The Tropical Fruit Forum

Yeah, it's a pond apple.

I decided to take a Brix reading from some of the smaller JM Thick Leaf fruit and I got a reading of 17.0% Brix. I will stop by Leo Manuel’s place soon and test some fruit from his mature, in ground Vermillion.





Simon

Here is one of the "thick leaf" Neitzel fruits. Very good taste, similar to the "black star" and "zills black".

I talked to One the other night and he said he calls it "large golden", it is a seedling of another fruit, but he doesn't know what tree it came from. He also said it isn't as "chewy" that most of the other atemoyas have, it has more of a cherimoya texture. However it does get up to 4lbs.

Jim Neitzel had one he called "onsey-twosey, because of the low seed count.

I have a fruiting one down in San Diego near the coast, I believe it is a "Pantin" variety.

Being close to the ocean in southern California it's tough to find mangoes that fruit well here, a lot of them get plenty of fungus and other issues. This "Thom Pi Kan" mango is one of hundreds of fruitlets setting on the tree. Others that are doing good this season are "Edwards", "Dot", "Orange Sherbert", "Sweet Tart", and "Peggy", all of the other varieties are either not blooming or got real affected by powdery mildew.

Hi do you have any green sweetsop scions for sale?

Mark

Hi,

I'm in need of some scion wood of bigger Cainito fruit, like the Asian varieties, either of purple or green or both. I don't want scion wood from seedlings, only grafted or air layered plants or a tree that is fruiting already. So if you have a big tree that can handle losing some pencil sized scions I'm willing to pay. I know Frankies in Hawaii has a nice big purple cultivar. So if you live over there and can buy some from him, then I would pay you for your work to obtain some.

Thanks, Mark

I got seeds of one from Jim West in 2010 and the biggest tree is 9 feet, I just planted it out lasted summer and it is fruiting now. It survived the long cold periods of southern California with just a bit of leaf tip damage. Hopefully the fruit will grow quick as the summer approaches.

I'm about 3 miles from the ocean in Chula Vista and I have no problem growing mangos, my best have been, Zebda, Edward, Tom Pi Khan, Keitt, Corriente, Manila and Maha Chanok.

Quote from: marklee on March 16, 2021, 11:27:42 PM

I saw some of the LaVerne mangoes at HD today, they are now a whopping $35 and the size of a pencil and 3 feet tall. I think they they would need another 2 years to be decent to graft.

they were probably tied to a stick too I bet. 

you get a tree at atkins and its thick and not staked and you carry to the car by the trunk.  thats the difference.
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Yeah, for sure Atkins is the place to go. I think my 9 month old mango seedlings are better than LaVerne's, Yeah and HD's were staked. They were just $22 a couple of years ago, and graft ready.

I ate a couple of Colombian Yellow today that were a bit over ripe, one had some brown near the top edges of the yellow skin. However, this is the first time I've gotten a "lemon" taste from a dragon fruit. All the other yellow fruits have just had the regular sweetness.