The Tropical Fruit Forum

JF

where did you buy your soursop tree? and how much if u don't mind, I would like to have one in my back yard

thanks

Very nice VyVy, your trees look happy.  Is that an airlayer on your Barbados cherry?

good luck,
-Ethan

Ethan

I want to say no b/c it's embarrasing hihihi, yes it is, I am learing to airlayer, its been 3 weeks, I opened to check yesterday but no root yet, my family said it looks like a vietnamese ham (bo' gio`)


SWRancher

I bought this logan airlayer before I joined this forum. therefore I did not know tropical fruits have varieties, I just bought it b/c it was flowering, But for sure that has changed,  I am not the same any more, This forum has made me to become much more sophisticated when it comes to tropical fruits now. Next time I will have to find out what variety it is before purchasing it

Not much, hopefull in a few months I will have more, especially after learning how to graft from the Socal grafting party

Atemoya (Israel/Australian)



june plum



fuji apple



lychee



sugar apple (Thai lessard)



recently purchased Cherimoya for grafting



logan




green tea



barbados cherry



not sure what to call this (some kind of guave)



today's purchase from Scala nursery
Sour star fruit, Hawaiian papaya and Meiwa



one of my favorite jasmin (Madagascar jasmin)

Hi VyVy, welcome! You have 4 sugar apples and no cherimoya? Don't worry. That can be fixed really soon. We have lots of good cherimoya around here.

You can also try attending a local CRFG meeting in your area for more in-person interactions if you aren't already. There are chapters in Riverside, San Diego, Orange County, South Bay, West LA, San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, and I believe Santa Barbara as well.

fyliu

I missed all these posts
What's CRFG?

as for Cherimoya, I was never interested, until very recently I learned of it's usage for grafting atemoya & sugar apple
luckily I threw some seed in the back yard and they are actually growing, I also bought a few last week, but they are too small for their job at this time. Therefore I will sit back and wait until they are old enough for me to experiment grafting techniques, meanwhile I will try to acquire as much knowledge as I can, so when the time is right, I will get my hands on immediately

and thank you for arranging the grafting party this August, I can't wait

Does anyone have Avocado seedlings they can bring. Btw, the cherimoya seedlings are 2 years old. I should have 3-5 spare ones.

nullzero ---I will check with my friends, sometimes they offered avocado seedling to me but I don't like avocado therefore never took it, I will bring it if I find some by the time of the party

dnt72800---thank you for your explaination, I got an idea now

MMMMommy ---I have never grafted, or grown anything either, this will be the first time, it will be fun

Tim

don't quote me on this one
mang cau Do Thai (Atemoya) is the hybrid between cherimoya & sugar apple
mang cau Uc (australian) is very new to me, I havn't had a chance to try it yet, therefore I dont know

I have a few extra cherimoya seedlings that can be used for grafting. Not sure if it would be the best time to graft them.

nullzero

Are your cherimoya seedlings going to be used as root stock or scion?

thanks

Yes that was my intention. Everyone should learn to graft. It's not too difficult after the first couple of tries.

The other thing is if someone has plants, maybe we could try to graft something else onto them.

fyliu

if my sugar apple tree (thai lessard) can be used in any way, I would more than happy to contribute to this grafting party, It's small though, perhaps 1 1/2 year old, not sure if u can use it to graft yet. let me know

fyliu

please count me in
I will be available most weekends in August
in return the favor for teaching me how to graft
I will bring vietnamese Egg rolls to the grafting party

thank you for arranging this fyliu
you rock

Best time to graft these are right before dormancy breaks.  I've grafted all sizes.  Pencil sized is probably easiest to work with and cuts the nicest.

ohiojay

thank you for your reply
these terminologies are foreign language to me
Would you please explan when is "dormancy break "?

Thanks again

I would be more than happy to pay 20.00/mangosteen tree
if such price (20.00), I will buy 20 trees hihihihi

thank you Jackfruitwhisperer69 for the warm welcome

and hello everyone

I am very new to growing tropical fruit trees and gardening (started 6 months ago)
So far, I've got a few Sugar apples (trai na or mang cau ta), logan (nhan), lychee (trai vai), guavas (oi xa li), mexican lime (chanh me), calamondin (tac chua), atemoya(mang cau Do thai), june plum (coc' thai')

Since I grew up in a tropical country, they grew in me. I have a very deep passion for tropical fruits. Almost every other year, I went back to my country to eat fruits. I figured it's cheaper to grow them and eat here

There is so much I don't know about them, right now I want to learn grafting sugar apple to a cherimoya tree, since I was told Cherimoya root will do very well in Southern CA. This will be my first project and also that's how I found this forum

VyVy from Southern CA

Would someone please tell me what's the difference between sugar apple and custard apple ?

I know sugar apple
would custard apple be cherimoya ?

thanks