No, I meant over-ripe.  The target harvest date for this variety is Saint Valentine's Day.  We have had some warm weather during the late winter and early spring so I would think the fruit was well past prime ripeness.  The person who picked up the fruit also said he guessed that was the case.

I see one nursery sells it on Carrizo.

Thanks for posting here, Millet.  Just had ready about the move to here where I'm already a member.

Thanks, Adam.  I am keeping most but avoiding it being saturated.  My soil is fairly heavy even though I did amend it with compost when I planted it four years ago.  I'll keep fertilizing with a mild solution to avoid any burning.  What I've done for the past couple of years seems to be working out pretty well.

On my first flowering I counted 52 fruits.  Not huge, but I'm pretty happy about it.  I've picked a couple so far with the rest in the next week or two.  Looks like I should be getting many more flowers soon.  I don't remember reading comments about flowering cycles, though I imagine it might be different in NorCal, but I'm wondering how many waves of flowers I might expect in one year.

Thera, they don't make it very clear while using the current GRIN format.  Orders used to be submitted by completed a form designed in Word and emailing it in and there was specifically a place to put your account number.  Now, at https://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/Services.htm?modecode=53-06-20-00 they ask that you put that shipping account information in the "special instructions" box on the GRIN order submission.  I honestly don't know whether they billed my most recent shipment to my account or not (I don't feel too bad either way since I just sent them some material to add to the Punica collection without a charge).  I was previously told that the Davis office has no method of collecting payments so the only way the costs can be reduced is by having shipping account numbers provided to them.

I believe the Davis repository has germplasm correctly labeled with a few names misspelled or incomplete, but very minor compared to what I've heard of elsewhere and what Oscar has mentioned.

Malathion is fairly harsh so it's worthy of paying attention to safety when using it but it's fairly easy to apply safely and loses its toxicity fairly quickly.  As a farmer, I use some restricted use pesticides so I learn to apply them safely.  Isopropyl alcohol was mentioned above and is also something that has caused serious health problems for individuals.

I had a miracle fruit that almost got killed by a bad infestation of green scale that I had tried to first control with oil several times.  I sprayed it once with Malathion and it was fast and very effective.  Wish I had sprayed it much sooner but it's making a comeback.

Thanks.  Rather than graft onto this tree I think I'd like to just plant a few more and develop a collection.  It seems to be one of the more rewarding "rare fruits" I'm growing, probably second to white sapote which are really coming on now (about 10 varieties in flower now).  Will Quang be offering these, Mark?

It's too dark to take more phtoos right now but attached is a photo from 4/29/2012 that shows the foliage pretty well.


I don't recall if Quang Ong said specifically, but I know a lot of his nursery stock in the past has come from Pine Island Nursery.  Maybe Jack remembers.

Thanks Norm and Adam.  Adam, you're reached my point of competence as far as jaboticaba goes.  It's the "normal" one with purple fruit.  I'll attach some other older photos from last November.




Some background on this tree: Planted in the ground in June 2009, I don't think it put out a single new leaf for maybe three years.  I had watered it regularly, fertilized it, given it some chelated iron, to no avail.  Around June 2012 I mentioned to my farm supplier salesman (also a distant cousin) about the suspected iron chlorosis in my Gold Nugget mandarin he strongly suggested that I try a product called PhotoGreen (-S for soil version) which has iron, manganese, and sulfur.  It gave a very quick response on the Gold Nugget so I gave the jaboticaba (and a pitanga) a couple of ounces of the product (about $60 for 2.5 gallons).  In seven days my jaboticaba had about twice as many leaves (and the pitanga, which had not flowered for two years, had over 100 flowers in the same 7 day time period).  Pretty remarkable, I think.  My tree is still somewhat sparse but has grown a little and filled out some and I continue to treat it periodically.  The tree had flowered some in 2011 and given me just about four fruits so I don't think that the PhotoGreen necessarily induced the flowering but it sure made a big difference in the overall health of the tree.  My soil pH is about 7.3 (ranges from 7.1 through 7.4 in this area of my farm) so iron is less available but the pH isn't what I'd consider extreme.  I did just treat it again about 10 days ago and it's putting out more leaves but I think that's partly due to the warmer spring-like weather.

Mostly lurk here, don't usually have much to post.  My jaboticaba entered winter with what I'd estimated to be hundreds of flower buds and many of those died from cold weather (about 30 or so nights with frost with a low of 27F).  However, I have many flower buds this spring and my first flowers opened today.  This tree was purchased around June 2009 (Ong Nursery, San Diego) and was already about 7' tall at the time.