The Tropical Fruit Forum

I also have a bunch of A. Squamosa rootstocks I hope will be ready to graft next time around, and I will prolly put several different combinations. I will try Rollinia Biriba, A. Reticulata, and Atamoya on both A. squamosa and A. muricata rootstocks as these two are the most prolific baring trees in our area. I will keep everyone posted.

I'm curious one has a ball park water schedule they go by for plinias and eugenias or if its pretty much trial and error? I'm pretty new with plinias and eugenias so still trying to learn to speak the language. If anyone has schedules I'd be interested in seeing them.

This is interesting. I've been having the same problems. I never knew that mangos don't like mulch but this could explain why I've always struggled with them, even when it seems I can keep any other tree alive. All my trees always have lots of mulch and I also often put heavy compost in the holes when planting, as it usually seems the more compost and mulch the better for trees.

Thanks, that link was helpful!

Hello my name is Bryan,

I'm from southern Iowa, moved to Haiti in 2014. I'm the administrative director on a small community agriculture development project by a small NGO from Ohio. My background is cattle farming and fruit farming "in temperate climates" I grow chestnuts, peaches, apples, plumbs, persimmons, pawpaws, and lots of berries.

We do a variety of things here in southern Haiti. Our main thing is a program that works along side schools to teach science, especially as it relates to trees and forests, as well as teaching tree nurseries and tree care. Students prepare trees in a nursery and then plant them out on their land. Our main focus with this program is late season avocados and nutrient dense fruits for food security. We also work in animal husbandry, conservation agriculture and have a seed bank for vegetable and tree seed, we're currently working to develop several food forests with natives as well as lots of exotics that will serve as living banks of seed and scions for the school program, and maybe a fruit arboretum in the future.

In the past year I've started to collect lots of exotics for the food forests, and while searching the internet looking for plant information, I often came across this forum. I hope to learn from everyone on here and am glad to contribute where I can as well. My biggest regret I have is that I didn't start planting trees as soon as I moved here in 2014. So for those of you pushing it off for next year, START NOW!

To list some of the trees where growing now, avocados, mangos, barbados cherry, guava, citrus, carambola, annonas, jackfruit, breadfruit, breadnut, sapodillas, cashew apple, pomegranate, star apple and tamarind. We also promote planting of moringa, katuk, chaya and haitian basket vine. Some of the exotics I recently started to collect, several Plinias, lots of garcinias, eugenias, rollinia, mamay sapote, black sapote, columbian sapote, canistel, loquat, durian, abui, santol, nance, mulberries, cempajack, morang, rambutan, pulasan, longan, carob, Syzygium sp.

Sincerely,

Bryan.