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I took a photo comparison of fake & real alphonso.




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I have the Fake Alphonso, Frank said it was Bombay but AZ said not really. They both bashed this mango but my wife and I and friends REALLY like it. Quite big, nice blend of sweet and tart with a slight piney taste, fiberless. A couple of Swiss friends who spent a couple of years in India said it reminded them of the mangoes they have eaten there.
Anyway, my butts are still sore from self kicking for not able to make it to the tasting!

Lots of fruits you don't see in Asia. That doesn't mean they can't grow  there. Many south American fruits are totally unknown there. I think atemoyas are worth a try. They grow at sea level here.

I'm not saying atemoyas couldn't be grown in SE Asia, just that they are not worth the trouble because the requirements are too hard to meet. Growing Australian atemoyas over there is one of my retirement projects a few years from now but I'm not doing it to make profits in the near future but more of a long term research for future viable commercial outlets. I have done some research and trials runs in Cambodia and the results are not really encouraging. My partners have started the same trials in Thailand and we'll know the result in a couple of years at most but again, so far the results are also not very encouraging.
For backyard growers, anything is worth a try as long as you enjoy doing it.

If anybody here was able to replicate the same kind of cut, please share the experience.
It's not everyday one gets to learn a Zill trick of the trade.

I need to learn how to cut like Zill in the video, but peeling the bark is way easier I would think!

I'm as bewildered as Zafra. Not sure why people keep saying that there is cambium left in Zill's cut. There is none as he really cut into the rootstock, not just removing the bark as in t-budding or top working a tree.
This technique must works because Walter Zill is using it, so no doubt there, but it goes against what we're taught about cambium matching.

There is a similar strain of red chewy SA in Indonesia with similar dark purple color.

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Smooth type rollinia. See the flowers in the pic. This is the same fruit that was in question. There are only 2 fruit on the tree and both of them are smooth skin the same.

Fruits of 1st and 2nd photos are from the same tree, correct? They look the same except the 1st is round.

I'm not sure if those rootstocks without a single leaf on them would benefit from the grow light. Anyway, I think this is overkill. Putting them in the shade with ziploc bags over the grafts to keep the moisture in would be easier and much cheaper and probably better result.

Not only can cherimoyas compete with atemoyas they crush them. We've had extensive tasting with all of the varieties mike has mention except maroochy  gold and the atemoyas sit far in the back of the bus. I don't know what's happening in Australia with cherimoyas but here in California even the Asian communities, which are in general devotees of chewy atemoyas, are coming around to recognize the superiority of the cherimoya

Sorry, Frank, you're referring to only "young" people who either grew up here or who were not into fruits before and therefore have never really paid any attention to such fruits. This group is most likely to adopt cherimoyas and Florida mangos and it's a group that is growing, obviously. There are random exceptions to this with a few people here and there, of course.

One of my crosses is in the exact same situation since Spring when it tried to come out of dormancy. I un-potted it and found that the soil was too wet despite the use of a air pot and Fox Farm Ocean Forest. It is now in Pro Mix HP since a couple of weeks ago and in the same air pot with about 3 inch of peanut packaging at the bottom. We'll see how that goes. My guess was that it was a fungal infection due to too much humidity in the soil.
You might want to repot it to a much lighter soil.

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Can we fire the admin?

Bribing him with a box of LZ might work better!

Same here.