Plinia trunciflora first flowering

[Vernmented]

Grafted October 2017.

Topworked a non fruiting Sabara.

First flowers showed up on the rootstock and just noticed the trunciflora flowers. Very excited. I haven't tasted these before. I got the scions from Phelipe Castro out in California.

[Veggieman01]

josh was the very first person i sold scions to a year ago. woot woot woot woot congrats brother!!!!!!!!! i been giving out scions to friends in california like mad cause i am moving to FL and want this tree genetics to live on.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

what are you using as fert??  unicorn urine? 

why mine still no flower after like 6y?   

(but i did see my friend's tree that I grafted about 6y ago, start to finally flower...a small, but nice trunciflora about 4ft tall with 3inch caliper, about to bust out with flowers all over...not something u see every day)

[Coach62]

Came across this interesting article on it a while back.

https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/catalog/5432707

[ScottR]

Wow, nice job Josh, looks like you used about 1/2" scions or so very impressive

[palologrower]

Hanapaa!  Great job!

[Vernmented]

Thanks guys. I kept it fertilized with azomite, mighty grow 4-3-4, sul-po-mag, potassium sulfate, gypsum, sulfur and consistently moist. I put in in ground in a large fertile mound about 5 months ago with heavy mulch. I have been filling my water tanks with well water and dropping the pH with sulfuric acid down to the low 6s/5s which I think converts the high levels of calcium carbonate into calcium sulfate.

There were some big fatty scions used.

[Vernmented]

[Veggieman01]

Any one needs scions PM me

[OCchris1]

PM sent Veggieman! Nice advertising  . Grrrrrrr8 job Josh! That's ridiculously good.

[FLnative]

(but i did see my friend's tree that I grafted about 6y ago, start to finally flower...a small, but nice trunciflora about 4ft tall with 3inch caliper, about to bust out with flowers all over...not something u see every day)

Adam, here is a picture mine from probably from the same batch. Your nice graft can still clearly be seen. It's the same height but with only a 1.5 " caliper. I'm encouraged that I might get flowers years sooner than I thought.


Great work Josh! Let us know how they taste.

[FlyingFoxFruits]

i just realized we are getting close to the 7r mark since grafting, so some should definitely start to put out blooms.

I'm still waiting on mine though.

(but i did see my friend's tree that I grafted about 6y ago, start to finally flower...a small, but nice trunciflora about 4ft tall with 3inch caliper, about to bust out with flowers all over...not something u see every day)

Adam, here is a picture mine from probably from the same batch. Your nice graft can still clearly be seen. It's the same height but with only a 1.5 " caliper. I'm encouraged that I might get flowers years sooner than I thought.


Great work Josh! Let us know how they taste.