I ate a prematurely ripe small sized fruit from my pineapple patch this morning which was from a store bought top. It was DELICIOUS, but the flavor was most intense on one end. I didn't cut it so I don't know... Which end is likely to be sweetest? The top or Bottom of the fruit?

Pineapple guava (Feijoa)

Did you put multiple grafts on one single shoot, or one graft per shoot?

I'm not wanting to decapitate the tree to cleft graft it, I want to put 2 or 3 on the tree main trunk with veneer grafts, and I worry I'd kill the tree if I do it wrong.

I want a half dozen scions from a Holiday (1st choice) or Wurtz (2nd choice) avocados. If anyone has some available in south Florida I can pick them up and pay in person.

This is probably the only method that really works on them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q

Nah, needle nose pliers really cuts down on their population. I must admit when I catch a pair... well... pairing I have mixed feelings when they go crunch. Maybe not a bad way to go eh :-)

To answer your question yes, fruit you grow tastes better than store bought, likely because the stuff we grow cannot be found in stores :-) Jaboticaba are a long wait, but worth it.

Jeez, sorry to hear you're losing so many fruits, hopefully the largest ones will ripen and the rest left on the tree will hold.

We had a windy day and just had an "End of the World" rain / windstorm event and my Pickering (only has 6 full fruits), Madame Francis, and East Indian multi mango trees dropped zero fruit. My Julie seedling that I was fearing would break under the weight of the fruit lost maybe 15-20  but that's a good thing because I still may have to thin it ruthlessly.

Funny, my Gold nugget Jak dropped two immature fruits, but I have over 30 left on it.

"Oh, one more thing and the biggest, I have seen so many mango trees get stunted and lose their vigor when letting them fruit way too early which many have brought up on here! If that root system is not solidly in place, meaning little to no wiggle when you push on the trunk, I would wait to let it hold fruit!!!"

I'm thinking that the latter part of your comment regarding the root system just may be the larger issue.

I took a small cutting off of a 4' tall in ground mango and grafted it onto a 10 year old planted out tree with a 5"+ thick trunk late 2015, this year the canopy from the cutting is 8'x8' and fruiting nicely while the parent tree has not even flowered. They are in ground ~8' from each other and get identical care.

PS, my potted Ice Cream does not have any fungal issues either, it's holding onto two fruits and I am going to let it keep them.

Mine too. Also new leaves do not look happy.

The one I got from you is in a rather large (for its size) pot, is yours in ground or potted? Got a pic?

The more I read about waiting for trees to fruit, the more patient I get.

My Makok is in the ground since 3/2011, has not been pruned gets its share of water and fertilizer and every year it has fruited more, but I'm happy it's everbearing 12 months of the year, maybe only 1 or 2 fruit a week, but that's fine with me. I guess there are some 50 fruits on it now at every stage from just pollinated into a little fruit to picking size.

Anyway saveme, I'd give it another year or two with more water and fertilizer and maybe under plant it with another variety or have one standing by in a pot should you want to yank it later on.


 

Pickering is the easiest tree to take care of in all ways. It seldom has a problem and I have seen very little Anthracnose issues on my fruit without any fungicides. If you use minimal fungicides, those fruit stay perfect easily.

I kinda agree, so far.

I bought mine (named clubfoot due to the excessively large rootstock dwarfing the pickering graft) and it unknowingly to me then had anthracnose when I got it. I sprayed it and it hasn't had an issue again in 4+ years and I have not sprayed it. For that matter, my Julie seedling also arrived with anthracnose and other fungi  the same year I got clubfoot and it too has never had another problem without spraying it, thankfully it's FULL of fruit every year.
 
So far clubfoot has been shy about producing likely due to its diminutive size. This year I have 5 fruits on it and it's STILL only a bit over three feet tall.

If nothing else I love looking at the little guy when I come home.

Quote from: gnappi on May 14, 2017, 10:14:49 AM

Quote from: palmcity on May 14, 2017, 09:44:00 AM

This information is meant for people like myself who are willing to try new ideas and are willing to experiment and try to enjoy new foods and learn how to like a food that they once did not by simply preparing it differently. It is not meant to have people who like a Carrie Mango already with the piney taste mixed with the delicious orange flesh to rinse off the piney resin taste. It is also not meant for people like my relative to eat something that is psychologically repulsive to them with the thought of Honey equaling vomit.

Thank you Pug and Simon and the others who believe this information may be beneficial to some.

Please note on the thread if this helps you enjoy eating a Carrie if you are like myself and not fond of the piney resin in the skin and green areas surrounding the orange flesh.

And no I did not fall out of a tree, but maybe some palettes are more sophisticated than others. Which belongs to whom will remain a mystert.

So is your name now Clint?  If you look, it was directed at someone else who would know why I said what I said.
Some need to not think they know why everyone posts what they post.

Since you double quoted and I'm in there.. get used to comments about YOUR public posts. Whether you agree with responses or not is of no concern, they're open to interpretation and comments. IMO, anyone who wants veiled comments to those that target one person needs to PM them.

I tie trees to get them to grow more upright. If for any reason they grew tilted, I straighten them by tying them to a neighboring larger tree. I have a mango seedling that I had no clue was there. The PO planted it next to an avo and it grew nearly horizontally across the ground under the bushy canopy of the avo.

Over time I straightened it to where it's totally upright.