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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #125 on: August 06, 2015, 12:09:03 AM »
That means the bottom half of the seedling? The woody part? I should probably graft it on the opposite side of the failed graft? Should I break off the failed scion?

Break off the old scion for sure.

Graft onto woody part

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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #126 on: October 13, 2017, 03:10:32 PM »
Hey Adam,
Could you give us an update on your container Rollinia?  Is it still doing well?  Did you ever graft any?

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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #127 on: October 13, 2017, 03:35:17 PM »
Hey Adam,
Could you give us an update on your container Rollinia?  Is it still doing well?  Did you ever graft any?

hey!

the mother tree died!  i tried to repot it, and the roots got stressed, i thought it was rooted out in a 25 gal pot, but turns out the mix was heavy, and there weren't much roots, and the root ball just got torn apart when i tried to repot it.

the tree slowly declined....and died over the course of 3-4months after the stress occurred....

but i do have two small trees that i grafted about 2y ago, and one is fruiting now, only like 3ft tall in 5 gal pot...it's setting fruits like crazy...maybe 4-5 fruits set on a little tree, i can't let them all stay....

these plants hate root stress, make sure they're root bound before you re pot them!
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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #128 on: October 13, 2017, 08:34:32 PM »
Well, that's a shame.  It sounded so promising.  If you want to sell one of your grafted plants, I'm currently looking for one and some pitangatuba seeds/plants.  I'll be down in Orlando area in November.  Aren't you near that area?  Or did you move?

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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #129 on: October 15, 2017, 04:13:54 PM »
Well, that's a shame.  It sounded so promising.  If you want to sell one of your grafted plants, I'm currently looking for one and some pitangatuba seeds/plants.  I'll be down in Orlando area in November.  Aren't you near that area?  Or did you move?

not a shame really, i had grafted back up trees, and they're doing great...i was able to keep the variety alive....

but I'm not selling either of my two back up trees, that would be foolish.

I stopped having customers visit my nursery, there's too much liability here, and honestly I don't have the patience to deal with most people in person...and my new dog Rex, is quick to scratch a visitor's car door.  :D

here is a video of the little back up tree setting fruits all over...

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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #130 on: October 15, 2017, 05:58:01 PM »
Well, that's a shame.  It sounded so promising.  If you want to sell one of your grafted plants, I'm currently looking for one and some pitangatuba seeds/plants.  I'll be down in Orlando area in November.  Aren't you near that area?  Or did you move?

not a shame really, i had grafted back up trees, and they're doing great...i was able to keep the variety alive....

but I'm not selling either of my two back up trees, that would be foolish.

I stopped having customers visit my nursery, there's too much liability here, and honestly I don't have the patience to deal with most people in person...and my new dog Rex, is quick to scratch a visitor's car door.  :D

Gotcha...  Yeah.  Plants are much easier to deal with than people. 

I wasn't sure if your grafted plants were from your mother tree or another line. Well good thing you saved it.

Do you just do the big plant shows or mail order or did you stop selling all together?



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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #131 on: October 15, 2017, 07:29:50 PM »
thanks SonnyCrockett,

just doing mail order, and the one show per year in Manatee county, i love that sale, it's a one day sale on a Saturday, and it gets crazy.

Well, that's a shame.  It sounded so promising.  If you want to sell one of your grafted plants, I'm currently looking for one and some pitangatuba seeds/plants.  I'll be down in Orlando area in November.  Aren't you near that area?  Or did you move?

not a shame really, i had grafted back up trees, and they're doing great...i was able to keep the variety alive....

but I'm not selling either of my two back up trees, that would be foolish.

I stopped having customers visit my nursery, there's too much liability here, and honestly I don't have the patience to deal with most people in person...and my new dog Rex, is quick to scratch a visitor's car door.  :D

Gotcha...  Yeah.  Plants are much easier to deal with than people. 

I wasn't sure if your grafted plants were from your mother tree or another line. Well good thing you saved it.

Do you just do the big plant shows or mail order or did you stop selling all together?
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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #132 on: November 28, 2017, 03:27:11 PM »
the tree in the pics below was grafted from my mother tree, (which subsequently died from root trauma when i tried to repot it), now this back up tree is in a 5 gal, about 1.5y from grafting, and 3ft tall, it has set over 6 fruits, but a few aborted, now it's holding at least 3 fruits....








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Re: Fruiting Rollinia deliciosa in a pot
« Reply #133 on: August 05, 2018, 12:04:22 PM »
my oldest largest rollinia really flowering heavily...I think im going to step it up...in a heavier soil..the mix I have now is way too light...needs watering all the time...I guess its going into a 65-100 gal next




i remember the first biribas I got from F&S park from seed, trying to grow them to fruit in a pot...

the tree had to be huge before it would even think about producing a fruit...and when i finally got some they were kind of runty...

now shit done changed....I got the realness...

check these small grafted trees I've been able to get fruit from...without having to deal with 25, 50, 100 gal pots...   what a waste of time those old seedlings were....

my trees now got fruits all over, at least 3 set on this little 3 gal here (the first 4 pics)...
I already fruited one in a 5 gal pot, about 3ft tall...and got a nice sized fruit too (last 3 pics)...

grafted is the way to go if you are growing in a pot...and not just from any tree, you must graft from one that's known to set lots of fruits from an early age...

















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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #134 on: August 05, 2018, 03:59:22 PM »
That’s a good sized fruit for such a small tree. What if you too worked the seedlings in the large pots? You’ll probably get better quality fruit from the larger more established root system.

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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #135 on: August 05, 2018, 06:19:32 PM »
That’s a good sized fruit for such a small tree. What if you too worked the seedlings in the large pots? You’ll probably get better quality fruit from the larger more established root system.

Simon

i think topworking that old tree might have been helpful...in terms of increasing productivity...

but that tree is long gone, i sold it to a friend, and it died because it was planted improperly...i think the wind help kill the tree too.

the mother tree from which I've been grafting from actually died...(I orginally called it  "Monstrinho", but need to change that name...I might just call it "precocious"..but haven't decided)

i was going to re-pot the tree, and thought the roots were solid in the 25 gal pot, but I found out they were not!  I tried to remove the tree from the 25 gal pot, and the roots fell apart..and I never could get the tree to recover, it took like 2-3 months at least for it to die....but luckily i kept back up trees...but  even those ended up dying...but i had back up trees from those...lol...they are succeptible to cold weather (i think more so than the old variety i had grown from fruit and spice park), and really hate any root stress....I also notice they suffer from branch die back all the time, i'm guessing due to fungus or something.
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Re: Fruiting Biriba, Rollinia deliciosa in a container
« Reply #136 on: August 07, 2018, 04:07:02 AM »
There are precocious selections, small tree types and all sorts of diversity in R.mucosa in my neck of the woods.