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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Jujubee fruitlets turn yellow
« on: August 10, 2019, 02:02:53 AM »
Hi Lavender87,

Thank you for sharing me your knowledge of jujubes as well as the scionS of chico, shanx Li and persimmons.  I can’t wait to taste the fruit from your  scion. I think  the shanxi Li I purchased was fake since your shanxi Li fruits have smooth skin and big in size while mine look wrinkled and Wilted. My chico took but could not hold any fruits and persimmons did not give me any flowers. You gave me generous scions, but I could only make one of each type successfully  took. I guess my grafting skill is bad :)

Just wonder what are the five jujubes you grafted if you don’t mind.

Ps: I tried to post the picture of shanxi Li fruits but couldn’t

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Jujubee fruitlets turn yellow
« on: July 24, 2019, 10:35:29 PM »
Ok will do . Thank you

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Jujubee fruitlets turn yellow
« on: July 22, 2019, 11:10:50 PM »
My jujube is in the 30 gallons pot, and I water every 2 days. Is it still too much?

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Jujubee fruitlets turn yellow
« on: July 13, 2019, 11:49:37 AM »
My shanxi Li bears a lot of fruits this year, but many turn yellow. Does it need more water or too much water? I water every two days. What is wrong with my jujube?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: jazzy loquat scions trade??
« on: January 29, 2019, 02:22:28 AM »
they are sweeter than big jim and white fleshed

Is it vista white loquat? I have seedling of big Jim and it is fruiting first time , so I don’t know if it taste good at all. I don’t have other loquat to trade with you. I have guava , ice cream bean seedlings if you need those, can I trade with your loquat ?
No Dragon it is not vista white it is (jazzy)

Is it bigger than big Jim. If so, do you sell it since I don’t have anything to trade with you?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: jazzy loquat scions trade??
« on: January 28, 2019, 11:56:45 PM »
they are sweeter than big jim and white fleshed

Is it vista white loquat? I have seedling of big Jim and it is fruiting first time , so I don’t know if it taste good at all. I don’t have other loquat to trade with you. I have guava , ice cream bean seedlings if you need those, can I trade with your loquat ?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: jazzy loquat scions trade??
« on: January 27, 2019, 12:22:25 AM »
Never heard this loquat before? How do you compare with big Jim ?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Looking for Sapodilla fruit
« on: November 18, 2018, 11:42:57 PM »
Thuận phát supermarket in san Diego sales it for $5.99/lbs

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Shanxi Li vs Li jujube
« on: March 18, 2018, 10:30:07 AM »
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If you like sweet you may want to consider Honey Jar. It is sweet and is juicier than others I grow.
Only negatives to Honey Jar is the fruit size and perhaps the thorns. They are relatively small.








I just bought it last Jan and put it in 15 gallons pot. It shows a little sign of waking up . I hope I will have the chance to taste it

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Shanxi Li vs Li jujube
« on: March 17, 2018, 11:20:55 PM »
Linh,

Is the tree productive ? Does it need another tree to cross polinate? My shanxi Li and ga866 are waking up. My Sherwood, sugar cane Are not

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I planted a sugar can in 30 gallons pot last year and I had decent crop. I don’t know about this year. Will see

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I like your 2 mi. Per order. Please  check pm

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Digging up a mango tree
« on: February 22, 2018, 06:16:55 PM »



The tree is this big . From the picture the tree  look big but it’s really not that big .


Do you have time to do airlayer ?  I saw some people in YouTube doing airlayer on mango..i

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is causing annona fruit to split?
« on: February 01, 2018, 01:21:43 AM »


Just picked this AP and PPC this morning. I was expecting the ppc to crack but not my AP.


Bhkkatemoya

Is AP sweeter than PPC? I saw many starfruits around? Are they from your tree? 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Star Apples from Vietnam
« on: January 20, 2018, 03:01:27 PM »
I just bought a case of 3 fruits at Thuan Phat supermarket in Linda vista. They are sold out fast at $5.99/lbs. it is slightly sweet not as sweet as the one I tried at my country 21 years ago. I have a tree here but have not given me any fruit. Rilght now my tree doesn’t have any leaves left on the branch. I’m afraid it will die because of cold weather.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Shanxi Li vs Li jujube
« on: January 08, 2018, 06:31:53 PM »
Shanxi Li is larger than Li. I don't have one to compare taste. Don't think it's sweeter.
Sherwood is smaller. It's denser and later season than most others.
Li is what's sold in supermarkets. They harvest them way early and let them sit there and lose moisture until they're spongy. It's much better if you grew it yourself. It's produces heavy crops. Once in a while you'll get a mediocre year when they're a little spongy and not as sweet, but not like the supermarket ones. So many people avoid them now because of what they did that they're not selling small ones (sugar cane?) as honey jujube.
GA866 is a shy bearer. It doesn't produce much fruit but tastes very sweet.

