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Tropical Fruit Discussion / Re: Which looks better?
« on: April 19, 2013, 09:51:42 PM »These trees are from POG.POG?
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These trees are from POG.POG?
Imagine a tree that gives you different annonas year 'round.Yeah that's what I want!
Do you do multigrafts of cherimoyas!?!
*COMING SOON*
Annona cherimola cherimoya 1gal $14 grafted
Possibly the best annona, smooth flesh nice sweet flavor with mild acid balance
El Bumpo, Elixir, Honey Hart, McPherson, Sabor, Santa Rosa, Selma
I'd like to encourage everyone to plant fruit trees not only in their own private homes but also in schools, churches, parks.I'm gonna start doing this with my loquat seeds. And the best thing is when they start fruiting (in 6 years) all that fruit will be mine because nobody knows about loquats! WOOT WOOT! Go me!
And they were from named cultivars?Vietnamese white giant and standard pineapple guava. The taste just doesn't fit well with me. I hate the smell of the white guava and when I eat it I later burp it up and the smell comes back.
have you ever tried a nasty feijoa?Yes. All of them.
kinda off topic but how do you guys harvest the fruits? No matter how much I try to avoid the thorns, I always end up getting pricked on my hands and sometimes even my lips when I eat them.I usually use tongs to remove the fruit from the pad. I then grab a long knife. I hold the fruit down with the tongs with one hand then use my other hand to grab the knife and cut the fruit. I work on removing the outer layer of skin and bam, it should peel off. Don't forget to compost the outer skin!
I got a grafted tree with flowers last yearHow much was it?
I have a variegated "Wax Jambu", I thought they were popular down in Florida. Anyway, I'll try and get a photo up.I need to see this. Now.
Mark
I live on a hill which makes a MICRO CLIMATE ever heard of it? hill=microclimate=no temperatures below 40 degrees.
I think I have that tooken care of, I have a MISTING SYSTEMIs anyone else's Asshole Detector going off? Cause mine is.
First try Plant o Gram, next Pine island..then Rareflora.com. I bet you'll get one! I think Rareflora has the biggest ones...Plant o gram might have the least expensive ones.They only state just jaboticaba . I'm of course looking for the red jaboticaba. Are the ones Rareflora and Plant o Gram selling the red jabo?
that the jaboticaba has one great advantage over many other fruit trees...Great. Now I REALLY want a red jabo. Stupid California agriculture laws!
it can be relatively productive even when provided minimal sunlight...A vital aspect to consider when pushing zone limits...as lighting will be a major concern for you...at least during the winter months
Santa Barbara get hit hard in August and sometimes September. Anywho, have you thought about growing some mangoes!?! Or Jakfruit!?!The highs are sometimes 75-95 and the lows are 46-54
What??I've been to SB in the middle of July and it been overcast and 65F most of the day while it was 90F in Orange County. Those temps represent Fountain Valley, Irvine or Santa Ana not SB.
The Bacon avocados I have had were very large, thin & smooth skin, with a very nice appearance and texture... but no flavor. With so many great avocados (i.e. Haas) available in SoCal, it's a mystery to me how this one ends up in markets here.Yup. It's kinda like eating textured air.
And remember taste is subjective!
Looking for opinions for those who have personally grown/eaten this variety (growth habit, quality of fruit, "make up" of fruit (texture, richness, oil/fat content, flavor etc.), size of fruit, and harvest season on this variety, especially from those who have grown it and/or tasted it (Florida grown). Would also like to here opinions for the Cali peeps.So I recently tasted the Bacon avocado and let me tell you this: I cannot fathom why anyone would want to eat this tasteless fruit. The only reason in my opinion why you would want the tree would be for pollination of other avocado trees. For the record I ate this fresh and did not use it as guacamole. I also bought it at a farmers market and have consume quite my fair share of bacon avocados. Bleh.
I picked up a 6 feet grafted tree with a 1.5" trunk for $23. There are a few smaller ones left for the same price if anyone is interested.That's a really good price. I believe I picked up mine for like $30+. I'll have to check my receipt.
I saw one at OSH in Burbank last night too. They had Timotayo and Keitt 6ft for $60. Is that a good price?Home Depot/Lowes carry the Timotayo mango for $50 in the 5 gallon standard pots. So, not really a good price. But go for it if you cannot find a Timotayo mango at your local big box store. I know it's a very hard to find mango tree where I am located.
Great!....built in obsolensce - nice work LaVerne grafting team....!!!!Crap. I hope I don't get crappy tasting oranges. I own La Verne citrus.
LIES! You probably have the Gold Nugget and Tango varieties mixed up JF. That's why.
. Sorry Xeno Tango is in the middle of the pack. Top five:
1. GN
2.Honey
3.Pixie
4.Algerian
5.Tango
