Quote from: JF on August 08, 2016, 01:49:35 PM

Quote from: SocalKoop on August 08, 2016, 01:42:32 PM

Quote from: JF on August 08, 2016, 01:25:08 PM

You need to leave Orange County and go to a real city 😀

Lol, yeah.. but you know that Orange curtain is hard to get through without a good enough reason. 

How about Porto's ? Within walking distance from El Mambi 

Thanks, I'll check out El Mambi.

What's with Porto's? People from out of town keep telling me about it. I live within a few miles of the Burbank one and I don't really get it.

Same thing with Quenelle that people tell me about.

Porto's is to Heaven like a donut store is to purgatory.

There's Porto's... and then there are non-Porto places.  Are we clear? 

j/k    - they have REALLY yummy baked goods, Guava cheese Danish things are to die for.  Amazing cakes too...and  fried mashed potato balls stuffed with meat...

Damn you JF .. just when I think I'm over my addiction...  haha   

Nice! Where did you find these? Did you pick up a mamey? If so let us know how it was. Hard to find any decent tasting ones in our socal stores.

This jaboticaba was my first fruit plant I bought, which started my obsession. A little over 4 years later it's finally about to give me my first taste. An Unnamed variety I bought from Logees, a cutting that was about 6 inches tall when I got it. Unimpressive after all the posts I've read, but it has a special place in my collection.  Seeing it fruit feels great.

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Nice! What pollen did you use to pollinate?
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I don't hand pollinate a few neighbor's have unnamed white types, and I have one of those and a Tanzania orange. Figure the bugs are doing an OK job. 3 of 5 flowers look to have been pollinated.

Yes, and if I lived in a cleaner part of the world, I'd eat the animals that nibbled on my fruit too.

Kumquats sliced and dryed make a wonderful alternative to dried cranberries in salads.

PM Sent, Thanks! 

I've used willow water with some success in rooting cuttings.    I make it only with cut up young green willow twigs (young shoots contain high concentrations of IBA). I add handfuls to boiling water and let them brew for a day or 2..   Really hard to tell if it's been a benefit over just using a little out of the bottle rooting hormone, but it's sure cheaper if you willows growing handy nearby.  I've also used willow water to water recently rooted and potted plants (whether that really helped them grow more robust roots or it's just wishful thinking it's hard to tell. )

The active ingredient in aspirin is acetylsalicylic acid, which is synthetically made and I've heard is different from the Salicylic acid found in willow that it was modeled after. Plants use salicylic acid as a trigger to ramp up their immune system against fungus, bacteria, and viruses.  I've read sources saying using aspirin for plants can be toxic if not diluted greatly in water, but at the right amount can also trigger the plants to fend off disease the same way.  I've never used it.  Maybe someone here who has can add their 2 cents.

Hiya, revisiting this topic of interest to me.  Chris, Did you ever get around to visiting that lady in Orange? is her Caimato still alive? Did she ever get it to fruit?  Has anyone noticed if green or purple varieties have different growth characteristics or more cold tolerance?

I've heard others say Goldfinger may be the new staple sold in supermarkets if that happens. It's more disease resistant, handles cold better, and in my opinion tastes better.

The saps look fine, mine also get spots and the occasional sunburned leaves but fruits just fine.  Your wax jambu looks terrible. My black pearl likes well draining sandy soil but with some organic matter added. Personally if you just put it in I'd take it right back out and nurse it back to health in a pot you can bring indoors if it gets cold this winter. It looks too stressed to me to survive the coming cold unprotected. Maybe others here with more experience might have advise on recuperating it where it is in the ground in the few weeks we have before it gets really cold. You can always put it back in the ground next year when it's looking healthy and the weather is milder.

Very tasty! I'll look forward to larger crops. Bet it would make a great marmalade. Just a little sweet added to spicy bitter lime. This one will deserve a space in the ground.

I was surprised how small this plant was when it flowered.  First flowered when about 6 inches tall in spring.  These fruits were the results and have taken a long time to ripen. Good pollination rate, 4 for 6.  Plant is probably about 2 yrs old (I got it from Ethan last Sept).  Slow grower (at least for me).  It's in a 1 gal if that helps gage size.  It's about 8 inches tall and a little over a foot wide.  Berries are small, so I had a hard time focusing on them with my camera (phone).   I'm not quite sure how to gage ripeness, so I'll probably wait until this first reddish one falls off in my hand.