I have a small Carrie that I use for scion source to graft onto another tree. The graft has taken off and I am delighted with the fruit. I am giving away the 4 1/2' Carrie. It is healthy and in ground and must be dug up and carted away by the taker. Please no requests for shipping or delivery, it's not gonna happen.

I find it's normal for all trees. They'll hold fruit when they're able.

Thanks for the fruit Gary! Those were quite tasty!

I'm glad you liked them you deserved it driving all that way :-)

I like them squeezed and dropped into a glass of ice water. Afterward I eat the pulp.

My Gold Nugget jak is 10" + in diameter at the base of the trunk, I guess it is 20' tall and probably weighs over a ton.

I don't know if mine is typical jak but they for sure have to be pretty sturdy to support such BIG fruit.

There's a video or two of a fellow named hotboy "top working" guava. He uses two live seedlings with green and brown wood.

I think that trying to find a new cultivar with desirable taste and alternative growing conditions in the native zone of a tree is a great endeavor. So if it tastes poorly, give it a yank. If it did morph into a flavorful new cultivar we all win. This is how "new" mango are discovered, no?

If a reasonably flavorful annona that could live north into zone 12 with the characteristics below were found, WOW! that's a tree lots of people would like to have!

From the UF:

Common Names:  Pond Apple, Alligator Apple
Origin: Florida, the Bahamas, Caribbean, Central and South America, West Africa
U.S.D.A. Zone: 10A-12B (30°F Minimum)
Plant Type: Large shrub to medium-sized tree
Growth Rate: Moderate
Typical Dimensions:  30-40’ tall x 10-20’  wide
Leaf Persistence: Deciduous, semi-deciduous
Leaf Type: Simple
Flowering Months: Abundant in spring, but can be year-round
Light Requirements:  Medium, high
Salt Tolerance:  Moderate
Drought Tolerance:  Medium
Soil Requirements: Wide 
Nutritional Requirements: Low 
Environmental Concerns: Low   

You've taken the first step to being the next Axel Erlandson

Nah, I'm not trying to make odd trees, but trying to recover / restore a badly broken tree to an upright tree that will ultimately fruit as if it never broke in the first place.

I was going to pull it and get another from Mike but decided not to waste the 2 1/2 years of in ground growth I already have just to get a new upright tree.

The gap where the two new branches are not touching is and may always look a bit odd but nothing like Axel Erlandson's curiosities.

 

Today I removed the grafting tape, then the original tie wraps, and the grafts have taken. I put new tie wraps in new locations to continue holding the new grafts together. In another month I am going to remove the support wraps to let the grafts "fend for themselves" without any outside support.

I agree. When California was going through a bad drought, many farmlands ended up being dried up. I have always wondered why they don't install water desalination plants and provide dry farmlands fresh water?

That's easy, states do not want to fund commercial businesses, and farmers have not ponied up to fund water desalination.

If Global Warming and ice cap melt is going to make the seas less saline, wouldn't water redistribution make more sense than dumping fresh water in the ocean? Again... Nah, that takes money and forward thinking.

But... as far as water redistribution goes, 100 years ago States in many cases WITHOUT taxes built watershed systems in the U.S (N.Y started as early as 1910 before income taxes were levied in 1920) and now with horrific taxing districts milking us these same districts somehow cannot even afford to maintain what the ancients built :-)

That said, I see no reason why the government cannot add a few cents to the gas tax and build a water redistribution system... Nah forget it, coffee brewing makers can't even make a coffee pot that doesn't drip all over the place when you pour from it, I guess I should lower my expectations of  industry and Government.  :-)

The bottoms of the pineapples are definitely sweeter according to the Brix readings I've taken. Was your pineapple leaning over?

Simon

Yeah a bit, but the fruit was very yellow, and I figured I'd take it in before vermin got to it.

While fishing today I found a pond apple (A.Glabra) where I had never seen one before. It was beside a lake but high and dry, the first I've seen that I could actually examine closely without wading. All others I knew of were in very wet areas unreachable by a dry foot.

It was but 5 feet tall but had dozens of large fruit, one was ripening and the flesh was orange while the skin was smooth without the darker green markings like others on the same tree had. 

I took two fruit hoping they will ripen and I'm going to be visiting it to check on the fruit at the tree location and its flavor. I've read of the general disdain for this anonna and that some were conducting long term experiments to select for a desirable taste, does anyone have any updates on this activity?




 

So far to me all pineapples from cut and rooted store tops are basically equal in flavor if grown at home and ripened on the plant. Funny I do find them to have a nicer texture and sweeter flavor then their commercially sold parents likely because they arrive in the store green while mine are plant ripened. 

I have two each "white jade", "Florida special" and "Elite gold" in ground for a LOT longer (3 years in ground from 4" purchased tissue cultures) than store bought rooted tops that are still puny next to the cut tops that have already fruited. After they do finally fruit I will not buy any more even if they are noticeably better than the ones I already am eating from tops because the "designer" cultivars have not produced pups either.

I'm well over 6" in the last 24 hours, I'm high and dry and my roof is solid. Sorry to hear all the roof issues.
 
On the bright side... the wells fill up, the plants get a good drink, the lakes and canal will fill up, and fish can use it, my "water feature" has flushed all the algae out and I found out the reason I do NOT have or need flood insurance.

I just hope that the trees that won't tolerate the water will not suffer.