The Tropical Fruit Forum

Do you have a pic of the green sapote? I'm in San Pedro. 

The season is short. Mine are already done for the year and the seeds are very recalcitrant. Keep it in mind for summer when they are at their peak. A lot of the better ones are seedless and they don't come true from seed.

The researcher who first described CCD and coined the term hasn't been able to verify a legitimate case of CCD in years. The problem this last season seems to be the weather here in the US. There was a false spring where colonies came out of winter cluster and then we're killed off when there was a sudden cold shift. Secondly,  there has been mismanagement of hives. Over medication and reliance on antibiotics and such for commercial hives and the opposite trend with so called "organic" beekeepers and "treatment free" home beekeepers. The treatment free people are not managing the varroa mites in their hives and their hives are too weakened by mite loads and the diseases they carry to make it through winter. The commercial people are super focused on honey production and so breed for colonies that are good producers but not as hardy. Add the uncertainty of the climate and you have something of a perfect storm for overwinter colony loss.

Put me on a list for these Raul, let us know when they become available please.

I don't see why they shouldn't grow in the SE. They take down to freezing when mature. Probably best to grow from seed.for root stock then graft or bud from known female producers with a male here or ther for a pollinator. Pretty tolerant of soils. There is a big one a couple hundred feet down the street that drops pods all over the sidewalk.

Quote from: TheDom on March 08, 2017, 02:40:01 PM

They're both reticulata.
1) Check the leaves, those long pointy shiny leaves are a dead reticulata indicator, whereas A. cherimola has large round fuzzy leaves.
2) When you click on the pic, they're both labeled as "Annona reticulata - Guerrero Orange" and "Annona reticulata - Guerrero Yellow" 

I put those names on the pics till I'd be sure , just to find them back faster .  Now the trick will be getting a bunch of seeds of each , I really wanna grow these .

Yeah Luc, these look very nice. I'd like to get some seeds of these.

It grows like a weed here in Los Angeles. Male and female trees. Stinks to high heaven on a hot day. Very drought tolerant. They get huge here.

Looking to pick up a grafted starfruit here in the Los Angeles area without having to mortgage the house. Any leads would be appreciated.

PM me.

PM me about blue java.

Hit up Plinia Prince. He's also Flying Fox Fruits.

Jambulan from better varieties need to be air layered if you want to ensure fruit quality. I have about 40 seedlings right now from a pretty good one that grows at the Fullerton arboretum. Even though they are polyembryonic, you still will get a pretty good range of quality. One of the problems we have in the states is growers continuously sowing poor quality plants to make a buck with no thought towards improving the stock.

Even the varieties that profess to being really aren't, at least when young. There are larger stand alone trees here in my part of SoCal that fruit well, but who knows if that's due to age or if there is another tree nearby. Always best to get 2 varieties for cross pollination. Seed grown are pretty much only good for rootstock