The Tropical Fruit Forum

California

• Blooms very early, but low temperatures during winter minimize off-season production
• Bloom and set during traditional Hass flowering period similar to Hass
• Hass season fruit indistinguishable from conventional Hass

Not too exciting for So Cal. Still...what's the price per plant?

I've read that the tap root can be many multiples of the above ground plant, which is the main reason I put them into the ground right away. I'm planting many per location and will select the best growing from those.

I've been just tolerating mine.

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/GARDEN/FRUIT/PESTS/perseamite.html

Recently had a number of GEM avocados. Taste was excellent. Like Hass but with a hint of something that makes it a bit stronger (bitterness?). I prefer Hass, but the GEM is quite good.

Interestingly, 3 of them had pits that were already split and a root growing out along the surface of the pit. Fast germinating.

lol

Some bad news and some good news:

Hi Shane,

Sorry, no babaco, but we do ship to Portugal.  I need to know what you want in order to give you a quote, including the shipping cost.

Thanks,

Bryan
Montoso Gardens

Maybe you can get them to start growing babaco? Or at least order a bunch of their most interesting plants before they stop shipping to europe!

edit: link to their site
http://www.montosogardens.com/fruit_nut_spice_collection.htm

I got the same answer from Wallach: "Sorry...No..."

There's some discussions of this in other threads. Seems like governments are clamping down and no one wants to ship across borders. You need to find someone in portugal (or at least western europe) with a tree you can propagate from. There's several members from portugal (and many others from europe). Have you tried PMing them?

First, I'd read all the CRFG info pages on fruiting trees/palms. Then I'd get myself over to Mimosa Nursery and wander around for a couple hours.

I'm happiest with having planted my Jaboticaba, but its not going to be big. For big I went with pakistan mulberry.

I don't think starfruit is that big and it can fruit in shade, so I'd save that for another spot.

How about a fruit that isn't so exotic but a variety that is? Like Jan Boyce avocado or Valentine Pomelo?

If I remember right carmen hass has multiple crops in mexico but only one in california. Haven't heard anything about its behavior in florida.

Nullz, I know you've given up on this but I haven't! I'm on my third attempt to root cuttings from my favorite trees.

Recently came across two recent and very interesting articles.

Season and roothormone effects on propagating from cuttings:
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/view/19273
Individual cultivars respond differently. Some have strong preference for time of cutting and amount of hormone, some not.

Second article (referenced w/in the first) is on efforts in Turkey to find good cultivars for commercial fruit production:
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/JMPR/article-abstract/48CBB1520112
They've found ones with big sweet fruit. Know anyone in Turkey?

From http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Pithecellobium_dulce.html

Often planted for living fence or thorny hedge, eventually nearly impenetrable, guamachil furnishes food, forage, and firewood, while fixing a little nitrogen. The pods, harvested in Mexico, Cuba, and Thailand, and customarily sold on roadside stands, contain a thick sweetish, but also acidic pulp, eaten raw or made into a drink similar to lemonade. Pods are devoured by livestock of all kinds; the leaves are browsed by horses, cattle, goats, and sheep; and hedge clippings are often gathered for animal feed. The plants withstand heavy browsing. The seeds contain a greenish oil (20%), which, after refining and bleaching, can be used for food or in making soap. The presscake, rich in protein (30%), may be used as stockfeed. Bark used as a fish poison in the Philippines (Perry, 1980). Known in the Philippines as "Kamachil", the wood, malodorous when cut, is used for boxes, crates, fuel, and wagon wheels. The gum exuding from the trunk can be used for mucilage, the tannin for tanning. The bark is harvested for tanning in Mexico. Tree seems promising for the cultivation of the lac insect. Flowers make good honey.

Seems to withstand everything but cold.

Is it best to just grow from seed?

Plants in pots but can be in ground.. { i have a major prob. with Deer getting to them, so i have them in pots  }
Pakistan mulberry, ever bearing mulberry,  Ice-cream Banana, Papaya, miho satsuma,Ujukitsu, kumquat, calamondin, sunburst tangerine, royal lee and minnie royal cherries, pink and white guavas, Fantastic Avocado, Mission Olive, Moringa (drumstick tree), Pithecellobium dulce (guamichile or sweet madras or manilla tamarind), Rabbiteye Blueberries, passion fruit vine.

I don't see much discussion of this tree here. Seems like a spiky version of ice cream bean. Interested in growing it for edible yet fearsome hedge. Anyone have experience with it? In California?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pithecellobium_dulce

Main complaints in other forums appears to be cold sensitivity and abundance of seedlings.