Author Topic: Any other members going to CRFG - F.O.F. in San Diego (Read 6461 times)

ScottR · « **on:** July 30, 2015, 11:45:40 AM »

Hi just wondering who I can meet a festival and other members going?

Rtreid · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2015, 01:09:43 PM »

I'll be there, looking forward to it!

Richard

fyliu · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2015, 07:16:22 PM »

I'll drive down on the Friday afternoon to pick up fertilizer from Escondido or Temecula, then stay at a friend's place for the weekend.

You guys want to trade anything?
Robert, do you want more lucuma scions? I got the tree moved to a sunny spot this year so that it might actually fruit.
Can I get some white sapote scions if you have extra?

simon_grow · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2015, 07:16:44 PM »

Does anyone have more information like what types of fruit are going to be there? I'm a member of CRFG but haven't gone to any meetings because my daughters keep me busy. Thanks,

Simon

fyliu · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2015, 07:36:53 PM »

It's a drought tolerant fruit theme this year, so cactuses and other lower water fruits like feijoa and pomegranate. You can go to the website to see the list of speakers. Festivaloffruit.com

simon_grow · « **Reply #5 on:** July 30, 2015, 08:08:13 PM »

Thanks Fang!

Simon

ScottR · « **Reply #6 on:** August 12, 2015, 11:32:17 AM »

Wife and I had great time at F.O.F. in San Diego and I was able to meet Fang and his wife it was a pleasure to talk with you Fang let me know if you need anything soon!

NewGen · « **Reply #7 on:** August 12, 2015, 12:47:56 PM »

Quote from: fyliu on July 30, 2015, 07:36:53 PM

It's a drought tolerant fruit theme this year, so cactuses and other lower water fruits like feijoa and pomegranate. You can go to the website to see the list of speakers. Festivaloffruit.com

What is the correct web address?
I tried both www.festivaloffruit.com, and www.festivaloffruits.com. Neither one works.
Thanks,

BrianL · « **Reply #8 on:** August 12, 2015, 02:43:41 PM »

Didn't see this because I was traveling. I think I met Richard when I got some Garcinias and other stuff frmo a booth. Over all it was a cool event.

ricshaw · « **Reply #9 on:** August 12, 2015, 03:29:45 PM »

Quote from: NewGen on August 12, 2015, 12:47:56 PM

What is the correct web address?
I tried both www.festivaloffruit.com, and www.festivaloffruits.com. Neither one works.
Thanks,

A little late... I GOOGLED "crfg festival of fruit 2015" and got:

http://www.festivaloffruit.org/

Rtreid · « **Reply #10 on:** August 12, 2015, 05:13:23 PM »

Quote from: BrianL on August 12, 2015, 02:43:41 PM

Didn't see this because I was traveling. I think I met Richard when I got some Garcinias and other stuff frmo a booth. Over all it was a cool event.

That was me. good luck with the plants!

CHeers,
Richard

BestDay · « **Reply #11 on:** August 12, 2015, 11:42:27 PM »

I wanted to go and had planned on going for months but I ended up being sick. Bummer.

Brianl, what type of garcinias did you get and what types where available? How was the plant market. I was looking forward to roaming around that.

Bill

BrianL · « **Reply #12 on:** August 13, 2015, 12:59:54 AM »

I got Lucs and Achachairu. There was another I saw. Was a nice selection although a lot was gone by the time I showed up..

fyliu · « **Reply #13 on:** August 13, 2015, 01:19:08 AM »

When I got there at 9am, all I saw were people carrying 5 gallon pots with cactus cuttings in them. Those were the last of them. There were some other sellers with interesting plants such as different varieties of vanilla orchids, cashew, and chestnut.

The marketplace was the biggest I've seen for FoF. The other one I went to was Arizona. I didn't have time to visit the marketplace that time.

