My first banana rack from a set of unknown pups I got from a family friend, most likely Williams or bluefield.


My dragon fruit flowers a few months ago, I got two variety's, a large type and a smaller type fruit.


The larger type fruit, must weigh close to two pounds! showing some color a few days ago.


Took this pic today, fruit is really taking on some nice coloring! Any ideas on when its gonna be ready for picking?



Side view of the trellis. I got 4 other fruit that are younger then my almost mature fruit. the two fruit on the far left growing next to each other are the smaller type.



Got one more flower that just opened, I usually pollinate them, but I discovered my larger type is a self pollinator. I tried cross pollinating the two in hopes of getting some kind of hybrid.


Heres a pic of an air layered mango from an unknown tree, I decided to turn it into a cocktail tree, I got three local varieties grafted on.


this graft is a Gouveia Mango, it started budding about 2 weeks after grafting, its showing signs of nice callusing.


This is a R2E2 mango, same as the gouveia, started budding within 2 weeks after grafting, today marks 4 weeks after grafting. The third is a Mapulehu Mango (pic not included) but it has not budded yet, but scion is still green so im keeping my fingers crossed! This is my FIRST attempt at grafting mango and im very happy with results!


That's all for now, ill keep you guys posted on the df and how my grafts are taking... Aloha
ps. click on the pictures to see it better, my mistake for them being small!

Mike - do you know why Carrie has those watermelonny strips on the fruit?
Just so unique.....


Gary

Looks like athraconse, but from what I've seen, athraconse appear as black dots or clusters.

Oscar, is this the same fungus/rust that affected all the rose apple trees here in Hawaii? Hopefully it's treatable because I hate to see my fast and large mountain apple die...

5 of my dragon fruit flowers opened last night, I usually just hand pollinate them since there are no bees. This morning the flowers were closing already, and out of nowhere some bees appeared and started going into the flowers. Are the flowers still able to be pollinated at this time or is the usual "10 @ night" the only time when the pollination can take place?

Looks like loquat fruit, but the leaves don't quite match. Is there any chance another photo of the foliage can be provided? Mahalo

Aloha all you hawaii guys, I am looking for a few scions of the Rapoza and Mapulehu varieties which will be used to do a cocktail style grafted tree. I do have to mention that the bud wood will have to be about the circumference of a pencil/maybe a little larger, since my branches are fairly small. Pm if you have some available. Mahalo ~ Brennan

Went to my local farmers market the other day and picked up a 17 pound jack fruit for about 19 bucks. The jack was perfect ripe. Got home I opened that bad boy up and was delighted by the strong aroma of bananas and pineapple. The flesh was somewhat crunchy and soft (yellow fleshed) and tasted very good. The funny thing was, the after taste was very interesting. I could taste durian very slightly after each bite (I love durian). I wish I knew the cultivar name of that fruit, but I kept seeds and will try growing them. I finished half of the jack by myself in 2 days!!! Haha So about the dragon fruit tea, after I ate some df that I got, I dried out the skins for about 4 days and made a really nice purple tea this evening. To be honest there isn't much taste so I added a nice healthy serving of organic honey (produced on the farm I work on in the big island). I read somewhere when you make a tea, it realizes more antioxidants and vitamins out of the skin? Well not to sure but I'll say it's quite delightful.

Just an update... Maui is getting battered by 65 mph winds and rain that is coming down by the tons. Thunder and lightening can be heard and seen off in the distance. So far non of my trees were hurt. But they are really taking a beating by this wind! Woke up at 6 to stake every tree in the yard including newly planted trees. Keeping my fingers crossed 

Hang a rotten fish on your tree  attracting the insects like flies which also share a big part in pollination for fruit trees.

Aloha all you hawaii guys,

I am looking for some trees of the garcinia sp. I've got garcinia mangostana already and I'm looking for any other species. Preferably seedlings that are about 12-36" tall. Please pm me if you have trees available. Mahalo

Definitely not my farm hahaha. I wish to visit his nursery some day, to see the biggest exotic fruit collection in Hawaii would take my breath away...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpJAuiOrqJ4