The Tropical Fruit Forum

New to annona grafting, can you graft sugar apple onto cherimoya rootstock?....Thanks!!!

Hello, how long does it take for jaboticaba seeds to germinate?...

If you are looking for some rare avocados Louies Nursery in Riverside just got a bunch today. I came by just to see what they have and lucky enough new shipment of rare avocados have just arrived. I met a few avocado lover coming from distance to buy avocados..I got me my reed and queen avocado..I took picture of the tag of some of the rare avocados you don't usually see.

Hello guys have not post here in awhile due too a busy schedule. Did a very hard pruning on all my mango tree. You will notice that mango on manila rootstock tends to grow taller than florida brought trees.

Ewais mango (Got this from Roger Myers 4years ago)


Gold Nugget


Alphonso


Coconut cream


Glenn Mango

Ordered a few trees from POT a choc anon and nam doc mai#4.I have only dealt with POT and he never disappoint.Choc anon is about 7.5ft tall and nam doc mai about 4.5ft tall with nice size trunk on both of them.No broken branches and great trees from POG.Here is a few pics:
Choc Anon Trunk:



Nam Doc Mai#4:

Hello guys, haven't posted in awhile but here is some of my mangoes trees.With no winter at all, the mangoes is flushing and producing fruit.Here is my Glenn, Ewais, Alphonso, Pickering, Keitt, & Gold Nugget.

I have been harvesting my african pride atemoya since last month and today I harvested my 4-5lb atemoya.My 2-3lb atemoya has been giving me an average of 4 seeds per fruit.Is this normal on Atemoya fruit.I will see how many seeds my 5lb fruit has once it's riped.

Here are some of my fruit trees with fruits during fall season that will be harvested during fall and winter months.
Starfruit has about 50+ fruit on it of different size and still flowering.






Honeyhart cherimoyas have been ripening, ate about 8 fruits so far.



White cherimoyas


African Pride Atemoyas should be ripen late January.



Hass Avocado



Sapodilla (Chico)-Alano starting to produce little fruits.This fruit will not be ready till late summer or early fall.



Honey Tangerine will be ready after Christmas.

Here is my Sri Kembengan tree starting to flower and produce. Here is a few pics..

Anybody growing Carrie Mango in So.Cali and having a second set of fruits?...FYI my Carrie Mango has been on the ground since 2009. Last year it had about 8 fruit set and this year it has 6 fruits set about half the size of a coke can and now it is setting fruits again and having growth flush at the same time.
Here is a few pics...

I will be travelling to Orlando on the week of July 14-22nd for my son's AAU basketball being held in Cocoa Beach, Fl. anybody know where I can buy fresh fruit or a local nursery near Cocoa Beach or surrounding area.I am trying to bring some plants home back in Los Angeles to put on the luggage.
THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is my  cherimoya "Honeyheart" this tree is always pruned in the month of April every year since it was bought, the tree is 6.5 feet tall and carrying about 75-100 hand pollinated fruitlets at this time.

Here is a pic of the female flowers.This is the perfect time to pollinate the female flowers.Here in my area I usually pollinate early morning between 6-8am or early evening 5-7pm.You will have low success rate if you pollinte mid afternoon.One main reason I prune heavily is height reduction and flower production.Flower production is very important
 because at any given time there is always a male flower,all you need is 1 male flower to pollinate about a dozen female flower.

In about 7 days you will be able to tell if you have sucessfully pollinated a female flower.The petals instead of falling will stick to the tiny fruitlet for another week instead.

Here is little fruits developing.



I will post pics of my Atemoya later this evening...

Pickering or Fairchild mango?.....