It's great to finally meet Robert. I didn't want to talk to the people from LA so much since I see them often. I did end up talking to Glen Woodmansee for a while about airlayering tricks. Probably should have saved that till next month. This coming weekend, I will graft some of the feijoa scions he brought to the festival. Hope they will survive triple-digit temperatures. Saving some for later if they don't.

barath · « **Reply #14 on:** August 13, 2015, 01:24:17 AM »

Brian -- you're in the Diablo Valley, right? Ashok mentioned you were headed down and were looking for Muntingia. I'm growing it, and can propagate more if you didn't manage to find out. Also, if you're interested, I have a bunch of Garcinias right now (they're small).

ScottR · « **Reply #15 on:** August 13, 2015, 11:16:41 AM »

Quote from: Rtreid on August 12, 2015, 05:13:23 PM

Quote from: BrianL on August 12, 2015, 02:43:41 PM
Didn't see this because I was traveling. I think I met Richard when I got some Garcinias and other stuff frmo a booth. Over all it was a cool event.

That was me. good luck with the plants!

CHeers,
Richard
Oh Richard, I bought 4-small Jabo's from you but didn't really get chance to talk with you as I was behind Steve Murreys' huge buy!
Appreciate all the cultivars I was able to pick up from you Thanks

BestDay · « **Reply #16 on:** August 13, 2015, 04:58:10 PM »

Fyliu, how was the Faijoa presentation. I really wanted to go to that one. Where there certain varieties he recommended?

Bill

fyliu · « **Reply #17 on:** August 13, 2015, 07:10:06 PM »

For feijoa, Glen still has some plants leftover from his imports from New Zealand to sell. They're larger now. I think he hasn't recouped back the over 1k he lost from the failed import. I would buy one from him if I had more land.

From the slides, the triumph he imported looks very good. Lots of jelly. That's what I look for. But he also likes Marjane, which didn't look like there's much jelly but he said it's pretty sweet.

There's a lot of seedling selling going on and Triumph is the worse. You really have to know the source of that variety to get what you think you're getting.

He also donated his varieties to the Huntington, so it now has the largest collection either outside New Zealand or in the world.

Now that nazameth is not propagated by LaVerne for home depot anymore, there's really nowhere to find good varieties other than what Glen brought in. Nazemeth was a good one. LaVerne still does Coolidgei and calls it Coolidge, which it's not. I forgot what was said about that one. The tree I got from HD does not want to fruit at all. But my graft of Apollo was only on a small twig and now has 3 fruits hanging.

BestDay · « **Reply #18 on:** August 14, 2015, 10:02:08 AM »

Why did La Verne stop propagating nazameth? I thought it was the better tasting of the two they propagated. I bought it but not Coolidge based on people saying the Coolidge wasn't very good.

It sounds like I will have to contact him and see what varieties he has available. I've found, like you said, that the grafted varieties are hard to find.

Bill

fyliu · « **Reply #19 on:** August 14, 2015, 10:47:48 AM »

I forgot to say there are local varieties as well but they are still hard to find. Lickver's pride, King, and Nazameth are from CRFG members. San Diego Botanical garden has about 5 varieties but all of the labelled ones don't taste very good. There's an unlabelled tree that's better than the rest.

I'm not sure why LaVerne doesn't do Nazemeth anymore. Yes, it is the better one but I didn't know and bought the other one. Now it's a rootstock for grafting since it doesn't produce for me.

barath · « **Reply #20 on:** August 14, 2015, 11:34:47 AM »

I think Exotica carries a lot of different pineapple guava varieties -- I remember something like 10 different varieties when I was there. (I don't know how they do their propagation, though.)

fyliu · « **Reply #21 on:** August 14, 2015, 02:39:21 PM »

That's great. I wanted to but didn't have time to visit Exotica this time.

BrianL · « **Reply #22 on:** August 14, 2015, 03:41:05 PM »

There's a guy up in NorCal Mark Albert which has some very good Feijoa selections. he sometimes shows up at the scion exchanges.

BestDay · « **Reply #23 on:** August 14, 2015, 06:20:02 PM »

All of Exotica's feijoas are seedlings except for the Nakitas. The Nakitas are grafted but $75 each.

Bill

BestDay · « **Reply #24 on:** August 14, 2015, 06:23:55 PM »

I have heard very good things about Lickvers Pride. I would love to get one. Does anyone know where I could get one?

Bill

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