The Tropical Fruit Forum

The information is probably on here somewhere but I thought it quicker to ask. Has anyone tried and succeeded with grafting soursop onto Rollinia rootstock? I had a couple of spare scions and it was either try it or waste them.

Must admit I can’t make out the black Sapote issue from the photo, their stems do turn from green to quite dark naturally. My guess with the Jackfruit is just a bit chilly, my small plants don’t love winter, should start to pick up with the warmer weather

Is the seedless variety out there and available somewhere Mike?

Ulfr do you know much about the quality of fruit that Red Ball produces? I believe they get to a reasonable size as well

That’s nice growth Rob, mine is about 5’ with a 2” trunk. Pretty looking tree

Cheers Rob, looks like I have at least a couple of years to wait

Cheers for the overview Mike, it had been quite puzzling to me (still is) but all least I have some context to understand it in. I have a recently grafted Orange Sherbet which is suffering some fungal disease while my other 3 (KP derivatives) are fine and thriving. It will be interesting to watch how things progress

I’m sure there is some history explaining this but with all the talk of great mangos, Kensington Pride gets no mention. Does it not grow well in the USA?

Yeah John Picone has a large fruiting tree inside his netted area just outside Byron Bay Northern NSW

I have had good success with grafting generally but have had no luck with my limited attempts with Jackfruit and Starapple. I am wondering if it is due to the excess sap when I cut them ? My Canistels and Ross plants grafted well with plenty of white sap though, any ideas/tips are welcome as I will be trying again in a few months

I keep mine to about 12-14 feet. It is a seedling and vigorous grower but my yard isn’t large so I have to control size. The difficulty with this tree is that it is setting some of its fruit while some of previous crop is still maturing, My method is to prune back branches once I have harvested fruit from branch extremitys. If no fruit on a branch I cut it back early, some I cut back close to the fruit, occasionally I sacrifice fruit high up to control height. I still get plenty of fruit with this approach, about 80 fruit this season with the biggest 1.2kg

I have heard that cincturing can help control size, but on the small experiments I have done have seen little evidence of this.

With my yellow megalanthus they taste good from 40% yellow to fully yellow.