There is plenty of La Verne Manila rootstock all over CA. There is no reason to ship Turpentine rootstock tree's to CA , because it's a waste of time and money in everyones's experience.

The Exotica mango tree's are the result of 6 weeks in FL during Mango season and access to thousands of Mango's for seed. They were processed for seed in Florida 2014 and then sent and planted in CA in a big greenhouse. Some were then grafted.

USA Organic $1.50 pd. Keitt's

May I ask your approximate location and general planting conditions that make for good fruiting ,generally care free conditions ? I have a place to plant in Wayne county NC near a waterway and I'm wondering how good id do there. Thanks!

I have several trees, some from wild, but my favorite is Rebecca's Gold, which is large yellow fruit and matures earlier than my other trees' Fruits. I used to hand pollinate but didn't the past two seasons and still get more pawpaws than I can deal with for fresh eating or making preserves before having to give them away before they go bad. Out of all my fruit trees, paw paw is the easiest to care for; bug, disease, pest free fruit trees.

Plenty of times. Killed way more tree's in my climate this way than by under watering, mostly potted of course.
Leaving town is often the best thing I can do for my tree's.

What's going on here? This is not a boiled mango thread , we're in search of the real deal here!

Yes it's pruning time and most scion are "green" though some are more hardened off and I can send the size you prefer. Thanks

It's pruning time for my White Sapote tree's.
I have the following cultivars available for sale ($3 each) or trade (PM offers)
Minimum order of 6 scions please. I also have Cherimoya and Avocado scion available right now if you'd like to combine scion.
Cultivars available: Nettie, Pike, Cuccio, Santa Cruz, Denzer,

The Keitts are coming. They were early last year but it's usually September if memory serves me.

I've got seedlings from the same source and seed batch that have very different looking foliage and leaf size and growth habits. I assume this is the nature of planting Pitangatuba seeds. I think fruit and flavor will differ as well, just much variation in seedlings which has been previously mentioned.

 Rob,
That's wonderful your getting the good CA Moyas. I'm sure your in the know for where to get them shipped from . That does not mean good cherimoya is easily available in CA. I have seen CA Cherimoya for sale outside of a farmers market once, from South Coast Organics ,  you may have had some shipped from them.
It would still never be a named variety.
I'm pretty sure you can get Arctic Star from Frog Hollow or Kashiwase , maybe even Twin Girls farm. They have tasting tables of 8-10 varieties that are cirrently being harvested to sample at the markets .
It's like if Zills, Squam and Don mango sold their mango's at the same farmers market side by side but a different farmers market location 6 days a week.
There's also Andy's Orchard that may ship you some amazing stone fruit  varieties as well.
So it's stone fruit overload in Nor Cal at least but good luck finding a good Cherimoya in season, there's just not enough farms growing Cherimoya and some of them are only 1 acre.
I'd like to remember the commercial cherimoya acreage in CA that was stated at one of the cherimoya assoc. meetings , it's not huge though.

Quote from: Bush2Beach on August 10, 2017, 02:19:54 PM

Exactly, plant fruits that you love that are impossible to buy in the grocery store.
The grass is always greener on the other side but those stone fruits are easily available here.
It can be hard to find good Cherimoya in CA even you know someone , they're just not nearly as widely grown .

I have no problems getting the best moyas Cali has to offer, thats why I have been making these responses.

Really, tell me, where can you buy those Arctic Stars (just as one example)?  I have tasted a number of the better variety stones from you local farmer's markets and while better than in a grocery store, its no comparison to home grown (which I have also tasted).  There are certain top notch fruits available in terms of taste but you will never see them in stores due to undesirable characteristics for commercial marketing.  Oh. And yes, they are that good, as good as and some better than any mango or mo

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I've got nice grafted "Dream's", I'm not sure next time I'll be in your area but send me a pm of you want to coordinate and I can bring it next time , if you don't need it yesterday.

I recall the Heirloom festival edition happening now. The most recent HTFG and FOF colab was 2013 with the Cruise.
I totally agree about OC Chapter. They have the biggest plant sales, and member participation representing at fruit events far and wide that I have seen from all the chapters, plus the growing conditions and collections from people in that chapter are surely pretty amazing.
Santa Clara has one nursery that has semi interesting sub tropical fruit tree offerings and they are supplied by exotica . I don't think there's anyway the garden tours could be on the same level if we're talking cRfg. Location it's pretty central for the Nor Cal chapters and they have a good home base at Prusch Park. Maybe it will spurn someone to make that big Jaboticaba at Prusch Park beautiful with a haircut  , the central leader was topped and it's a sideshow bob bush .
All the work days are geared towards maintaining the Heritage Orchard of stone fruit , figs and the like with pruning and mulching. I've never heard of any work parties or seen any maintenance done on the Sub Tropical fruit orchard 
All the Sub Tropicals are pushing forward there but they could certainly be fruiting and living a lot better.

One of the SF Bay area chapters did do a joint one with the Heirloom Festival some years ago. There was also a joint one with HTFG in 2011. That one was good except with the Federal Government closure because of budget stalemate. We didn't get to see the Hilo USDA collection.

I would like to see the OC chapter put one on. I don't know when they last hosted one. I think they did a lot behind the scenes for things like the joint HTFG one so maybe they feel like 2011 was theirs. OC is a good location in the middle of SoCal. Santa Clara is probably good for up north.

Thank you sir! That's too bad. Santa Clara chapter has a chance to put on a good one.
This made me wonder about which CRFG chapters have hosted F.O.F. The most over the years and which chapters have never hosted.
What where people's favorite throughout the years .
Ive heard Monterey Bay has hosted before ,
I think it would be neat to coordinate and cross promote with another event like the heirloom festival or somethin like that . Especially in a year when there's not a ton of energy to create the event from the ground up .

Jonah, no festival this year no Chapter wanted to step up, next up in your neck of woods Santa Clara Chapter hosting 2018.