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Does anyone have a guess as to what colored flesh I will get from this DF plant? I first posted about this plant when I first received it from a online nursery that claimed they were selling me the selenecerious megalanhus variety which I was told by members here that I was not given the correct plant. Since then it has grown and the first picture shows growth from last year and the second picture shows this year's growth. The last picture shows the originally growth when I receive it and you can see how small the original growth is compared to last year and current year's growth which is about 3-4 inches in diameter. I noticed that the ridges are more straight than my purple haze, S8, physical graffiti and NOID red variety.
Does anyone have a guess as to what colored flesh this one would be? And I wonder why the new growth is bigger in diameter than the original growth when I receive it.
Fruits of top 10 mangoes in US are not sold in the markets, so that is one reason to grow.
Best mangoes are not always commercially viable, hence backyards thrive.
Its a gardeners satisfaction.
Dont grow manila or ataulfo, or kent, or keitt, or Hayden. these are easy to buy from open markets, grow sweet tart, peach cobbler, etc. that you will never get to even taste it, unless you are close to Zills and you can buy directly.
Does it take 30 days from bud to bloom and then another 30-35 days from bloom to ripened fruit ?Approximately 14 days from bud to bloom, and then 30-35 days to fruit picking! A few varieties take longer to ripen but only a few.
Thanks! I was curious cause I finally have a bud that doesn't seem like t would turn back to a stem like my first flush of buds did. And it's been 6 days since I first noticed the bud and the growth seem to have slowed down these past few days so I was getting worried. I hope the growth is not stunted. Glad to know it take at least 14 days from bud to bloom. Thank you.
...hmmm... my bud grew a bit today. I guess I worried way too early. Probably the gloomy weather during the last few days may have slowed the growth a bit. Now that the sun is back out, it seems much happier now.
Thank you for the info
If the winter kills the tree the rootstock may survive and put out a new tree. If the rootstock is cherimoya then you will
have a generic cherimoya, I live in 9b in Florida, what I did was plant 4 seedling Na Dai plugs I bought. I put them in a
3 gallon and they grew nicely the first year and I bumped them into 7 gallon pot and then a 15 gallon pot. They flowered the
first year without fruit set. The winter was mild we had one night that was 37F with a strong wind chill probably around 32F,
I didn't protect the pots and they were fine. The trees were pushing 5 feet, in the spring I put 2 in the ground on the south side
of my house in the most protected spot. Later I planted the other 2 on the south side but not next to the house, Now the trees are
6'-8' and 3 out of 4 are full of fruit. If we have cold weather I mulch heavy and I would water heavy on the cold nights.
If my trees die back the rootstock is still Na Dai and hopefully will grow back. This is an experiment but I can't see the
advantage of planting a grafted sugar apple as apposed to a seedling? My understanding is that a tree grown from a seed
has a better root structure and is more cold tolerant. My sugar apples are full of fruit in 2 years and are pushing 8'. I have seeds
now if you want to try growing one from seed and see? If you want seeds PM me.
. Meanwhile I will keep it in container and protect it when winter here. I thought it takes 5 years plus for sugar apple seedling to bear fruit. Now I am thinking perhaps I should install a small greenhouse to speed up the process. Cuz my jackfruit tree also suffer from poor California weather. It grew only like 2 inches thus far this year. My tropical plants will love me 
From what I heard from a nursery owner in Southern California, na dai won't survive there. He said he's selling them because there's a big demand for them here. But he won't recommend them to me.Can suga apple such as na Dao or big red grow in Southern California without grafting on a root stoke? Can they survive Southern California winter?
What was the nursery owner's reasoning for saying it wouldn't survive in SoCal?
PI reading what you have said above I now have concerns about my "yellow" dragon fruit. I got these from a friend who I am sure said they were yellows (he gave me red as well). I looked up pics and see what you mean though. Bugger.
Does it take 30 days from bud to bloom and then another 30-35 days from bloom to ripened fruit ?
Yeah, S8 I gave it to a friend who doesn't garden. I go water their plants twice a year and they still get 5 fruits.
Please list your top 5 annonas...
So far just Rob and Mike answered the question of this topic
Hi,
I know Rob posted about how he freezes pollen. I employed his method and have some pollen in storage now. Thanks for the tips! Question on thawing the pollen (for Rob or anyone else that has done this successfully). Do you find you can remove pollen from freezer, use some, and then put the previously collected pollen back in the freezer again? I read some pollen can't live through multiple freeze cycles. So I'm wondering if I should freeze in small batches and use whatever I take out fully. Also, do you actually let it thaw at room temperature, or do you take it straight out of the freezer and hand pollinate? I have only stored pollen in the fridge, I didn't dry at all, and had success if using it 1-2 days later. Thanks!
- the leaves that were forming looked mostly healthy, some minor wind damage but not terrible. the dried tiny leaves looked to be at the end of a flush and i see that at the end of every growth cycle on my lychees.
- old hardened leaves in all the later pictures are browning. I suspect it is fertilizer burn or solute buildup. Were you flushing the soil regularly?
- what are those lack dots in the early pictures? i don't see them in the later pictures. i don't recall fungus being a major issue for lychees
In picture 4, the lychee is putting out some very nice new growths, which makes me think that it is getting enough water, it isn't too hot, and there is only mild wind. The old leaves getting burned like that looks like fertilizer burn. The tree also might have died back due to being repotted.
keep it watered, flush it out regularly. lychees don't mind wet feet, so adding a wick is optional.
also, do you have access to pine bark fines (or PB mulch?). I think you should consider making your own soil mix since it allow your plants to grow better (and its cheaper). You've got a lot of containers!
What kind of tree is it under?
. It's a challenge to find rain water this time of the year. Are you still giving the lychee fish fertilizer?
Yes. I fed all of my trees with liquid fish weekly in spring. I dont think I over did it. I mixed 2 tbsp per gal of water and I water like 3 plants per gal. all of my trees are looking healthier than ever except for this one.
do you have other lychee tree in container? if so they are healthy?
