The Tropical Fruit Forum

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?

Anyone have some flats they could spare?

I'm on the search for the best cherry of the rio grande. I like the fruit, the plant is easy to grow, and it's aesthetically pleasing. They take very easily to grafting and I've been collecting varieties over the years, and planting seeds.


This is a fruit off of ScottR's variety. It sure is big, and the graft is really productive. Definitely the biggest I've grown.


These are a series of fruits on my own seedling which is from Exotica. Mine has the most agreeable flavor, which is leaning papaya.


A mix of fruits, the black are El Dorado seedling, seeds which I purchased from Marcos in 2019. There are some of my seedling, and one of ScottR.


El Dorado is unique in that it goes totally black. The flavor is unusual and I can't really put a finger on it other than saying it's a "darker" almost chocolate'y undertone. It has a propensity to make more seeds than other varieties (3-4 vs 1-2).

If anyone has a great CORG, please post up!

I have:
My Exotica seedling
ScottR seedling
Ben's Beaut
Garnet
El Dorado

Calycina:
My FFF seedling
Achetadomestica (grafted 2021, still yet to fruit, but big growth, it's probably grown 2-3')
Wildlands Nursery (Nate Blackmore)

2 x Orange CORGs (one has fruited, the other not yet)

Got some nice escarlates I'd like to offload, around 2 years old:

$40 each - they will take off in new pots/soil



Yangmei seedlings (unknown gender)

$20 each



Pick up locally in Santa Barbara, or come on up for the June 3rd get together at my place and I can hold onto them for you

I know this topic has been brought up many times but I wanted to get the ball rolling by actually just tacking a bunch of stuff on and seeing what happens.

I’m trying out:

Pitomba x CORG
Orange CORG X CORG
Orange CORG X Calycina
Repanda x Pitanga

Others I’m considering:

Pitangatuba x Araza (wood looks similar)
Pitangatuba x Repanda (seems unlikely)

Is anyone into making cocktail trees? I’m always short on space and always needing cross pollination for better fruit set so over the last few years I’ve gone kind of Dr Frankenstein. Here are a few:


Santa Barbara peach with: Flavor King pluot, Sweet Treat Pluerry, Flavor Grenade pluot, Santa Rosa plum, Arctic Star Nectarine, Royal Lee, Minnie Royal, Royal Crimson, Spicy Z, Snow Queen Nectarine, Tropic Snow Peach, and Cotton Candy Aprium.


Feijoa with Coolidge, Improved Coolidge, Mammoth, Nazemetz, Nikita and 5 or so NZ varieties



Sabara jaboticaba with: white, red, otto anderson phitantra, escarlate, navel, paulista, ESALQ, fruiting sabara from my older tree, grimal, Coronata 1, 2, 3, and a few others I forget now


Pitangatuba with FFF selected "Lemonhead" and "Gigante" adding on more from another collector this Saturday



Apple tree with: Bill's Red Flesh, Goodland, Orange Pippin, Akero, Irish Peach, White Winter pearmain, Pink Pearl, Winter Banana, Dorsett, Anna


Another look at the cocktail, it's just unhappy right now due to winter but it is about to explode on every single branch


Unknown plum with all the same stuff that's on the SB peach

I have a schwack of these. $1 per scion, 5 minimum, shipped via USPS small flat rate.

Hoping to find some scion wood of these. Anyone on here have some? Thank you in advance!

I know it’s a concern when papayas lean, especially young. I think this is wind or sun related.

Should I add a stake and haul it over?

This is a male so it won’t hold fruit if I’m not mistaken?

CANCELLED! Hopefully organize one for next year.

From left to right: lemon by the trellis, santa rosa plum, cas guava behind it, campo ramon jaboticaba behind it, orange flesh tropical guava, guabiju, peruvian apple cactus, flavor king pluot, lucuma, eugenia calycina, boysenberry - any small plants or grassy looking stuff is nitrogen fixing crops to improve the soil.



L-R: Mountain guava, persian mulberry, pineapple guava, and then the plum mentioned above


Violet de bordeaux fig and Pakistani / Himalayan grafted on dwarf mulberry


Mountain guava on left, Sir Prize avo on right, vanilla ice cream bean behind the guava, lamb hass, paw paw patch, golden berry


El bumpo / knight grafted cherimoya on left, garden beds


Mexican apple on right, lemon guava on left, tiger stripe fig and champagne fig on hill side in background


L-R: Eldorado CORG, seedling CORG from Exotica with ben's beaut and ScottR's seedling grafted, added Kevin Jones Garnet last week, then a strawberry guava and black star pitanga in same pot, red seedling pitanga, and grafted vermillion pitanga


White mulberry with the grafted dwarf in background




A shot of the orange flesh guava and pluot from behind


Sabara jabo in half tote


Many cultivars of dragonfruit, jabos, eugenias, etc in front of greenhouse (it's mostly empty for summer)

I am looking at flying out to Miami in June or July for mango season and to visit some farms or homes out that way. Are there any must hits? Anyone out there that may want to show me their collection? The fruit community has been amazing and hopefully there are some people around that have suggestions.

Of course, really want to check out Zill's and hopefully they will have mangoes for sale at that time but that's about the limit of my knowledge of that area.

Thanks for any suggestions in advance

This calycina barely made fruit last year. This year feels different.