The Tropical Fruit Forum

my grafts have some fruits on them, they are smooth, and smallish and purple skinned.  i can take a pic when the sun comes up later today. 

The ones I tasted are not like cherries. 

Maybe you can grow the low chill cherry tree instead?  Cherries are early season stone fruit so they should be done before AZ heat really sets in. 

Looks like the new postage thing on paypal works but theres no email notifications that go out to the customer now.  They are getting there, one step at a time...  You would think they would have it all working before rolling it out. 

Heres an atemoya and cherimoya grafted back in April Carlos.  If you pinch off the terminal growth it will force brqnches wherever you strip leaves.  The branches will only grow where leave are removed.  The petioles cover the new bud site.





Here you can see how the tips have been pinched andnspecific leaves removed where I want branches to grow in the outward direction.

I would cut that off right about 2f high and strip the top few leaves to get some branches going.  Its not too late to prune, ive been tipping new cherimoya and atemoyas all summer and still doing them now. 

Its a monster! 

Heres the latest on my biqi.  It started to flush then got hit with a dry wind the other day it looks like a few soft leaves curled up abut otherwise seems ok.  Just growing slowly.  Havent done anything to it since planting it. 

Surely this would be happening at least occasionally if it were really a problem yet Ive never heard of a mulch pile catching fire around here.  Theres mulch piles all over town that the tree trimmers leave out at parks and schools.  Wildfires are a real problem here yet ive never heard of one starting because of a mulch pile.  We have single digit humidity and crazy winds that would surely exacerbate the problem if it existed,

When I first moved in to this house we started using a LOT of mulch and experimented with composting.  I actually tried to get mulch piles to get hotter and speed up the decomposition process.  I have a long thermometer that gets inserted into compost heaps.  I used to put perferated septic pipes into the mulch piles to draw air into the center of the piles.  Also experimwnted with adding 50lb bags of 46-0-0 urea mixed into the piles.  I would add grass clippings, horse manure, urea, hosed the piles to keep the humidity correct so they would cook as fast as possible.  Never did the temperature get close to catching fire. 

In the end I decided making big compost piles was not worthwhile and have since shifted to burying scrap material or chipping in place etc and not composting anything.  Even our chicken manure we dont bother composting.  I use everything fresh and let it decay in place.  Never had any fires start.

Im not saying its impossible but seems the problem is overstated for single truckload of green waste.

Is your yangmai still alive rob?  Mine started to do its first flush in the ground.  It has not grown much at all but its starting to. Then we got a fire wind yesterday that probably cooked the new flush. 

i should have never mentioned i had these.  that was my mistake.  it wouldnt have been a big deal if any individual here had asked me about the trees but tons of people were bugging me about the trees.  it got to the point of absurdity.  they are just pink guavas, not that special.  frank hyped it to the point of almost hysteria surrounding these stupid guavas. 

younguys should ask frank for cuttings.

Paypal switchied their shipping center usps application over to a 3rd party.  Has anyone had any luck using the new shipping software from paypal?  Seems like thry totally broke it. 

Guys I chopped these trees down and ran them through my chipper.   I dont have seeds or scions.  Sorry!