The Tropical Fruit Forum

Those are pretty small to be fruiting! Good looks, thanks for sharing.

Really hoping to encounter seeds or cuttings at some point.

Cuttings arrived yesterday. I'm going to graft one and try to root the other two.

Fig cuttings wrapped in buddy tape and inserted into well draining medium = 100% rooting success for me.

Is there multiple sources for Hirsuta, or you just have the one plant and need another seedling with any presumed possible genetic difference?
I would have guessed these were from the same batch of seeds/genetics since plants are same age?

This is a chunk from Nate's plant, which are all if I am correct from Marta's batch? Don't know of any other sources aside from Mr. Hewitt. I just needed another genetic variety to hopefully get cross pollination. Mine is flowering, I don't think Nate's was?

It's the best I can do given the circumstances. I did have one other hirsuta seedling but it it died off pretty quick, this one just trucks.

No, I don't. I pollinate all of them because the failure rate is somewhat high on pollination / set. If it's a small plant, I may thin fruit per branch, but now that I have huge plants I will let them hold all of them.

Restrict watering after pollination for a week, seems to really help.

Grafting campomanesia hirsuta from another plant (thank you Wildlands Nursery / Nate!) to try to get some genetic diversity. My hirsuta flowers endlessly and makes no fruit so I think it needs a mate.

Anyone else done some high stakes grafting this year?

Wow, that's gorgeous. Is this the same as the Orange CORG that Marcos is selling?

Yes, I think same one. I have two big ones that flower, but didn't get any fruit this year. They are in much bigger pots now and should do great next year.

Sorry for your losses Kevin.

Did those plants dry up, or did they die and then the pots dried up?

I was very dutiful on keeping water within reason on all of these, but stopped watering the corpses hence why the soil looks dry. The one I am holding in my hand was californica which had been in ground for months and doing quite nicely. I felt confident to cut off all the rest of the Californica rootstock.

They all die from the top down. This has happened to all of them which I have kept potted, and now happened to that one in ground one too. This leads me to believe it is a root issue.

Kevin, sorry to see that.  How are your seedlings doing?  Maybe the best rootstock in the long run are seedlings. 

Janet

I had one seedling that was doing pretty well in ground die, another is barely holding on, and another seems to have settled in pretty well and is growing robustly. I replaced the in ground californica with another seedling and we'll see what happens. I put another non-grafted californica in ground in my orchard area and I'll graft it next year I guess.

I am so immensely frustrated by yangmei and all the attempts I've made. My well water can be problematic sometimes so I would like to blame that, but yeah, just have no answer to these issues really. Seedlings only for me going forward.

Update: just stopped by a local nursery - H&H in Long Beach - that had P lucidum of similar size with fruit on them. The ones at Exotica are in my opinion exactly the same. Each tree has many fruit of various sizes, some large, most regular or small. You could take a photo of one of the big ones and say 'look how big the fruit is!' but it would not mean the tree is the giant variety. It's normal for the subspecies for a few of the fruit to be abnormally large.

A well thinned guava will make monster size fruit compared to one that is allowed to hold all of them. Hopefully you can find what you're looking for.

We're planning on going down Wed. maybe will see you there Nate, wishing you successful sales

I'm also planning on headed down Weds, afternoon-ish. Hope to see you there. Could stop by my place off the 154 if you're headed over in the evenin'!

Anyone who's coming down (or up) is welcome to stop by in SB at my place.

Bagging of figs works fine if the tree is reasonably sized. You could just stump it and then plan to keep it small after it comes back? I am still going to collect figs and grow them out, but I will put a major focus into size control. Some say there are BFF resistant cultivars, but I am doubtful of that.

HLB, yeah, I'd be considering pulling citrus. Much harder to control as it's the whole tree that suffers not just individual fruits.

I'm hoping to modify the date into November, my guavas are progressing faster than expected and looks like early - mid November will be peak.

Anyone else have guavas lined up for then?

Lago Atitlan.

This was the top recommendation from my El Salvador local friend, he suggested we motorcycle tour up there - maybe one day!