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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New atemoya tree!
« on: July 07, 2014, 03:08:29 PM »
Mangcau, do you know which kind of Atemoya trees, Mimosa Anaheim sells? I bought 2 from there, but I don't know the variety. Sorry, Osito, for hijacking your post.
Hi nch,
I talked to the owner of Mimosa Nursery in Anaheim last year.  He has only one Australian atemoya variety with unknown variety name. I think he doesn't has African Pride (from South Africa). 

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: New atemoya tree!
« on: July 07, 2014, 02:53:34 PM »

Picked this up at emily nursery yesterday. The lady highly recommend these trees which were all grafted there and simply named atemoya. She doesn't speak the greatest English so I couldn't get a cultivar name out of her. Has anyone else purchased one of these and have a slight idea of what they could be? The most I could get from her was she said it was an Australian variety but I don't know how concrete that is.

Hi Osito,
It could be Coochie Island or Lindstrom.  These are two types of Australian atemoya. Geffner is an Israel atemoya.

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: February 17, 2014, 11:20:58 PM »
This is the first time i've tried to grow dragon fruit. How do I cut the branches(?) that are growing out horizontally. If I try and force them vertical they will break.

Thanks,
Mike




Hi Mike,
If you rotate them 90 degree, they will break. But if you rotate them by smaller angles (such as 20 degree), they will be okay. First you just rotate them about 20 degree, and leave them like that for about a week, then next week you rotate them another 20 degree and so on...until they are in vertical position.  I am training my DF plants like this and they are all good.


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: February 15, 2014, 01:07:11 AM »
Anyone have info on the Lisa #4 dragon fruit?  The vine seems to be a lot thicker than the rest of the varieties.  I suspect this is more heat and cold tolerant?


Hi Xshen,
Lisa is a good cold hardiness and heat tolerance but not the best.  The best one is Valdivia Roja, next to it are Physical Graffiti and Halley's Comet. 
Please check this link:
http://edvaldivia.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=828

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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: February 14, 2014, 03:19:02 PM »
I read it is 10 pounds of plant weight, have no idea how to get them to flower earlier.

Hi Luisport,

You need about 3 years if you grow from a 2 ft- cutting, and about 5 years from a shorter cutting (like 10 inches).


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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Dragon Fruit thread.
« on: February 14, 2014, 02:58:12 PM »
Why do you have 12 different Dragon Fruit varieties?
Well i didn't have none, but start to buy or trade, and in few time i have all this diferent ones... but there are any problem?  ;)

No problem, just curious.

Do you plan to grow 12 different varieties of Dragon Fruit to maturity?

I am fairly new to growing Dragon Fruit. When I started, I collected every type of cutting I could get my hands on.
Eventually, it was time to repot some plants with trellis and start thinking about getting some fruit.
That is when I decided on which Dragon Fruit varieties I wanted to grow. Which is only 4 - 5 (two varieties with multiple plants, the others are pollinators).

I understand all about collecting. I have a collection of a dozen tropical clumping bamboo planted in my garden.
Yes i plan to select the best fruit varieties, but it's too early... only when they fruitify i can decide... my plan is to turn on a producer here... there are no dragonfruit production here in Portugal.

Hi ricshaw,
We need different varieties of DF for cross pollination.  Most of the colored dragon fruit plants (red, pink, and purple flesh) here in the U.S. are not self-fertile ( not self-fertile means that the plant will not set fruit with it's own pollen). So we need pollen from other varieties.

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