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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bottom tier mangos. Don't plant these.
« on: June 14, 2021, 02:01:11 PM »
Lemon Zest is on the bottom for me. So much powdery mildew even spraying copper every other week during flowering. Hardly any fruit set. Such a waste of space.
My coconut cream is also barely productive. Sigh.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: When to uncover mango grafts.
« on: July 03, 2020, 05:54:36 PM »
I did mine on the 18th. So far only Edward is pushing leaves, but all the others are green and healthy. Hopefully they all start to push soon! I removed the paper bags today.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango cleft graft slipping - please help!
« on: June 16, 2020, 02:53:05 PM »
I prefer whip and tongue grafts whenever possible. They hold really snugly and I get a 90%+ take rate (for stonefruit and loquats, at least). I'm planning to try that type with my mango scions when they arrive (thanks, JF!).

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Sale California mango scions from June 13 to June 21
« on: June 09, 2020, 07:57:52 PM »
PM sent!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What is your favorite banana variety?
« on: June 03, 2020, 05:37:25 PM »
My manzano finally fruited. Really delicious with a nice acidity. Fruit is very small though. I recently got to taste Monthan and it was nice too - similar to manzano but 6x bigger!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: MANGO TREE ETHICS
« on: January 09, 2020, 05:30:13 PM »
My neighbor's loquat tree hangs halfway over my fence. Last year I picked the fruit, made jam, and gave her half of it. She then invited me into her yard to pick more fruit and make more jam! Talk to your neighbor. =)

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will Surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora,Pitanga) fruit in mostly shade?
« on: October 07, 2019, 04:40:43 PM »
Exotica nursery claims they will - last time I visited they had quite a few fruit on their mature surinam cherry trees that were in fairly deep shade. Taste was good.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Mango tree flushing, dropped fruit
« on: August 29, 2019, 06:12:54 PM »
All of my mango trees did this too this year. I also wonder if maybe they weren't getting enough water. They are also flushing like crazy though so ???

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: What nursery is good in Southern California?
« on: June 29, 2019, 04:05:28 PM »
Laguna Hills nursery - they have a lot of fruit trees, including some less common ones
Green Thumb Internatiinal - huge variety of fruit trees. They typically have a few types of guavas and white sapotes as well.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Mango tasting and trees sale in La Habra July 17
« on: June 29, 2019, 04:00:54 PM »
I really wish I could make it this year! Unfortunately I will be out of town that week.  If you’re willing to sell any scions another time please let me know!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / SoCal mango scions?
« on: June 29, 2019, 04:00:06 PM »
Hi!

Is anyone in SoCal selling mango scions this year? I’d love to buy some if so! :)

-Sarah

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Best tasting and most reliable Mangos for Southern California
« on: May 01, 2019, 12:42:32 AM »
I have 5 mango trees so far in south Orange County:
LZ on turpentine rootstock - 4.5 years in ground, only ~4 feet tall with very slow growth, lots of panicles but poor fruit set so far. Lots of PM despite 2x fungicide applications. It only set 2 fruit last year of poor quality.
Coconut Cream on turpentine rootstock - 4.5 years in ground, 6-7 feet tall and very vigorous, tons of panicles but poor fruit set so far. Lots of PM despite 2x fungicide applications. It set zero fruit last year. :-(
Malika on turpentine rootstock - 4.5 years in ground, ~4 feet tall with very slow growth. However this tree has been heavily shaded until very recently (another tree was blocking its light). It has a number of panicles with flowers that are just beginning to open. No PM issues. No fruit last year.
Multi-graft tree I purchased from Frank ~2 years ago. It has Sweet Tart, Juicy Peach, Zinc, and Puneet. The tree overall has grown poorly with the ST and JP grafts are doing the best. Both are flowering now with no signs of PM. The other two grafts have done nothing.
I also have a LaVerne manila I planted 2 years ago which is now 5 feet tall and growing beautifully. It currently has 1 LZ graft I added last summer. No flowers so far. I'm planning on grafting a number of other varieties on to it this year if I can find budwood!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Least reliable Mango varieties for Southern California
« on: April 01, 2019, 05:57:56 PM »
Quote from: simon_grow on March 30, 2019, 07:04:48 PM
One of the most notorious varieties for being stingy or not fruiting at all in some years is Lemon Zest. Due to its high susceptibility fungal diseases like Powdery Mildew, flower panicles get infected and dry out. Without a spraying regimen, you will likely get low or zero yield from this variety, at least for those living In areas where temperature and humidity favor PM.

