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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Cherimoya seedlings
« on: June 14, 2017, 10:14:37 PM »
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I wouldn't say it would grow very tall. Yes it will need to be brought in during winter.
That tree looks like its in a small pot (based on dollar bill used for reference).
). How should I prune my small Dream trees?
I train my tree into one trunk. Cutting off other branchs. Umbrella shape is the best... looks clean and easy to pick fruits
I just planted one I got from a nursery and it's about 3 feet tall and bushy right now. Should I start pruning it to a single stem now or wait until winter?
No need to wait until winter. Pick the best cane, and get to choppin' the rest.
I think it depends on if you have wildlife that strips the bark. Multiple trunks could guard against that. Single trunk will focus the energy and is better if there aren't other concerns.
I'm no avocado expert, but since no one else is helping you... Maybe Holiday? It's a smaller tree. Not sure about season though. There are so many good varieties, it really depends on what you like and more importantly what your growing conditions are like. I think GEM was supposed to be pretty good as well and be a smaller tree, but you'll need to double check. The season for GEM is supposed to be different from Reed.
I just planted:
Reed
Pinkerton
Sir Prize
GEM
Holiday
Fantastic
The Fantastic was on clearance at the end of the year at Lowes and I could help myself. I don't know much about it yet, so couldn't recommend. The other ones seemed to have a lot of good reviews.
Where did you find a Holiday avo for sale?
That's just a sloppy graft that hasn't fully healed yet. The hole looks like an area where a branch grew but died back. Sometimes the sloppy grafts heal just fine but it looks a bit ugly. Here's a couple pics of some super sloppy cherimoya grafts I made, probably after a beer or two. Both these grafts took but they are so sloppy that it could affect the integrity of the branch carrying a heavy fruit load so I'm only using these grafts to preserve the grafted variety and will re graft it onto another branch.
Here's a much better cherimoya graft I did.
Simon
Atemoya
So I had a young TR Hovey plant, and I am soooo mad that after a flood this Winter (yes, I said Winter, in the middle of the dry season - thanks sea level rise!), it killed my TR Hovey after it was probably months away from its first fruit.
Anyway, learned my lesson, I now want to plant a bunch in various areas of the yard to see which is less prone to brackish water flood so I can get fruit. But buying a bunch of plants is expensive, and I don't know of a local supplier so they'd each have to be shipped. Plus, since I've never tasted it, I'm not even sure if I'll like it enough to spend that much.
*I see lots of advertisements for seeds - but do TR Hovey seeds come true? I also of course wonder how reliable these sellers are in term of correct variety, but I prefer being able to buy online anonymously on Amazon, Etsy, or Ebay, to making arrangements with people on the forum. (Recommendation of specific sellers on any of those 3 sites that you know would be the correct variety and viable seed would also be appreciated.)
Don't be too mad... the fruit of TR Hovey is more bottom of the barrel than top shelf and that is putting it lightly. Ultra productive variety and good for harvesting green young papaya for Papaya salad but when the fruit is ripe as one other member here put it - it's "like 3lb bags of vomit to eat". I chopped mine down after tasting them. There are much better varieties out there imo for both young and ripe papaya.
