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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Fruit Haul from Orange CA

« on: October 05, 2012, 08:32:07 PM »

Here are some fruits I picked up from my friend in Orange. He has live in Orange California for 35 year has grown and fruited many tropical fruits from seeds from his home town of Michiacon MX. Here is a list.
Black Sapote
White Sapote
Capulin
Mango
Cherimoya
Ahate
Guamuchil
Tejocote
Changunga
Guanabana

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Attention CalCM

« on: October 04, 2012, 09:19:40 PM »

Here are the rollinas now. They don't like our dry heat keep them in the shade.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Gauvas in Season

« on: September 23, 2012, 07:28:57 PM »

It started in late Aug. with my Tropical Pink and now I have 3 to 4 varieties dropping. The first TP were horrible but they are getting better. We don't put any to waste we either juice them or make guava marmalade, paste or shells. Here are pics of the different varieties and homemade marmalade. BTW, you eat this with cream cheese,queso fresco or you can put it in plain yogurt......absolutely delicious!

Tropical Pink, Malaysian Red and Hong Kong Pink

fresh homemade marmalade

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Longan in season

« on: September 21, 2012, 11:35:57 PM »

sweet juice Kohala Longan are all over the place - here are 3 trees. These fruits are delicious I like them as much as Sweetheart lychee....I think I'll keep my tree.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / The perfect dwarf mango - Villaseñor

« on: September 16, 2012, 04:11:49 PM »

This is a Socal variety, very underrated, nice flavor.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Pickering Mango and Concha Picuda Chirimoya

« on: September 15, 2012, 05:39:07 PM »

Had our first Pickering mango. Taste wise, pretty close to the ones in Florida. Had a more subtle coconut after taste but a bit sweeter than the ones from Florida - 8 out 10. Concha Picuda Chirimoya, per contra, a bit disappointing. Fair texture but bitter near the skin. Taste a bit like a sugar apple with less seeds..... the flesh was segmented and chewy - 3 out of 10.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Lisa Atemoya

« on: September 12, 2012, 09:18:26 PM »

I got my Lisa to fruit for the first time this year after hand pollination.. So far, the tree does not seem to be precocious, I had only 20 flowers. I notice that my friend's Lisa did not have many fruits last year. I have a few questions: Does Lisa have a the reputation of being a shy bearer? How long does it take before the fruit turn completely pink? here are pics of some fruits with shades of pink.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mango Harvest in Socal

« on: September 08, 2012, 12:17:44 AM »

I've had about 12 mangos drop this week. The Glenn's are delicious but I've been surprise on how much the Ataufo's have improved in taste. Last week I found a cluster of Corriente mangos inside the canopy, I forgot about these.

Ataulfos and Glenns

cluster of corriente mangos

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mamey @ Superior Grocers

« on: August 28, 2012, 08:45:51 PM »

For those of you in Socal who recently bought a mamey sapote tree in Fountain Valley, you can buy the fruit for $1.99 a pound at Superior Supermarket in Santa Ana. They come from Miami/Homestead. Here are pics of some of the ones I purchased.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / yard update from La Habra

« on: August 24, 2012, 12:19:21 AM »

I spoke to Gary(MangoDog) today and I promised him some pics of my mangos, so here we go.

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Haden

Chocanon

Thonpson

Keitt

Alfonso

Glenn

PinaColada

LZ

Carrie

Lancetilla

Ataulfo

Duncan

Harvest Moon and Maha

Cogshal

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Question for BMc from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

« on: August 07, 2012, 12:12:34 AM »

Are you growing Soursop in your area? If so, has it fruited and how do you protect it when the temp drops below 50F?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Follow up on my multi-graft experiment

« on: July 25, 2012, 10:34:25 PM »

Here are pics of my grafts that I preformed on April to my 2 mature grafted cherimoya tress, One is a Pierce and the other a Booth. Initially I had 17 grafts and later in the month I added 26. I had 20 take but the tress are growing and branching out of control. Some of the grafts that took were smothered by the new growth. I'm not too happy with the results. I will never performed multi-grafts a cherimoyas.

the leaves fell off this one but it keeps flowering

this one being smother I don't know if it will survive,

sugar apples are slower and hanging on.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / ATTENTION SOCAL POSTERS

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:20:12 PM »

New stock at Costco in Fountain Valley sale starts tomorrow: Graft mangos,cherimoya, mamey, goji, passion fruit,all sorts of berries,kiwis, persimmons etc..

