I just received a shipment of pineapples from jude. How long can they last? Can I keep it in the refrigerator for a week?

That lucuma makes large impressive fruits but they're dry kind. The big seeds are good for growing rootstocks too.

Fang, is this drier than the one in the Fullerton arboretum?

I haven't had a moist lucuma yet.

Has anyone come across any sort of longan that was non crispy in texture more like a lychee or exceptional in other ways?

I tried what you've described and the flesh sticks onto the seed. It may be juicer but it gets very messy when you're opening the shell. Juice splatters all over your fingers.

Fruit4me has a grated branch of Ewai.

Very nice Simon. I am surprised the tree didn't abort the fruit. They can get pretty big. Very good flavor but the skin is a bit thick.

I hand pollinated these grimals with red jabo pollen. Maybe I get lucky with a new hybrid that gets as big as grimals but with thin skin that fruits in 3-5 yrs.

Grimals vs. Sabaras

I have a scion that fruited last year. Fortune eye is an OK longan. Not too sweet but it's got good flavor. When you're tired of sickenly sweet longans, you'll appreciate some fortune eyes. Flesh is drier and doesn't get your fingers all sticky.

My Sabra is about 5 years old and looks to be 2.5" in diameter at the base.  I had some limited fruit last year.  Good flower set in the past couple weeks so hoping to get some additional fruit this year.

It has a nice looking exposed burl. Those exposed roots should fruit as well.

Here is my in ground sabara. Trunk is near 3 inches I think. No flowers yet. It was just girdled so we shall see. If you look close enough, you'll notice two branches that have larger leaves. Those are coronata grafts. I was very tempted to top work this tree into grimal but decided to keep it as is.









Coronata var restinga



PIN's Coronata Crown 2



PIN's Coronata Crown 3

Very nice job on your sabara guys. I bought a 15gal tree that had been in ground for 3 years now. I am thinking the trunk must be at lease 3 inches in diameter but it has not flowered yet. Its a healthy and beautiful looking sabara but no fruits. I am going to girdle it.

Wow, very nice tree's Xshen, you've got the grafting down for sure i can't believe that those long scions work for you i'm amazed. You quiet a few varieties growing and there looking good what kind of potting mix do you use? Many of my varieties are sticks right now and I'm afraid that I might lose them I think I drowned them last year. The whole Month of Sept. we were on vacation and I left all my jabo's in a shallow container of water while we were gone and now many are leaf less and some died completely. My potting mix was pumice,peat moss, shredded bark, and native soil which is mostly sand. I was under the impression that jabo's like water so I'm totally confused now!! Sorry for rant but i'm really impressed with your jabo growing keep up the great work!
By the way avocado scions growing well but not bud push yet on longan.

Thanks Robert. As for the potting mix, I am really cheap. I use purely composted mulch from my city’s yard. The mulch was freshly grounded when I brought them home but the mulch was about a year and a half old before they were used as potting soil. Over 1 ft thick of mulch was laid inside my greenhouse to raise humidity. When it rains, they wick up all the water on the concrete slab – this area floods when it rains. There were also a lot of fungi and critters that moved in to help break down the mulch. It’s mostly leaves, twigs, and pine needles. They retain moisture well. With the exception of the 25gal pots, most of my potted jabos are in 5 gal airpots that dries really fast.

During the raining season, I lost two jabos that were in the water trays from root rot. I thought they like water too but maybe it was too wet and too cold. I am going to remove the water trays going forward during the winter.

By the way, if your longan scions don’t take, I will send you more in a couple more months. Your white sapotes are doing great. I am looking forward to the yellow sapotes. All took. Thanks again!

Another branch of stacked scions on a red fruiting hybrid. Thumb size on Grimal stacked onto Sabara and Sabara on two small branches of red hybrid inspired by multiple roostock grafts.

This is a stacked cocktail with recently grafted Paulista on top sitting on Grimal. Grimal on Truciflora and Sabara as the rootstock.

This jabo thread has been quiet for a while. Here are some updates of my trees. Below is a sabara with most of it's scaffold branches grafted into grimal where the scions are around pencil thick to sharpie size when grafted. Most of the grimal scions are fruiting now. When are they ready to pick? One of them turned purple two days ago.

All these grimal scions came from the jabo "prince" of Flying Fox Fruits! Many thanks.

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Recently added a mature Paulista scion onto the same tree. Scion is almost 2 feet. Larger than thumb size at the base.