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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order - trees all gone
« on: May 02, 2021, 03:22:07 PM »
Anyone doing bottle graft or approach graft? Simon? Just tossing around ideas.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yangmei (Myrica Rubra) Group Order Survey
« on: April 06, 2021, 12:16:41 PM »I'd be in for 6. I am in San Diego.Richard, can I buy you an additional 2 plants to care for so I can get scions from them? No problem if they don’t make it for any reason.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Looking for White Pakistani Mulberry in Socal
« on: May 12, 2020, 06:35:51 PM »Black mulberries are hard to root from cuttings. White mulberries are easy to root from cuttings. Then you graft the black mulberries on it. Hope you didn't pay too much for yours.Mulberry is very easy to root from cutting. Just buy couple scions from the member and root them. You should get some fruit very soon.
I got a tree off craigslist. White mulberry cannot be rooted from cuttings, they have to be grafted said the guy that sold to me. That's why they tend to be more expensive than their counterpart, the black pakistan.
Thanks everyone.
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Temperate Fruit Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: WANTED: Sugar cane jujube cuttings
« on: September 12, 2019, 04:08:56 PM »
Thanks for the Sugarcane vs. Honey jar comparison, especially the difference in production. I grafted both this year to the same tree and they both made tiny fruits. The honey jar grew a new trunk while the sugarcane only grew fruiting twigs.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Info on OBO mango
« on: August 28, 2019, 01:15:34 PM »
ORO mango?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: August 28, 2019, 01:06:15 PM »
Wow, that seedling went for $270. Some of you guys are rich for starting these from seed!
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: CCPP
« on: July 16, 2019, 12:44:44 PM »Wow that's cheap. Mine is about double Bomand's sister's property tax, same mortgage and house size, 1/5 acre lot. I'm close to "the beautiful downtown Burbank" with crazy Armenian drivers that don't stop for pedestrians or even for red light.I don't know. She lives in Beaumont. Pays $2250.00 house note per month. $3000.00 per annum property taxes. House only has 1235 square feet in it. Thats pretty steep to a SG like me. She tells me I would like the weather but.......
The house pricing in California is so ridiculous right now. You cannot buy a house for 1/2 mil in LA county. Even though I like to weather like here, nice and sunny. I won't live here when I am retired. My sister-in-law live in Oregon, her house with 3 big bedrooms and a large liveroom with over 1800SF only for 75K, and the lot is over 1 acre, but she cannot plant any of the fruit tree that I plant her due to the snow weather.
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Cold Hardy Citrus / Re: CCPP
« on: July 12, 2019, 04:33:44 PM »
But once people move out, it's pretty hard to move back in. Inland Empire home prices should still be affordable compared to LA County.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Siamese Sweet Pomelo
« on: July 12, 2019, 02:08:31 PM »UCR was considering releasing it 2 years ago.I read everywhere about this plant as a very common parent for a variety of citrus, but i never have seen it offered for sale or in a collection.There's a good reason for that. It's supposed to be sweet but not the most flavor, in part due to lack of acidity.
The standard Chandler pomelo that's usually sold in the US is a hybrid of Siamese Sweet, and so is Oroblanco grapefruit.
I tried the fruit. It's really good if you like sweet citrus. Many people don't appreciate purely sweet and fragrant fruit though, so it may not be good for you. It's better than acidless lemon to me.
Don't touch the segment membrane or you'll get a pretty bitter taste. I don't think you have to chew the membrane, just touch it and the flavor comes off.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Preserving Lychees?
« on: July 12, 2019, 02:00:26 PM »
You can dry lychee in the shell. I have uncles that grew lychee. They're retired now.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Bioflora 6-6-5 vs Gro-Power Avacado & Citrus
« on: July 12, 2019, 01:57:24 PM »I’ve used both. I can’t tell the difference. I feel like Bioflora has gotta have something in there that’s good because my dogs love Bioflora...little bastards love to eat it. So I keep buying Bioflora.Haha, the mice in my area loves to eat it too. I might be the feather meal that makes it smell like chicken. I don't know if I want to sprinkle it on top of the soil like you're supposed to. Maybe it's the animal droppings that's fertilizing the trees.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Rooting Jujube
« on: April 23, 2019, 12:30:41 PM »
Graft it back.
