The Tropical Fruit Forum

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I just bought 2 airlayer wampees for an unbelievable price. One has 1 fruit and the other has none. Both are in 5 gallon pots. Both trees desperately need to be repot or put into the ground. I am confident they both will fruit next year.

I didn’t realize Wampee is part of citrus’s family and it’s also under quarantine. My friend gave me some fruits and I do have the seeds. I guess that’s option. It’ll take 5 to 7 Years to fruit.  Can Wampee be airlayer?

Your flower looks nice, congrats. Make sure to hand pollinate the next flower at 9am-10am or you may not get fruit set. I did learn the hard way that if you wait until after noon, it will not be good since I have so many bees, they take all the pollen from the flower before I can hand pollinate. I was wondering why some days I get hardly any pollen on the flower to use. Also, another good trick is to cover the flower immediately after you hand pollinate it so the bees don't try to remove the pollen you just put on the stigma. I use the organza bags (8"x12") since the flower is so large, works great.

Thanks Janet for the reply, then maybe I don't need to worry to much about the weight. My vine is growing over and through my blood orange tree and fence so I can use that as support for the new vines. This vine grows so fast, its hard to keep up with the number of flowers I need to hand pollinate every morning. Going outside again to do my routine to hand pollinate the flowers now.

Just hand pollinated one. Thanks Kaz for tip about using organza bag. The cutting is from you.

I’m interested in one or two. One of my small lychee tree just died from the heat. 

I planted a lemon zest seed and 3 shoots sprouted. I searched but still confused which of the 3 shoots is true to type. I want to separate them and discard the not true to type one. Thanks.

PMed. Are all the scions compatible with the sabra? Especially the yellow and blue.

This tree is flowering again. I’m going to just let it do its thing and see how many fruits will set.

I read good things about AxP Jaboticaba. Looking for either seeds or seedling to add to my collection. Thx.

I have heard Gem is a heavy bearer and bears annually.

Great transaction. Very friendly to deal with.