Simon

How frequently do you have to spray to prevent this? I've sprayed my LZ twice and I'm still seeing powdery mildew on almost every panicle. Is it possible to overspray?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My 2019 Cherimoya Tast surprise bag
« on: February 04, 2019, 06:17:03 PM »
I'm not sure what I had. The two that were somewhat decent had bumpy exteriors; maybe el bumpos?

Unfortunately by the time I got through the purchase line the tasting was pretty cleaned out and I only got to try two varieties.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: My 2019 Cherimoya Tast surprise bag
« on: February 01, 2019, 06:03:45 PM »
I bought a bag... unfortunately out of the 4 I've eaten so far, only 1 was decent. :-(

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Hobbyist's mango presentation 8/4/18 Foothill CRFG and added 9/20/18 OC CRFG
« on: August 31, 2018, 12:30:52 PM »
This sounds amazing! I will try to attend. =)

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Stone fruits?
« on: June 25, 2018, 04:08:58 PM »
All of my stone fruit trees are 4 - 5 years in ground. My Red Baron peach has ~20 fruits on it. Last year it had 50. My Santa Rosa plum produced sporadic flowers but set no fruit. My Flavor Grenade Pluot flowered a ton and set fruit, then aborted them all. My Flavor Delight aprium flowered a bit and only set a single fruit down low (which my dogs promptly ate, grrr). This is the second year in a row of no fruit from the plum, pluot, and aprium. Might be time to replace them with something more reliable in our warming climate...

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Will be in Anaheim next week, looking 4 nyseries
« on: June 13, 2018, 06:33:07 PM »
Green Thumb nursery in Lake Forest still has lots of citrus as of 3 weeks ago. They also have mangoes, guavas, lots of stone fruit, passion fruit, etc. Nothing crazy unusual though.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 2017 SoCal mango tasting
« on: October 05, 2017, 09:59:50 PM »
Quote from: TheWaterbug on October 04, 2017, 01:22:01 AM



I will buy my ticket the day they go on sale!


Maybe someone can host a budwood sale/exchange in the spring! (or whenever prime grafting season is)

Me, too!!

I have a La Verne manila in ground that will be ready for grafting next year. It's amazing how much faster it's growing compared to my florida rootstock trees.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Any truth to story of Tim Thomson going out of business?
« on: June 15, 2017, 05:18:10 PM »
Quote from: JF on June 14, 2017, 04:25:23 PM
I wonder if there are people out there that pay for trees and never receive them?
Tim promise me he was going to bring his mangos to my tasting but always came up with excuses.

Yes. I pre-ordered a tree and never received it and he never responded to my attempts to contact him. At least it was only for one tree, so I'm not out very much.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Too late to use this for grafting?
« on: April 28, 2017, 07:06:18 PM »
Great info, thank you so much!

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Too late to use this for grafting?
« on: April 28, 2017, 06:17:26 PM »

Quote from: simon_grow on April 28, 2017, 01:18:58 AM
...you prepped your scions by removing leaves and letting the scars heal...

Do you prep the scion before cutting it off the tree or after? I assume before, but just want to make sure?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growing Mango trees in Southern California
« on: April 06, 2017, 04:15:25 PM »
Question - I have an in ground 3 year old LZ on turpentine rootstock that was damaged by my gardener's weed whacker and is now struggling. If I plant a manila seedling next to it and try an inarch graft, do you think it could recover? Or should I just start over entirely by grafting scions onto a LaVerne manila rootstock?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Growth of So Cal Mangoes - lack of growth this year? Unusual?
« on: August 22, 2016, 02:47:46 PM »
My coconut cream has been flushing like crazy. Lemon Zest and Mallika have done nothing. I just tipped them last week to see if that helps. My cocktail tree is has had a flush on two branches, nothing on the others.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: August 17, 2016, 05:05:43 PM »
I registered for just the field day as I live 2 miles from SCREC. I haven't received any specific information about it though. Any idea  what time it starts??

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