The Tropical Fruit Forum

Does anyone have seeds or a seedling Narrow Leaf guava that I can buy or trade with?  My 3yr old tree died from rabbit chewing through the dripline 

Forgot to add this citrus that has:

Kinnow mandarin, pixie mandarin, meiwa kumquat, oroblanco grapefruit, valentine pummelo, xie shan satsuma, and Hawaiian pink shaddock

Did you get any HA Pink Shaddock fruits this year?  I'm curious if it's good.  One of the best pummeloes I ever had was in Kauai.

My Rainbow and Malibu#3 had no fruits this year since my Walton died from broken irrigation and I top worked the Vernon to Walton.
This confirms that Rainbow and Malibu #3 are likely pollen sterile and that Walton and/or Vernon are pollenators.

My white sapotes are just growing too big and messy for the space I have. 
I'm going to try to use Suebelle as a rootstock or maybe as an interstock to decrease tree size. 
White Sapote on Casimiroa tetrameria as rootstock is probably too dwarf / low vigor to survive Phoenix AZ according to Jack's info.
Suebelle is a naturally small tree with lower vigor and less cold hardy. It might be part Casimiroa tetrameria. 
That's why Suebelle is harder to grow in Phoenix than a Vernon, Rainbow, Walton or Malibu #3.

Try the CCPP  many of the C- rootstock are listed on their site.

CCPP only have C-22 buds available?  How does that work for rootstock?  Graft it on something then 6 months later airlayer it for rootstock??

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Have to agree with Cara Cara and Orlando. 
Many fellow AZ gardeners say Cara Cara is not as good in AZ probably due to navels being less tolerant of desert climate. 
So I planted a CC under (too much) shade a few years ago. It grew very slowly and is still only 4ft tall. 
It finally produced 5 oranges this year and they were surprisingly sweet and flavorful.  Makes me wonder how good when the tree is full grown.
They were better than most of my full grown tree oranges under full sun.  The only slight negative was they were less juicy than the other oranges.
Orlando here is very sweet, juicy and full of flavor.  Like Valencia, it's great for juicing, not good for peeling.  Better than Minneola by a desert mile.

Yes, in ground died 2nd year.  1st year it grew with lots of shade from Papaya.  Second year only 1hr shade late afternoon.

pretty sure that the heat from the black shade cloth was what killed it last time.

You're probably right on the shade cloth heat kill.  Did you plant the Oliver in the fall?

Persimmons also don't like the desert heat and soil.  If you try to grow persimmon in the desert I'd go with Chocolate.
Chocolate is more heat tolerant than all the other persimmons I’ve tried to keep alive in Phoenix.
I grafted it on D. virginiana rootstock because it's better suited for the bad desert soil.
Virginiana root system is more fibrous and tolerates drought and soil salinity better than lotus and kaki.
More nurseries sell persimmon trees on virginiana rootstock now.

Cleft grafts on guava work well only in the spring for me when I have a strong rootstock that is pushing out new growth and healthy scions that are either dormant or buds just starting to swell.  I always cover my difficult grafts with a punctured ziplock bag in Phoenix.  I would say the success rate is about 2 out of 3.

Redland has been moderate for me. The real all star for growth is Rainbow.  I don't know how people could legitimately keep that tree under 20ft

My Rainbow is actually less vigorous than my other WS trees.  It could be due to rootstock difference.  I got the tree from Bush2Beach.

Yup, good info from Jack. I have grown a few seedling yellow sapote from the fruits I ate 5-7 yrs ago and that seedling tree is still nice and small (less than 8 ft tall, trunk diameter 2-3"). I grafted many other white sapotes on this tree and it does keep them smaller and still get the normal size fruits.

I also grew the seeds from the white sapote, McDill fruits and planted those at the same time, that tree grew over 20ft and I had to trim it back every year to keep it about 15 ft, the trunk diameter of that tree was 12". When I dug up that tree to move it, it weighed over 300 lbs.

  You dug up a 300lb tree to move it!?!  I'd be scared shitless by that amount of work.  Did it survive?