The Tropical Fruit Forum

I appreciate it and will probably take you up on that when i decide to pull the trigger.  I bought a matt snow black sapote from Champa last month. Great prices. Here is what my bookmarks for online sellers look like. Gotta be shrewd being away from all the action.

Sure man, let me know. They hold plants too (I always see reserved plants bundled together) in case you want to get in on that sweet 50% off and pick them up later

I was looking to drive to Cali to namely check things out and buy some cherimoyas for my greenhouse. don't want to take the flight to Arizona East (Florida)

Hey Marc. If you make the drive up to LA county, I can show you around a bit. I'm within a 5 miles of Champa, Mimosa(Rosemead) and a few other spots. When did you plan on coming out here, because Champa is having a 50% off everything Labor Day sale that ends 9/11. Champanursery.com is updated pretty regularly, but not everything they have is listed. Looks like they'll have "Cherilata" (Annona Cherimola x Annona reticulata) in stock this month. I got a few things growing too if you're interested.

Thanks again for the seeds! Great seller!

I sent an email to Kelly, but I don't suppose you have a price for the spirito, 10g escalarte and 15g red?

Just to let people know, if you sort the page by "large photos and columns", it's much easier to navigate Never mind page was updated.

I grew a wonderful pomegranate from seed 10+ yrs ago

That might be your problem right there. Most pomegranate trees are air layered or grown from cuttings. They're one of the easiest trees to air layer. My wonderful started flowering a little late this year possibly due to our long winter. Maybe try grafting more cold tolerant cuttings on your tree. If you're interested, I can give you some cuttings of my wonderful in the winter. It flowers profusely and produces softball or bigger fruits that taste amazing

I found an ad for a tropical fruit plant. They don't know what it is, just that it's a tropical fruit plant. Looks like some kind of inga or campomanesia. Campomanesia xanthocarpa maybe?




Thanks

Do you have rootstocks for these? Trying to root these might be a pretty disappointing endeavor. 

I have a small Itaguahiensis and orange CORG seedling available. Also some small orange CORG cuttings. FLnative might have orange Grumi cuttings. Marcos (huertasurbanas) has a few of these seeds available

Cuttings arrived fast. They look great! Thanks!

Hey Kaz. My Big Jim is bit...overwhelmed at the moment. It's a young tree and this is it's first real fruiting. I've been
picking a few fruits, but they're not ready yet. Largest being 60g so far. Biggest last year was 65g, but with much less fruit.



Check out the Peluche scion you sent me! Second time was the charm. If you zoom in towards the bottom left you can see the graft.
I plan on doing a lot of trimming this summer to help juice the branch

Thanks for the video, would also love a translation of the commentary.

Turn on CC then go to settings and auto-translate into english. She mostly talks about the appearance of the tree

Is there any info on your best and spicy Surinam cherry? Is it different than a normal Surinam cherry?

I was curious too. Taken from 9waters description...

SPICY PITANGA is a famous surinam cherry selection by rare tropical fruit enthusiast Miguel in Portugal. Fruit is spicy
but not that resinous aftertaste. Very good addition to any salad! Fruit is very nice looking and quite big. Leaves are wider
compared to many pitangas.

BEST PITANGA is a famous surinam cherry selection by a rare tropical fruit enthusiast Miguel in Portugal.
The first impression about this variety - this is the best pitanga when we tasted it for the first time. Very
pleasant flavor.  Fruit is not the biggest compared to other pitangas.

Quote from: NateTheGreat on March 16, 2023, 06:03:59 PM

I have all 4 of Marcos' small ones (pera, banana, johvy, morango), still hoping the fruit are different, but the plants are so similar. His hybrid araza is different for sure. Also growing longipetiolatum, robustum, the orange-fleshed P. guavaja Bellamy was selling from HapaJoe, and a eugeniaefolia somewhere between the size of your two's. And just planted some of these https://www.bellamytrees.com/seeds/p/psidium-sp-laranja

Your Araza banana looks fantastic. Eugeniaefolia is the most cold-sensitive of mine, except maybe P. guavaja, don't know yet. I had two about 2 ft tall and 3 ft wide, but the frost hit them hard last winter (a year ago), and one hasn't really ever recovered. The other one's about back to its previous size. No flowers on any of these yet. Your eugeniaefolia is actually flowering at that size Ryan?? I must need to fertilize more or something.

I've spotted several flower buds. The person I got it from said his were fruiting in 5 gallon pots.

Nice tree Ryan! You'll have fruits this summer.

Nate, both my eugeniaefolia fruited in under 3 years. Seeds were planted in Jan 2020 with first fruits ripening in Aug 2022. Outside, no protection, but we rarely drop below 40F.
Same batch of seeds (Tradewinds) as Ryan's tree and about the same size. They're ripe when the flesh is crimson red.


 





p. sartorianum is my favorite of the non tropical guavas I've tried so far. Beautiful tree and delicious fruits that turn yellow then almost white as they ripen.






My p.longs in 1gals are also a little beat up from the cold, but they'll be okay. Robustum also struggling a bit, but not as bad.
I also have a couple of those fern leaf guavas folhas de Samambaia in the greenhouse slowly growing in the cold.

Did anybody buy Psidium glaziovianum seeds from Bellamys? I wanted to grab some, but they sold out. Willing to buy or trade for seeds/seedlings if anyone has any.

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