca)

Hello All!

I have been gone for quite a while as I have been swept away by the other love of my life (surfing), as the waves have been good lately (primarily due to El Niño.) All of my trees are in the ground and well, the winter hasn't been too harsh except for some defoliation on an in ground jackfruit.

Unfortunately, some of you who were interested in buying seeds and scions weren't able to buy, because I was busy personally, or busy with other orders.

Fortunately, the Round Surinam's are coming back into season, the tree has already flowered and will soon be beginning to produce some plump green fruits.

In the time since my last post, the tree has also grown a good deal so scions are going to be much more available, if you are interested.

SCIONS ARE AVAILABLE

CHARGING $21/SCION SHIPPING INCLUDED. US ONLY.

SEEDS CAN BE PRE-ORDERED, SEND A PM AND I WILL
PUT YOU ON A PRE ORDER LIST.

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Hi All,

Norman's hip blew out so I am helping him do business. If you are interested in a greenhouse grow norman's inga, that are 1-4ft. tall please send me a personal message. Only around 15 available. They are in good health. Pictures coming soon

Thanks!!!

Hi all,

In a recent thread I posted that I was having problems with my Rion Greenhouse... well, as the winter continues on, I am finding that it is becoming much to cold for my plants at night due to many gaps and openings within the inconvenient structure of my greenhouse. After reading online about PVC pipe greenhouses I would like to give it a try. I was thinking of making a design somewhat like this but smaller...
http://www.tubbycreekfarm.com/category/blog-tags/greenhouse (scroll down to the very bottom)

I am not sure what to use to insulate the greenhouse (if I decide to build it) but if anyone has ideas please let me know!

Hi Friends,

I recently purchased a rion greenhouse ( The prestige)  and had a very bad experience. It took twice as long as they told us it would take to get here, and then when the first order arrived at least 50 parts were missing. They had us look through every box and check off each part on a list to make sure. We were sure after checking. So then they sent us the parts we needed. Finally the greenhouse was getting built! Then while I was expecting all polycarbonate panels I instead received a mix of mostly cheap thin plastic panels, and some polycarbonate panels, but this was my fault as I had failed to read the full description when ordering. I don't know if I am accurate on this or not but I am having to put large amounts of shade cloth on my greenhouse, only the parts made of the thin, clear, cheap, plastic. Is it possible that these are amplifying the lighting and temperature?

Okay, finally, the greenhouse is built! Then on hotter days I begin opening the top window and it works fine. As a continue doing this over a course of months the handles used to open it fell off. I now have to get a large stick and start poking it until I can get it to open.

Now, as recently as today, I was opening the door to water my plants, and one of the hinges on the door popped out. Great.

I think I am just going to send this one to the dump and build my own greenhouse.

I will post pictures as soon as I have the chance.

Thanks!

Hi Friends,

My Surinam Cherry tree finally ripened around two dozen fruits and I thought someone here might be interested in seeds.

I am proud to say that this Surinam Cherry does not have much resin aftertaste, the unripe fruits taste a bit like tomato's and the ripe ones are a lot like honey.

Some of the fruits from this tree have no aftertaste but I cannot say that all fruits don't have an aftertaste.

Around 50% of the seeds are polyembronic.

$1.00 for three seeds.

Hi Friends,

I was snooping around Norman's house today and found a small, grafted jackfruit! It is in good condition... Norman said he has had the tree for about three years... he bought it as a one gallon pot grafted and has had it for three years since. Pictures below... I very much like this tree, it has very nice rounded leaves and dark green foliage;



I also found a grove of very nice Inga's(not sure what species) at Terra Sol Nursery... they were in the private collection but Claire, my friend who works there, said I could have it for $25. It has huge dark green leaves and the new growth is incredible... bright ruby red that almost glows. Does anyone have an idea what species it might be? The leaves are much more prettier than the new growth on Normans Inga to me.
New growth

The tree

New growth on Norman's Inga

Hi Friends,

I thought it was about time that I post some pictures of my yard on the forum so here they are. The pictures will take place either up on the hill,or in the GH. I don't know how to enlarge the photo inside of a post but you can click the pics for a much bigger resolution. I didn't feel like posting pictures of the tree's that were barren and looked like sticks in the ground so I will leave a list of what I didn't add... I will also add pics of my small seedlings tomorrow.

