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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: 4 seasons longan
« on: September 30, 2017, 08:47:05 PM »
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It will come back no problem. As long as its above the graft you will get your same fruit type. You may want to just trim the break straight right above the new growth.
If your Surinam-Cherries are seedlings, they are NOT named varieties, until they have fruited, been considered special in some nice way, and then provided with a fresh new name.
Any seed produced by plant-sex (pollination) is a new variety, and will not be reproducible by seed.
Named varieties must be reproduced vegetatively: by grafting, by air-layering, etc.
The 'Zill Dark' was selected by Dorothy Zill (wife of the founder of Zill Nursery), and it was named by me, when I saved it by moving it from the original nursery when the place was sold. Yes, it should be sold as grafted plants.
It is O.K. to sell seedlings, and it is O.K. to identify which tree the seed came from, just so it is worded to make clear that these are not that named variety.
I thought sapodilla had excellent flood tolerance. I have seen jackfruit get more root damage from flooding than other commonly grown tropicals. I could be wrong though.
The track seems to be trending more to the east. We may get another close pass like we did with Matthew last year.
how can I tell if its male or female without it flowering first. Its yet to flower. Do male plants not flower at all?
Birula
Aka Sahan
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Na
Yeah this thing has been hanging over top of us for 3 days now. Would be nice if the storm could make up its mind and go somewhere else!
Your rain has nothing to do with Harvey. Yours is more associated with Invest 92L which is slowly organizing off the ciast of Georgis and then will merge with a front and off to the NE it will go.
Nobody mentioned Harvey. Completely different storm. When Harvey was making landfall in TX, this thing was sitting over top of us and still a system over top of us.
It is a complex, not a storm, named storm nor a potential storm, that is associated with a tropical wave known as Invest 92L (which very well briefly get a name before it shunts away to the NEern Atlantic waters) which is caught between two high pressures, in a dead sreering pattern, just as Harvey is. As Invest 92L slowly moves away from the US, your weather should slowly improve once 92L gets far enough to seperate itself.
Cherimoyas are definitely doable in San Jose - in some areas you might not even need to protect them. I've had Booth, Pierce, and El Bumpo for 2 winters. Booth and Pierce succumbed last year while El Bumpo was unharmed. I didn't protect them in any way. This year I have 15 different varieties planted so I will get more data on which are the best for our climate.
Nice job, could you share what types you are growing? How large are they? Pots or ground?
In ground I currently have Bays, Behl, Burton, Ecuador, Spain, El Bumpo, Fino de Jete, Pierce, Booth, M&N, Mark Lee, Honeyheart, Vietnamese. They range from 5' to 8' tall. I also have smaller Dr. White, JA and Santa Rosa in pots.
Yeah this thing has been hanging over top of us for 3 days now. Would be nice if the storm could make up its mind and go somewhere else!
I took some of the ice cream bananas to work today to have some coworkers try them. The general concensus was they aren't as good as the other varieties I have brought in. I did try one a little greener then usual and I will say it was better. I haven't given up on these. I'm hoping this was just a freak bunch and the next one will be much better.
Bill
wow. your fruits are ripping early. my AF usually start to ripe near December.
Hi Har. Do you mind sharing a few tips for picking atemoya at the perfect stage for home consumption? Is there a huge difference between cultivar ripeness traits?
I dont mean to steal Har's thunder. my experience is the fruit starts turning yellowish, and the pointing lobe are starting flatten out.
While completely heretical for this forum and technically not "trees", you could plant certain bananas (dwarf nam wah, raja puri, etc.) and stay under that height.
Ilama is goes really well on pond. I wish I had pond seedlings to graft ilama. My ilama grafted on cherimoya may fail.. Find some ilama Genova red or ilama rosada goes well with pond apples.
No one is commenting on Juicy Peach. Were they any good this year?
