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I rooted a bunch of brazilian guava cuttings (very similar to cattley) and used lignified but not woody scions about 1/8" diameter. Stripped all the leaves except for two at the top of the scion. Dipped bottom in Clonex gel and put into pots with spagnum/perlite mix. Put into a humidity bin (rubbermaid tub) under growlights. Added bottom heat set to 85 F. They rooted and pushed new growth in a few weeks.
I have not tried with tropical guava yet, but Daleys had a youtube video that is basically the same method and it works for them.
I recently rooted one cutting from Ruby Supreme guava. I had 5 cuttings in different diameters and only one, a pencil size, rooted.
" the most and basically only commercial kind of mango graft here is side veneer....."
I thought it makes more sense to do Cleft graft (vertical cut down center of root stock) on seedling since the rootstock trunk is small. How can you do side veneer on a pencil size root stock?
Orange Sherbet. One mango to rule them all.
Mark, you have chosen a pretty awesome variety of mango cultivars.
I don't necessarily think that you will regret adding Peach Cobbler. As far as I know it is doing well in Florida (at least mine is). I don't know whether your growing conditions are more like Florida or California.
JF, could you elaborate on PCs poor performance?
(Seanny, were you teasing us? If not you should definitely look into Tommy Atkins mangoes from well, it doesn't really matter...........)
Here’s a shot of some fruit on my tree, I performed the first round of thinning but skipped the second round because I was too busy. I would much rather have fewer larger fruit than a bunch of smalls because the ratio of flesh to seeds/skin is higher in larger fruit.
My hand in picture for scale
Simon
Fruit:
At one time there was a PDF document from India describing Son Pari with a photo on the main page. That PDF doesn't appear to be out there and a google image search produces nothing, but I distinctly recall the fruit in that photo looking like the fruit from our tree and the fruit in the Fairchild display above.
Here is pic of fruit from India, written in Hindi language says sonpari. Waiting on leaves pictures.
That pic is blurry but the shape looks right.
Fruit:
At one time there was a PDF document from India describing Son Pari with a photo on the main page. That PDF doesn't appear to be out there and a google image search produces nothing, but I distinctly recall the fruit in that photo looking like the fruit from our tree and the fruit in the Fairchild display above.
Ah ok! Looks like it's getting close to losing its leaves now, actually. So wait for that to happen and then cut it back before it starts pushing new ones, right?
Thanks!
Hi all, I have a young (flowered this year for the first time) seedling cherimoya that grew straight up like a stick with all its leaves at the top. It can't stand up on its own it's so long and spindly, but I'm afraid to cut it back making it a leafless stick. Should I cut it? Will it survive? And if so, to what height? It's over 4 feet tall now, maybe close to 5. Thanks!
