The Tropical Fruit Forum

I just got back from the San Diego CRFG sale and was lucky enough to pick up an annona conica! I spotted it in the photos on their Facebook page and just knew I wanted it despite not being super familiar with it. I have about half a dozen other annona and related species and varieties, mostly the basics so this one is a step up for me as far as interesting trees!

I’d very much appreciate if anyone could give me any information about it, as far as how it differs from other more commonly grown species, as well as any insight into how it tastes so I know what to expect when it (hopefully) eventually fruits. It’s currently about 3’ tall with a 1” diameter trunk.

I’m also curious if it can be grafted on to cherimoya rootstock.  I have a small forest of cherimoya seedlings from the various fruit i’ve snacked on and would love to be able to put them to good use since it appears to be a fairly uncommon species.

Thanks so much!


Cheers!
Jen

For seeds you can purchase directly from Luc in May 2018 I guess.

For seedlings, some members may help for ex Oscar (fruitlovers.com).
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Thanks for the tip.  If I have to wait until  may for seeds I will, though i’m sure most everyone understands the utter impatience i’m feeling  about wanting these ASAP! Haha.  I’ll keep at it until I find some, that’s all anyone can do!  Thanks!

Hello everyone!  Thanks to this forum and the amazing information from experts  here I have officially become obsessed with adding a Luc’s garcinia to my collection.  It’s been decided that it is G. vleerackeii, correct?  Despite the fact that it seems almost everyone on here has at least one in their collection, I’ve found it to be next to impossible to track them down ANYWHERE!  I live in San Diego so we have the benefit of a wonderful subtropical climate here (I’m 10b) so despite not being able to grow mangosteen without great effort and luck, we can still grow the next best thing!

I’m desperately hoping to get my hands on a nice little tree of Luc’s garcinia, and if price permits, two.  I’d also love a good quality achachairu.  I have two smallish g. humilis  coming from Hawaii soon but I don’t know how the quality of the fruit will be, so if I can get one that is known to be excellent, i’d love to buy one of those as well.

Sorry for being so long winded.

I have a few other garcinias but they’re barely more than seedlings at this point, so it would be wonderful to have something that could potentially fruit in the next couple years.

Whatever the case, if one of you smart, lovely growers out there is willing to pass on one or two of these presumably special plants (based on all the rave reviews i’ve read  here) i’d love to be able to buy it from you! 

Please send me a message if you think you could make this happen for me.  Thanks so very much and I hope those of you in the US had a wonderful turkey day! 

Cheers!
Jen

There sure has been a lot of hype!  I can't find a thread on this forum without it being mentioned.  I'm really excited to try it, however I still haven't been able to track down a tree or even seeds from it! . I'm probably going to end up buying a 'thai green' or 'na di' online as a last resort.  I have two honeyharts (the second was bought by mistake so I'm trying to trade it for something else) and an el bumpo, as well as a sour sop and a seed grown atemoya from Ong's (no idea how that will turn out).

From everything everyone has said it should hopefully be amazing if I ever get to try it!

Hi there!  I have passiflora edulis 'Frederick' and passiflora alata 'ruby glow.'  They're not huge but they're definitely big enough to get a few good mature cuttings if you were interested!  I'd absolutely love to get maprang seedlings or Santol seedlings. Let me know!

Jen

neither as good as a true guava like mexican cream which you can grow in so cal.

grow figs, your climate is perfect for it; panache, violette de bordeaux are excellent and easy to find.

Thanks for the info!  I don't know too much about guavas since once been mostly focusing on Annona and other sub tropicals  in my research, but the Mexican cream sounds amazing!  I'm always looking to find the tastiest of whatever I can grow so I'm adding it to my lists especially because of how well they do!  What type of guava is this? As in, the whole variety name, so I can keep an eye out for it!

I'm currently in the process of trying to root some fig cuttings.  I have panache, kadota, and one other I can't remember but I haven't gone so far as to buy a tree yet.  So many high priorities to get since I'm starting from scratch!  Any favorite fig varieties I should consider?

Cheers!

Jen

Thank you so much, both of you, for responding!

I haven't heard much about the guava fruit fly but I will definitely be researching that! I do know that I see guavas of all types for sale at local farmer's markets and guava plants in seemingly half the yards in some neighborhoods, so people seem to have good luck with it! (Yay!)

As far as the fuyu goes, it's one of my absolute favorite fruits in the world.  When I can get good quality in quantity I'll eat tens of pounds of them each season!  I tend to favor the non astringent varieties more the older I get because I love the crunchiness but I'm planning on getting a couple more persimmon varieties as I can so I'll keep a lookout for the Triumph!  Any experience with the chocolate persimmon? I saw it for sale at a local nursery the other day and I was intrigued.

Good to know that the peanut butter fruit is a quick flowerer and prolific.  If it doesn't take too much room it may very well be worth a little bit of space for a small container just for the novelty!

Thanks again for your responses!  I look forward to talking more about all sorts of other fruit!

Hello everyone!

My name is Jen.  I've been an orchid grower for about the past ten years (usually cramming a couple hundred plants in and outside of the few apartments I've lived in, which was quite a challenge, but given that I had no other option I made it work!) .  I tend to grow mostly species like dendrobiums, laelias, cattleyas, a few bulbous, but also many others!

Earlier this year I moved into a house which (wonder of wonders!) has a front and back yard!  After I almost immediately built a shade room for my orchids I realized the full potential of the space I had and started to explore the possibilities of finally growing some of the tropical fruit that I've always absolutely loved.

For many years I've searched out as many kinds of interesting fruit as I can possibly find.  My favorites have to be (in no real order) mangosteens, cherimoyas, longans, lychees, papaya,  mangos, and pineapple.  Being that only so many things are available in markets around San Diego, I have a LONG way to go when it comes to tasting even a small fraction of the things out there, but I'm actively trying!

Recently I've begun to grow some fruit trees (jaboticaba, fuyu persimmon, Pickering mango, nazemetz strawberry guava, miracle berry) and have been starting seeds or cuttings of others (lychee, rambutan, mamey sapote, random yellow mango, longan, figs, cherimoya, papaya, fuyu and chocolate persimmon, pineapple).  I'm having better luck with some than others but I'm the type of person who will keep trying until I succeed or exhaust myself!  There are still many things I'd like to grow and am planning on getting a strawberry tree (muntingia calburia) in a couple of weeks to add to my collection.  I'm just so excited to finally have the space to garden and grow everything I've always wanted to, even if they have to potentially stay in containers since this is a rental house (though we may be buying it in the future- I'd rather be safe than sorry.  Wouldn't want to have to leave any of my beloved trees or plants behind!).

I've been mostly growing in containers, but if I come across something I must have and it must be grown in the ground I'm willing to go for it, however the yard isn't huge and is largely taken up with orchids, various epiphytes, and my garden, so size, deliciousness, and time until fruiting are the most important factors in what I'll be choosing.

Other than that, I'm just excited to be growing, and I feel really fortunate to live in such a perfect climate for so many types of fruit!  I'm looking forward to taking with you all!

Cheers!