Maybe you can find a cherimoya to graft onto the unknown anonna for now and if the seedling fruits turn out not to your liking, you'll still have a cherimoya. I do it to all my seedlings: graft a known cultivar onto a branch.

Nice collection you have. I always like to see what people in cooler climates do to grow these things.

Pomegranates are mostly not tropical, except for Ganesh. Many like chill, like those from Russia, Yugoslavia. Maybe you can plant one of those in the ground. They're pretty drought-tolerant in the ground.

As I recall the 2" sections stretched enough to do more than 2 citrus buds. But if you have a long scion to wrap or the trunk diameter is large then maybe non-perforated makes sense.

But I use parafilm for those purposes: 1/2" wide to wrap scions and 2" wide to seal wide cuts.

Nice looking passion fruit, makes me want to try to grow this. Not sure if it would do well in Southern CA.

Someone's growing it in Rainbow. It does well for him in a greenhouse. As I said in the other passiflora thread the guy is hard to find. He hand pollinates and sells fruits to high end restaurants.

I'd give it a try if I can get a few seeds.

Is Thai giant related to Indian jujube? I've only had experience with the Chinese kinds and they're good both fresh and dried, depending on the variety.

I tasted a strange fruit there for the first time, too.   The fruit is black, conpletely round & about a bubble gumball in size.  It's sweet, but not too sweet & have 3 small seeds.  Do you know what it's called?

Is it a jaboticaba? Looks sort of like a shiny grape usually with thick skin.

Toronto Robert? I'm interested to know what you're growing. We have an introduction thread in the forum for it.

Behl, PM me your location where I should pick up.

To make it more difficult, did all of Selenicereus get lumped in w/Hylocereus or just S. megalanthus?

-Ethan

Only megalanthus was reclassified into Hylocereus. Selenicereus normally has more than 3 ribs, so megalanthus is closer to Hylocereus. There may be other factors but this is the most apparent.

I have about a dozen kinds but I lost some interest in these. They don't take much work so I just leave them be.

Guatamalan types:
- Santa Barbara Red (collected wild from Central America)
- Condor
- American Beauty
- G2 (part of Paul Thomson's original wild selections for crossing, thin compact vines)

Unnamed:
- H. polyrhisus
- H. megalanthus (yellow)

Paul Thomson's hybrids:
- Halley's Comet
- Physical Graffiti (fastest growing)
- Delight
- S8 (Voodoo Child, Arizona Purple)

Whites:
- George (George Emerich the father of cherimoya in CA)
- Quang Ong's white (my name for where it's from)

Others:
- Valdivia Roja (mexican origin from Valdivia ranch, small but numerous fruits, very good tasting, waxy rough texture bluish stem)
- Sin Espina (no spine)
- Purple Haze
- Zamorano
- Tricia (Ed Valdivia's daughter, elongated fruit, deep red flesh, polyrhisus with tendency to alternate between 3 and 4 ribs)


Guatemalan type has clearly lobed ribs with magenta-fleshed fruits and good sweetness. This is the type that was said to be more frost resistant earlier in the thread.
H. costaricansis is interesting and taste can vary from bland to slighly cucumber to very sour. The deep red flesh is very appealing.

I like Valdivia Roja, Halley's Comet, Voodoo Child, and the Guatemalan ones.

Jack Vincent of Oceanside used 2" PVC for his plants before he had to give them away. His 2 plants were over 100lbs each after he cut 200-300lbs off of them.

The 4 foot horizontal PVC of his trellis was bending when I saw it but it was holding.

Oops, my earlier post should have said tynanwyatt@aol.com for the person who's doing the importing. I'll fix that post.

I'm still trying to get mine from March stabilized. I've been looking at getting other possible rootstocks. The seed place I found is out of stock on it for now.

Depends on the variety. The thicker ones tend to be more susceptible to frost. The main problem is ice crystals which cause cell walls to burst and the plant melts, leaving behind a central cane.