Jackfruit
"Panache" fig
"Peters Honey" fig
"Pantin" Mamey Sapote
Buddhas hand(Mealy Bugs)
Miracle Berry
Jaboticaba(It wasn't barren or anything but I just forgot to take a picture and I am too lazy to climb up the hill and take a pic.. I'll try to take one this week)

Allspice

Cinnamon

Dragonfruit

"El Bumpo" Cherimoya

"Cooledgei" Feijoa

"Glenn" Mango

"Glenn Mango blooms

Goji Berry... forgot what variety

"Gwen" Avocado

Large "Hass" Avocado

Another Large "Hass" Avocado

"Hass" Avocado Flowers of the second tree shown

"Hass" Avocado flowers of the first tree shown

"Honey Hart" Cherimoya

"Honey Hart" Leaves

"Normans Early Bearing" Ice Cream Bean tree.

"Normans Early Bearing" ICe Cream Bean... close up of red leaves

"Sabara" Jaboticaba

Kieffer Lime

Kieffer Lime up close

Immature fruit of a fig tree that produces extremely large and tasty fruits... it is evergreen... anyone have a guess on the variety?

Here's the tree

My first Macadamia nut tree

New growth

Second Macadamia tree... this one gets a lot more sun and is much smaller.

Red Jaboticaba

"Reed" Avocado

Rio Grande Cherry tree

Pretty foliage

Rio Red Grapefruit

Up close of new growth

New growth on Rollinia... for a while now the where the Rollinia puts out new growth it suddenly turns brown and then falls off... what is the cause of this because it is in a GH in shade with humidity and regular 75 degree temps... what could cause this? I think it might be rootbound because it is in a very small pot.

Seedless Strawberry Guava Fruit... I will post some pics when it is ripe to show it is really seedless.

Seedless Strawberry Guava tree

Surinam Cherry

New Growth

"Sweetheart" Lychee Bloom

"Sweetheart" Lychee tree

Unknown but mature loquat

Unknown Pouteria... I think it is something along the lines of green sapote

Up close... sorry for blurry quality

Up close of the loquat tree

Struggling Wax Jambu... I planted it in mid-december not even bothering to think of the temperatures

Unknown variety of white sapote that produces fruit all year... these are the flowers.

Here are some small fruit

The pretty leaves... I notice the leaves on this tree to be quite rotund and waxy.

Here is the actual tree

And last but not least Yuzu


Thanks for taking the time to look,

Hi Friends,

Today I acted like the peach and plum tree's and decided it was spring, so I did some spring cleaning in my greenhouse. I found a bunch of old pots with dried out soil that were about a foot to a foot and a half tall. Well, I emptied one of them and I found a seedling that looked Annonaceaeous… I looked for a seed to identify it better but there was nothing. I remember losing a bunch of poshte seeds from fruit lovers a long time ago in a bag of soil and I used the same soil for these pots so I think that might be it? Does poshte have habits look the ones of this seedling?

Here's the seedling… it's about 5.5 inches long. The white stem is about 1/8th of a millimeter thick. Click for bigger resolution.


And here are the roots, very shallow for the width and length of the stem.



Does it look or act anything like Poshte? I thought it might've been jungle sop at first but then realized that if it was I would have found the seed by now… and it would have a much larger system of roots. It is currently in the GH in the shade in a long pot with moist sterile soil. Any idea's?

Mmm, mmm mmm! This wonderful display of fruits come from Norman Beard, there was a grafting thing at his house that I went to and he let me pick a few fruits. I ate those pink fleshed guava's in a heartbeat, the flavor was amazing, although a tad tart. The Surinam Cherries actually tasted good to me, they were sweet this time, I remember tasting them at Ong's Nursery and it tasted like expired soy sauce. Haven't gotten to eating the Cherimoya's yet. The Inga's were the Inga striata I was recently selling, I currently do not have seeds but might this weekend or the next. There are some longans hiding in there too, they are pretty good on a regular basis but they get too pungent for me. Hiding in there is also Red Strawberry Guava and Pink Fleshed Lemon.

If you are in SoCal and anywhere near Goleta please visit Norman.. he's got a heck of a farm. I've got to update on his Rollinia tree very soon...