The Tropical Fruit Forum

i stripped mine near the end of winter, now flower buds are every where at least 2 at each node where i stripped the leaves off, while the leaves are barely coming out.
Last year i stripped the leaves around end of April and only got a few flowers to come out.

If you have it in pot then watch out for water logged because of the root, happen to mine once before, 2 years of good care the tree grow fast and choke itself to death. From that point on, I always drill extra holes about 2" up from the bottom just in case and I'll know when to trim the root or repot to a bigger one.

Hello. My wampee start blooming for the first time in a long time this year, how long does it take for the fruit to develope ? Harvesting time frame? Does it self pollinate?
Any info are much appreciated.
Andrew

Thanks Simon.
I'll give them a call.

Hello. Does anybody know where I can purchase seedless guava plant ?
 Tasted the fruit in southern Cal and my wife love the fruit.
Thanks

Go to god little acre nursery in old Almaden road, there were quite a few large parkistant mulberry trees available with large fruit you may taste.

Longan, lychee, wax Jambu, sugar apple, papaya all dead during the freeze in Dec, it was down to 22 at 5AM , I'm in San Jose area, is it zone 9b? All of mine were just under the arbor, no green house.
Live and learn. I have a green house project this summer.

Hoang, I'll try to find the old picts, they were not that really big trees, I pruned them hard every year to keep them at around 4-6' tall including pot. I change the pots when I got them and have not since, I used fast drain mix 2 parts pine bark 1 part perlite and 1 part crushed lava rock and 1 part worm casting compost, similar to what they call gritty mix now a day, and just top it off with more mix and worm casting when the soil  settled down every year, one thing that I have been practicing for quite a long time now is that all of my pots are drilled with quite a few holes to help with drainage and preventing root bound problem  very similar to the commercially available air-pot, just imagine the plan old black plastic pot with 1/2" holes everywhere and cheap I don't use any commercial fertilizer, just strictly worm casting from my vermicompost and compost tea once every 2 weeks.
I got the longan and a few others from Roger Meyer in SoCal and the lychee from one of the home grown private nursery also from SoCal (Craigslist), next on my shopping list are mango trees, maybe get some when I visit SoCal next month, are they expensive?

Mine is grown in the middle of the yard where there is no shade at all, you should paint the expose lateral branch with white wate base paint to protect it from sunburn, after a year or two the canopy should be enough to protect the branch from sunburn, also I'd noticed that trimming the tree do that it can have a wide canopy is much better then let it grow tall and leggy, at least the canopy can protect the tree from the summer heat and winter frost. The freeze last year in NorCal only burn the top leaves but everything else underneath was well protected and flourished once the weather warmup.

Since avocado does not like standing in water, When I planted my avocado 3 years ago,  I just put the tree at the spot I want to grow then build up compost around the root ball to the trunk level, water it well everyday, just add more compost when it settled down, my tree grow much faster than expected, almost triple in size especially the trunk size, full of fruit in the third year. Avocado loves water but does not like to be water logged, just make sure the soil drain fast then yours should grow like crazy, btw I used strictly pine needle compost from the neighborhood, just gather them up and let them compost for about a year before using them, no fert needed. The old leaves tend to get brown spots the drop, as long as the new growth look good I would not worry about it.
Hope this help

Wow, I did not know that there are crazy folks like myself trying to grow tropical fruit trees here in San Jose got into the hobby  few years ago, last winter killed most of my collection (under estimate the freezing temp). Hoang, you can grow longan and lychee quite well here in San Jose, mine fruited well last summer sadly they all died because of the freeze in Dec. I just start my collection again this year, although they are still small. So far i have a couple of Hak ip lychee, DR longan, jaboticaba, cherry of rio grande, a couple variety of mulberry, 4 types of jujube trees, and dragon fruits, avocado plus a few of other citrus. I may try to add a few mango trees someday  if my wife let me put them in our bedroom during the winter
Btw, your trees are looking good.

Thanks for the replies, I mainly looking for the different varieties of cherimoya, sugar apple, longan and the black pearl wax Jambu to replace the one I lost due to the cold spell in December, we  had a period of about 10 days with temp in the 20s. I currently have an unknown variety of cherimoya, diamond river longan, a few fruiting dragon fruit plants, wampee and a couple of hakip lychee plants, they all survive well through the cold spell with the exception of the wax Jambu (forgot to move it in). Just love to get my hand on some more of the tropical fruit trees.
I'll contact Ethan and see if I can acquire a few plant from him.
I'd tried to grow from seeds  for the past few years, no problem with germination but when the plant get to about 6 to 8 inches tall they all start to have problems and eventually die back
Any idea why?