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Citrus General Discussion / Re: Smith Red Valencia
« on: October 20, 2017, 08:05:14 PM »
I've got a small one that's only been in the ground for a year and a half, but it's growing like a weed.  Very fast growing compared to my other varieties.

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Well, that's a shame.  It sounded so promising.  If you want to sell one of your grafted plants, I'm currently looking for one and some pitangatuba seeds/plants.  I'll be down in Orlando area in November.  Aren't you near that area?  Or did you move?

not a shame really, i had grafted back up trees, and they're doing great...i was able to keep the variety alive....

but I'm not selling either of my two back up trees, that would be foolish.

I stopped having customers visit my nursery, there's too much liability here, and honestly I don't have the patience to deal with most people in person...and my new dog Rex, is quick to scratch a visitor's car door.  :D

Gotcha...  Yeah.  Plants are much easier to deal with than people. 

I wasn't sure if your grafted plants were from your mother tree or another line. Well good thing you saved it.

Do you just do the big plant shows or mail order or did you stop selling all together?



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On my Sir Prize avocado that has started to look sick.  Notice the hole through the center of the branch.

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I see a tiny hole in the area of that dry sap. Looks like it was drilled by some sort of a borer. In that case, it could very well be Laurel Wilt.  Hopefully not, but it is a possibility.

Yeah.  There are a couple of spots like that in the pictures.  Just looking at the tree now and noticed another two spots with frass coming out, so there are some active borers on the tree.  Just not sure if they are Ambrosia beetles spreading Laurel Wilt. 

Apparently Laurel wilt was introduced to the US near this part of South Carolina, so I'm assuming the worst.  But I didn't know if I was over-looking something.  I don't have a lot of experience with avos. 

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Raul,

You have become our Indiana Jones of the tropical fruit world!




"Snakes...Why'd it have to be snakes?"

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Here's what the small Holiday Avocado that collapsed looks like.

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Three small avocado trees near each other all have small pinholes in the bark and two of the three have white stuff around the hole.  Is it laurel wilt?  One of the trees looked bad - darkened trunk and branches with leaves drooping.  A couple of days later, all the leaves turned brown above the graft and most of the trunk is black.

Let me know what you think. 

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Your favorite zone 8a plants?
« on: October 14, 2017, 12:14:56 PM »
Maybe it's just me, but my peaches and cherries are a pain.  They seem to require a lot of spraying and attention here.  They seem to be more problematic than plums, apples and pears.

Strawberries, watermelons (Charleston grey especially), and cantelopes are good easy producers here.

Most raspberries seem to struggle, but I think Heritage is supposed to do okay.  My Anne raspberries taste great, but they are still really small plants, especially compared to my monstrous blackberries.  I also have Glencoe purple raspberries struggling and not producing anything.

I have about 20 citrus plants, but they definitely need substantial protection.  A late March frost almost killed my smaller trees.  But I did get about 20 Valencia oranges last year. 

Believe it or not, my in-ground Glenn mango produced a fruit this year with protection of course.

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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Re: Your favorite zone 8a plants?
« on: October 13, 2017, 10:08:04 PM »
I'm in a 8a/8b border area. 

The best things I have going in my garden by far are the blackberries - PrimeArk45 variety is very vigorous, makes large fruit, and has the added bonus of a second small spread out Fall crop.  My son and I are going out a picking a few berries off one plant every morning and afternoon.  The PrimeArk Freedom variety doesn't seem to be producing a second crop, but it is thornless.

Bananas are good too with some protection.  My bananas are planted along a privacy fence.  Harvested 30 Orinoco bananas the other day.  They were good.  Dwarf Namwah and Raja Puri are flowering now, but it's probably too late in the year to ripen those fruit.

Lasr year, I had a possum purple passion fruit vine that grew from 2' or so when I planted it in the spring to about 16' wide by the fall.  Made about 80 fruit, but they didn't have enough time to ripen them all.  They were still good though.  I didn't protect it during the winter and lost it to a late frost, so I'm having to try again.  But seemed easy enough to grow and the fruits were really good.




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Temperate Fruit Discussion / Any Rec's for Persimmons and PawPaws?
« on: October 13, 2017, 09:41:54 PM »
Just did a fruit tasting with my kid's and they liked Persimmons.  We tried Fuyu, but I read that astringent types can have a better taste.  Does anyone have a variety they recommend?

Also, looking for recommendations on Pawpaw varieties.  There are quite a few.

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Well, that's a shame.  It sounded so promising.  If you want to sell one of your grafted plants, I'm currently looking for one and some pitangatuba seeds/plants.  I'll be down in Orlando area in November.  Aren't you near that area?  Or did you move?

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Hey Adam,
Could you give us an update on your container Rollinia?  Is it still doing well?  Did you ever graft any?

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Pawpaw fruits
« on: October 08, 2017, 11:05:02 AM »
Do you remember which trail they were off of?

http://www.southcarolinaparks.com/santee/sa-trails.aspx

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Red Spanish Pineapple Plants
« on: October 05, 2017, 08:31:26 PM »
There is a guy on ebay that's selling Red Spanish offsets if anyone is interested here is the link

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pineapple-Red-Spanish-offset-plant-collector-variety-/263094938283?hash=item3d41ae2aab:g:incAAOSwXcRZblwv

Looks like I got the last one.