Snapped it TO the graft? Doe that mean it's broken BELOW the graft or ABOVE the graft? Or is the graft really weak enough to be broken AT the graft?
Snapped it TO the graft? Doe that mean it's broken BELOW the graft or ABOVE the graft? Or is the graft really weak enough to be broken AT the graft?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: April 16, 2019, 01:18:28 PM »Alright! Fresh California-grown fruit!What is huge? How big do they get?
As far as I know, there's nothing too special about germination. Seeds just land on the ground where they're stratified/weathered for the winter or longer which reduces the amount of germination-inhibiting hormone in the shell and seed coat and some get worked into the dirt or buried by leave litter so they germinate all at different times.
It's not endangered or anything. A friend on FB posted photos of huge yangmei trees lining the streets of Tokyo. I guess they grow well there.
They all seem to be males.
There's one on Uchinada beach, in the sand by the road side with maybe wind and salt burn on the leaves. That one's about 8ft, with male flowers.
There are huge trees at a park in Yokohama.
There are some near the Hiroshima A Bomb site, maybe 2 stories tall. There's a photo of one 3-4 stories tall next to an apartment building that I can't tell if it's yangmei.
There are street trees in Tokyo, pruned to narrow canopies.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: April 11, 2019, 04:24:25 PM »
Alright! Fresh California-grown fruit!
As far as I know, there's nothing too special about germination. Seeds just land on the ground where they're stratified/weathered for the winter or longer which reduces the amount of germination-inhibiting hormone in the shell and seed coat and some get worked into the dirt or buried by leave litter so they germinate all at different times.
It's not endangered or anything. A friend on FB posted photos of huge yangmei trees lining the streets of Tokyo. I guess they grow well there.
As far as I know, there's nothing too special about germination. Seeds just land on the ground where they're stratified/weathered for the winter or longer which reduces the amount of germination-inhibiting hormone in the shell and seed coat and some get worked into the dirt or buried by leave litter so they germinate all at different times.
It's not endangered or anything. A friend on FB posted photos of huge yangmei trees lining the streets of Tokyo. I guess they grow well there.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: April 08, 2019, 12:50:50 AM »Any place we can order a Cali grown fruit?! I have paid as much as $24 a lb for some imported mangosteens.I remember there were imported yangmei fruit sold last year, pickup in Monterey Park. Maybe I posted about it before? If so, that price is accurate. I thin the imported fruits were over $30/lb and only available during the weeks of harvest season in China.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Clean Shinanui Mandarin Budwood sources
« on: April 05, 2019, 12:20:54 AM »
Oops. It's mrtexas I was talking about. I get people confused.
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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Clean Shinanui Mandarin Budwood sources
« on: April 03, 2019, 05:35:23 PM »
Mark in Texas can tell you about the citrus bureau there. They get it from CCPP and both CCPP and they tack on a nice surcharge. $150 budwood.
Someone contacted CCPP recently and told me they will have it again in June.
Someone contacted CCPP recently and told me they will have it again in June.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Jerry Lehman has died
« on: April 02, 2019, 02:21:26 PM »
I had heard that he was hospitalized. I didn't know anything about him. RIP
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Is Dr.White Cherimoya is same as “White Cherimoya”?
« on: April 02, 2019, 02:11:19 PM »
Yes, I believe the variety is 'white'. That's what we called it back then. Then some people started calling it Dr. White, and people seem to like the longer name more. Maybe it's named after some doctor? Or people just assume it's named after a doctor.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: March 22, 2019, 02:53:10 PM »
Thanks Simon. Yeah, he's the most successful grower of this fruit.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: March 22, 2019, 02:58:54 AM »
Thanks Simon. I have a male graft. It's just not big enough to flower yet.
What video? I didn't find anything about it in the last few pages.
