The Tropical Fruit Forum

It will be hard to keep the plants with you without a house or renting homes through your moving. If your going to college will be even harder to keep large plants.

I would focus on Jaboticaba,Yangmei, and Stenocereus queretaroensis if I could turn back 10 years. I have been actively growing since 2007 and have lost many plants over time during moves.

I would focus mostly on annuals until you get land, this way you can get harvests and enjoy the hobby. I would try to keep only a couple plants to maturity over time.

As for places the best in mainland US are South Florida or Southern California. Hawaii and Puerto Rico if you don't mind Islands. If it's out of country there are many options which would take time to decide.

I would be interested in some annona scions, but I am only grafting chill hours type fruits right now. If still available last week of February, I would be interested.

Turkmenistan selections should handle the cold a little better. I would try Parfianka and Desertnyi.

Must be sweet then? Here is photo of smaller one with skin.

I have sweet it looks similar.

You have eversweet cuttings for trade? I have sweet pomegranate cuttings I can trade or fig cuttings various varieties.

Quote from: nullzero on December 11, 2024, 02:06:54 PM

Ryan you still in town? Depending on my availability you can maybe stop by.

I'll be coming down on the 20th...
Luckily, one of my good friends offered to go tree hunting with me, so I have a ride to hit up SD so hopefully can visit Mark and some other nurseries.
Not entirely sure of the dates, but potentially the 24th. or 22nd?
Thanks for the offer!

I be available on 20th and 21st. Otherwise maybe next time.

Yeah looks like cold damage to me with root rot potentially.

I unfortunately have not had chance to eat the Figs when ripe. The trees in FL are only visted a few times a year. It looks like a female Ficus opposita from pictures compared online. Maybe it's gynodioecy?

I do have Ficus carica that fruits and it's nearby in the ground. I verified the seedlings are a match for sand paper fig.

Ficus opposita has been fruiting readily and doing well, its also self fertile, have little fig seedlings now.

I beat you to it, got 10 yesterday. I left about 4 left of promix.

Quote from: nullzero on October 29, 2024, 01:22:13 PM

Quote from: RevivalR00ts on October 29, 2024, 01:04:15 AM

I want them all but not sure it’s a great time for grafting. Think you will offer these again in spring?

You can root cuttings, I would say its average difficulty to root I got close to a 30% chance.

30%!?! That’s not very good haha. I must say I haven’t done so well with rooting things, one because of neglect (just don’t have the time to baby) and two, don’t have much of a setup for rooting.

1 out of 3 is better 1 out of 10 or lower , it can be improved I left them outdoors without bottom heat in shade. I am sure in a controlled environment with rooting hormones and a good medium its closer to +50%.

I have found that queretaroensis grow faster with pots in full sun. The soil temp warms up much faster especially in winter time having southern exposure. I have since dug up all my queretaroensis and made a gritty type mix with mostly crushed granite and geolite clay pebbles. I am just up stepping all my pots to 20 gal clay pots eventually on wheels, I am hoping can get the cacti to maturity in that size.

Have you fruited one in so cal yet? Can definitely be done in so cal but I still wouldn’t encourage it. Overwintering for 5 years to get fruit is a tricky gamble, and then they randomly die too. This thread is for Seattle so not super relevant anyhow.

Quote from: nullzero on October 03, 2024, 08:18:30 PM

Quote from: Bush2Beach on October 02, 2024, 06:48:57 PM

For South Florida only.

Quote from: gnappi on October 01, 2024, 08:47:05 PM

+1 for Rollinia

It's fast to grow and fruit for SoCal too. Depends on the strain, but 5 years from seed is not impossible. Once it gets about 2 ft tall in the ground it really bulks up.

I have a 4 year old seedling in the ground that looks like it's close to fruiting potentially next year.

My friend in Cerritos has fruited it already. After seeing the results I have added more rollinia genetics to my collection. I just planted a second one in the ground and in the spring plan to plant a 3rd.

I love rollinia flavor more so then the other annonas I have tried so far.