The Tropical Fruit Forum

Here is a 2' tall seedling that is planted on my hillside:

BEFORE FROST (picture taken 2/18/2018):


AFTER FROST (frost hit 2/20/2018):


PHOTO OF NEW FLUSH (different plant):

Our yard is north facing and drops into a canyon.  In addition to shade and height (so as not to shade out lower growing trees and plants), another consideration needs to be temperature - the lower elevations in our yard see much more extreme swings in summer and winter.  Within our yard, I have tried planting stuff all over the place over the last 10 years - with a lot of failures early on.

I have learned to keep things in pots for longer than I normally would, and test out different locations in the yard.

My in-ground plants/trees include:

Tropical/Sub-Tropical:
Mangos
Guava (Asian, Tropical White, Red Malaysian)
Lemon Guava
Jaboticaba
Passiflora
Banana
Cherimoya
Atemoya
Sugar Cane
Inga
Grumichama (E. brasilensis)
Pitanga (Surinam Cherry)

Temperate:
Citrus (Valencia Orange, Cara Cara, Eureka Lemon, Key Lime)
Stone Fruit (Apricot, Peach, Nectarine, Plum, Plumcot)
Blueberries
Boysenberry
Fig
Grapes
Avocado
Cherry
Feijoa
Apple
Pear
Pomegranate


In addition to the plants listed above, my neighbors (with same north facing slope) also are growing:

macademia
loquat
grapefruit
pomelo
kumquat


And I'm probably forgetting some.  The last frost 2 weeks ago killed my third attempt at growing Papaya on the slope... if I can get one to survive through one winter, I'm positive I can get it to fruit here - I've seen plenty fruiting nearby.  I also have a lot of plants in containers waiting to go into the ground (right spot, right time, right size, etc) including Cambuca and a Brazilian Guava, both of which are doing very well.

So, north facing hillside doesn't guarantee death to your plants - but we're not putting in a pool anytime soon, and if you have an opportunity to buy property that faces south/southwest, well... I would.

Campus and Campas are mislabeled names but the same. Campos is from Spain.

Behl, the photo of Campos fruit looks much more like atemoya than cherimoya (i.e. Leaves are pinnate, not as broad); also, searching for Campos and Campas in Google, I find several earlier scientific references to Campas (and alternately Campa) in Spain - but few for Campos.

i.e. This article: https://books.google.com/books?id=AxbUJntXepEC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=campas+cherimoya&source=bl&ots=hxxLm2bL0M&sig=EJvlfWTjOIfTKosmwXlwfFeJ30g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMwuPVmc_ZAhVQ1WMKHXYtCLgQ6AEwCXoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=campas%20cherimoya&f=false

The nursery I bought my Campas tree from (8 years ago?  I'll have to dig through my records) told me that Campas is from Spain where it was a commercial prospect, but did not fair well in transport and so wasn't widely planted.  My tree has been the source of scions for several members here.  Below are photos of some of the first fruit I harvested... it does have protrusions like El Bumpo, is self-pollinating, and can produce some good sized fruit.






Here's another photo of Campas fruit from this year... less protrusions on this one.  Delicious fruit.

Simon, we got frost as well in Clairemont (92117)... unusual enough that I snapped a picture of the frost on the hood and roof of my truck.




Haven't had a chance to check the trees.

I was thinking about adding some more citrus to my yard this year, including Buddha's hand.... but then I found this on my lemon tree today.  It's the only "deformed" fruit out of 50+ currently on the tree.  what gives?

 

The first of my PlantsMap tags just came in... super excited!  Our community does a Spring Garden Tour and my goal is to have all of my trees tagged on the walking path I built before the 2019 tour.

Looks like katydid eggs.

Thanks!  Surprised this is the first time I've seen their eggs - we have lots of grasshoppers.

email sent re: Big Red sugar apple scions

Adam... looking to you for positive ID of this jabo... finally flowering for the first time, and I'm beyond excited.  I have at least 3 varieties of jabo in the ground (they are from different sources, have different growth patterns, and different leaf structure).  This was sold to me as a Red Hybrid and it's fruiting after 2 years in ground (was purchased from FL as a 3' tall plant)... currently about 5 1/2' tall. (Sorry for the sideways pictures... cant figure out how to turn these 90 degrees).













Since I haven't met a jabo fruit I didn't like, it doesn't matter to me what this one is called, just want to make sure I label it correctly.

Why does this ebay seller only have ONE (1) negative feedback in the last 12 months?  Leaving negative feedback will also help others avoid the same debacle.

I am constantly cutting back my passionfruit - it grows and fruits like crazy.  Nothing I have done has slowed it down - most of the pruning I have done is at least 10' away from the main trunk.  Single vine is covering 40'+ of chainlink fence.