Spring time in SoCal

[JF]

Please add other fruits growing in your area
Chicos are Silas wood, Alono and Makok. Strawberry guava, Tropical Apricot, canistel trompo much better than Ross.
Mike, this is our regular spring crop missing a lot of stuff bananas, citrus,Papaya, berry's, grapes....


Surinam cherry

Straberry guava

Tropical Apricot

Trombo canistel



Prince Peach













Hass



Makok

Ruby Red

Pink Mammoth

Campus







Randhir aka Super Gefner
Season from December to July self polllinated













 

Incredible Yosemite gold



Tamarindo







Dwarf cavadish

[FruitFool]

Nice trees and fruits!

Is that a strawberry guava in 4th picture?

-FruitFool

[michsu]

Awesome! Can you please label the pictures? Thank you.

[spaugh]

Lamb hass tree is loaded


Primocane "prime jim" blackberry fruits multiple times a year then I chop it to the ground around new years.


Peaches are ripe.  Will have to try and preserve those.


Thompson ruby and flame grapes.

[mike rule]

Frank & Spaugh Great photo's.... Would this be a bumper year for fruit in California ??    Mike

[spaugh]

Im thinking the massive winter rainfall probably leached out a lot of the salt buildup from my trees.  And we just got another 1.5" earlier this week.  I have been going out and putting down fertilizer before the last few rain showers and that seems to work well.  So yes, plants are very happy so far this year.

[simon_grow]

Frank, I wish I were your neighbor😀

All those fruit look awesome!

I only have a few trees fruiting now
Blueberries

Yellow and Black Sugarcane



Yellow Dragon

Lemon, Limes, Tango and Gold Nugget Tangerine, large Shiranui







A single Jaboticaba

6 different varieties of Asian Pear and two apples on the same rootstock


Violette De Bordeaux Fig not ripe

PCH Tuna, first ever fruits forming

Loquats all starting to dry up


Simon

[CGameProgrammer]

So jealous of all of those canistels! My Ross Sapote ripened its last of 5 fruits a few days ago but it's still young. Surinam cherry has tons of unripe fruits that are just beginning to ripen, my mulberry has been producing ripe fruits throughout the last few weeks, an imported Lemon Zest mango set fruit a few weeks ago but they're months away from being ripe of course, and my wax jambu are producing lots of flower buds but still a little while before they'll bloom.

[Samu]

Just to respond to Frank's invitation, all my trees are about 2 years or less in the ground, and all shown here are flowering/fruiting for the first time (except SpiceZee nectaplum):

Wax jambu flowers:


SpiceZee nectaplum interspecific nectarine:


Sapodilla hasya, my one and lonely (anyone care for scion swap?)


Baby Lemon Zest


Baby Orton cherimoya:


Here's hoping I'll get to enjoy some of those fruits this year...

Edit: Corrected synonym for SpiceZee and Lemon Zest instead of Mahachanok

[bsbullie]

I believe the SpiceZee is a nectaplum interspecific nectarine,  not a pluot.

[Samu]

You beat me to it!     Corrected.
Thanks, Rob!

[michsu]

Here's something new..

Black Sapote..

[spaugh]

Hi Samu, did you pollinate the cherimoya or did it self polinate?  My baby trees already have little fruit on them like yours but I never polinated them?

[Samu]

I've been doing hand pollinations to my cherimoyas/atemoyas, I am eager to taste different varieties so I am happy to give them some help. I also heard from members of this forum that hand pollinations generally will result in bigger and more normal looking size and shape fruits...😊. Good luck with yours, Spaugh.

[Guayaba]

I seem to have more unripe/green fruit than others in southern California.  Always late for the party!

Monstera


Lolita Surinam Cherry


Golden Boy Tomato


Robusta Coffee


Santa Rosa Plum


Golden Nugget Tangerine (last few)


Methley Plum

[spaugh]

JF, can you take some zoomed out photos of your dragon fruit setup?

[JF]

JF, can you take some zoomed out photos of your dragon fruit setup?

Matt
I think I have full pix on that huge dragon fruit thread. This is not my place it's a friends. I will take pix next  week

[spaugh]

JF, can you take some zoomed out photos of your dragon fruit setup?

Matt
I think I have full pix on that huge dragon fruit thread. This is not my place it's a friends. I will take pix next  week

Gotcha.  Thanks

Brad Spaugh

[shinzo]

Hi Samu, did you pollinate the cherimoya or did it self polinate?  My baby trees already have little fruit on them like yours but I never polinated them?

Spaugh are you talking about the little cherimoya you pugged last month? do you have recent picture of it?

[Mark in Texas]

Man, you guys are rockin' it!  Happy you got some good rains, finally!

Mind if a Texas boy butts in on the SoCal party?   

Peach crop is the pits this year due to insufficient chill hours.  ALL of Texas fruit growers commercial and backyard gardeners are hurting. 

Am enjoying a few fruits:

Reeds, rich and buttery.  Blossom set was huge.  Must be 100 marble size hanging.





Am letting 8 fruits hang on this young Sweet Tart.



Lemon Zest flowered heavy, am hanging about 10 fruits.



Frankecado is vigorous. Am letting Holiday, Ardith, and Sir Prize hang a few fruits.  Pinkerton is not vigorous, dropped all fruit.

Sir Prize, a beast and very productive.  Leaving about 4 on this graft.  (Thanks Frank!!!!!! )



Got tired of the abundant albeit tart Key limes so I did 9 grafts on the chopped tree of Hamlin orange, Persian lime and Variegated Pink Eureka Lemon.  8 of the 9 took, bark and T-bud.



Still need to plant cherimoyas and graft a Mallika with scions yet procured.

....and then there's some color.    My favorite dwarf plumeria tree with variegated striped petals.

[spaugh]

Hi Samu, did you pollinate the cherimoya or did it self polinate?  My baby trees already have little fruit on them like yours but I never polinated them?

Spaugh are you talking about the little cherimoya you pugged last month? do you have recent picture of it?

Yes, I have 6 cherimoyas trees planted over winter that wer all little bare twigs that were topped.  All of them have started forming branches about 6 to 8 inches long.  And several of them made flowers and looks like a few may have polinated.  I will post photos soon.