What kind of soil and fertilizer are you using on those things?  They're huge!

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Pawpaw fruits
« on: October 01, 2017, 10:01:00 PM »
Santee state park not too far from Charleston has a lot of pawpaws growing near the lakefront visible from the hiking trails.
 It is a good long hike to the spots where they are though.
They seem to be the dominant understory tree in some spots, probably several acres in total of thriving mature trees.
Worth a look next Summer, maybe you can beat the raccoons to some fruit or at least pocket a few seeds....
I haven't seen pawpaws anywhere else in the South Carolina lowcountry. That far South you will probably need to grow them in heavy shade similar to the areas they grow in at the State park.
 I was shocked to see a forest of pawpaws beneath the taller trees, it was like being in Kentucky or Tennessee ....

Awesome!  I'll have to check it out.

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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Pawpaw fruits
« on: October 01, 2017, 08:55:01 PM »
Does anyone know when and where to get pawpaw fruits?  I'd like to try some before I invest the time and space for a few trees.  I would like to find a place that has a few different named varieties if I can.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Yellow fleshed Rambutan?
« on: September 30, 2017, 12:46:35 PM »
Its season was only in May and June. Maybe next year I can find some and post here.

Have you actually seen these before in person?  Have you tried them?  Or are you just going off of the article?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Yellow fleshed Rambutan?
« on: September 29, 2017, 08:47:47 PM »
What manner of dark magic is this?  I'm guessing Photoshop or a nice dose of Yellow#5 dye, but what do you think?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/chi_vu/2670327971/in/photostream

The guy claims "Wild rambutan bunch.  Picked from the forest of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park" and that they were sour.

I also saw a few images similar to this in some Vietnamese websites, but not much else. 

https://www.cooky.vn/blog/nguon-goc-va-nhung-dia-diem-co-the-tim-mua-chom-chom-ruot-vang-dang-gay-bao-cong-dong-nguoi-mua-3784

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Raul,
Could you tell us the climate of the area where these seeds are from?  Any idea what is the minimum temperature the plants will take?  Will they take high humidity?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Red Spanish Pineapple Plants
« on: September 17, 2017, 09:08:26 PM »
Put me down first on the list when you have Red Spanish and Cheese Pine pups to sell/trade.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Krasuey's Sapodilla
« on: September 15, 2017, 08:51:08 AM »
I have 2 big krasueies and they bear crop after crop and are nearly everbearing. I have sawp manila and they are good but not as good or productive as krasuey.I had a good size prolific and c55 but they were poorer in many respects and were chopped down. I tried fruit, and checked out the performance  from brown sugar, martin, ponderosa and about a dozen others from Kamerunga Research Station and each of them was either too gritty, unproductive, of poorer taste in my opinion than sawo or krasuey.The krasueys at the momemt have had ripe fruit falling for over 3 months and have fruit at all sizes and there are flowers on as well.

Mike, Your few posts were about the only info I could find on Krasuey.  Could you tell us a little more about it - taste, tree size, fruit shape, etc.?  Do you have any pictures?


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Krasuey's Sapodilla
« on: September 15, 2017, 08:48:28 AM »
I've seen a few posts from Australia saying it is everbearing, sweet, and much better than Sao Manilla, etc.

Do you guys have any info on Krasuey's Sapodilla?  Anybody have it?



-Sonny
I have it. No Krasuey is not everbearing, at least not here. I would not say it is much better than Sao Manila.

Oscar, Can you tell us the difference between the two in your experience?  And how do they compare to the more readily available varieties (Silas Woods, Alano, Makok, etc.)?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Krasuey's Sapodilla
« on: September 14, 2017, 08:59:22 PM »
I've seen a few posts from Australia saying it is everbearing, sweet, and much better than Sao Manilla, etc.

Do you guys have any info on Krasuey's Sapodilla?  Anybody have it?



-Sonny

I have read it's from Thailand, that's about it. The supplier here hasn't had it in a while that I know of, would love to find someone with one in their backyard. There are a few weirdly named cultivars here and I wonder if they are just what you have overseas but has been renamed (sad that it happens but true). I have 'tropical' and I can't find much on it either. Pretty much the worst variety name to search for.... 'tropical sapodilla' haha.

I thought the same thing.  Is it similar to Silas Woods then?  How big and what shape are the fruit on Krasuey's?

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Krasuey's Sapodilla
« on: September 14, 2017, 12:38:20 PM »
I've seen a few posts from Australia saying it is everbearing, sweet, and much better than Sao Manilla, etc.

Do you guys have any info on Krasuey's Sapodilla?  Anybody have it?



-Sonny

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Citrus Buy, Sell, & Trade / Re: Looking for rare limes
« on: September 04, 2017, 01:31:08 PM »
Millet,
Just wanted to let you know I was able to get a winged lime and xie shan grafted up successfully.  It took a bunch of tries since I am still new to grafting, but I did end up with one of each.

Thanks Again,
Sonny

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