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Question: What do y'all think is wrong with these two Dream atemoyas? Main sign is drooping leaves.

Details: Back in Feb I got three Dream plants from Wayne, two on pond apple rootstock and one on cherimoya, with one of the pond apple ones going to my friend. About a month ago mine started getting droopy leaves, with it looking generally better in the mornings and by late afternoon the leaves would be hanging almost straight down. It has somewhat improved, but now my friend's plant is also doing the same thing, only worse and actually dropping leaves. Both are getting plenty of water, and if they weren't on pond apple rootstock I'd think maybe flooding was the issue. Given that they are both on pond apple, we are concerned delayed incompatibility is rearing its ugly head. The graft junctions are gnarly looking cleft grafts, but otherwise appear to be solid. Any guesses on what the problem could be? 

Both of us had let some suckers grow a little where they'd formed maybe peanut sized nodules on the rootstock portion. It seems like cutting those off flush with the trunk has helped mine, but I'm not 100% sure of the timeline on mine making a partial recovery.
My friend's Dream.

My less sad Dream.


My other Dream on cherimoya rootstock.

That's awesome Adam! I can't wait till I start getting production out of mine.

Got a whole bunch of red jabo seedlings popping up from the FlyingFoxFruits fruit sale. Last time I sprouted red jabo all three of them died once I took the cover off of the seed tray for a few days. This time I'm trying keeping them sheltered a little longer till they're a little hardier.

Will you have scions available at some point? I've got 3 "B10" carambola in ground I've meant to turn into multigraft trees, and haven't yet.

I got an Opinel No 8 off of Amazon for like $12 and so far I love it. It comes sharpened to a double bevel, but a little time on the diamond plate and it's down to a nice single bevel edge. The carbon steel is so much easier to put a good edge on compared to a stainless blade. As was mentioned earlier in the thread it does have a little locking ring mechanism which is fairly simple but effective at keeping the knife open or closed. I'll update once I've done a few grafts with it, but so far $12 well spent.

I watered my purple passion fruit vine fairly heavily yesterday afternoon by just dropping a running hose near it while I was doing stuff in the yard. It looked fine beforehand, but a few hours later and this morning all the leaves look sort of wilted. I couldn't have given it more water than it would have gotten in a good heavy rain, and it is in a fairly well drained spot. What gives? 

That's awesome man! I've got to come up and see the Myrciaria Graceland sometime soon.

Wild squirrel is pretty tasty. I can only imagine one fattened on jaboticaba or macadamia would be even better, not to mention the side dish of sweet revenge you get to eat along with it.

Any tips on a potting mix for jabos, specifically a yellow? I usually do a 5:1:1 mix for most plants, but would something with a little more water holding capacity do better for a yellow, or should I just make it a well draining mix and sit the pot in a tub of water? Also, should freshly harvested mullet locks be added at planting, or top-dressed with later?

Besides some seedling varieties around the neighborhood the only named variety of loquat I've had so far was Bradenton, and while it was sweet the flavor seemed kind of one-dimensional compared to some of the more sour seedlings. Did I just get a lame Bradenton, or has that been someone else's experience as well?

Yeah, go get em!

Quote from: TheDom on March 24, 2015, 05:52:08 PM

Hooray cocktail jabo? I think it was about 3-4wks ago that I made my second ever attempt at grafting anything, and it is looking like I might be able to declare victory! It's a grimal cutting cleft grafted on to one of our smaller sabaras.

Nice job! I have a bunch of Sabara seedlings getting thick enough to graft , thanks for the inspiration.

If you're in Denver like your profile says you'd probably do just fine ordering from South Coast. It's just us farther out that are liable to have problems.

That's too bad I was planning on buying some. Does anybody know of another source?

I just got a similar refund email. The refund had a note that mentioned post office handling issues with long distance orders.