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Tropical Fruit Buy, Sell & Trade / Re: Cherimoya Scion Sale $4: Dream, Selma, Chaffey, Inca Red , Dr. White , El Bumpo
« on: April 07, 2024, 08:57:24 PM »
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Also I highly recommend you attend his next Scion exchange and bring your rarest best varieties to share, while the fig hunter sits in a booth next to you and sells all his for top dollar. Let him shit on you.What's your source that he's rebranding popular figs?
Here's one example.
I grow a ton of figs and know a little about this so I guess I’ll keep chiming in. The fig in this quote is considered to be a wild seedling. Both “Sacred Origin” and “the fig hunter” found this fig. They both named it. And they are resolving the problem of synonymous fig names. No big deal.
I think there has been an instance or two where it can be hard to tell whether a fig is a seedling or if it is a named variety. I seem to recall some disagreement about a “seedling” looking an awful lot like White Adriatic.Compare their varieties to the ones on this site
https://onegreenworld.com/product-category/fruiting-trees-shrubs/fig/?orderby=price-desc
This is really poor evidence. Identifying fruits typically requires much more comprehensive and intentional photography rather than a singular promotional marketing photo. Interestingly, One Green World is hopping on the CA seedling bandwagon. Black Manzanita is a tasty seedling popularized by Alastair, I think he’s on here as FigoVelo.
Look, I think I’m allergic to people being crapped on online. I can’t seem to help myself. My heart’s not in standing up for this guy but here we are.
What's your source that he's rebranding popular figs?
Here's one example.
Compare their varieties to the ones on this site
https://onegreenworld.com/product-category/fruiting-trees-shrubs/fig/?orderby=price-desc
I tried these “Chico” in Kauai last month. Found them at a farmers market. They were not good. Pretty soft and juicy, not sweet but also not astringent. I would say funky, maybe some sort of vegetable flavors. Only sapodilla I’ve tried. I’m guessing I’ll like named varieties better.
What a bummer... the fruit that I've tried are almost overpoweringly sweet (that's saying something since I have a pretty big sweet tooth). Maybe too much water around the harvest period for the ones you tried? You should try ordering a mixed variety box of sapodilla from Lara Farms when they have them back in stock and see if you like them better.
EDIT: Oops, I just realized you're also located in California and can't order the fruit to be shipped over... guess you'll have to make a pilgrimage to Florida to acquire decent fresh fruit in that case. I found some chicos at my local Seafood City market in Sac, but don't think I've ever seen any at the Vallejo location. The ones I got from Sac were mediocre ones that were imported from Hawaii anyway.
I’m pretty sure that I’ll enjoy good quality named varieties. I’m growing seedlings, they’re doing well with the winter so far. But, they are growing sloooooow. Hoping to graft them one day
Yeah, I'm sure you can't go wrong with any of the named varieties. Glad to hear your seedlings are doing well in our NorCal winter so far, and they sure do grow slow. It gets scorching hot during the summers in Davis where I'm at and I notice that my grafted Alano and Hasya trees grow much more quickly when it's super hot outside.
Hope you have success with your seedlings, hopefully you can get some budwood from some of the forum members here. As a "Plan B", I know Tropical Acres Farms in Flordia also sell scions of Alano, Gigantia, Hasya, Martin, Molix, Morena, Oxkutzcab/"Ox", Tikal, Thomas, and Silas Wood (I don't see "Makok" listed as available for some reason... guess it's just too similar to "Silas Wood" for them to grow it).
I tried these “Chico” in Kauai last month. Found them at a farmers market. They were not good. Pretty soft and juicy, not sweet but also not astringent. I would say funky, maybe some sort of vegetable flavors. Only sapodilla I’ve tried. I’m guessing I’ll like named varieties better.
What a bummer... the fruit that I've tried are almost overpoweringly sweet (that's saying something since I have a pretty big sweet tooth). Maybe too much water around the harvest period for the ones you tried? You should try ordering a mixed variety box of sapodilla from Lara Farms when they have them back in stock and see if you like them better.
EDIT: Oops, I just realized you're also located in California and can't order the fruit to be shipped over... guess you'll have to make a pilgrimage to Florida to acquire decent fresh fruit in that case. I found some chicos at my local Seafood City market in Sac, but don't think I've ever seen any at the Vallejo location. The ones I got from Sac were mediocre ones that were imported from Hawaii anyway.
Anyone growing the Pink and/or White Tropical Guavas sold by Four Winds Growers? I’m growing both of these in pots and am curious if people like these fruits. I’m thinking of planting them in ground the Spring.
Tropical guavas are tricky for us in northern califonria because the fruits are ripening in our coldest and wettest months. I have not had a good tropical guava that is grown outdoors in the ground, they just turn out flavorless and watery. Maybe if we get a drought year, there is potential for good ripening conditions. At this point, I think the only way to do tropical guavas will be potted or in the ground in a hoop house where conditions can be controlled a little more. My farm is right above 4 winds growers too, haha.
Tim kindly gave me a couple of the seeds from the original post, which I planted. Both grew well and just recently I noticed a fruit set on one!
But pretty much all cherimoya taste really nice.
I may be asking this prematurely, but can I graft lucuma scions onto canistel rootstock?
Congrats to Aaron!
The number was 50.
Contest is over.
Aaron - forum member here
has a bunch of cool stuff.
He is in CA?
I got some cool ksu stuff from him.
that was my 1st fresh pawpaw custardy texture reminded me of its related cherimoya but softer the fruit had this almost flan taste going on I really enjoyed would make great ice cream i bet. I put all the seeds I got out of the fruits in the fridge ill plant them in a month or so. Crazy to think that pawpaw are the biggest native fruit to north America and almost went extinct during world war 2.
In aaronn message he states that planting in the spring maybe be the best bet due to pawpaw roots may not grow much during winter dormancy. I was reading the roots are sensitive. I like that Deer dont like Pawpaw either and you can plant them close 5ft spacing to emulate how they grow in the wild. Im thinlking about planting a row now and planting another row in spring to compare.
Deer eat them here, don't believe that hype.