The people I know that have grafted plants are switching to growing and marketing the fruit first, to generate a wider interest in the trees. Expanding the growing acreage will also mean more propagation material available to make grafted trees. I think it makes good sense to do it in this order. If they start selling trees first, they run out of scions and they have no replacement when customers complain about dead trees. The trees are not easy to grow or graft and the rootstock species are prone to spontaneous dieback. The fruit growing experience will help them flush out all the potential problems. So grafted trees from them could be a few more years out.
What video? I didn't find anything about it in the last few pages.
The people I know that have grafted plants are switching to growing and marketing the fruit first, to generate a wider interest in the trees. Expanding the growing acreage will also mean more propagation material available to make grafted trees. I think it makes good sense to do it in this order. If they start selling trees first, they run out of scions and they have no replacement when customers complain about dead trees. The trees are not easy to grow or graft and the rootstock species are prone to spontaneous dieback. The fruit growing experience will help them flush out all the potential problems. So grafted trees from them could be a few more years out.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit stuff in San Diego?
« on: March 22, 2019, 02:45:38 AM »
Oolie, that's why Brian is going to SD, for the meeting.
UCSD had some feijoa bushes near one of the college's apartments. There's the community garden behind Che Cafe. A CRFG member and grape enthusiast helps out there. It's weird to me that he grows things in multiple gardens all around SD. Either he's retired or he somehow makes money doing that. Feels like more than a hobby to me. This place is not gated, so just find parking and walk around.
There's a fruit tree planting just outside UCSD a little ways west to south west that I heard about but never tried to find. I don't know if it's still there. Hopefully whoever told me about it wasn't talking about the Che Cafe garden.
Southwestern College also has a fruit garden that CRFG helped put in before they stopped welcoming us, just like San Diego Zoo did before. Well, they kept the plants and SD Zoo told/let us to remove the plants. I don't know if it's for the same reason. Maybe it's not as negative as I made it sound, but I don't know how to word it to sound more neutral. This place is pretty close to the border so it might be a long drive depending on where you're staying. It's gated and I don't know if it's supposed to be open on school days or what the deal is.
I've never been to the Bancroft CRFG garden that they have now. I hope they put in some cool stuff there.
UCSD had some feijoa bushes near one of the college's apartments. There's the community garden behind Che Cafe. A CRFG member and grape enthusiast helps out there. It's weird to me that he grows things in multiple gardens all around SD. Either he's retired or he somehow makes money doing that. Feels like more than a hobby to me. This place is not gated, so just find parking and walk around.
There's a fruit tree planting just outside UCSD a little ways west to south west that I heard about but never tried to find. I don't know if it's still there. Hopefully whoever told me about it wasn't talking about the Che Cafe garden.
Southwestern College also has a fruit garden that CRFG helped put in before they stopped welcoming us, just like San Diego Zoo did before. Well, they kept the plants and SD Zoo told/let us to remove the plants. I don't know if it's for the same reason. Maybe it's not as negative as I made it sound, but I don't know how to word it to sound more neutral. This place is pretty close to the border so it might be a long drive depending on where you're staying. It's gated and I don't know if it's supposed to be open on school days or what the deal is.
I've never been to the Bancroft CRFG garden that they have now. I hope they put in some cool stuff there.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: March 20, 2019, 01:38:02 AM »
Thanks. I did the cracking and GA3 before and it worked okay one time and failed 2 other times after that. I threw some into a pot a month ago and I'll throw some more into pots since my seeds are 2 years old now. The inhibiting hormones are supposed to weather away, but the seeds were in the fridge so maybe that didn't happen. Well, if anyone grows a male tree, let me know. My old tree is producing all female flowers now and I'm planning to put a M. cerifera male next to it for pollen hoping it will work.
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Myrica rubra
« on: March 19, 2019, 03:22:18 AM »
how many seeds did you guys plant to get some germination? What source sells viable seeds? Did you end up doing any cracking or GA3 treatment or just planted and waited?
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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Fruit Youtube Channel Recommendations
« on: March 13, 2019, 07:15:12 PM »
There's a CRFG channel that has a lot of lectures. I help to run it but I don't put in much time.