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / pics of grafted Mamey in the Yucatan

« on: June 12, 2012, 03:19:28 PM »

Here is a Mamey I bought in Hunucma for $2.50 and that's expensive because I didn't want to go to the Ayuntamento were the fruit trees (many grafted) are FREE to all residents. It looks like they used an Omega grafting tool and decapitated the scion. What do the experts think? The kid that sold it to me didn't know anything about grafting.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Cherimoya lovers of Socal....

« on: June 03, 2012, 11:40:28 PM »

it's that time of year to hand pollinate your annonas. You can collect pollen from any of your annonas (cherimoya,atemoya, sugar apple,custard apple). The best time to collect and hand pollinate is at dusk. If you only have one annona tree collect your pollen put it away in the fridge and pollinate the next day. Here are some pics to help you.

canister to collect the pollen

flower at male stage ready to collect

flower at female stage ready to be pollinated

mark the flower by pinching off the tip of a petal

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Question for Guanabanus

« on: May 19, 2012, 12:52:07 AM »

Hi Har

A while back you recommended I visit a vivero in the Yucatan. I can't find the post. Do you remember the name of the vivero?

Thanks
JF

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Rollinias fast growers?

« on: May 06, 2012, 05:27:56 PM »

My Rollinias are growing fast and branching nicely. Roger Meyer told me that his grow like weeds. Jacob is the only other person I know that is growing them ....anybody in Socal growing these?

all the branches are new growth from a few weeks. I prune them when I received them from Hawaii in March.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mango Graft Day(May3)

« on: April 25, 2012, 06:16:52 PM »

Greg, Cuban007 and MangoDog..... you guys ready? Here are the seedlings I will graft on to. Any suggestion on what type of graft I should try? beside the cleft and veneer

This one is on the ground it had little mango in one branch I'll leave those alone.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Grafting Mamey (Pouteria sapota)

« on: April 10, 2012, 12:10:37 AM »

Quote from: cuban007 on April 09, 2012, 10:24:33 PM

JF, there is good info on this book. Maybe we can use the most effective method to graft our Mameys according to the book. Nice find murahilin.

I read capitulo nueve *propagacion vegetativa* that's interesting stuff but Greg got great instructions from Frankies on how to graft a Mamey. I believe both seedlings he grafted are pushing so I'm going to stick with Frankies instructions.

JF

Mod edit: Original Post with Pouteria book http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=428.0

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Prune and multi-grafting my cherimoya trees

« on: April 03, 2012, 03:52:48 PM »

I pruned my cherimoya trees down to 7 feet and since I feel confidence with my grafting techniques, thanks to Greg and C7, I went ahead and multi-grafted my trees. Here are the varieties I grafted and hope they will take. I like to hear the opinions of the master grafters of the forum. Will this work? what are my chances of these graft taking?
la conchita
helmut
fino
bumpo
emilio
ott
lucida
deliciosa
nata
selma
big sister
saber
elixir
pierce
white
booth

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / African Pride Atemoya

« on: March 31, 2012, 01:04:39 AM »

Now, this one is from my tree. I had two drop and they are a lot better tasting than the ones I had in late Jan.......It taste a little bit like Pierce which I dubbed the *Dulce de leche Chirimoya* because of the heavy texture taste like condensed milk. It's not that sweet but you can taste the sugar apple in it which I like.

here next to a Pierce and White Cherimoya

another one and opened

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Golden Nuggets Manderin

« on: March 31, 2012, 12:35:42 AM »

This lives up to the hype even for folks that don't like citrus like me,....it's like eating clusters of candy not one seed.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Mamey Sapote graft

« on: March 24, 2012, 08:57:33 PM »

I would like to know, from the Mamey experts, what time of year is a good time to graft a Mamey Sapote and what type of graft should I do? I want to graft a seedling with my maganha.Here is a pic of a branch from my maganha can we graft this??

Thanks in advance
JF

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / China

« on: March 18, 2012, 11:23:45 PM »

My son just got back from China this week and had some very tasty mangosteen and other fruits there. Here are some pics of fruit stands from shanghai or hong kong.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / La Habra March update

« on: March 11, 2012, 11:25:18 PM »

Everyone is posting update so here is mine.
JF
Mangos:
Glenn
Pinha Colada
Lemon Zest
Irwin
Lancetilla and Carrie in a barrel
Alfonso
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Pickering
Thompson
Haden
Coconutcream behind the Maganha
Cogshall
Edward
Duncan
Choc Anon