Thank you Fyliu for your information. Well, now knowing Shanxi Li might not sweeter than Li, I will wait until the fruits half ripe on the tree before picking them. I am curious how sweet the ga866 compare to sugar cane ,so I will buy it too.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Shanxi Li vs Li jujube
« on: January 07, 2018, 10:09:25 PM »
I wonder if they are different variety or just simply Li? I have Sherwood and sugar cane and think about to add a few more into my collection? I like sweet taste . Is  Shanxi Li. sweeter than Li? Do you know what variety is usually sold in the super market? I don't like those since they are spongy and tasteless.
What about GA 866? Does it produce A lot of fruits and taste sweet?

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I believed I bought an airlayer Malaysian apple tree. It is a huge , healthy tree now like 8-9 ft in 30 gallons pot but shows no flowers. Can I graft it on the rose appple or wax jambu in the ground ? Please advise me what type of scion I should use if there is a possibility . Thanks

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Green sapote sun requirements in SoCal?
« on: December 29, 2017, 01:13:28 AM »
I've been playing with Green Sapote in the 9b San Jose area. Last year I had a tall spindly one in the ground that was killed by frost, but it was a weak plant with foliage only at the top, planted in an open area at the bottom of a slope. This year I planted another one near the top of my slope under the canopy of a big oak tree. It's not the sunniest spot but it's got frost protection. I also have a few more Green Sapotes in pots which are currently in an open area. We've had such a mild winter there hasn't really been an opportunity to test their hardiness yet.

I should also note that 4 of my potted Green Sapotes flowered like crazy this year but there was no fruit set. It could be that being pots was a factor in that, or it could be that our cold summer nights were the cause.

My Sapote's are all potted, and they're doing well.
Only issue with potted plants is they need to be beaten up once in a while or provided with plenty of worms.

Sue/Ver Sapotes grow very easily here in our area Bush, take some of my fruit if you'd like, not many of us eat it anymore.
I was thinking about grafting the Green Sapote on half of the tree since it's growing so vigorously and very cold hardy.

Hell, I can give you scions if you'd like.

Are Sue/ver bitter nearby the skin, waxy?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will this cracked ppc ripe?
« on: December 20, 2017, 09:42:21 AM »
Thanks dragon, picked my second one cracked yesterday.

Sami- I have no problem with any other atemoya cracking.  Just this ppc which is one for doing so.  Will try dragon’s method to see if I can save the last one.

Bhkkatemoya ,

I found one African pride cracked in ziplock bag, so my method might not save the fruit. Like Samu mentioned , inconsistent watering was the blame or could be the cold weather caused the fruit cracking.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Cutting or Air layering on Sapodilla advice
« on: December 18, 2017, 10:44:08 PM »
Airlayering was difficult for me too. I did 4 this year and none of them worked.
Seedlings grow pretty fast though. My grafting of sapodilla is very slightly better.

I did airlayer on 3 branches and they all died.i plan to do on one branch this spring instead of 3 at the same time like last year .


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will this cracked ppc ripe?
« on: December 18, 2017, 02:59:11 PM »



These are the two I picked This morning to send to my grandma . I hope they will be okay on the way there

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will this cracked ppc ripe?
« on: December 17, 2017, 01:25:42 AM »
This season I have 7 fruits and so far i don't have any crack. I wrap ziplog bag around it with big holes on the sides. I don't know if that is the reason keep them not to crack.
Back to your cracked fruit, I guess you have to pick it to prevent further cracking. It is ripe If you see yellow line between the eyes, and singly green peel

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: lisa Atemoya
« on: November 22, 2017, 01:53:56 AM »
He now sales his 15gallon phet pakchong for $375.  His wife told me in the begining the Phet pakchong was really expensive because it was hard to import.   

Now you can get a three gallons of the phet pakchong for 75 bucks but not from Ong.

Yup, more than a year ago , this variety was not cheap like now . I should have waited...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: lisa Atemoya
« on: November 21, 2017, 11:44:49 PM »
One think about Ongs that is different from other nurseries is he doesn't put a 5 gallon plant in a 15 gallon container. He is honest and he has the most diverse plants for sale. 40 varieties of Wax Jambu!Go up to California Tropicals in Vista and you'll see some pretty high prices. I saw a 45 gallon Chico for $4000. The guys that import some of the rare items have to pay quite a bit and then if the inspector from the AG dept. sees one illegal (hitchhiker) bug then everything within 15 feet has to be destroyed. Also it takes years to grow some of these sub-tropicals up to a size that customers want.

He also has good customer service skills that sometimes make me forget the price until I came home  and looked back at the price tag and wondered why I bought it so high .




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