Edit:  Never mind - thought you meant finger lime......

That's such a shame to hear you didn't like the megalanthus you had! There is an international market super close to my house and given that I just eat plants their produce section is my candy store. Anyway for the past little while they have been host to a very delicious yellow (def the one with spines, megalanthus) which was not much smaller than the average DF's around here (which to be clear aren't the worlds largest) and while def sweeter than all the whites and reds I've had I def wouldn't have described it in that way and I don't think I'm too much of a sweet tooth guy... Maybe I should be going there now to try and inquire after their supplier before they throw away receipts.... xD

If you have access to the fruit, you can always grow your own from seed. When you eat your next fruit, save a bunch of the seeds, clean them off, scatter a bunch in a pot, using well draining soil, then cover lightly.  Water and wait.  If its fresh seed, it should have a high germination rate.  After a bit, pick the largest 3-4, pot them up, and then wait (a couple of years - the only downside.)  I've done it on a lark, using seed from an uninspiring white flesh DF.  I've pretty much neglected the two survivors, they are in small pots on the side of the house.  One's about 4' high.  If I was serious about fruit from them I'd put them on my trellis and take care of them.  But its an option.

My Santa Rosa plum has had a couple of buds open and flower, but most of the tree has not bloomed yet.  My Snow Queen nectarine has not bloomed yet either, but it's in a shady spot while I figure out if I'm going to put it in the ground this year or just up-pot it.

No frost in PQ.  I'll have to check on my worms though, they don't like it when it gets below 40.

According to this map, the highest zone in the western continental US (if you'd call them "continental") is Catalina and San Clemente islands, just off the coast of LA, as well as a couple LA beaches. On the east, it's the Florida Keys - 11a Marathon to Key Largo, 11b Key Largo to Key West.  Parts of Miami are 11a as well; After the 11a areas comes 10b: Coastal Los Angeles and San Diego, the area just north of Yuma, and the southmost 5-10% of Florida.

Coastal San Diego almost never freezes, the ocean moderates the cold temperatures nicely.  Go 12-15 miles into the inland valleys and you will get the occasional, although uncommon, frost. The other week Poway had a frost warning, but it didn't get below 40F where I am.  I'm on the side of a large hill, so the coldest air rolls away from me.  Go down the hill to a little hollow and brrrr! Coastal lowland areas have not seen snow since the late-60's.

I felt two earthquakes at my house yesterday, the news said there were a total of 4, and the winds are now blowing like I’ve never seen before. My neighbors debris is in my yard and my yard debris is now downwind of me getting blown around town. Many of my potted plants are blown over and several trees almost snapped in half.

The few remaining Cherimoya I had hanging on the tree have blown off and winds are still supposed to pick up. I could barely keep my eyes open because dirt keeps blowing into them.

My neighbors banana tree is already leaning halfway into my yard and it looks like it may crush my mango, Achachairu and Lucs Mexican Mangosteen.

I hope everyone in SoCal stays safe and receives minimal damage to their plants and property.

Simon

Yes, a crazy couple of days down here!  Not too much damage from the wind, a couple of potted plants knocked over, they've been righted and braced better.  A couple of guys at work who live up in Bonsall have been evacuated and their houses are in the burned zone.  No idea if their houses were burned or spared.

I just bought a couple of cherimoya at our local farmer's market. Will be trying them this weekend. 

Your trees look awesome! 

I unfortunately have not had the chance to visit Exotica, I have heard good things about it's selection. It is in North County San Diego.  Ong nursery is another great SD nursery with a ton of different tropical fruit trees. He is a bit expensive, but they are all nice looking trees.  So if you do decide to head down here, it may be worth your time.

That looks delicious. I've eaten both store bought white and red flesh varieties and they're really bland except that the red flesh one is a tad sweeter than the white flesh one.

Thanks Sandy!  One of my next purchases will be one of the named varieties. I have a no-named white variety that I hope to use as a pollinator - it didn't bloom this year.  With the lessons learned from these two plants, hopefully I can be more successful with a better variety.

Just ate my first homegrown dragon fruit! It was sweet, but not a lot of flavor. My wife and daughter liked it whereas they didn't like store bought dragon fruit. It was a la Verne red purchased from HD.

Going back to this older thread:

We're well into summer now and I've definitely had some mixed results with my 3 apples trees.  As a note, I stripped all the leaves off of the trees sometime in the winter.  The honeycrisp broke dormancy a little earlier this year, sometime in mid-June I believe.  It's grown a few inches but hasn't done much.  I'm still willing to give it more time.  The Gala tree bloomed profusely this spring, but only one apple set, but I accidentally knocked it off due to inattention.  I wasn't very pleased with myself.  I'm not sure why it didn't set very much fruit this year (same thing with my Santa Rosa plum), but I did notice that I had very few bees in the early spring.  I'm going to get some bee balm flowers or something similar and set them near the apple and plum trees. The Gala and Pixie Crunch did have some overlapping blooms early in the spring.  The Pixie Crunch has been a delight, I have about a dozen apples growing on it and it has put on at least 12-24" on some of its limbs.  I pruned away all but two apples per spur to keep the weight down on each limb as some were rather spindly.  As noted by others, the flowering has occurred throughout the spring and summer, the last two apples having set just a few weeks ago.

How has everyone else faired?

This coyote had been climbing my tree and eating hundreds of peaches.

That is something else!  I thought I just had to protect my dogs from the coyotes, now I need to protect my fruit trees?

Thank you for sharing!