Nice fruit collection JF!  Looks like your trees are very happy.

Its edible, I have one and tried a few.  Its like very bland dragon fruit.  Its fine to try.

Looks pretty similar to bacon and fuerte.  Awfully shinny though.  May need more time on the tree.

Cherry of rio grande, coffee

Reed is very vigorous for me and a must-have in your collection.  Sir Prize has a bit different fruit character, both really sooooooo fine.   Oro Negro is good perhaps a 6.5 out 10 rating.  My Gwen is a true runt and another very good fruit.  Very productive such that it needs thinning.

Against the grain I use a 12 mo. encapsulated 18-4-9 with micros.  I might tweek it come late fall with a Peters 20-3-19.

Brad, try letting it go black and then pick immediately.  Would like to know if yours ripen ultra fast.  That first one I picked could have been cut in only 2 days for a better quality fruit.  Have 3 more hanging with one on the counter coming in at 12.0 oz.  This is fun!

I will try it if they ever turn black.  They are fully green still here.  Not sure what the hold up is.  Maybe because its still 80F outside.  Im hanging out in shorts and sandals still.  My oranges are not turning orange yet either.  Usually they are ready now. 

I got a 50lb bag of osmocote pro 8-9 month 19-5-8 sitting on the shelf.  I may try some of that on my in ground trees this coming spring.  I like the time release for potted plants a lot.

Nice one Mark,  weird your skin is sticking.  It peels right off mine.  My fuertes stick like you are saying though.  I picked another green Sir Prize and its on the counter now.  They are all still green.  Had a bacon get over ripe.  Been eating hass, bacon, fuerte, and 2nd Sir Prize is coming. 

Samu, thats a bummer, I had lots of hass knock off in the santa anas.  It seems the key is to water water water for that weather.

Boxturtle Reed is a medium fast grower.  They grow pretty fast if they arent holding fruits. If its in full sun it should hit its stride next summer.

 I quit fertilizing back in September but its been so hot they could use a feeding probably.  Any citrus/avocado food will work.  Usually hit them every few months with a few handfulls of fertilizer on the mulch and then water it in.  Was hoping we would get some rain soon to leach out the soil but its not looking like much rain this winter.

You could copy my hoop house design and use shade cloth instead of plastic.  It will take the wind and keep animals out.  Theres a thread called hoop house with photos down the page.

It looks like a good idea to use that.  The only issue may be it is not PH neutral.  Best to test water soaked in that in a bucket.  Then rinse and see if you can change the ph.  It maybe PH neutral, you just need to test and see.  They have cheap 10$ PH tester pens or liquud test kits on amazon if you dont already have one.

Hi Thanks

Can you please ship to India with a tracking number.
I will buy 30 seeds.

BR

Fysal

Fysal, I sent you a message with payment info.  I can ship to India.

Excellent fruits.  Have more seeds than I can use, do not want to throw away.

50 cents a seeds, 3$ for shipping in the USA.   7$ international shipping.

Send a PM for paypal info.

Thangbom, a couple things that you need to realize before starting. 

1.) Biggest issue is a single layer of poly will not keep out the cold of your HH.  You saw my HH thread and I can already tell you it gets as cold in there at night as it is outside.  You should design it with 2 layers of poly.  You can use hard plastic twin wall on the end walls for better insulation or design it with 2 layers of poly.  The main hoop part you can double layer and use an inflation fan.  Trust me on this part, if your goal is to keep the temps up at night you MUST do more than a single poly layer. 

2. ) Bigger is better, except that it will cost more to heat and cool it.  So keep that in mind.  I made mine pretty large and am now considering heating and there is not a good option.  At least no cheap options.  And doubling up the poly is a big change.  I should have done it to begin with.  Luckily here it never gets below the mid 30s so its ok without heat.  Having it sitting around 60 at night would be better but its not going to happen this year.

3.)  Budget, forget 2500$, for a hoop house that big done properly you better budget 2X that much. 

4.) Power, run electrical and a small sub panel to it for power.  240 volts 30 or 50 amps if possible.  You will want to be able to run lots of fans, heaters, coolers, lights etc.  More power is better, an extra conductor to get 240V gives you 2X the power with only 1 more wire.  If you have a panel close by, #10, 4 conductor wire will get you 30Amps.  Thats a good amount ofa power.

5.) Shade cloth, greenhouse mega store has it.  Can get custom sizes.  Use aluminet or white if you cant afford aluminet.  I spent a lot of time researching the shade and aluminet is the best.  I got half my hoop house covered now with it.  Run it on the outside to keep the heat out.

6.) Critters, I have lots of critters.  I keep the doors closed.  Otherwise you will have critters. 

Good luck, nice homestead you guys have.  If you want to ask me more questions I am happy to answer what I can.  I learned a lot on my project.  Could really make an amazing HH if I was doing it over again.

San Ignacio,
Dark Star,
American Beauty,
Condor,
Makisupa,

Have whats in the photo just cut today.  Actively growing plants.

7$ a cutting.  Please send a PM to see what I still have and I can send a paypal address.  Will have more types of cuttings available soon.