The Tropical Fruit Forum

Bump. Thought I would try again to see if anyone has any seeds for sale

3rd year Suebelle from Lowes.. the tree has grown a lot and plenty of fruit this year.. the pictures of bigger fruit was last year.. the first fruit picture is this one..

so don't give up.. it's possible .. good luck bought mine for about $30 I think..



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Nice. That thing has exploded in only 3 years.

The Suebelle I bought from Mimosa was in horrible condition. There wasn't a single healthy leaf on it. I was a little upset at the driver for picking such a poor specimen but he said they told him that was the last Suebelle left. The Vernon was in great shape. Both were a little over 2 feet above the pot and both were fruiting already. The Suebelle has since recovered beautifully in the ground and is getting bushy and a little taller. The Vernon has done the opposite, it's shooting straight up and has gained over a foot in 10 weeks. They probably would have grown more but they are under 50% shade cloth in anticipation of the super hot weather that hasn't shown up yet except for a couple of days.

A lot of people tell me that Sebelle isn't a great White Sapote.  Maybe go for Vernon, Walton, Rainbow, Malibu 3, or something else.

You can probably have one cheap if you plant a seed and just graft in a year.

What attracted me to Suebelle is, isn't it known to fruit throughout most of the year if the climate is right?

Well, if anybody has a confirmed sighting of a suebelle for 35 dollars let me know. I was just not in a mood to pay 75 for the tree that day.

Here, I found the text he sent me when he picked them up. Use this if you go there again

The Suebelle and Vernon white sapotes at Mimosa in LA are $40 for a 5 gallon

I have always heard Sapodilla is an excellent coastal tree that can withstand salt spray and high salinity in the soil.

I'm new to the (sub)tropical fruit tree game. So I would like some help identifying this fruiting annona in one of the hottest and driest areas in the nation.

There's this farmer in Thermal, CA (named "Thermal" for a reason) that has an unidentified annona that happens to be fruiting for the first time I have seen in the 3 years I have been observing it. It receives no special attention other than having a drip line run across it. It has no protection against the sun, wind or cold other than being up against a moringa tree. The moringa trees always have a severe die back during the winter but shoot out like a cannon once it reaches 100 degrees like it did in late March. The farmer has used propane heaters in the past to protect the Moringas in winter but the coldest it got this year was 28 degrees and used nothing this mild winter. It has seen temps between 24 degrees and 125 degrees.

What's more amazing is that it has managed to fruit despite being assaulted by hot, dry winds the last 3 weeks. It was a mild 100 degrees today but it was 107 last week. The winds have taken their toll though, I noticed several small fruits on the ground as well as some small ones on the tree that look like they are about ready to fall.

If this tree was in the city, like in Palm Springs or Indio instead of out in the open wind swept country, I have no doubt it would have held on to more fruit.

Can someone help me identify it?

In LA around the main produce market you can get used RPCs like that for a buck and change a piece at the box and crate companies. You can also find dozens of the flimsy black plastic crates for free sitting around the dumpsters at produce companies.

Call the smaller used box and crate companies around the wholesale produce hub in Miami if you need a lot.

But if you need literally just a "few". Every Kroger owned store, Safeway and Walmart has these laying around. They are supposed to be sent back to be cleaned and reused but if you are nice to the person in the produce section they might just bring out a few to you.

Hmm, yah salt would not be a good thing for mangoes. Pretty weird. I had never heard of that before.

My question was does the wood of the salt cedar have salt in it. I know they are incredibly salt tolerant but don't know if the wood absorbs the salt.

Landscaping company dumped about 20 loads so far of woodchips at our ranch. The farmers that rent the back plan to work it into their field and "pave" the sideroad. The wood chips look really nice, hardly any dirt or leaves, so I was thinking of mulching some of my trees with it. But it looks like the chips are mostly from tamarisk trees, salt cedars.

Is the wood from these trees salty, like their name suggests? I know mangoes are salt sensitive, so it's probably a bad idea to use the mulch for them right? Would you use tamarisk mulch on either guavas or bananas? How about if I let it age a few months in the 100 degree heat, would that affect the salinity?

Thanks for the advice. I'll try a month from now. Is it true that Suebelles can continue to produce fruit for up to 6 months?

I still have my original plant and it too nearly bit the dust.  Got to a really nice size and produced hundreds of berries.  One year, it started dying back bit by bit to the point where there was nothing left but 8 inches of trunk.  No branches.  No leaves.  My wife kept saying "It's dead".  But it was still green beneath the bark.  Stayed that way for nearly 2 years.  Then one day it started coming out of its funk.  Not quite as large a canopy as before but still very nice.  So unless it is dead dead for sure, don't give up!

2 years? Maybe I shouldn't have given up on mine. I had a small miracle fruit tree shipped to me. Looked in great shape when it arrived. I quickly transplanted it. It stayed in the same condition for 3 months. But during the next 3 months the leaves became powdery, then shriveled up and died. It was still bright green beneath the bark though. I continued to water it occasionally for the next 6 months. It remained a leafless but was still green beneath the bark the entire time. I finally grew frustrated and pulled it from the soil and placed the roots in a container of water for a month. No change, no growth, still green beneath bark. So I tossed it.

Maybe I should have given it another year.