The Tropical Fruit Forum

We have a third set of Santa Ana’s coming through.  Hang in there Brad!

Pinkturtle,
That’s pretty late to get these crystal guavas.  I harvested all my crystals in September/October because squirrels started to raid the fruit.  Yes, they are not completely seedless (less than 15...I counted once) but are virtually seedless, as I can eat the whole fruit without getting annoyed by them. I read somewhere that the seed count can increase if pollinated by a nearby tree of another (seedy) variety.
I did notice that yours had a cavity.  The ones I’ve grown don’t have this cavity.
Hope you like them.  Even though not as sweet, I like eating them when crunchy.

I guess we should ask Rob...do you think this is sooty mold or anthracnose?
I thought it was sooty mold.  I’m kind of embarrassed to say that when I received trees from Florida with this condition, I actually carefully used diluted bleach and a small brush to scrub off the black sooty mold....I’m probably lucky I didn’t kill my mango treeS doing this.

It looks like sooty mold on stem and branches , common for trees coming from Florida.

This an atemoya?  What else can you tell us about it?

From another post:
http://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=10756.0

Bombay is mono.   Sometimes you will get multiple sprouts from the single seed.  If you were to dig the seed up, you would see that the Bombay seed has no separate embryo sections.

Buttercream was reported as poly...but I only see one sprout.

Unfortunately, buying a Glenn seedling is NOT really recommended since Glenn is a monoembrionic (Resulting seedling not being identical to parent) variety and any seedling will be a new variety (could be worse or better, but likely worse).
Buying a LZ seedling comes with a good chance that it will be true to type since LZ is polyembrionic (yields 1 zygote and the rest clones).
Peach Cobbler is monoembrionic, so any seedling of Peach Cobbler will NOT be identical to its parent.

In general, the planted (in ground) seedling will grow fairly strong, often better than grafted varieties on turpentine rootstock. Contrary to what the seller said, although it may fruit in year 2...it is better if you wait a year longer and sometimes more.  Fruiting while the tree is young will stunt the trees growth and may even kill it.

That’s wild Brad.  Kind of creepy too.

A friend informed me that he has a similar guava that he got from a Taiwanese nurseryman, but couldn’t tell me the variety name either. 

I would also like to know how Orange Sherbet, Orange Essence, Seacrest and other newer Zill varieties perform here in SoCal. I don’t have the real Orange Sherbet but I do have multiple Orange Sherbet seedlings.

From one of my Orange Sherbet seeds, I got two sprouts. I grafted scions from each seedling onto my double rootstock  multigraft potted mango tree and one of the OS seedlings flowered this year. This is just an OS seedling, I don’t know if this is a clone or not, but whatever it is, the blooms were not affected by Powdery Mildew and it set a fruit. I just removed the fruit yesterday and the sap smells just like Orange Sherbet fruit turpenes. Here’s a picture of the fruit before I removed it. You can see how small the scion is.



Simon

Simon,
For in ground trees...
Seacrest on turpentine is a vigorous tree in SoCal.  Even more vigorous than Seacrest is Ambrosia on turpentine.  Can’t comment on Orange Sherbert....but I did lose an in-ground tiny OS, but not sure why.
Still waiting 1 more year before fruiting.

Hello All,

I have been calling Pioneer cash and carry in Artesia all day looking for Indian Mango.  Does anyone know if they are currently carrying any?  I want to buy some

Yes.  They were there last weekend at the larger store on 183rd street.  Alphonso, Banganpali, and Rajapuri for $35/box.